Wrist Spin Bowling (part Five)

[MagicDave]

Yeah its funny how everyone's biomechanics all differ to give the same result.

I think of myself as chest on because that's where I know I want to finish after the ball leaves my hand - shoulders parallel to the wicket. If I set up to bowl with the more classical style (feet in a T shape and body open like a baseball pitcher ) then I struggle to control direction so all my mental cues are based around turning up to the crease with everything aligned towards the batsman.

 

[SomeblokecalledDave.]

Pre-season for me is working out well - have a look at my blog Pre-season 2025 - https://theoldwristspinner.blogspot.com/2025/04/pre-season-2025.html

 

[doc8176]

I manage to get noticeable drift on both my leggies and offies but I genuinely could not explain how.

One thing I have noticed is a bit of top spin and dip definitely helps with drift.

I’ve been having a lot of luck drifting my off spinners away from a right hander. I’ll bring a few back in and then bowl an under cutter that drifts out a bit the same as my off break but doesn’t turn and seems to catch the outside edge really well.

 

[SomeblokecalledDave.]

It looks like I'm to go into the season with the full package this year. I've been working on the Top-Spinner for months now and have finally settled on a conventional grip and all it takes is a slight re-allignment of the wrist angle and it comes out really nice. It's very effective when bowled in a series of leg-breaks where the batter has got it into their mind that the next ball is going to be the same style leg-break either just on leg-stump or outside off. But in addition to that, the last couple of sessions I've just looked to rotate the wrist just that bit more and I'm bowling a very decent wrong-un seemingly with total ease. Those combined with the Flipper - who knows how I'm to go this season!

 

[doc8176]

It looks like I'm to go into the season with the full package this year. I've been working on the Top-Spinner for months now and have finally settled on a conventional grip and all it takes is a slight re-allignment of the wrist angle and it comes out really nice. It's very effective when bowled in a series of leg-breaks where the batter has got it into their mind that the next ball is going to be the same style leg-break either just on leg-stump or outside off. But in addition to that, the last couple of sessions I've just looked to rotate the wrist just that bit more and I'm bowling a very decent wrong-un seemingly with total ease. Those combined with the Flipper - who knows how I'm to go this season!

The top spinner is so easy and subtle to bowl but it works so well

 

[doc8176]

Here’s an interesting (and very important) one:

What visual cues do you often pick up on and use against the batsman?

I consider this a huge part of how I bowl spin. If I’m tying a batsman down and I notice him getting angry which often causes them to either:

Tap the bat harder, put their weight further forward or a harder grip with their bottom hand it usually means they’re either going to charge me or they’re thinking about it. So I loop up a slower, shorter delivery to make them think they can run down the wicket and smash me over mid on. But because it’s actually shorter they usually get in a whole lot of trouble.

Usually pretty subtle cues but I find I naturally adjust to them.

 

[Fleetwood]

good question, and while I definitely get a feeling that I'm about to get charged, I'm not sure what the cue is, and I don't normally react to it in time if I'm bowling wristpin - if I'm bowling SLA, I'll send it wide, but my action for wristspin seems a lot more "grooved". Thinking about it, I think most batsmen sashay down the wicket by taking a big stride forward with their rear leg, so it would make sense that a premeditated shift of weight onto the front foot is a bit of a tell.

 

[doc8176]

good question, and while I definitely get a feeling that I'm about to get charged, I'm not sure what the cue is, and I don't normally react to it in time if I'm bowling wristpin - if I'm bowling SLA, I'll send it wide, but my action for wristspin seems a lot more "grooved"

I definitely know what you’re talking about by the “feeling”, it’s really hard to put a finger on why. Maybe it’s just knowing that you’ve got the batsman under a lot of pressure.

 

[Fleetwood]

I definitely know what you’re talking about by the “feeling”, it’s really hard to put a finger on why. Maybe it’s just knowing that you’ve got the batsman under a lot of pressure.

yeah, they definitely do it after a few dot balls, especially if struggling with turn - it's a Get out of jail move. Batsmen on my own team give me the charge all the time in nets, and very often fail to get to the pitch - unfortunately in games it tends to lead to a missed stumping. I think it's a lot easier keeping to a right-arm wristspinner as the ball isn't appearing from behind the batsman, it must be hard - even if the ball is turning away from the r/h bat, the keeper is still unsighted for a bit.

 

[Fleetwood]

It looks like I'm to go into the season with the full package this year. I've been working on the Top-Spinner for months now and have finally settled on a conventional grip and all it takes is a slight re-allignment of the wrist angle and it comes out really nice. It's very effective when bowled in a series of leg-breaks where the batter has got it into their mind that the next ball is going to be the same style leg-break either just on leg-stump or outside off. But in addition to that, the last couple of sessions I've just looked to rotate the wrist just that bit more and I'm bowling a very decent wrong-un seemingly with total ease. Those combined with the Flipper - who knows how I'm to go this season!

it's amazing how basic technical things can get away from you - I was bowling in the nets yesterday and turning absolutely nowt, I eventually realised that I really wasn't rotating my wrist at all, as soon as I made a point of emphasising it as I spun the ball pre-delivery, I started turning it round corners again. I still can't bowl a topspinner as reliably as I'd like, but if I stand there spinning it pre-delivery and emphasise getting my hand straight over the top of the ball, it works more often than not.

How's your season going Dave - has your optimism been justified so far?

 

[SomeblokecalledDave.]

Not too bad as you can see. I was pretty ill for the first part of the season and nearly died at one point (Quinsey), so missed a bunch of games, but I'm starting to catch up now. Some at the club might say my figures are good because the opposition are rubbish. I'd argue otherwise, at the level I play most of the time I'm bowling at clueless sloggers who don't value their wicket, with poor fielding from my team due to their ages and the fact that most of them can't run or can't be arsed. My best figures and bowling come in better standard games. I've got a League game this weekend where I'm bowing with another Spinner who's about 35 year younger than - who is one of the people who keeps me out of the league games. (He's the Willoughby bloke in the list above). So it'll be interesting to see how we compare and whether that has any impact on the selectors decision making process? The top-spinner's being used a bit and has got me some decent wickets. The last game I played in I got a nice one with the Flipper as well, but for the most part I've been bowling 95% Leg-Breaks. What's your thoughts on bowling Leg-Breaks around the wicket with a heavily loaded leg-side field?

 

[Fleetwood]

Jesus, that sounds rough - glad you're still with us! Figures looking pretty reasonable there - it can't be bad for a leggie to have the tightest economy.

I'd argue otherwise, at the level I play most of the time I'm bowling at clueless sloggers who don't value their wicket, with poor fielding from my team due to their ages and the fact that most of them can't run or can't be arsed.

Very much my experience - I've spent the season playing mid-week T20s only. We're a one team club - single Sat league side & midweek T20 friendlies; at the start of the season, I was continually being asked when I was going to make myself available for league, but the club's had a pretty fair season (about to be promoted for the seconds successive time), recruiting a few decent players so I'd be nowhere near the first XI now, especially as I'm a weak fielder and bat. Most opposing lineups midweek consist of a few good league players, plus a few outright sloggers and development players. I get my fair share of the better bats, plus have got fairly good at bowling to the sloggers - at this level bowling an off-stump line and turning it away has worked quite well. I grip the ball for SLA cross seam, so a lot of deliveries skid straight through, without much need for variation on my part . Sadly I haven't really fixed the nerves I mentioned, so I've been bowling SLA pretty much exclusively - to be fair it's gone pretty well and I'm sat top of the wickets, but I really want to be bowling wristspin, even if just as a complement to the orthodox, so have been practicing it around the wicket for the last few nets.

Midweek XI - PCCC Stats
As of 15/08/2025

*Bowling*
Me 17 wks @ 14.06*
S Andrews. 6 @ 25.67
S Bhandari. 5 @ 23.60
B Wootton. 4 @ 11.25
R Khan 4 @ 23.75
J Griffiths. 4 @ 23.75
J Whiteaway. 3 @ 25.33
J Bryant. 3 @ 53.00
D Going. 2 @ 15.50
RV 1 @ 17.00

The last game I played in I got a nice one with the Flipper as well, but for the most part I've been bowling 95% Leg-Breaks. What's your thoughts on bowling Leg-Breaks around the wicket with a heavily loaded leg-side field?

Interesting to see how your bowling has gone all the way from leg-breaks to googly syndrome to almost all flippers, and now back again!
Re the around the wicket gambit, it would normally be regarded as a negative approach. I think the days of offies & inswing bowlers firing it into leg from round in the 50s leave a long shadow, but Warne obviously valued it as an attacking option, though that was largely in tests, where he was trying to get a limpet-like bat to have a go - Adil Rashid did it . I don't think I remember him doing it in ODIs - I think it's worth a try, as long as your length is spot on; anything short is a gimme for a pull, and anything too full is right in the slot for a slog. I'd be careful about overloading the leg side, a lot of bats may try to keep leg-side of it, and play inside out, although that may depend on the amount of turn available. Do you have footmarks to bowl into? Either way, it's definitely something I would try were I a rightie - as a left hander, I don't see enough lefthand bats to really try it.

 

[slingylefty]

Hi All,

First time posting here, and I am so glad to be part of this community. I have been watching the spin bowling threads, especially the wrist spin mega threads for the past 3 months. I live in the US and play weekend Cricket at my local league. Cricket has grown a lot in recent years and my club has 500+ members and 20+ teams. I am a left arm pace bowler who recently took up learning wrist spin. I bowled pace for almost 30 years, opened bowling for many years and with my natural action, I would swing it back into RHB. I tore my ACL a few years ago on my landing foot (right leg) and it took me out of the game for a couple of years. When I came back, my bowling was never the same. I used to have a classic side-on action but after the surgery, I tried becoming a chest on bowler to be easy on the braced front foot. The reality is that I ended up with a mixed action. Accuracy suffered and I lost the opening slot. Bowling in middle overs was brutal as the ball offered no swing and I had to depend on variations. With all these frustrations, I decided to try spin bowling and stopped playing matches since this Spring. Told my Captain that I would be taking a break for a couple of seasons and come back as a spinner.

The choice I had was to go with left arm orthodox or wrist spin. I picked up wrist spin because even though it is very tough to master the art at the age of 48, I know that it will be incredibly rewarding once I put enough hard work. Bought Philpott book (took me forever to get that book shipped from the UK ). I also started looking for online resources and came across this forum. This is a treasure trove of information for wrist spin and I absolutely love the discussion and in depth analysis. I bookmarked all of Dave's (someblokecalleddave) blogs and videos. I spent hours and hours on the 5 wrist spin mega threads (still going through them), When I finally got the email after 5 weeks that my account is approved for posting, it made my day. So glad that the wait is over.

Now, coming to the progress, it's been about 3 months since I started practicing leg spin. Still early days, but my progression has been very good. I am spending at least 3-4 hours a week and hoping to increase that once it gets a bit cooler here. First few weeks were frustrating and I totally expected that. I would bowl either a waist high full toss or a half tracker. It came to a point that the batsmen in nets started giving my pity looks and advised me to go back to medium pace. Things really started turning around the 2 month mark. I have a consistent approach, and the ball generally lands in good length and I can get the ball to spin. Here is a breakdown:
Runup/Approach: I started with running a bit like Rashid Khan but I was rushing at the delivery without fully pivoting. I then tried diagonal (like Kuldeep), cross run etc. I finally ended up just walking (Shane Warne approach), and my walk is just 5 steps. That seems to be my perfect rhythm. I recently started staying a lot more upright, jumping higher on my backfoot so that I can get into a full side-on position. I took this tip from the "Wrist spin disasters" thread put out by Bosie. The jump now gives me time to get side on, get my right shoulder and head in line with the target and hence more consistency.
Arm: The biggest issue for me is that I am too round armed. My left arm is probably around 45 degrees at release. I always bowled like that as I had a slingy action that helped me bring the ball into the RHB (I emulated Wasim Akram's action). Because of that muscle memory, my wrist apin also comes around that position. Warne actually mentioned in a couple of his masterclass videos that he is a bit round armed but that is impacting my line sometimes. I tried to consciously have a more vertical arm, but I ended up with a sore shoulder. I guess I need to strengthen that muscle group as the activation seems to slightly different from round arm. I am working on it especially to bowl the wrong one.
Flight: I bowled to a decent batsman last weekend and he said I am bowling a lot flatter and advised me to flight the ball. I did trouble him a bit as he wasn't picking up my googlies but he said he can milk those flatter deliveries for easy singles. I need to work on flighting the ball more.
Going through the loop: I have a general idea and a theoretical sense of how going through the loop works (read Philpott's book and watched Dave's videos), but I am still yet to grasp that concept fully when I bowl. Right now, I am going with a vague idea of what to do but my wrist doesn't actually end up where I really was envisioning. Leg breaks sometimes end up as googlies and having read all the warnings about the Googlie syndrome, I am very nervous. Any tips in imagining or grasping that concept would be super helpful.

I will try to post a couple of videos soon. I have some but every time I check them after a week, there was an update already made to my action and that video feels out of date

 

[slingylefty]

Here are a couple of videos of my bowling action. The first one had decent flight and landed in the right area and the second one had turn but dragged short.

Please give your feedback. I have some more questions but will wait for comments

 

[SomeblokecalledDave.]

Hi All,

First time posting here, and I am so glad to be part of this community. I have been watching the spin bowling threads, especially the wrist spin mega threads for the past 3 months. I live in the US and play weekend Cricket at my local league. Cricket has grown a lot in recent years and my club has 500+ members and 20+ teams. I am a left arm pace bowler who recently took up learning wrist spin. I bowled pace for almost 30 years, opened bowling for many years and with my natural action, I would swing it back into RHB. I tore my ACL a few years ago on my landing foot (right leg) and it took me out of the game for a couple of years. When I came back, my bowling was never the same. I used to have a classic side-on action but after the surgery, I tried becoming a chest on bowler to be easy on the braced front foot. The reality is that I ended up with a mixed action. Accuracy suffered and I lost the opening slot. Bowling in middle overs was brutal as the ball offered no swing and I had to depend on variations. With all these frustrations, I decided to try spin bowling and stopped playing matches since this Spring. Told my Captain that I would be taking a break for a couple of seasons and come back as a spinner.

The choice I had was to go with left arm orthodox or wrist spin. I picked up wrist spin because even though it is very tough to master the art at the age of 48, I know that it will be incredibly rewarding once I put enough hard work. Bought Philpott book (took me forever to get that book shipped from the UK ). I also started looking for online resources and came across this forum. This is a treasure trove of information for wrist spin and I absolutely love the discussion and in depth analysis. I bookmarked all of Dave's (someblokecalleddave) blogs and videos. I spent hours and hours on the 5 wrist spin mega threads (still going through them), When I finally got the email after 5 weeks that my account is approved for posting, it made my day. So glad that the wait is over.

Now, coming to the progress, it's been about 3 months since I started practicing leg spin. Still early days, but my progression has been very good. I am spending at least 3-4 hours a week and hoping to increase that once it gets a bit cooler here. First few weeks were frustrating and I totally expected that. I would bowl either a waist high full toss or a half tracker. It came to a point that the batsmen in nets started giving my pity looks and advised me to go back to medium pace. Things really started turning around the 2 month mark. I have a consistent approach, and the ball generally lands in good length and I can get the ball to spin. Here is a breakdown:
Runup/Approach: I started with running a bit like Rashid Khan but I was rushing at the delivery without fully pivoting. I then tried diagonal (like Kuldeep), cross run etc. I finally ended up just walking (Shane Warne approach), and my walk is just 5 steps. That seems to be my perfect rhythm. I recently started staying a lot more upright, jumping higher on my backfoot so that I can get into a full side-on position. I took this tip from the "Wrist spin disasters" thread put out by Bosie. The jump now gives me time to get side on, get my right shoulder and head in line with the target and hence more consistency.
Arm: The biggest issue for me is that I am too round armed. My left arm is probably around 45 degrees at release. I always bowled like that as I had a slingy action that helped me bring the ball into the RHB (I emulated Wasim Akram's action). Because of that muscle memory, my wrist apin also comes around that position. Warne actually mentioned in a couple of his masterclass videos that he is a bit round armed but that is impacting my line sometimes. I tried to consciously have a more vertical arm, but I ended up with a sore shoulder. I guess I need to strengthen that muscle group as the activation seems to slightly different from round arm. I am working on it especially to bowl the wrong one.
Flight: I bowled to a decent batsman last weekend and he said I am bowling a lot flatter and advised me to flight the ball. I did trouble him a bit as he wasn't picking up my googlies but he said he can milk those flatter deliveries for easy singles. I need to work on flighting the ball more.
Going through the loop: I have a general idea and a theoretical sense of how going through the loop works (read Philpott's book and watched Dave's videos), but I am still yet to grasp that concept fully when I bowl. Right now, I am going with a vague idea of what to do but my wrist doesn't actually end up where I really was envisioning. Leg breaks sometimes end up as googlies and having read all the warnings about the Googlie syndrome, I am very nervous. Any tips in imagining or grasping that concept would be super helpful.

I will try to post a couple of videos soon. I have some but every time I check them after a week, there was an update already made to my action and that video feels out of date

500 members and 20 teams that's mental! Cheers mate for the compliments re all my work on the interwebs!. Good news for you is I didn't play cricket till I was 46! and I'm now 65 and still going strong. I put a lot of work into staying fit, strong and flexible - follow a couple of blokes on Youtube with a channel called 'Strengthside' for that. Want to keep going into my 70's. Had a good game yesterday against strong opposition, got the 'In form' batter and their 'Finisher' and some other top and middle order batters. Then came away with winning the game 2 not out!

 

[SomeblokecalledDave.]

Hi All,

First time posting here, and I am so glad to be part of this community. I have been watching the spin bowling threads, especially the wrist spin mega threads for the past 3 months. I live in the US and play weekend Cricket at my local league. Cricket has grown a lot in recent years and my club has 500+ members and 20+ teams. I am a left arm pace bowler who recently took up learning wrist spin. I bowled pace for almost 30 years, opened bowling for many years and with my natural action, I would swing it back into RHB. I tore my ACL a few years ago on my landing foot (right leg) and it took me out of the game for a couple of years. When I came back, my bowling was never the same. I used to have a classic side-on action but after the surgery, I tried becoming a chest on bowler to be easy on the braced front foot. The reality is that I ended up with a mixed action. Accuracy suffered and I lost the opening slot. Bowling in middle overs was brutal as the ball offered no swing and I had to depend on variations. With all these frustrations, I decided to try spin bowling and stopped playing matches since this Spring. Told my Captain that I would be taking a break for a couple of seasons and come back as a spinner.

The choice I had was to go with left arm orthodox or wrist spin. I picked up wrist spin because even though it is very tough to master the art at the age of 48, I know that it will be incredibly rewarding once I put enough hard work. Bought Philpott book (took me forever to get that book shipped from the UK ). I also started looking for online resources and came across this forum. This is a treasure trove of information for wrist spin and I absolutely love the discussion and in depth analysis. I bookmarked all of Dave's (someblokecalleddave) blogs and videos. I spent hours and hours on the 5 wrist spin mega threads (still going through them), When I finally got the email after 5 weeks that my account is approved for posting, it made my day. So glad that the wait is over.

Now, coming to the progress, it's been about 3 months since I started practicing leg spin. Still early days, but my progression has been very good. I am spending at least 3-4 hours a week and hoping to increase that once it gets a bit cooler here. First few weeks were frustrating and I totally expected that. I would bowl either a waist high full toss or a half tracker. It came to a point that the batsmen in nets started giving my pity looks and advised me to go back to medium pace. Things really started turning around the 2 month mark. I have a consistent approach, and the ball generally lands in good length and I can get the ball to spin. Here is a breakdown:
Runup/Approach: I started with running a bit like Rashid Khan but I was rushing at the delivery without fully pivoting. I then tried diagonal (like Kuldeep), cross run etc. I finally ended up just walking (Shane Warne approach), and my walk is just 5 steps. That seems to be my perfect rhythm. I recently started staying a lot more upright, jumping higher on my backfoot so that I can get into a full side-on position. I took this tip from the "Wrist spin disasters" thread put out by Bosie. The jump now gives me time to get side on, get my right shoulder and head in line with the target and hence more consistency.
Arm: The biggest issue for me is that I am too round armed. My left arm is probably around 45 degrees at release. I always bowled like that as I had a slingy action that helped me bring the ball into the RHB (I emulated Wasim Akram's action). Because of that muscle memory, my wrist apin also comes around that position. Warne actually mentioned in a couple of his masterclass videos that he is a bit round armed but that is impacting my line sometimes. I tried to consciously have a more vertical arm, but I ended up with a sore shoulder. I guess I need to strengthen that muscle group as the activation seems to slightly different from round arm. I am working on it especially to bowl the wrong one.
Flight: I bowled to a decent batsman last weekend and he said I am bowling a lot flatter and advised me to flight the ball. I did trouble him a bit as he wasn't picking up my googlies but he said he can milk those flatter deliveries for easy singles. I need to work on flighting the ball more.
Going through the loop: I have a general idea and a theoretical sense of how going through the loop works (read Philpott's book and watched Dave's videos), but I am still yet to grasp that concept fully when I bowl. Right now, I am going with a vague idea of what to do but my wrist doesn't actually end up where I really was envisioning. Leg breaks sometimes end up as googlies and having read all the warnings about the Googlie syndrome, I am very nervous. Any tips in imagining or grasping that concept would be super helpful.

I will try to post a couple of videos soon. I have some but every time I check them after a week, there was an update already made to my action and that video feels out of date

The going around the loop and the perception of what you're doing in terms of release in my experience will come in time and it's not something I'd dwell on personally. Just as long as you can execute your Leg-Break well without worrying too much about what you're doing with your wrist. If you can then bowl a Googly as well, that's really useful! I'd try and keep it simple in the short-term (10 Years ).

 

[SomeblokecalledDave.]

Here are a couple of videos of my bowling action. The first one had decent flight and landed in the right area and the second one had turn but dragged short.

Please give your feedback. I have some more questions but will wait for comm

Here are a couple of videos of my bowling action. The first one had decent flight and landed in the right area and the second one had turn but dragged short.

Please give your feedback. I have some more questions but will wait for comments

Over the years of commenting on people's videos and having had people do the same for me, I'm kind of reluctant on saying too much and encouraging people to fiddle with their actions as it can sometimes put people back months. So in terms of deliveries and honing them...Funny that you mentioned the journey from leg-breaks to Googlies to flippers because it's changed a bit this year. So currently I'm bowling Leg-Breaks and increasingly at the latter end of the season top-spinners. But because I've focused on them, I've lost the Flippers for the most part, I still chuck one down once in a while - yesterday bowled a terrible one - way too short, almost bounced twice and if left would have been a wide and the batter went after it and inside edged it onto his stumps! Anyway that aside, my Leg-Breaks have been coming out really well and I can bowl them with varying degrees of turn. My stock ball turns well, but I have a much straighter one which is nearer a top-spinner. But if I want to turn it more I do something I've spotted you're not doing and you might find with some work it'll work for you. As you go into FFC go up onto your toes and pivot on the ball of your foot. I think I bowl without going up onto the toes almost 100% of the time, but if I add the raise on the toes it adds more torque somewhere in the action and the ball turns far more.

 

[slingylefty]

500 members and 20 teams that's mental! Cheers mate for the compliments re all my work on the interwebs!. Good news for you is I didn't play cricket till I was 46! and I'm now 65 and still going strong. I put a lot of work into staying fit, strong and flexible - follow a couple of blokes on Youtube with a channel called 'Strengthside' for that. Want to keep going into my 70's. Had a good game yesterday against strong opposition, got the 'In form' batter and their 'Finisher' and some other top and middle order batters. Then came away with winning the game 2 not out!View attachment 3549

Wow! Those were pretty impressive bowling figures SomeblokecalledDave. Congratulations.
Thanks for the channel recommendation. I subscribed to their channel. Funny enough, the very first video in that channel is what I am working on (shoulder). I have a dodgy right shoulder from all the throwing during fielding (even though I bowl left handed, I bat and throw right). I have been strengthening my shoulders over the past couple of months and it is a lot more manageable. The biggest thing I need from my right shoulder is to pull up high and help me with my line. I am practicing that (back when I was bowling pace, my right arm would only raise up to shoulder level).

 

[slingylefty]

I read about being on toes for FFC. I need to work on that. The issue is that I have my ACL reconstruction on that knee and as part of that, they shaved off 50% of meniscus. Because of that, my knee doesn't like any extra pressure during landing. Braced front leg is also tough. I am yet to try landing on toes and pivot but so far I am too scared psychologically I have a home gym with foam pads and one of the things I am going to try next week is to slowly practice landing on the ball of my foot and see how I take it.

I went to nets today and had a very good session. Bowled a couple of hours in a really humid 38C weather but felt really good. One change I made to my action is to bring the front knee a lot higher. I took this cue from this forum where they discussed the high front knee of Nathan Lyon. It seems to have added more stability to my post load up and also gives me that extra time for me to align and deliver. The results were pretty much instantaneous. I got my flight back, and they landed at a good length. I did bowl some drag downs but I can attribute that to trying to bowl faster. I really need to curb my fast bowling instincts as they seem to creep up every now and then. When executed well, those fast deliveries were pretty quick, flat with huge turn but I am pretty sure I cannot pull that in matches. Plus those deliveries do not seem to bother good batsmen at all.

One other observation, I can now judge a batsman by how they are moving the feet. If I see a batsman not good at moving his feet, I am noticing that I am instantly troubling him. When it flights well and lands in good area, they usually don't come to the pitch of the ball and end up playing across the line in the intention of thrashing the ball. They might succeed a couple of times and hit boundaries but eventually they mishit one. That was my nets experience (I induced a false shot every 5-6 balls from a decent batsman who is knows for his hitting abilities). I am no where near to playing any mind tricks, let alone bowl consistently, But I am absolutely loving the fact that I am already creating doubts in the batsman's head. One batsman I bowled to last week walked up to me and said I will be lethal come next Spring season and he is already asking me to join his team. I just told him I still have a long way to go

 

[SomeblokecalledDave.]

Wow! Those were pretty impressive bowling figures SomeblokecalledDave. Congratulations.
Thanks for the channel recommendation. I subscribed to their channel. Funny enough, the very first video in that channel is what I am working on (shoulder). I have a dodgy right shoulder from all the throwing during fielding (even though I bowl left handed, I bat and throw right). I have been strengthening my shoulders over the past couple of months and it is a lot more manageable. The biggest thing I need from my right shoulder is to pull up high and help me with my line. I am practicing that (back when I was bowling pace, my right arm would only raise up to shoulder level).

Oooh that sounds like classic case of a rotator cuff injury. Have you had it looked at? On two ocassions in the last 20 years I've put in way too many hours practicing and ended up injuring my rotator cuff and the consequence was that I couldn't lift my arm above 90 degrees. Both times the solution was to just rest for 2-3 weeks and allow it to heal and it worked both times.