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It's the off season right now in England so I can't get a video. :( Peter Philpott talks about your 'natural pace' in his book. He says that the ideal pace is that which you bowl naturally as long as you have correct technique and are exploding through the crease. The effort should make you...

I do get loads of turn, drift and dip. I'm twelve years old playing in senior club level cricket so I'm not physically able to bowl at 40-50MPH. It's only been at the end of this season that I've accepted this and realized that the attributes that are going to get me wickets are turn, drift, dip...

Although it does often get people out. I am quite a slow, loopy bowler (hence the name) so if the batsman is getting cocky he'll probably come down the pitch to me. The ball then sneaks under his bat and hits the stumps. Shane Warne used to bowl a flipper after he had been hit for a big six!

I'm probably guilty of option 1:oops:

Exactly! But I aint gonna complain:D

If you turn the sound up at 1:08 you can hear the batsman's mates shouting "Smash it, then he'll be sorry!" Whenever I hear something like that it always lifts my spirits and I try to give it a bit more air and let him have a go at me. 9/10 times, that happens.

Never heard of it, but looks interesting.:D Can you get a video?

Ask the coaches why they need you to bowl the top-spinner. If it's only that they think you need a straight ball, then you can try loads of things like holding the ball seam up and using your normal off spin action, the ball will come out scrambled seam and, unless it's on a complete dustbowl...

What would usually get you out as a LHB? Is it the big spinning leg break or something that goes straight on?

Thanks, I'll try them!

Just to check with you: SLA = Left-arm finger spin SLC = Left-arm wrist spin If so then it's most likely because, with finger spin, you have to get your hand over the ball to add top-spin whereas as with wrist-spin you get it behind and slightly underneath the ball. Try really concentrating on...

Other than denting your pride, developing an off break couldn't be a bad thing for these situations...

This is too good a thread to abandon it so... I've just realized that the way I bowl to RHB's can also be used against LHB's. Bowl big spinning leg breaks on the left-handers off stump, these can quite easily be glanced away. Then throw in the odd backspinner and hey presto! They place inside...

We started off with bowling from the coil position and corrected some minor things like over-rotation. Then we moved into bowling with a run-up off the full twenty two yards and focused on spinning the ball through gates; one was outside leg and I had to hit the stumps and the other was around...

I've just had a coaching session from Russell Wyatt (ECB Level III coach) who runs http://www.willowmasters.co.uk/ It felt nice to get my hands on a cricket ball and I soon felt the old spin coming back to me.

I really enjoyed it, it was very relaxing and I've always been quite flexible so it wasn't too hard. We did deep breathing to relax which is one thing that can be be transferred directly to cricket. It was mainly a session to introduce the skills of yoga I think, we didn't really do anything...

Turf is a bit more forgiving but, in general, perfect seam alignment = Maximum turn, bounce and drift.

I've got a yoga session next Friday, and I'm going to try out the plan this coming week.

Definitely. One of my friends' parents teaches yoga, so I might be able to get a couple of trial lessons free of charge...