Bowling Action advice?

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Bowling Action advice?

Hey, I'm new to the forums and relatively new to cricket (been playing for about a year and a bit now). I'm fairly short, about 5ft 7/8, and bowled medium/fast last year, however after the break between the end of season and start of training, I've developed a completely different action.

My old action was fairly sling like, i.e like Malinga and Edwards but my new action is half face on half side on and has really damaged my back. My chest and shoulders are front on but my legs are side on, resulting in me swinging my back round, which has left me with a painful back afterwards.

I need to either get my legs front on or my chest/shoulders side on, and hopefully since I'm going to join the uni team, I'll be able to practice and develop my action.

I would like to hopefully get back to my sling action as I was developing it pretty well.

Does anybody have any advice on how to develop a new action?

I've already been told to just take a run up of a few steps and bowl slower and let your run up and pace increase as you get more used to the action.
 
Re: Bowling Action advice?

legs are harder to adjust than the upper body or so ive heard, i reccomend posting a video of your action like me as i too have a messed up action and have got amazing help from liz and everyone on the forum.
 
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I'll try and get a video asap, but I don't think I'll have much luck as it is constantly raining here now!
 
Re: Bowling Action advice?

Rory, hello and welcome!

The back pain is more than likely caused by the mixed action - it's pretty important to make sure that the shoulders and hips are in line when bowling to help reduce the risk of injury.

In terms of developing a new action then it's going to take a fair bit of work. The best thing is too break it down into sections and then bring them altogether. It's a major job and you will need a coach who knows what they are on about.

Post a video if able and then we can at least have a look and see any obvious flaws.
 
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hello sir, i am amit sharma please give me advise for bowl inswing and out swing and bowling run up and action .
my run-up is cppy ishant sharma(india).
and please give me videos of ishant sharma for seen.
thank you.
 
Re: Bowling Action advice?

If you make your own thread and post a video of you bowling, we can help you a great deal. If not then we can only give generlised advice.
 
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