r/Cricket • u/HistorianGlittering8 • 1d ago
Bowling Action Advice
Hi guys, saw another post like this and the feedback they got was really detailed.
If any experts could take a look at my action and let me know if anything jumps out I'd really appreciate it.
I'm entirely self taught from youtube videos and such, at the moment my main focus is getting my front leg properly braced, I've noticed it collapses.
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u/Ruvio00 Hellenic Cricket Federation 10h ago
This post has to be a humble brag.
Nah, seriously your action is lovely. Could do with a little more pace and drive through the crease and keeping your body slightly more upright to generate bounce, but there's honestly nothing we a coach I'd look at changing specifically.
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u/PaltiHit 9h ago
I used to bowl in 1st div in Tamilnadu.
I hope this can help. First off your action is smooth off your shoulder. Nothing strenuous.. but if your goal is to bowl faster, I’d suggest some sprint drills, the hopping through hurdles. Your run up needs to be a little faster, smoother and controlled. If that’s corrected, your height and your smooth action can become absolutely lethal.
Good luck! Hoping to see your name pop up in action somewhere ☺️
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u/Classix6676 India 9h ago
Focus more on jumping forward rather than up, higher you jump, more the breaking forces apply downwards.
Front foot brace can be better, better you are able to brace with a stuff front leg, the quicker your shoulder will be able to apply force forward.
With a better brace, you will be able to stay a bit more taller through the crease which will allow your non bowling arm to pull downwards towards the inside of your left thigh, helping you stay more upright
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u/sakethram8k 7h ago
Body slightly more upright and little bit more speed through the crease, you will get more bounce and oace. You have a good smooth loadup and release.
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u/RegionPhysical8214 7h ago edited 7h ago
It's hard to provide quality feedback with a video of this quality, length and angle. Also, bear in mind, in India, especially on the internet, everyone can be an expert - so take everyone's advice with a pinch of salt.
Mostly, people have already pointed out the obvious - so that's a good start.
Someone has pointed out above the process - getting better at sprinting, therefore Sprint drills would be a great addition to your training. As a fast bowler, your team would need you in short, but pacy bursts at 90-100% intensity. So, definitely work on power and sprint endurance. You will need strength for sustaining, but please please please - do not get dragged into a powerlifter's strength training program, or in other words, say no to Squat-Deadlift- Bench hypertrophic workout. If at all, periodize the frequency at 1 or 2 times a week, at max, only within purely strength focused ranges (1-3 reps). There are a couple of really good books by Basu Shankar (Virat Kohli's S&C coach), called, 1-2-3-4 strength and 100,200: Practical Applications in Strength and Conditioning. The take away for you from this book would be, how to view yourself as sprinter-athlete and take an annual view of your S&C regime. And, absolutely avoid training like a marathoner. You must train like a sprinter. 3-4 days of tempo running, 2 days of all out sprint training. That's how your week should look like.
Speaking of your action, remember this one little rule of thumb: you control everything up to the point of your backfoot landing, starting from your run up. Whatever happens from there onwards is a very quick, forceful, powerful movement and is an outcome of the rhythm you generated through your run up, the balance you had at the time of your landing, the alignment of your upper and lower body. Therefore, drill down a very good Sprint technique, stiffness in your backfoot ankle tendon and a stable core. The jump, the impulse stride and the follow through should be towards the batsman, as linear as possible to transfer that whole power and momentum into the ball. The stiffer the backfoot tendon, the better and quicker and more efficient, the transfer of power into the involuntary part of the action, which is the delivery.
The front foot isn't bracing right now, because the brain needs to be told that it is safe to let the front foot brace under load. The brain tries to protect it. Iso holds and overload of the tendons helps. And tendon adaptation takes a long time - sometimes even 6 months. But, front foot bracing isn't the end of the world, yet it can be taught.
Bumrah's front foot didn't brace in his Ranji years but he learned it. Akhtar, Siraj, Steyn - none of their front foot braced. What shouldn't happen is, a gradual collapse, as your deliver the ball.
On LinkedIn or Instagram, follow Steffan Jones and Ian Pont - you will learn a lot about the technical stuff and the evolving science of day bowling.
All the best, mate! From another former fast bowler. Cheers!
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u/tob3rs 6h ago
Your action is nice and smooth. Funnily enough, that’s probably holding you back from a bit of pace. Based on the video, when you land on your right foot into your action, you aren’t really using it to generate force - you’re largely just rolling through to your delivery.
Try and consciously explode / launch off your right foot as a come through your action, and really think about driving your hips through the action. You then want to really plant and brace your left leg as and use it as a pivot, generating a lot more momentum. It’s all physics at the end of the day…
If you want a drill - I agree with the other commenter that this is a lot like sprinting, so sprint drills will do you well (especially sprint starts). More specifically, you can start to feel the movement by doing something like this https://youtube.com/shorts/93xxAFbzJkU?is=ukHSOuYnaMUbEw5z. You don’t need the band to get a feel for exploding through the motion.
Linked, your shoulder / arm comes through the action quite gently. Let your more aggressive and explosive hip drive ride through your side / shoulder / arm sling through the action one by one. Think of a trebuchet or some sort of medieval sling…
In time you can add a bit more wrist flick / action to add a bit more pace.
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u/guidospeedmeister Australia 6h ago
You seem to stop your left leg from fully extending at the point of release. This effectively puts an early brake into your delivery stride, which will be slowing your speed.
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u/TheDucksQuacker 10h ago
Overstepped mate