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Originally Posted by Richard
I just wish he'd damn well go around-the-wicket when he's bowling outswingers to LHBs. The outswinger is so much less effective when angled accross the batsman.
If you're swinging in, angle it accross (even if that means as a right-armer going around-the-wicket to a right-hander). If you're swinging it out, angle in. Always. And the more you're swinging, the wider on the crease you want to bowl.
Anderson excels in this area too. It's astonishing how instinctively well he seems to understand bowling, yet how incredibly long it's taken him to actually get that good at it. And that still after having done so his figures are moderate.
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That's a lot more difficult to do than you would imagine, a lot of bowlers going round find it hard to swing the ball away when pitching it in the channel, that's why when they do go round they often give too much width looking for swing.