Neil Pickup
Cricket Web Moderator
Seeing as you appear to have cleared off for the night, I'll answer my rhetorical question myself. Absolutely bugger all... except dragging your chest around to a completely incompatible position with the lower half of your body.
Your legs are very very front-on: to the point where you can see the gap between your trouser legs, and you seem to be bowling outswing to the right-hander. There is no remotely viable reason you would want to be looking over your right shoulder at this point in time. This is what it does to your upper body:
The red line is the shoulders; the blue line is the hips. In an ideal action, these lines are parallel. Yours are not parallel - in fact, they're converging somewhere near extra cover.
I would suggest you do the following to your right arm (excuse the crude MS Paint work):
This will move your shoulders to the green line, parallel to your hips. It will also generate extra pace as your right arm will drop first, adding extra momentum to the uncoiling action that brings your left arm around in the bowling motion. Critically, it will get everything pointing in the same direction at release and stop your body fighting with itself in your delivery stride, concentrating your energy on getting the ball to go down the wicket rather than trying to reconcile two arguing forces!
Your legs are very very front-on: to the point where you can see the gap between your trouser legs, and you seem to be bowling outswing to the right-hander. There is no remotely viable reason you would want to be looking over your right shoulder at this point in time. This is what it does to your upper body:
The red line is the shoulders; the blue line is the hips. In an ideal action, these lines are parallel. Yours are not parallel - in fact, they're converging somewhere near extra cover.
I would suggest you do the following to your right arm (excuse the crude MS Paint work):
This will move your shoulders to the green line, parallel to your hips. It will also generate extra pace as your right arm will drop first, adding extra momentum to the uncoiling action that brings your left arm around in the bowling motion. Critically, it will get everything pointing in the same direction at release and stop your body fighting with itself in your delivery stride, concentrating your energy on getting the ball to go down the wicket rather than trying to reconcile two arguing forces!
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