Trailing down leg side

[bond21]

What do you do when you start to trail down legside?

I was bowling really well for most of my spell, then the last 2 overs i was going down legside about 8 times from 12 balls.

I think it is tiredness, but what can you do to counter it?

[Goughy]

Originally Posted by bond21

What do you do when you start to trail down legside?

I was bowling really well for most of my spell, then the last 2 overs i was going down legside about 8 times from 12 balls.

I think it is tiredness, but what can you do to counter it?

Often it is triedness. Obviously fitness work helps but most importantly is early season net work. Simply, the action gets ragged when tired.

You need to bowl hard and to heavy levels of tiredness in the nets pre-season to work on that concentration required when the body is giving up and on keeping the action tight when it starts to come a little unravelled due to fatigue.

Basically preparing and experiencing the the most exteme match situations when in practice so the body knows how to cope when faced with it.

[bond21]

while you're here goughy, i got 2 quick questions about fast bowling.

Our top A grade fast bowler told me to load up near the hip area, kinda like Brett Lee, Chris Martin etc. And yet a coach in my club who has done a course in coaching (i know how you feel about that) told me to load up next to the chin.

Its kinda like a great fast bowler vs a not so great cricketer who has done coaching courses.

Whats your opinion on the gather?

And my left arm sort of goes from my left hand touching my right shoulder on the gather, to going out and pulling down, im not sure if this is the best way to do it. If not, how do you teach people to use their left arm? I read in another thread you should get your left arm up aggressively, im not doing that, im just pulling it down aggressively.

[Manee]

Originally Posted by bond21

Whats your opinion on the gather?

The gather is about what is comfortable to you.

[Goughy]

Originally Posted by bond21

while you're here goughy, i got 2 quick questions about fast bowling.

Our top A grade fast bowler told me to load up near the hip area, kinda like Brett Lee, Chris Martin etc. And yet a coach in my club who has done a course in coaching (i know how you feel about that) told me to load up next to the chin.

Its kinda like a great fast bowler vs a not so great cricketer who has done coaching courses.

Whats your opinion on the gather?

And my left arm sort of goes from my left hand touching my right shoulder on the gather, to going out and pulling down, im not sure if this is the best way to do it. If not, how do you teach people to use their left arm? I read in another thread you should get your left arm up aggressively, im not doing that, im just pulling it down aggressively.

Originally Posted by Manee

The gather is about what is comfortable to you.

Yeah, its about whats comfortable.

However, more and more people are believing that the higher the gather the more wasted movement involved in an action and more things that can go wrong.

The number of people bringing the ball head height or above are falling.

I personally gather at just above stomach height.

[MrDucksWorth]

is the gather where you bring the ball up to before you start your arm action?

[vic_orthdox]

Originally Posted by Goughy

Often it is triedness. Obviously fitness work helps but most importantly is early season net work. Simply, the action gets ragged when tired.

You need to bowl hard and to heavy levels of tiredness in the nets pre-season to work on that concentration required when the body is giving up and on keeping the action tight when it starts to come a little unravelled due to fatigue.

Basically preparing and experiencing the the most exteme match situations when in practice so the body knows how to cope when faced with it.

Yup. Often a good idea to do your fitness work before training, and practice nailing the execution of your skills under fatigue.