Bowling Runup

Originally posted by RightHandBat My question is about the pace bowlers runup. I hear that it gets you most of your pace. A coach has advised me to change my runup because I'm running in flat footed and it's not getting me any momentum into the crease. My bowling action is perfect, nothing wrong with it, but it's my runup that's making me lose momentum. How can I fix this?

Cheers for that legspinner and fishcake. My current runup length feels comfortable, but its just the flat footedness because this man said I'm not leaning forward as I'm running in and it's causing me to lose momentum.



Edited by RightHandBat - 25 November 2007 at 2:53am

well. think of your run up as normal running. you need to be balanced and steady, comfortable and to be going faster you need to be on your toes, not nessicerily leaning forward but on your toes.

I'm only flat footed in my runup (was), but I reckon it's down to the fact where I was thinking about my runup and not running in like I usually do. I'm just running in like I normally run now with a slight forward lean now.

Basically, I'm running in naturally, I've just stopped thinking about it now.

That would be fairly heavy reading wouldn't it? Learning about leavers and which muscles are contracting etc

Well, the runup surely feels great. I'm bowling a lot quicker then what I was a few weeks ago.

The runup is springy and I am gaining height as I'm coming into bowl, running in a straight line towards the pitch, getting the knee to brace and having the elbow lock into the torso.

It's also making me abit more deadly to face, getting more bounce then before at pace with seam movement both ways. It's great. I bowl a good length and it rises upto chest/shoulder height to a batsman. Picked up three wickets at training too.

Favourite was the one where one batsman was on strike and I kept bowling on a good length outside off and he was letting them go, so I moved to the off stump, he blocked it, then I moved my line just a fraction away and he went to block and he edged it. 1st or 2nd slip probably would've caught it. After that I decided to slip a shortish one in, he pulled it and it went right down mid wickets throat hehe.

Later on I got another wicket to another batsman bit of away swing, just a fraction to straighten down the line of offstump and he edged it behind.

Most important thing though is that everything felt good, the runup, the action, the knee bracing, elbow locking into the torso and the follow through is brilliant. Although the runup can be abit better I was told.

Nah, it's not my chest, it's my waist area just above the hip.

Originally posted by fishcake14 These problems would never arise if we all played wheelchair cricket...

fun fun fun
that would be strange...

Originally posted by RightHandBat Nah, it's not my chest, it's my waist area just above the hip.

is that abit uncomfortable to have it just over the hip....well aslong as ur not blocking off any off ur hip drive or pace its all good!

If wheelchair rugby is called Murderball, i wonder what wheelchair cricket would be called?

Originally posted by MP12 Originally posted by Pietersen Fan Originally posted by fishcake14 These problems would never arise if we all played wheelchair cricket...   my team played against a man in a wheelchair once, apparently he was quite good I didn't even think it was possible. Was he a batsman or bowler?