With the older ball, unless you're really good and conditions is good, you will not get to produce that away swing that you can get with the new ball.  With that natural away swinger seam position, the ball can bite into the pitch and comeback into the right handers, which I think is happening to you.  The harder you pull down on the ball, the more chances of it cutting into a right handed batsman this way.

 

My advice, you won't get swing with an older ball unless condition is right so stop worrying about doing it.  Work on using reverse swing, convential swing is practically impossible when the shine goes and the sun is out.

 

Also trying to bowl quicker using your arm will just result in spraying the ball legside, offside and having no real control. You get more power from your hips.

 

i would say dont put to much effort into it since that can lead to bowling too short, but try to develop a nice flowing action and let that do all the work, all you need is good armspeed, and that doesnt neccesatily go hand in hand with pure grunt.

 

just my thoughts

than I would advice against changing your action in the persuit of speed,

because you are likely to lose the ability to swing or seam the ball

no one hear is likely to be Bret Lee so sacrificing movement for a few extra mph is stupid.

 

One pice of advice is make sure both the front arm and bowling arm rotate as far as possoble wothout causing discomfort. Your bowing hand should be pointing behind you in the follow through. Try and let your front foot hit the deck before your front arm comes down, this stops you from collapsing and losing momentum. Hold the ball as loosely as possible, this wont get you extra pace, but will help you relax and will make the ball carry further.

Thanks

 

Also any idiot can say he bowls 140 km/h

 

anyone can take a misguided guess.

 

If you say you bowl 130 without being tested i would bet you bowl around 90 km/h

 

chest, shoulders back, sides , legs. abs alot.

 

if u dont have acsess to a gym.

 

press ups

sit ups

pull ups

lunges

 

etc

 

 

 

also yeah...mcgrath probs makes it come fast off the pitch of the amount he hit the seam and i swear he can control the way it goes. thats darn hard.

 

im 18 by the way, if i didn't mention

 

If you really bowl 130 you should be playing top grade for your club and be in your state team for your age, if you have decent accuracy.

 

People come up with absolute nonsense numbers, oh hey billy i bowl around 130, yea i just guessed from watching mcgrath bowl on tv, im about the same speed.

 

Ever notice how the keeper doesnt look far back on tv then u go to a match and hes over half way to the boundary against fast bowling?

 

the perception of the TV angle being straight down the wicket gives you barely any sense of how fast the ball is actually travelling.

 

Dont bother telling people how fast you bowl until you get it checked by a speed gun, even then those things are dodgy as hell