becoming a faster bowler

please help me .....

when i am bowling with new ball naturally ball is swinging out side of right handed batsman ,
in my second spell the ball will old  than i am bowling ball is going in side of right handed batsmen
i try ed to bowl out swinger but the ball is still going in swinger ..... what should i do please help.....

Three imporant aspects of bowling fast:

1. Fast twich muscle fibres are very important. Build up a good strength base, and then try exercises such as explosive push-ups, which stimulate your muscles to move quickly. Don't believe the myth that working out will make you too bulky to bowl fast. It is very hard to get too bulky with a balanced workout.

2. Flexibility is a must for quick bowlers. This allows the application of a force to the cricket ball over a longer range of motion, therefore allowing you to bowl faster. Flexibility in the shoulders and hips are key.

3. Technique is important for fast bowlers, as improving the mechanical effeciency of your action is a definate way to increase bowling speeds.

Edited by freddy - 23 October 2011 at 9:49am

You want to ignore what someone mentioned on the first page about keeping your back leg straight, You want to do the complete opposite, Drag it through along the floor for as long as possible.. (See my profile avatar with brett lee bowling, Notice how he drags his back leg.

im in the same boat as you mate, im desperately trying too add speed too my bowling, i heard a rumor that to devolp arm speed which is a key component to bowling pace bowling with a tennis ball as hard as you can. don't know how true this is anyone got any ideas?

to be honest its pretty much all in the action. i dont want to sound to up myself but im probably the quickest bowler in my pretty successful team and i just womble up to the wicket before i bowl. as an opposing batsman put it to his partner: "hes quicker than he looks"

Where did that come from?

just to say thanks for the help chin music, sorry bout the non-reply. i am at uni now where guys are a fair bit quicker and sometimes i can't even see it! but thanks anyway.

Edited by Alfie103 - 28 January 2008 at 1:04pm

Hi, thanks for the replies, the advice was gold dust, thanks. I was just wandering if any of you recommend Sprinting at 100m will benefit the run-up at all. And also would training Anaerobically benefit fast bowling?

You should also remember that feeling "loose" when you bowl will help you bowl quicker too, if you run in looking really tight it looks really bad, but instead you should just run in forget about the runup and how you run in but just run in and bowl and the speed will come.

Feeling loose and natural will also brace that front knee of yours without actually thinking about bracing it. I learnt that a few months ago but I'm still coming in abit tight.

That day at training with grade cricketers a few months ago was the best, it really standed out to all my other ones, I was relaxed, loose, didn't care about anything ( ). Just ran in naturally and bowled naturally and I reckon I was bowling a lot quicker to my current pace then later that session I started thinking about my runup and I lost it and my knee wasn't bracing, and I was back to bowling a lot slower. With that quicker pace I was getting a lot more carry, more bounce, more pace, more everything and I reckon if I put more effort in the follow-through, it could've been abit quicker. Now, I'm slowly learning from the mistakes and gradually getting it back.

My advice, don't overcomplicate it like I did.



Edited by RightHandBat - 21 December 2007 at 4:33am

right. my action is pretty good but my front knee is never straight. it used to be but it isn't anymore. im bowling faster because i am using much better biomechanics in my action but this has caused my front knee to be bent.
would i be even faster if it wasnt? and how important to my bowling is it?

I've been bowling fairly quickly by my standards recently and I think its mainly down to just being relaxed and not trying to overcomplicate things as i'm bowling.  I pretty much gave up on bowling quick, previously I was straining every muscle in my body and trying various different actions to try and get extra speed although now i'm bowling faster then I was pretty much jogging to the crease and going through the action.

Admittedly I'm a pretty strong guy, spend quite alot of time in the gym so the strength is there, was obviously just counter productive for me to have been trying so hard. Lets hope that some accuracy comes with the pace in time for when nets start.

So back to topic. The runup is also an essential part of bowling quicker, a good runup will get you through the crease a lot better and will get you more pace.

the speed gun measures out of the hand....

Don't know what he's on about but I've seen McGrath live from the stands and I can tell you, he's much faster off the pitch than those speed guns say! Mitchell Johnson on the other hand is bloody fast through the air!

130 km/h at 13 is physically impossible unless you are an absolute genetic freak who is huge.