Pace Bowling

I am in the Millenium School, Dubai. Kind of junk when it comes to cricket, my school. I go for coaching at Insportz, I also use to go for SCC.
Where do you stay? Which school?
Hey, guys, here's my workout routine:
1. 3 consecutive days in a week 2 and a half hour sessions with matches, nets or real match situation simulation. I don't work out on these days.

2. Once a week: Abdominal Circuit Training (30 mins) + 40 mins backyard cricket.

3. Once a week: Footwork Training (15 mins) and a Game of Soccer (45mins) with friends.

4. Once a week: Bowling and fielding and sometimes batting-nets (1hour) + (1 hour rest) Upper Body Circuit Training (25 mins) + Backyard Cricket (25 mins)

5. Once a week: Bowling and fielding and sometimes batting-nets (1hour) + (1 hour rest) Lower Body Training - Simple Plyometrics and Running(25 mins) + Abdominal Circuit (25 mins)

Try www.cricketsecrets.com forum, www.chappellway.com.au and www.harrowdrive.com
Sites with great info!
Might be a mistake, dunno. But it is possible to bowl at those speeds for a 13 yr old, you know. Ppl here in this country are HUGER, and with workout we can develop lots of pace.
Too much time is spent on technique. Focus should be on "FOCUS". :D
If you can imagine the ball leaving your hand and bouncing in a certain manner, focus a lot on that, and you'll get it right.
Search google for the BRacewell fastbowling formula and also register at greg chappell's site (www.chappellway.com.au) and look at the interactive coaching module.
But most important : visit http://www.coachesinfo.com/category/cricket
and check out some real science
:D
Shaaz (wanna know more about you shane - contact me at shaazthegreat@gmail.com)

For 13 year olds it's probably physically impossible, I would personnaly never trust speed guns, they quite often don't work, I was recorded as bowling a 70MPH legbreak on one once, and that is definitely impossible for a 14 year old.

I am 13 and I have measured 132 kph (In Dubai, at the shopping festival, Gillette was holding a fastest bowler contest.)
I can't really swing it in, but outswingers are quite EASY for me, rather natural. And I NEVER EVER compromise on accuracy, every single ball of mine hits exactly the spot I wish it to.
My variations include a slow ball (I roll my wrists), and I can bowl excellent leg cutters.
I can also bowl a pretty good bouncer. I play with the U-18s here, and I open the bowling for my team.
My coach tells me to bowl an just a little overpitched, and it should bounce over the stump. If you focus hard enough, you can get it right and that's amazing.
I am also a top order batsman (either 1 down or opening and occasionaly 2 down).
I have a rigid workout and I want to try in the MRF Pace Foundation, even though I stay outside India. If anyone knows about the requirements and details, please contact me by mail :shaazthegreat@gmail.com
I'll be going over to Chennai anyway!
:D
Shaaz

I Like Bowling Yorkers,I Dont have The Pace To Bowl Affective Bouncers But I Respect Bowlers Who Bowl Bouncers On To The Body.

The Variations I Use Mostly Are:

- Normol Deliviery
- Off Cutter
-Leg Cutter
-Swinging Yorker( with new ball)


My Off Cutter Is Very Affective..Usualy Desievs The Batsman

that would be my broken finger

Originally posted by Flavorz Does Anyone know the average (ish) speed for a 16 year old pacer?

well i am 14, bowl legspin and fast, my fast is 60mph, but ive played against someone who is a year plder, bowls 70-75, looking like a future england bowler too

id say around 65-70 for 16 as you have nearly fully developed

What is the point of bowling bouncers?  Especially the ones on the body can be quite dangerous, no?

Does it help the bowler in any way?

Bowling in the nets last week I got a ball to start moving the wrong way after working one side with sweat and saliva for about an hour, and I don't bowl that quick. I think that side of the ball was just so much heavier by then it was making it move a bit.

average speed for a 16 yr old pacer depends on their action but it shud be around the 60mph mark.

No, don't have a clue. Sorry.

Well, then. It seems I was confused about the reverse swing. I can swing it both ways, and seam it a bit, though.

Originally posted by RightHandBat Hmm, I'm not very sure, then. I faced the smooth side away from the right hand batsman, which I wanted to be an outswinger, and instead it moved like an inswinger, then pitched and seamed into leg stump.

I think you are a little confused. That is the way you would hold the ball for a conventional inswinger. The ball swings towards the rough side with conventional swing. If it swings towards the shiny side, then we'd be dealing with reverse swing. Read my posts in the "swing bowling" thread for more info.

Hmm, I'm not very sure, then. I faced the smooth side away from the right hand batsman, which I wanted to be an outswinger, and instead it moved like an inswinger, then pitched and seamed into leg stump.


Edited by RightHandBat

Originally posted by OwzatWarrior If you opened the bowling and bowled four overs, then surely the ball would not have been rough and beat enough for you to utilize reverse swing, if you can reverse swing a ball after 8 overs then you should be called up to the national team my friend!

It was during the eight over mark. It was a very hot and humid day, with some cold wind blowing accross the ground. I got reverse swing for about 3 deliveries. They were smashing my opening bowling partner all over the place. That could have contributed to the roughening up of the ball. Couldn't it?

I think that's the cause, one side was very rough to an extent the dye was peeling off.


Edited by RightHandBat

I could have swing the ball both ways, inswing , outswing, where I live here pitches don't really offer seam movement like in new zealand. I use to swing the ball in the air as well. We never polished our ball so I never used the reverese swing as yet. I had a very decent line and length. I never really use any short ball cause I never use to bowl at high speed. In a match i bowled pace and got figures 0f 6.3.24.3 , I bowled all 3 victims. I bowl my first 3 overs for 24 runs and 1 wicket. I was on a hat trickI bowled pace in another match and didn't get any wickets but I didn't conceed a boundary. I was like another glenn mcgrath, but I had to let it go cause I use to land badly on my knee. I bowled some off cutters in the past and a dangerous one that straigthen up like Nel own.