URGENT HELP SWING BOWLING!!!!!!!!!!

never ever ever post in caps, least of all in the thread title

I seem to remember writing quite a lot on a this subject in another thread once before, so I'll just copy and paste what I wrote then:

The one key thing for swing bowling which is almost never mentioned but can make a bigger difference than probably any other single thing is wrist position. For a start, if your going to bowl swing your wrist has to be firm and cocked, and it has to stay firm throughout the delivary, that is the first thing to get right. Once you've sorted that (and take your time making sure you've got it, get experienced players to watch you closely and comment) you can move on to wrist position for the in- and/or out-swinger.

You will frequently hear people when talking about swing refering to where you point the seam - at first slip for an away-swinger and at leg slip for an in-swinger. This is correct to an extent, but crucially doesn't tell the whole story. What people get wrong is to rotate the angle of the ball in the hand to achieve this but in fact what you need to do is to hold the ball as normal and change your wrist position - slightly to the left for an away-swinger, so the seam appears at a slight angle like so (/) and vice versa for the in-swinger so the ball appears (\). BUT it is crucial you always keep your wrist firmly cocked or you won't be getting the benefit, plus you'll be losing pace, accuracy, any seam movement basically everything that makes a seam bowler useful. My point being that wrist position is absolutely crucial in all seam bowling.

Anyway, these technical things aside, if you keep trying it's likely if you have a decent action you'll discover you naturally swing the ball one way, so when you do work on that one and make it your stock ball, you can always work on the other one later if needs be. I've bowled lovely away-swingers since i was a wee nipper without knowing how, having never been told about what affect the wrist has, and now for the first time in my life i can bowl one which goes trhe other way, which is a great weapon in a bowlers armoury. Concentrate on your natural swing though ,and keep that as a surprise.