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Yes, warm up decently and thoroughly then bowl a few overs and if you still have aches and throbs in your shoulder stop bowling. But if you can persist you should keep on bowling for as long as possible.

Have you tried them yet, and how useful do you think these wrist exercises are? I haven't been bowling recently (it's raining all the time:() so I don't know if they are working. (I only bowled twice after trying them so I'm not sure if they keep improving your bowling with each day that you...

You shouldn't be afraid of bowling leg side wides. Everyone is inaccurate when they start bowling wrist spin, you can only correct accuracy with practice. You are going to bowl wides, and lots of them too! But the more you practice the less wides you will bowl:) Guaranteed.

It may damage your rotator cuff if your not careful, I do have rubber-like wrist and shoulders, so I'm not prone to any kind of bowling related injuries. I'm not sure if being short means you have to put more energy into the delivery, I'm 14 and only 1.63 meters and still propel the ball over 30...

Whether you get more spin with a high or low arm action is entirely dependent on your shoulder and wrist flexibility and strength. Shane Warne had a low arm, Richie Benaud a high arm etc. As long as your arm ins't past the vertical it's fine. I haven't noticed more spin when I bowl with a low...

My drift is also very consistent. If I spin the ball at my hardest now I can drift it from the edge of the pitch to off stump for a left handed batsman. (given the right amount of flight and the ball coming out cleanly) If I lower my arm considerably so it's lower than 45 degrees (or that't how...

Do you still get lots of drift with this arm height? If so, how much roughly? And what are your experiences with drift?

Thanks Shahidpak It's a shame that the mountain blurs the ball in the second video:mad: That second ball drifted quite a bit ! (for my bowling last season that is:D) You can still see me bowling the ball towards leg stump and it landing outside off.

Oh, I think that pace was about 50kph, not 100% sure though, could be slower. I have had coaching, unfortunately:( ... Luckily I learned how to judge advice and ignore anything that I know won't help me at all. Do you have a low arm action or a higher one? I've heard some people saying that a...

It's all normal and fine. In a few days it will go away. I've also been at a stage where my bowling shoulder was aching and hurting all over. But I still bowled regularly and it went away entirely. Now I can bowl thousands of deliveries a day and won't feel a thing the next morning. It's just...

True. I do grunt from effort and explosion at the crease. Sometimes it's a full blooded clearly audible grunt, I've even been called various tennis-player names on the field because I sound similar to them when I bowl:D I'm not sure if I have a natural pace, I can bowl at three paces, 70kph ...

Makes sense. Usually I start out spinning the ball as hard as I possibly can, (I can't spin the ball any more than that) every ball after that is the same, unfortunately my spinning finger gets tired very fast from doing this. But I was never a fan of trying to start out with a 75% effort ball...

So I shouldn't try to rescue myself with a magic ball... Every ball that I bowl IS an attempted magic ball:confused:!!! But I accept when it wasn't a magic ball and instead a waist high full toss, and just try again the next ball. Should I rather just use the regular bowling method of opening...

That's great! I'm 14 years old and I also play at senior club level:) Last season I tried to bowl quite fast, but like you I realized that drift, dip turn etc. are much more dangerous than a medium paced ball which has a bit of spin. My stock ball's perfect speed is about 60kph (not sure how...

The Trackman (used in the previous ashes series) is great!:D... Shows you the shameful amount of RPM's that some bowlers get and also the ridiculous RPM rates (I'm thinking of Steve Smith's 2711 RPM delivery:eek:) If this bloke is only 400 revs behind Swann, well then I'd really like to...

If I was facing a slow loopy bowler, a faster ball would definitely surprise me! Do you get a lot of turn by bowling slower? And have you ever noticed drift or dip in your bowling?

No worries, 90% of all spinners have done that before and the other 10% are lying:D When I was a less experienced bowler I always went for option 2):( Now that I know I can land the ball on a good line and length with lots of revs I always go for #4! It makes a lot of sense too, why would you...

We have all been hit for a huge six. Not the kind of six that just clears the fielder on the boundary. No, not that kind. The kind that seems to go further and further, never stopping, until it lands way outside the stadium, into trees or houses or parking areas. That one hit can deflate your...

Here is my take on everything back-spinning: 1) The slider is the delivery that Warne used to bowl. He dragged his fingers down the back of the ball so it had a bit of side spin and a bit of backspin. 2) The zooter is a Warne mind game ball as far as I know. Or just another name for the...

The top spinner isn't the best variation under the sun to have! If I were an offy with control over my stock ball I would rather work on a carrom ball, undercutter, backspinner, doosra, leg cutter or something like that.