Bowling with confidence
I personally feel that the biggest part of my game is confidence. At the moment as a bowler ive got complete 100% that before any game im going to bowl economically, and take wickets at the same time. On a Sunday i captain one of our sides, and i always open the bowling and bowl 8 overs through most of the time. On Saturday's i usually find myself bowling between 8-12 overs in a spell with the new ball, then bowl another 5-6 at the end of the innings. In my last few games i think that the figures speak for themselves.
8-3-7-2
14.2-4-32-3
8-2-21-3
16-8-25-3
In total so far this season ive bowled just short of 210 overs, and ive gone for 359 runs and taken 19 wickets. I havent really bowled a bad spell at all this season, and every time i come to bowl, i just feel as if i can take wickets every time and trouble the batsmen.
I bowl fast medium but i dont really come off that long a run up. Ive found that i can bowl a lot better off a 12 pace run up as opposed to when i was younger coming in off 20 paces. In regards to the pace i bowl i wouldnt like to guess, but i can bowl at a pretty decent pace. I do as well have the added advantage of being 6''6 and being able to get a lot of bounce when there is something in the track. Only being 20 years old as well still gives me a lot of time to develop as a faster bowler. One of the skills ive learnt well in the last few years is to be able to swing the ball both ways. Most of my wickets this season have come from variation with the batsmen not being able to pick the ball.
Variation i feel is the key to having success. At times perhaps you can be liable to being a bit predicatable, but ive always felt this season that being able to vary things has helped me have a lot of success with the ball. One of the key issues that has worked for me is being able to bowl a good slower ball. Its probably taken me about two years to perfect and get it right in a game situation, but its something that works for me. One of the key things is to make sure you arm comes at the same speed. A few years back one of the main problems i had was when i was going to bowl a slower delivery, i came in slower in my run up and my arm came through much slower which allowed the batsmen to pick the slower ball easily. In the last few months ive worked on this, and now ive managed to be able to bowl a good slower ball whilst bringing my arm through at the same speed. Another issue as a bowler is i think you cant be afraid to try different things. Sometimes they will work, other times perhaps not.
There isnt really a better feeling knowing that when you have got the ball in your hand running in, that you just believe you are going to have the batsmen at the other end in trouble.
I personally feel that the biggest part of my game is confidence. At the moment as a bowler ive got complete 100% that before any game im going to bowl economically, and take wickets at the same time. On a Sunday i captain one of our sides, and i always open the bowling and bowl 8 overs through most of the time. On Saturday's i usually find myself bowling between 8-12 overs in a spell with the new ball, then bowl another 5-6 at the end of the innings. In my last few games i think that the figures speak for themselves.
8-3-7-2
14.2-4-32-3
8-2-21-3
16-8-25-3
In total so far this season ive bowled just short of 210 overs, and ive gone for 359 runs and taken 19 wickets. I havent really bowled a bad spell at all this season, and every time i come to bowl, i just feel as if i can take wickets every time and trouble the batsmen.
I bowl fast medium but i dont really come off that long a run up. Ive found that i can bowl a lot better off a 12 pace run up as opposed to when i was younger coming in off 20 paces. In regards to the pace i bowl i wouldnt like to guess, but i can bowl at a pretty decent pace. I do as well have the added advantage of being 6''6 and being able to get a lot of bounce when there is something in the track. Only being 20 years old as well still gives me a lot of time to develop as a faster bowler. One of the skills ive learnt well in the last few years is to be able to swing the ball both ways. Most of my wickets this season have come from variation with the batsmen not being able to pick the ball.
Variation i feel is the key to having success. At times perhaps you can be liable to being a bit predicatable, but ive always felt this season that being able to vary things has helped me have a lot of success with the ball. One of the key issues that has worked for me is being able to bowl a good slower ball. Its probably taken me about two years to perfect and get it right in a game situation, but its something that works for me. One of the key things is to make sure you arm comes at the same speed. A few years back one of the main problems i had was when i was going to bowl a slower delivery, i came in slower in my run up and my arm came through much slower which allowed the batsmen to pick the slower ball easily. In the last few months ive worked on this, and now ive managed to be able to bowl a good slower ball whilst bringing my arm through at the same speed. Another issue as a bowler is i think you cant be afraid to try different things. Sometimes they will work, other times perhaps not.
There isnt really a better feeling knowing that when you have got the ball in your hand running in, that you just believe you are going to have the batsmen at the other end in trouble.
