The weather held out today and was quite sunny and pleasent all day. Once or twice during the day I've been out bowling the short distances and then this afternoon before tea I went over the the Oak Tree which is 14 yards and bowled exceptionally well with the 70% rate that I was looking for. Bouyed by this after tea I went over onto the field and set up the stumps at 15 yards - yeah I know I said I wouldn't do 15 yards for a while, but it went to well earlier on I thought I'd try it. This time I took the camera and filmed myself bowling and it wasn't that clever. I had some success maybe about 20%. So I need to go back to the 14 yards and stick with that for a while.
But when I was doing the 15 yards I could feel it coming out of the hand right when it was right, the flick is there and it's the inward flick a la' Peter Philpott that makes the difference and that combined with the ball coming off the 3rd finger with conviction and it's a lovely Leg Break. I'll work on the video tonight and upload it for comments to be made on Youtube.
With that being a bit disappointing I then tried the 14 yards at the Oak Tree and as expected that went fine with a lot more success.
Tomorrow's match
All day I've been waiting for the nod as to whether I've got a game or not and still no word as yet which is disappointing. I'll have to go through tomorrow as though I am expecting to play so that'll give Michelle the ache, in fact as I type she's asking 'Have you heard yet whether you're playing or not'?
In the past I've had issues with maintaining spin and accuracy over distance and this has been caused by not putting enough spin on the ball at the point of release. It is very easy to get enough spin to carry it a short distance but over a longer distance (22ish yds) the whole action has to be fine tuned for it to work.
ReplyDeleteI've found that my run up, angle of approach, position of arm, and the flick of the wrist all have to be there to get the spin going and for the ball to drop in the right place. Variations are literally then all down to which way you face your wrist (mostly).
Interested to see how you get on.
Rocco
This is what I'm finding. It feels as though I'm so close to getting the right action and grip and then I have days like today which was 2 or 3 steps backwards. I wasn't going to write an entry in the blog today becuase it was pretty depressing. I may even have a few days off from it and see if that makes a difference?
ReplyDeleteThings I might suggest trying are turning your arm faster.. this can be a bit hit and miss but it did help me out initially.
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