I can't land my foot straight on the popping crease as I complete my action. It always points towards gully to as far as point fielder. I have tried correcting this by practicing my bowling of a few steps. However, when I go back to my run up i can't control my landing again. This poses me with two problems - balls angling in to the batsman (I am right handed) and two my balling speed is visibly slower balling from over the wicket than around the wicket. I have noticed I snap over my body harder from around the wicket and am a much better bowler to left handed batsmen. Can you help me to eradicate this landing and also achieve similar speeds from both sides of the wicket??

If there is a leg glance, why is there not an off glance?

Do you think the way we traditionally coach batting as a discrete set of separately named shots is a help or a hindrance when it comes to producing batsmen with a coherent skillset and flexible gameplans?

Great ones so far! Keep them coming, this thread will remain open.

Why are the rules different in tests to that of one day internationals? In test cricket bowlers don't bowl wides as easily, but in one day internationals nearly every ball down the leg side is a wide. In other sports rules don't change so dramatically between the formats. So why does this happen in cricket?

While wicket keeping for an off-spinner, many a time, a viscous turner goes through the gap between the bat and pad of the right handed batsman. And those are the one's I tend to mis-collect or totally miss (especially if there's extra bounce) as I lose sight of the ball. Similarly, if the batsman shuffles across to the offside to play a sweep or reverse sweep, he again blocks my view making it hard to collect in case he misses the ball. How do I solve this problem? Any specific drills I can try out?

[I play in KSCA IV Division League, Karnataka, India]

I meant *vicious*, the spell checker made it *viscous*. Sorry for the error!

My question(s):

With some Premier Leagues switching to a Win/Lose format (e.g. The Birmingham League has this year switched to a mixed Win/Lose and Win/Lose/Draw system for half the season each) how do you see the role of the spinner in the team changing?

Several of the articles here talk about using the spinner as an attacking option in order to take wickets and win the game, but as more leagues switch to Win/Lose and you don't have to take all ten wickets to Win, is there going to become more emphasis on defensive bowling, and will this make the life of the slow bowler even more difficult?

I am a top order batsman.I try always to play as straight as possible.But,as soon as the spinners come i find it very difficult to control the ball in my defense.Also,I get double-minded when the ball is in the air that whether to go front or to go back and i misjudge the ball and most of the times in my defense i used to get inside edges more and not on the middle of the bat whereas during facing fast bowlers i am very good at my defense.So,I wanted to know that how could i avoid getting those inside edges and score runs too?..
Thank You.

dear sir,
im a top order batsman,i love playing pacers but i find it difficult to play when pace exceeds 130kmph.how can i improve myself??
regarding fielding my reflexes are a bit slow,could you please let me know how to do better??
thank you.

how can i do a spiners

@Sunil

The wording of the laws of cricket is as follows:

Law 42.6

(b) Bowling of high full pitched balls

(i) Any delivery, other than a slow paced one, which passes or would have passed on the full above waist height of the striker standing upright at the popping crease is to be deemed dangerous and unfair, whether or not it is likely to inflict physical injury on the striker.

There is no reference at all to what might happen after the ball has passed the batsman, because it will already be a no-ball at that point, therefore, based on the laws of cricket, the batsman should be given not out and no-ball indicated by the bowler's end umpire.

_However_, having said that, there may be playing conditions that relate to a game you are playing in that override or complement this law, or league rules, which state that should the ball go on to hit the stumps in its normal course of flight, then this should not be considered to be a no-ball.

In addition:

According to Law 42.7, the bowler of a delivery deemed by the umpire to fall into the category above should be classed as "dangerous and unfair bowling" and the bowler should be given a first warning and his captain told. A final warning would follow if the delivery were repeated and should a third incidence occur, the fielding captain should be instructed to remove the bowler from the attack, and he will not be permitted to bowl any further deliveries in the innings.

Should the umpire consider the "dangerous and unfair bowling" to be deliberate (Law 42., the first and final warnings above should be dispensed with and the bowler be required to be withdrawn from the attack immediately.

hi, I am a 14 year old boy and I'm trying to improve on my fast bowling. Somehow, my bowling speed isn't fast enough and I do a lot of biking, jogging, walking to improve on my stamina, so that maybe my bowling could be faster...yet my dad says that my speed is still the same.

Could u give me some good vegetarian diets that could help me improve on my pace(I'm vegetarian so pls give me a vegetarian diet, egg is fine but no meat pls)

Thanks