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Any advice on how to stop youngsters from bowling off the wrong foot?
Peter BorichCoach, New Zealand
TOP ANSWER
Neville YoungCoach, Australia
You can try getting them to practice bowling technique from a standing start. Stand as a bowler would for normal delivery at the crease and get them to bowl at the stumps. Once they can do that try a one step run up and go from there.
Unless they can pick up the changes fairly quickly then it might be like forcing a left hander to write right handed.
In the late 60`s and early 70`s Alan "Froggy" Thomson and Bob Bitmead both played reqularly for Victoria in the Sheffield Shield. Thomson went on to play Test Cricket for Australia. They both played District Cricket for Fitzroy at the same time, they were unusual and difficult to play against and may not have achieved what they did if their coaches had tried to change their actions.
ANSWERS
Neville YoungCoach, Australia
You can try getting them to practice bowling technique from a standing start. Stand as a bowler would for normal delivery at the crease and get them to bowl at the stumps. Once they can do that try a one step run up and go from there.
Unless they can pick up the changes fairly quickly then it might be like forcing a left hander to write right handed.
In the late 60`s and early 70`s Alan "Froggy" Thomson and Bob Bitmead both played reqularly for Victoria in the Sheffield Shield. Thomson went on to play Test Cricket for Australia. They both played District Cricket for Fitzroy at the same time, they were unusual and difficult to play against and may not have achieved what they did if their coaches had tried to change their actions.
