Your Cricket Manee's Season 2008

[manee]

Starting to get to grips with the changes

Slight update. I have been working at some of the changes which were suggested to me in the assessment by going through a modified action off a walking pace, with no ball. I have been practicing dragging my back foot along the ground whilst bowling - it does seem to generate more power, but I very well could be imagining it. I have also altered my load up, as specified, to go in straighter lines and not pull my weight back - cannot really comment too much on that as the effect will only become evident with a ball for that particular change.

I have also practiced using the arms and knees during a more powerful run up. The issue for me is massive leg stiffness which comes over me some days, allowing me little more than a shuffle to the crease. I will continue to work on the more powerful run up though.

I have also been concentrating on not pushing my bowling arm after backfoot impact (have no idea why I ever did that) and I think that that is going well too. Hopefully, I can try out the changes at the nets before my U16 game tomorrow and then work on really attempting to work up pace in that game. Rain is forecast though, which is a shame.

 

[manee]

First wicket, finally

I had an U16 game today and although it is too soon to attempt to incorperate the other changes, I used a different load up today and it worked well. I got my trademark outswing from left arm over the wicket and picked up 4-1-5-1 with one that held its line somewhat and took middle and leg.

I took a good diving catch too, which I was quite thrilled with. The reaction of my teammates is best summed up as

 

[King Pietersen]

Nice work Manee, i knew you'd come good eventually. Just take some confidence from that performance and build on it. Don't try and think too much about your action, and the changes, just bowl naturally and you'll take wickets. Nice to hear about the catch aswell !!

 

[manee]

Don't try and think too much about your action, and the changes, just bowl naturally

I am not going to stop modifying my action in the nets based on the advice I recieved, but it is a good point to stick through one action throughout a spell for rhythm purposes and not think about it in the middle. I really do need to get closer to the stumps though, I bowled a couple of quick deliveries, but they went straight on from my release and so went over sixth stump (taking the leg stump as the third, in this analogy). It feels quite unnatural, it should just take one session in the nets over half term to sort out though.

My brother, who was scoring, noted how the batsman who I got out was complimenting my bowling to his mum, saying that I was very 'tight' and that it was pitching on leg and going outside off (but I think he meant that it was swinging from a leg stump line). I felt that the outswing that I got was very good because it was late enough to have the batsmen playing well inside the line of the ball. I just need to add more control over the outswinger so I could set batsmen up with the first two and get them with the third. My wicket, itbt, just happened to occur because my wrist set itself up in a very strong position, almost an inswingers position and so the ball honed in on the stumps. Needless to say, the batsman was expecting the outswinger and so was horribly late - after recieving advice from his partner to leave the ball, the previous ball.

Nice to hear about the catch aswell !!

I still haven't got over it! I was fielding at cover point. It was a slow medium pacer bowling and the batsmen sliced a cover drive, so I started to almost chase after it. But I realised that it had held somewhat in the air so just threw my body and left hand out forward and to my left and somehow it stick. Great stuff, it made my day!

 

[.Mob]

Good things come to those who are patient, indeed.

 

[Jit]

Good things come to those who are patient, indeed.

ya totally agree you gotta be patient and cool head. dont try too much just stick to the basics

 

[manee]

Club net session

I had a club net session yesterday evening. I did not bat and whilst bowling, I looked to work on my new load up and getting closer to the stumps. The new load up changed throughout the session but eventually fixed on an action which I was happy with. My accuracy was good throughout the session and I felt that I bowled well but that I could have got closer to the stumps a bit more, perhaps. I got massive outswing at the start of the session, but as I sorted out my body shape, I was getting a few to veer back in to the right hander too.

I was reasonably happy with the pace I worked up, but it must be noted that the nets were extremely fast and bouncy due to the recent rain. I wasn't actually trying to bowl fast either, more trying to work on my action and rhythm.

 

[Cricketman]

Good to hear you've struck form, Manee!

Have you tried going around the wicket to the right hander? It could trouble many with the angle in and the natural swing you get away...

 

[manee]

Indeed, I am a tricky proposition when I go around the wicket, but when I do, I run straight across the pitch, it is something I need to rectify in the nets first.

 

[manee]

Saturday League Game

I had a 3rd XI game yesterday, which we won by 19 runs on a joke of a pitch. We scored 97 (thanks to a crucial 1 by me) and I took 4-2-12-1 in our defence of that total. I felt that I bowled okay, but still could not get closer to the stumps, no matter how much I tried. I felt in quite poor rhythm and my new load up still feels somewhat uncomfortable. I am happy that I did get a wicket though, batsman chopped on attempting a low cut and I feel that I have made progress on how to bowl to right handers - it is about driving the bowling arm through to the target.

My run up is feeling much more smooth and rhythmical than at the start of the season and feel that I should revisit my original plan of a jump of set length which can help me carry momentum to the crease. The increase in pace brought about by the longer jump is evident here as compared to a far slower delivery with a shorter jump here (watch in high quality).

 

[King Pietersen]

You've got decent pace from that first angle Manee, nice to see you're picking up the wickets at regular intervals now. I told ya the hard work would start to pay off sooner or later !!

 

[manee]

Thanks, for the encouragement, through all my whining, mate. Might get myself timed with the longer jump, just to see if it is indeed quicker; but as you said, it does look it.

 

[Insomniac]

I must say, judging by your bowling, that if you're bowling figures of 4 overs, 1/5, and that ball you bowled in the video above is your stock ball,

you must play with REALLY crappy opponents

 

[Leggie]

To me that video looked good. Manee you have pretty decent bowling run up. Kinda reminds me of RP Singh.

 

[manee]

I must say, judging by your bowling, that if you're bowling figures of 4 overs, 1/5, and that ball you bowled in the video above is your stock ball,

you must play with REALLY crappy opponents

Do you want to ever make a non deleted Cricket Chat post, again?:cool:

To me that video looked good. Manee you have pretty decent bowling run up. Kinda reminds me of RP Singh.

Nah. My run up sucks, "weak and ineffective" to quote Ian Pont; "****" to quote my brother. Been feeling like I've been running in quite well in matches recently though.