You have quite a short runup and seem to be collapsing before bowling, and slowing down when reaching the stumps. Try to sprint faster and be more natural with it. Your action is excellent for swing, but it's like your holding your pace back. Not fulling converting your runup into pace, but converting it into that swing instead.
I'm trying to develop my bowling alot over the next year, I want to be bowling at an actual decent pace by this time next year. I performed well stats wise last year, but I wasn't happy with how I bowled, and stand no chance of getting anywhere in the game bowling like I did last year. I'm going to work on my run up, lengthen it to 18 paces, and really put some effort behind my delivery, as last season I was just letting it go and plopping it on a spot.
I'm going to really study Dale Steyn's action, and try and model myself as closely as possible on that. He's got such a stylish, flowing action, brilliant to watch. He swings the ball as well, something that I pride myself on being able to do. I can swing the ball both ways with just a turn of the wrist, or a change in the seam position. So yeh, I'll hopefully be bowling with an action similar to Steyn's next year, might not have the pace, but it'll look good
. I'll just keep watching Youtube videos of his action and try to replicate it as closely as I can, obviously with a little bit of natural variation as everyone's body is different. I've actually made it my New Years Resolution to actually try hard to make it in the game. I've only been playing 3 years, if that, but I'm already one of the quickest bowlers in my club when bowling at full steam off. And that's off 12 paces with a pretty poor follow through. So I think if I got into the gym, got fitter, stronger, and really put the work in over the summer, well starting in a couple of months, I think I could be bowling at a decent level, high enough to play at Minor Counties at least I reckon.
