Cricket Ball Holding & Bowling Technique

Video Transcript

"Hi this is Ash on behalf of Expert Village. In this clip I'm going to tell you how to hold a cricket ball and bowling action. This is what a cricket ball looks like. This cricket ball is a leather ball. This one is red in color. But we also have another ball which is whitish in color. Now the red ball, the leather ball, is typically used in disk matches, which is a five day match format. And the white ball we are generally seeing this more becoming for use in one day cricket matches and twenty-twenty cricket. Both these balls as you see, as you notice, these are two piece balls. You see a piece here, and a piece here which is being joined together by the threads here. And this you can notice in both the leather balls. Typically, or rather I should say we use only the leather balls in the cricket format at the international level. Though for domestic or for other cricket, you may also have other versions of the ball, which is like a tennis ball maybe or a rubber ball. But for international cricket, these are the kind of balls we use. Let's go to the bowling stance. Let me tell you something about the pitch. From the bowling area to the batting area, it's a twenty-two feet distance. This twenty-two feet distance is known as a pitch. So you bowl from the bowling stumps. These area the stumps. So these three together, collectively, are known as stumps. You have stumps at the batting end, and you also have stumps at the bowling end. And as I told you earlier, the distance between these two sets of stumps is twenty-two feet. So let's assume this is the bowling end and I would show you how to have a bowling stance and a bowling action. Now for bowling, you need to have a run up. Now this run up would vary, depending upon whether you want to bowl a spin ball or you want to have a fast ball. We will come to fast and spin ball at a later state. Let me first show you how a bowler at a, I would say a decent about eight to ten feet run up, bowl a delivery. So let's see here. Now this is how a bowler comes and his, what you notice here is that his hands here are perpendicular to his shoulder. This is actually facing the batsman there, and this is a very critical stance. The head is straight. You need to keep your head straight. There should not be any head movement here. As you would notice, his feet, his left feet would be going forward. There is a crease which is about three feet from the stumps. His left foot, assuming he is a right hand bowler, his left foot would be in this crease, his right foot would be behind and then his arm slowly and gradually comes like this and then there's a follow through action, which is like this. So the ball actually kind of goes like this. And then he walks away out of the crease. Now let's see how the ball is bowled at real time. Now this is how it looks like at real time."