3 easy-to-follow bowling actions if you want to be a right-arm fast bowler

Fast bowling is the beauty of cricket, isn't it? It adds to the entertainment of the game. Those regulations, the sights of aggression, the organized footsteps, the coordinated arms, those flung deliveries, are all amazing to watch. Fast bowlers like Jeff Thomson, Brett Lee and Shoaib Akhtar set a high standard and in a game of audacious batsmen, you need some bowlers of that kind to give them a scare.

Fast bowlers nowadays are those bowling over 140+ clicks with ease. There are a bunch of cricket fans wanting to be a fast bowler, a real fast one. So here is a list of fast bowlers one can follow the bowling actions of.

These bowling actions are somehow easier to follow than others but are still hard to master. One can follow these actions watching the videos of these bowlers and picking their basics.

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#1 Shaun Tait

The South Australian has a round-arm slingy action to fling the leather towards the batsman. He bowled consistently with a speed of 150 kp/h in the peak of his career. To follow his bowling action, you don't need to run very fast or have a very long run-up, just strong arms and wrists.

You can run in with a normal speed but just when you reach the umpire you've got to pull your arm back. The arm should go back till your hand comes parallel with your abdomen and wrists should be cocked. At the same time, you should lift your left leg and bring the right leg back, turning your body side-on and plonk your front foot on the crease. Bring your arm a little higher and release the ball with combined force of your wrists and arm.

The grip should not be wide-fingered as it will disturb your accuracy, resulting in bowling wayward deliveries on either side of the stumps.

#2 Adam Milne

The young pace sensation

For this bowling action, you should be a good sprinter. The young Kiwi steams in with a lot of speed and it's the key to bowl fast in his action. To try his action, you should run very fast from your starting point. Before releasing the ball, you should drag your right arm back with the left one following it. Then the left arm comes in front of your eyes, making an aim. The right arm then comes forward and down, close-calling the left thigh to return with full force and the ball is released.

You have to control your sprint before releasing the ball otherwise the energy generated from running will be wasted. In this process, all the momentum from running is transferred into your upper body to bowl fast. Grip of the fingers can be both wide and tight. Cocking of wrists is a plus point.

#3 Umar Gul

Guldozer

To follow the bowling action of the Pakistani pacer, your back should be very strong. Umar Gul is one of those bowlers who bend their back twice in their bowling action i.e. at the start and at releasing point. His running starts with bending the back and steaming in till reaching the umpire. Then, he decreases his speed a little and straightens his back as well.

At the same time, the right arm goes back and the front arm comes forward horizontally with the fist closed like a martial artist would let his fellows break blocks on his arm. Then, he relaxes the front arm after taking the aim and releases the ball.

His ball-releasing posture is neither side-on nor chest-on rather in between both. Both grips can be used effectively in this bowling action.