What’s the best advice you can offer a young fast bowler to help them bowl faster?

There are many variables to consider as a young fast bowler -

Your action - are you pre-disposed to be injured due to a fault in your action

What is your build before you start - short. Tall and where will your height finish -

Are you under or over weight for what you want to achieve -

How much time can you devote to off field training. - your off season is where you will ten most gains in speed and power not during your season.

Be realistic - how far are you now and how much can you improve in the off season - 5% - 10% for example

It’s important to work out what kind of bowler you are and where you get your pace from and then train for that type of bowling.

Consider your height, weight and how strong you are.

All fast bowlers need to focus on their running including endurance and sprint training. You need to learn how to run properly so find a sprint coach to help.

To be strong is vitally important so you have to work hard on your flexibility and core strength. Find someone who can help you with fast bowler specific gym wok which could include yoga and pilates.

At training bowl as fast as you can and don’t hold back. Your endurance and pace for most than 3 or 4 overs is very important.

It’ll be hard work, so you need to be resilient. Get it right and it could be really rewarding – good luck and I hope mother nature is kind to you.

Follow Steffan Jones… a bit technical in language but huge value.