How-to guides
Cricket guides
Plain, practical answers for club and junior cricketers, parents and coaches: how to bowl faster, bowl a yorker, swing the ball and bowl spin, how to analyse your bowling action and your batting, how to plan a useful net session, how a cricket speed gun works and how ball tracking works. Track your bowling speed with YORKER AI and every ball also gets its line, length, swing, spin and 3D trajectory, and batters get batting analysis of every ball they face. The bowling speed app page shows how it works.
Bowling
- Guide · 5 min readHow to bowl faster and increase your bowling speedFast bowling tips for the nets, and how to tell if your pace is climbing.Read the guide
- Guide · 8 min readHow to bowl a yorker in cricketWhere it should pitch, how to practise it with a target, and why it turns into a full toss.Read the guide
- Guide · 8 min readHow to swing a cricket ballThe grip for outswing and inswing, seam position, release, and how to check the ball really moved.Read the guide
- Guide · 7 min readHow to bowl spin: off spin and leg spinGrips, release, flight and length for off spin and leg spin, and how to see how far it turned.Read the guide
- Guide · 7 min readHow to analyse your bowling actionFilm it, break it into six phases, and compare your best balls with your worst.Read the guide
Bowling speed and ball tracking
- Guide · 5 min readHow to measure bowling speed with your phoneSet up in about thirty seconds, and the sums behind every reading.Read the guide
- Guide · 4 min readCricket speed gun or a speed gun app?How a radar gun reads the ball, where to stand, and what a phone app adds.Read the guide
- Guide · 7 min readHow does ball tracking work in cricket?A neural network, a 3D scene of the pitch and a physics simulation, explained simply.Read the guide
Nets, batting and filming
- Guide · 7 min readCricket net practice that makes you betterPlan a net with one goal, bowl and bat in sets, and review every ball.Read the guide
- Guide · 7 min readBatting analysis in the netsSet up a batting net, then find and watch the balls that trouble you.Read the guide
- Guide · 6 min readPhone tripod setup for the cricket netsWhere the tripod goes, how high, and the mistakes that spoil footage.Read the guide
How YORKER AI works
- Bowling speedTrack your bowling speed with YORKER AIBowling speed, line, length, swing and spin on every ball, and how the app works them out.Read more
- DRSA DRS app for cricket, on your phoneMake the call, then let the ball settle it.Read more
- CoachingA cricket coaching app for the netsRun a net with several players and keep a record of every ball each of them bowls.Read more
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