One of the most common pieces of advice from top bowling coaches is to learn to "brace the front leg". But that's a technical term, and it's not obvious to everyone what it means, or how to do it. So, here are more details about how and why you brace the front leg to bowl fast.

One of the biggest problems in cricket practice is moving from indoor surfaces in winter to spring and summer outdoor pitches.

If you have cricket training options, which is best?

How accurate is accurate?

We all know the stories. The opposition bowler who bowls perfect line and length all day and doesn't give you a thing. The long retired former player who is spoken about in hushed tones because he only bowled one half volley in 17 summers.

We know these are myths, but we like to believe them, especially our team has collapsed, or we bowl badly. We jealousy assume there is nothing we could do. We don't have the bowlers/the batsmen didn't have a chance.

You want to bowl fast, so you change your action to correct flaws and you get more pace. Easy, right?

Wrong.

Frustration: An underrated way to get wickets, and enormously effective at any level. In recent years, this has been called “squeezing” or “bowling dry”.

How do you bowl dry this way?

International players and coached these days are always going on about how they “performed as a unit” – fielded, batted, bowled.

Lurking in the depths of this moribund press talk is a grain of truth we can use at any level.

It's common to say an inexperienced bowling attack can't "maintain pressure".

If you have any pride in your left arm seam bowling, you need to bowl at the death in your cricket matches.

Left arm bowlers are special. Here's how to make the most of your southpaw cricket style.