Commit to the delivery

Because you’re aiming for a relatively small target area, it can be tempting to hold back a little bit and try to put the ball there. But if you don’t fully commit to bowling a yorker, the chances are you’re not going to be successful. Once you’ve decided you’re going to bowl it, you need to really commit.

The quicker you can bowl the yorker the harder it’s going to be to hit, so you want to get it in there as fast as you can.

Drill it! #1

One of the things we talk about quite a lot when bowling the yorker is to imagine the ball going through a tunnel, because that’s the kind of trajectory you want. We’ve used a tunnel-like device in practice that you have to try and get the ball through, as opposed to laying out a target to hit.

Drill it! #2

Because batters move around so much these days, just bowling a straight yorker might not always work. You might need to bowl a yorker on the wide-line outside off stump, or follow a batter across to the leg-side. To replicate this in training we do a drill where a football is rolled across the crease and the bowler has to try and hit it, rather than just trying to hit one specific point.