Pace vs Line and Length

[Hasnain_786]

which one do you guys chose when bowling in club cricket? do you go for :akhtar or :nehra and why?

[Cover Drive]

I will say line and length matters more than pace.

[AZ]

at club cricket level, bowling short and quick is usually enough.

[talha3]

At club level, pace edges it (no pun intended). Pace is certainly more important at club level than at county or international level.

[Cover Drive]

England has slow pitches, batsman will have all time to pull him and whack him!

[shirazi_r]

at club cricket level, bowling short and quick is usually enough.

I want to come play in your league AZ! The quicker the better I say ;)

In all seriousness, it doesn't matter how fast you bowl if you can't put it in the right areas. Have you seen Mitchell Johnson lately?

[Cover Drive]

Forget Johnson see Asif he didn't have pace but his line and length made him a good bowler - another is McGrath.

[shirazi_r]

Forget Johnson see Asif he didn't have pace but his line and length made him a good bowler - another is McGrath.

Yup, McGrath wasn't very intimidating but he took a bagful of wickets by building pressure. In all fairness though, he did get a lot of bounce by way of his height.

[Hasnain_786]

in english pitches it just sits up to be hit

[Hasnain_786]

OK. How bout for someone like me would you push me to bowl faster or would you tell me to keep it on line and length ? the reason I'm asking is because my coach doesn't know anything about fast bowling apart from that straight front leg theory.

[saeed-sohail]

In England hit the length on or just outside off. Kiss the surface at good length.

[centuries]

Line and length matter more then pace. Especially these days when bowling machine has become common and even at club level players can practice/get used to play balls bowled at 90+.

[10sion]

Do not have enough pace to disturb any sort of batsman. Some times keeping it very full really helps.

[KashifJ]

I absolutely love batting against fast bowlers; the more the pace the more it’s easy for me to play effortless shots ... whereas with less pace but accurate line n length bowlers make me work for my shots. In my opinion Line n Length edges out sheer pace; if you have pace with accuracy then it’s lethal

[ammo]

the most important thing once you are playing at a decent level is movement from the ball followed by line and legnth and then pace

[Justcrazy]

At club level pace is really important.... you can easily cast fear into batsman and he would not be using his feet ... that's when the nicks would come easily.

[Justcrazy]

Length of a ball is much more important than the line... if the length is good length , the batsman is tentative whether to play back or forward that is when he is confused.

[Zaini]

Club cricket in England you have to ball line and length. Pace alone will get you wickets but you will leak a lot of runs. I have seen some pretty quick bowlers getting smashed because they just run up and bowl short. Overall a bowler who bowls line length will be a much better.

[Bullet Drive]

Ideally you want both however I do think line and length is more important so I would substitute some pace for line and length.