DARREN STEVENS

I coach a number of 12-14-year old seamers, and as you might expect the first thing we nail down is their stock delivery, whatever that may be. But after that I make sure they master leg-spin and off-spin, so that they can then add the slower-ball off-cutters and leg-cutters into their repertoire. And you can see the results. One of my protégés has a really good leg-cutter to the right-hander, but if he’s up against a leftie he can switch to off-cutters to keep taking the ball away from the batter.
We feed these boys with a number of slower-ball variations – it might be the ...