Simplify simplify

Ottis Gibson, England's new bowling coach, can help the bowlers keep things simple and focus on the basics, says Mike Selvey in the Guardian.

In the second innings, Gibson recalled, he [Malcolm Marshall] came and stood at mid-off. "What are you going to do?" Marshall queried after Gibson had bowled a rare dot-ball at the start of an over. Gibson remembered his response. "'I'm going to bounce him' I said, and Malcolm would just say 'Why don't you just do what you did again?' And I did and it was another dot-ball. 'Now what are you going to do?' 'I'm going to york him.' 'No, do the same thing again'. And so he talked me through the first maiden over I bowled in first-class cricket. He taught me to construct an over."

There you have it then, in a nutshell: the simple art of bowling