When I draw a resting toucher with my first delivery, why can’t I ever repeat the result with my second delivery?
There would be few bowlers who could draw a second resting toucher with 100% assurance. However, the outcome is typically less affected by any thrill from success with first delivery or any nervousness about prospects of repeating it, than by the ‘law of averages’ (of bowling accuracy). Bowlers can establish a reasonably up-to-date benchmark of personal draw shot accuracy. This simply requires a number of bowl deliveries (forehands and backhands, jack at various distances), measurement and recording of each error, and calculating an average error, which is an accuracy benchmark to better through practice, until a subsequent test produces an updated benchmark. The experience of competition provides many useful lessons on the road to the top, but is unhelpful for improving accuracy. Game playing provides experience of performing in a more distracting environment, but allows bowlers fewer than a couple of dozen deliveries per hour. For efficient accuracy practice, they should be busier th
