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I was playing for Stone Cross, a second-division team in Sussex, against premier-league side Eastbourne in a county-wide T20 Cup game at Eastbourne.Andy Flower opened the batting with Richard Halsall, former England fielding coach, currently with Bangladesh. Halsall was captain. Darren Stevens, later of Kent, was in the Eastbourne side too.We thought that Eastbourne might reverse their batting line-up, but then we saw Flower and Halsall march out. Terrific.It was a fairly breezy day, going across the ground. I thought it would help my left-arm inswing - outswing to the left-hander. Until I bowled the first one at Flower, that is.Wed heard that Flower had been reverse-sweeping medium-pacers, bowlers who at our level would have been quick bowlers. Guys we would struggle to play normally.First two balls of the game, I bowled two perfectly good, on-a-length awayswingers to the left-hander and they went through the covers for four before anybody moved. It was a typical Flower cover drive, on the up, just leaned into it. Picked up the line and swing so easy. Opened the face of the blade and it came off the bat like a bullet.After that you get a bit nervous, dont you? One of those days when you think. Im going the distance, here. When you know youre out of your league.I said to Halsall down the other end: Whats going to happen when I bowl him a bad ball? He just laughed.Next ball I tried to bowl one that swung back the other way. Ive never been able to do that and it ended up a wide half-volley. Flower was down on one knee trying to reach it, got an under edge and cannoned onto his stumps.As I followed through, he mumbled Shit ball. Our captain, mumbled back. Shit ball, shit wicket.Eastbourne piled up a good 220 in 20 overs. We were about 70 for 9.I said to Halsall in the bar, afterwards, I really, really want to say something to Flower. And Halsall said I wouldnt.One of the Eastbourne players said to me. 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At Adelaide Oval in December 2014, R Ashwin had been left out of Indias XI for the seventh time in nine Test matches.During the match, Ashwin worked with B Arun, Indias bowling coach at the time, in the nets.The source of Ashwins troubles, Arun says in the cover story on R AshwinDecember cover story in the Cricket Monthly, was Ashwins alignment at the crease, in his delivery stride.It is about the positioning of your body, from your back-foot impact to your front-foot impact. Youre more likely to succeed if the alignment is towards the batter. Then youre perfectly balanced.If your alignments are right, I can bowl where I want: outside the off stump and turn, or I can turn it from the stumps.If your alignment is either towards leg slip, or its falling away, then the body position changes. You tend to compensate when you deliver the ball towards the batsman, and you are most likely to deliver only one kind of delivery.You may bowl a few good balls but your consistency will come down, and also, you may tend to get a lot more tired.While Ashwin had previously worked on fixing his alignment issues, he only found a lasting solution during those net sessions in Adelaide after Arun had identified the cause of the problem: the load-up, the way he sets up with his bowling and non-bowling arms prior to his delivery stride.A bowler has control only over two things - his run-up, and the way he loads, Arun says. The rest, everything is reaction. Reaction gives you feedback as to what needs to be done, but most people tend to correct the reaction rather than the action. So you need to work backwards and see what exactly you need to address. Subtle things like how you load can determine where your foot lands.With this insight, watching videos of Ashwins action before and after Adelaide is illuminating. Focus on his right hand during his pre-delivery jump. In the 2012 home series against England, it is above his right shoulder when he takes off, off his left foot. By the time he is at the top of his jump, it has wandered outwards - dipping behind his shoulder and then sweeping to the right until his arm forms an L by his side.The sidewayss movement of his right hand and arm seems to influence a change in his bodys momentum.dddddddddddd. He jumps at an angle to his run-up, to his right, and by the time hes in his delivery stride, the line between his back and front foot doesnt go down the pitch towards the batsman, but across to fine leg.It forces him to pivot around a front leg that leans uncomfortably, and by the time he releases the ball, his right arm has gone beyond the vertical too. From the batsmans viewpoint, it is at 1 oclock rather than 12. From that position, it seems near impossible for Ashwin to achieve any drift away from the right-hander.When he finishes his action, his follow-through pulls him away towards cover rather than down the pitch.In his new action, at the start of his pre-delivery jump, not much has changed: the right hand is still over his right shoulder. But now, instead of moving to his right, the hand stays close to his shoulder all the way through his jump, pulling backwards like a catapult before moving forward just as he lands on his back foot to begin his delivery stride.Where the movement of his right arm used to disrupt his forward momentum, they are now in sync. His jump continues along the straight line of his run-up, ensuring an efficient transfer of momentum that carries on through his delivery stride, all of it driving towards the batsman. At release, the right arm is at 12 oclock, as high as it can possibly be.If you are better balanced, you are in a better position to impart more spin, and also, the transfer of weight that takes place is very effective, Arun says. It is towards the target, which is again the batsman. Its about being nippy, getting that extra bounce, and also spinning the ball.With this new action, Ashwin is a transformed bowler. The numbers tell the story well enough: before Adelaide, he averaged 28.65 and had a strike rate of 59.10. Since Adelaide, up until the start of the series against England this year, he averaged 21.49 and takes a wicket every 43.7 balls.This is an edited extract from the Cricket Monthly December cover story on R Ashwin ' ' '