Thread: Ellyse Perry and Mitchell Johnson exhibit one of the biggest bowling arm delay / lag in the game. See how far below the horizontal their arms are at front foot contact. This enables them to accelerate their arm faster than most, generating pace. But, how do they do it? 
The key to this is creating a momentary pause in the movement of the bowling arm or creating a longer path. Perry as captured holds the gather position or hardly moves her bowling arm from the jump to just before front foot contact. This creates the lag in the bowling arm.
Mitchell Johnson employs a similar pause. He pauses his bowling hand right at the bottom of the downswing as captured here. The pause again like in Perry's case allows him to delay the bowling arm. Brett Lee later in his career employed this pause in his action too.
Another way of achieving the delay is through a longer bowling arm path. Andrew Tye modified his action extending and pushing out his bowling arm further in front to create a longer arm path and as a consequence delayed his arm.
https://twitter.com/CricketWithAsh/status/1472946587760578563?s=20&t=s9Ci3eUstuc_YMGSGLAkWw
Here is yet another example of SA's Masabata Klaas and Kagiso Rabada using a gather that takes their bowling arm behind their head to create a longer arm path.
https://twitter.com/HolyCricket_513/status/1499930447425404928?s=20&t=s9Ci3eUstuc_YMGSGLAkWw
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