#4 The consistency in yorkers
Given the number of times a gully cricketer hits the base of the bricks while bowling, it is a walk in the park for him to bowl yorkers on a consistent basis. With much time spent in playing in the streets, where the bowler aims to shatter the defences of the batsman, the yorker is in most gully cricketer's bag of tricks.
If Malinga can bowl six yorkers in an over, the average gully cricketer can bowl it many more times and hit the same spot innumerable times. He knows that missing the spot can see the ball land way outside the park.
Malinga, who grew up in a coastal village situated in Galle, often played cricket with friends on the sand banks and by the coconut grooves near a river in his village. He groomed his ability to land yorkers perfectly with his slinging action.
Malinga’s talent to bowl yorkers was honed as a young boy while playing gully cricket.
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