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http://www.news.com.au/sport/cricket/australian-physicists-ian-and-garry-robinson-unlock-spin-bowling-secrets/story-fndpt0dy-1226674576039 Interesting how hey talk about crosswind, something I have forgotten to chat about. Say there is a crosswind going from off side to leg side, and a right...

I've been posting some stuff lately on the other forums Dave had created a while ago but it seems to have gone quiet. Are these forums dead now?

I don't know anything about forum code and how it works, but can't we slow down the spamming of the forums with captcha? or can this not be done.

I'm confused, what are you trying to say here? That drift is not due to the magnus effect and due to the seam presentation effecting the laminar flow over the ball? edit: then why do those toy balls for babies that do not have seams, drift and not swing. I have bowled with a light soft ball...

Found this nice University of Sydney science paper that also has some nice pictures about fluid physics. I haven't read through it yet but it's intruiged me. http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~cross/TRAJECTORIES/Fluidflow Photos.pdf edit: looks like it's the same bloke from the University of...

'Laminar flow' ? How is that in relation to the lift and drag forces of the magnus effect? The hard thing to get a clear picture in our minds is that the ball doesn't travel in a straight line all of the time when bowling, but you can simplify things but thinking of the 1st 3/4 of the ball path...

I'm so sorry to hear this bad news, hopefully all goes well your sons operation.

What the heck? I do believe we need a forum admin, fast.

There was an article posted about Beasu Casson recently: http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/559613.html

Even though it might not have actually been Macgill that did the posting of the video, did he ever get back to you?

Just found this recent video that was posted on the 26th March 2012:

I just think of it as swerve as the ball falls down, you don't want exactly the seam exactly upright since the ball path as it's falling down towards the batsman isn't exactly a perpendicular lineto the ground when viewing from side on it still looks rather flat, hence why I think having quite a...

Just referencing my old post, I recently found a clip of a Shane Warne dismissal that shows how I imagined myself bowling back then, go 2:16 in & watch exactly how the ball is released, not only does he spin it up but he goes right over the ball & push out the side, creating that dipping path...

Perhaps it's not so much the angle of the seam(towards slips) if you would look at the ball from above the wicket, maybe it's the slight slanting of the seam towards the batsman that helps produce the drift. I'm not so sure that when I'm bowling my overspun leg breaks that I am getting a a...

Today I tried a few square seam leggies with a rounder arm action and got about a foot & a half of in-drift, it wasn't late drift but at least I got some drift for once, as my overspun leg breaks aren't getting any drift, just dip. As I released the ball square seam I pulled back on it with the...