Recent content by Laggsy

Just practice. Nothing else you can do. Can anyone bowl the carrom ball well? I'd like to learn it but its so bloody difficult and hurts my finger heaps.

Yeah my stock ball is pretty wicked tbh. So much turn and bounce. I like that about having a bluff doosra though ;) that would be hilarious getting someone out playing for the doosra. Next level thinking haha. Nice I'm from the Central Coast of NSW about an hour north of Sydney. I'm in England...

I can bowl two types of top spinner. One is the same as my offspinning action just with a twisted wrist to make it top spin, and then I can bowl one like my doosra as well. But I usually stick to the standard one cause its more comfortable and harder to pick. Yeah my front foot is definitely...

You'll get there. I just comes with experience. You need to watch the ball closely and you should easily be able to figure out which direction the ball is rotating.

I'm not particularly sure which method is most like mine. I watched a tonne of different videos of Murali, Saqlain and Ajmal to develop my version. I'd say there are 4 main aspects to bowl my doosra: 1) Land your left (front) foot further to the left than for the usual off spinner. This...

This goes back to my whole point that it doesn't matter if it's easy to pick as long as it's a good ball.

It has taken me 18 months to get it to this point.

If you wanted some tips... Let me know. Whereabouts do you play?

Yeah that's right. It behaves differently depending on how fast you bowl not too. If you slow it down and give it a chance to grab, then you can really get some turn. You can also change the angle of spin so it's spinning towards point as it goes through the air. Kind of like a finger spinning...

Coming in really late to this discussion, but this is a ball I've been working on as well. I call it a slider. Basically its a backspinner with the seam pointed towards fine leg. It drifts in, and skids on and cuts away from a right handed batsman. Its very easy to pick because the ball comes...

Awesome link mate, I watched the whole thing. Yeah I'm pretty sure you are right, but I'm not entirely sure why. I watched a video a while ago (that was posted on here) about aerodynamics and the separation of air as it leaves the ball. When the seam is scrambled, the seam will basically tear...

Hey guys I'm new around here but have been bowling off spin for about 10 years now. This is a doosra I've been working on for a long time now.