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Re: Wrist Spin Bowling (Part Three) The 3 golden rules of captaining leg spin | Cricket coaching, fitness and tips

Re: English Spinners But perhaps the best reason for Yardy to be in the squad is his experience in captaining Sussex to the T20 cup win last year. Collingwood is inexperienced in this area, and Yardy would at least bring some ideas to the table.

Re: English Spinners It's not hyprocisy, it's an opinion. Yardy is a better batsman than Tredwell, I never said he was quality. I just don't think Tredwell offers much more than what Pietersen, Collingwood or Yardy could fulfill in a T20 game. I am by no means advocating that Yardy should...

Re: English Spinners Really mos_cambios? It's not like there's any annimosity. Tredwell is an average county bowler who offers nothing at international level, imo. At least not in test cricket. He's a decent bowler/batsman/fielder so in that regard he'd be useful in T20s... but that's all...

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling (Part Three) Try not to think about it too much Dave. I know the feeling - we've all been there. Standing start is the best thing to do I think, really concentrating on the rotation and bringing that back foot over and round, like in the Freedman video. Just keep...

Re: English Spinners I reckon Prior's got the test spot sewn up until at least after the Ashes. Prior's long underperformed at ODI/T20 level: not always due to him, however, as he was shifted from 1 to 7 to 3 back to 2 on a regular basis. Ever since Gilchrist came on the scene, England have...

Re: English Spinners Graham Napier was found out with short pitched bowling - he can't deal with it. That innings was spectacular, but it was on a small ground where the bowlers were bowling length, perfectly in his hitting zone. Since then he's barely mustered a score to shout about. He is...

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling (Part Three) The action becomes illegal if the arm straightens from a bent position, so if you keep it bent at the same angle then that's ok.

Re: English Spinners I reckon after 2005 you might have had a better chance of finding a game. I think it's difficult to overstate what the Ashes series did for cricket in Britain (and I include Britain as there was even Ashes fever in Edinburgh...!). Unfortunately, when cricket was at its most...

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling (Part Three) 2/3 of the batsman are current/ex-Scotland, but I also had the chance to bowl to batsman more at my level, when I did slightly better. I have been bowling by myself for about an hour in the park before I went to nets. I'm going to have a rest day today but...

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling (Part Three) I'm sorry Dave that you're finding this. If it's any consolation, I wish I could have the sucess you've had since you took the art up! I had a decent nets session today. I did bowl a lot of shit balls, but I went with quite low expectations. My mantra was...

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling (Part Three) Thanks for the reassurance. I suppose that's what I need more than anything else - that I'm not the only one who's been through this! So you're basically advocating that at net sessions I should just bowl naturally, trying to put everything together...

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling (Part Three) As you may know by now, I've recently come back to cricket after some time off. I've always been a leggie, all through childhood, and I really want to get successful with it. This forum is a great resource, and thus I'd like to pose another question/scenario...

Re: English Spinners I reckon we should email this thread to the ECB and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport... The TV thing is interesting. It's well known that here you have to pay £20-30 a month to watch cricket, and obviously only a small percentage of people are willing to pay...

Re: Tips for keeping seam alignment I do seem to be getting a few more revs with this half cup grip. It's weird, I'd never really thought much about the grip before. I'd always gone with the Warne method, and must have just not taken in Philpott's alternative. Time to experiment!