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Re: Nightvision's Blog Thanks Jonesy. I'm a leggie for preference, but I also bowl off-spin if the situation warrants it. Looking forward to getting the new season going!

Re: Nightvision's Blog Hmmm, that took longer to resolve than I expected... In all seriousness, it's been far too long since I stuck my head in here - all will be explained! Those of you with exceptional memories, or the ability to read my previous posts may remember me mentioning having...

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling Good morning/afternoon/evening all. It's been a long while since I've ventured through these doors - in fact, I don't think I've been here since the move to bigcricket! Anyway, I'll save the details of why for my blog, as I just wanted to comment on your avatar, Dave -...

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling The biggest problem I find with the 'big' googly is that it's quite easy to spot unless you've got a phenomenally strong flick. Because you need to get that wrist SO far round, you tend to involuntarily drop your left (or non-bowling) shoulder, making it pretty easy to...

Re: South Africa tour England Jimmy is definitely improving as a bowler. He's got the same amount of swing as he always had, but the difference is, he's starting to gain control. He's still over-pitching from time to time, but by and large, he's just much more consistent. I just hope he can...

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling Hey Shane - the very best thing I can recommend to you is to get hold of a book by an Aussie chap by the name of Peter Philpott - it's called The Art Of Wrist Spin Bowling. It covers in detail all the things you asked, and even covers things like field placements. As a...

Re: South Africa tour England 2 in 2 for Harmison! 3 in 8 for England... Maybe Harmison just needed a short sharp shock to refocus him... or maybe I'm reading too much into this too early. A 93mph inswinging yorker isn't bad in anyone's books though! And as I type, Jimmy's gone and got...

Re: Muralitharan v Warne v Kumble. I'm going to go for the old 'leg spinner's alliance' here and go for Warne. Muralitharan is a quality, quality bowler, but let's have a look at the stats: Murali: 751 Test Wickets @ 21.90 Warne: 708 Test Wickets @ 25.41 Now, let's look at where those wickets...

Re: South Africa tour England Yeah, I personally thought Broad was a bit unlucky to be dropped in the last test - he was no worse than any of the other bowlers at Headingley, and he is consistently scoring 50+ runs against one of the best bowling attacks in the world, something half our top...

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling I can assure you that the outfield looks a lot better from there than it does up close and personal! In all honesty, it's not too bad - unfortunately some swine went at our square with a shovel last season, and although it's mostly recovered, one of the strips is still...

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling The injuries haven't affected my bowling as such, but after a badly pulled thigh muscle at the start of the season, and now a recurrance of a long-standing wrist injury (although thank goodness to my non-bowling arm!), I've not been able to get games, as I've been unable...

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling Yeah, I was having exactly the same problem with mine - as I practice on a football pitch, I was finding that I was getting monstrous turn with both my leggie and the flipper, but when it came to bowling on a strip, there was next to no turn. I was beginning to worry that...

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling Yeah, the googly is still one that gives me problems, but I've not been able to find any good videos of the Doosra with regard to positioning of fingers, where to apply pressure and so on. At the moment, with the flipper cutting in so markedly, I tend to use that as my...

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling Yeah - I think at village cricket level you're going to get far more wickets bowling outside and around off than you are on middle-ish or leg, simply because the vast majority of village batsmen just love to go after spinners if they pitch on or around off stump, and a...

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling Good lord - it's been ages since I've been on here - I haven't played cricket for over a month now due to a recurring problem in my left wrist (fortunately I'm a right-armer, so no real danger, it just means I'm unable to bat or field) - the doctor seems to think it's a...