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    What Would You Bowl?

    you can't answer question 1 without knowing where the three boundaries were hit and off what deliveries. If the three were - 1 short pitched followed by 2 full tosses, or 2 long hops and 1 full toss, or maybe you came across a batsman on 100* & all three were good length balls that the batsman...
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    The Top-spinner (wrist Spin Bowling)

    I agree with most of your post, but not the conclusion. When you are bowling with orthodox rotations (spinning perpendicular to seam, seam not scrambled) is when you have maximum rough surface contacting with the air. When you scramble the seam, the rough(er) surface of the ball (or the seam...
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    Wrist Spin Bowling (part Five)

    Bedi says "the most dangerous ball on a turning wicket is the one that goes straight" "Topspinners to the rescue!" I'd say
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    Videos and Links

    The leggie who was one of us http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/600880.html beautiful writeup by Jarrod Kimber.
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    Videos and Links

    Did you guys watch the Ashes today? I caught a snippet that said Agar was putting 1910 rpm on the ball! err... WHAT?
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    Wrist Spin Bowling (part Five)

    Dr.tran, could you draw the line on a still from the action. It is slightly confusing as to which plane you are referring to (perpendicular to the pitch, parallel to crease or perpendicular to pitch and crease). I also thought that leading arm was not as strong as can be, so he can up the...
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    Doosra Variations?

    Perhaps I'm in the minority, but you said you are 16 right? Even if you are 26, depending on how long you have been bowling, I'd advise going the traditional route first.Perfect your offbreak first, be able to land it wherever you want, with enough revs. Ensure your action is tip-top with body...
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    Hand Size

    With the commentators going on and on about the size of monty's hands, I tried to find actual measurements. Here's the only article I found on it http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/columnists/scyldberry/2349654/The-hand-of-Monty.html So, a span of 10 inches thumb to little finger (wide) and a...
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    Drift

    Part of the reason could be the speed they bowled at. I remember reading somewhere on this forum that you need to be above a certain speed to get any drift at all (and it has to have high enough revs of overspin at that speed). I felt that in the mumbai test match, ashwin and Harbhajan weren't...
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    Videos and Links

    Can someone pull out this particular passage of play- will be indebted.
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    Need Help With Leg Spin

    Hi welcome, Take a look at the videos and links sticky thread, there is a lot of information out there. In case you need information specific to your bowling, you should take a video and post it here.
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    The Top-spinner (wrist Spin Bowling)

    Anil kumble's stock ball was a top spinner. And for a long time I couldn't bowl the legbreak (best I could do was top spin) and from time to time, I go through phases when that happens. The biggest issue with a spinner who bowls primarily topspin is that - if a batsman steps down the wicket...
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    Leg Breaks To Left Hand Batsman!

    That's very nice, may I ask where in the us you play?
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    Left-arm Chinaman *help*. Please! Its A Request!

    Congratulations. In case you need more help- use what Dave refers to as karate-chop method where you will start off your wrist turned all the way (anticlockwise for your case) with the arm almost as if you were doing a karate-chop. The other thing that helps to get the turn back is staying less...
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    Drift

    Andrew, How did you estimate your bowling speed? And if you are looking to get a video, smartphones these days have cameras that can easily suffice, you don't really need a proper camera to shoot the video
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    Coming Back To Leg-spin: Line Problems

    This might help you out : http://www.alloutcricket.com/player/coaching/aoc-coaching-spin-bowling-alignment
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    Wrist Spin Bowling (part Five)

    Maybe a bit counter to everything we talk about around here, but the leggie we have in the team (other than myself) has had similar problems. I tell him this: You aren't going to stop bowling after the first over. You will have a shot of 4-5 overs at the very least to get wickets, so don't try...
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    Batting Vs. Leg Spin

    Went back and looked at the video. Compared it with And I see the main reason I am out of balance is not the backfoot (it is in the right place), but that the front foot is not going across to cover the line. Instead, the front foot (my left) remains in the original starting position, which...
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    Help For Batting Timing

    While I agree with the diagnosis, I don't think that it is right to say that bat should be vertical at point of release. IF you look at test cricket videos pausing at the time ball is let go, the bat hangs about mid-way in the backlift at the time of release, and based on the line of the...
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    Batting Vs. Leg Spin

    Thanks Andrew. I will work on that, maybe there wasn't enough room to play those balls on the off and maybe I was better off if I had punched them down to the on side instead.
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