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Yes I also thought it would be impossible to deliver the ball with it spinning along the seam with such a grip. Especially when spinning it from hand to hand. Surprisingly the seam does actually come out straight when I use the grip with a real bowling action. I am absolutely clueless as to why...

When I try it the results seem to be the same as with the usual grip, perhaps slightly less spin and less accuracy due to never having used this grip before. Quite a few years ago I used this grip, gripping the ball very tightly and bowling the ball out of the back of the hand to generate a top...

In my experience I was always more accurate the more I tried to spin the ball. This was the case up to the point where technique would be sacrificed in order to try and generate more spin, which would of course generate less spin because technique is compromised. But to put real effort into...

Old spinning mantra - "Line is optional, length is crucial." If you are a good mathematician then you'll enjoy working out which length is ideal. First you need to know the pace you bowl at, then what the reach of the batsmen and his reaction time is, and this will tell you approximately where...

Yes that's also true. Batsmen could never pick mine despite the fact that it is quite easy to pick if you know what to look for. I am 100% sure this is because of adrenaline, nerves, lack of knowledge etc. from the batsman's side. Other leg spinners batting against me would very often if not...

Just read an interesting article where Warne criticised leg spinner Yasir Shah for his defensive, negative tactics. Shah bowled almost outside leg stump to left-handers with a 6-3 leg side field, which is about as defensive and negative as you can get. Warne remarked that Shah, as an...

Yes this is definitely a useful thing to practice with on concrete. The only problem is that the heavy impact on concrete will soon make the ball misshapen and once it's just slightly out of proportion it becomes almost useless. The seam will always wobble, the bounce will be irregular and...

I can't remember the brand, but it certainly wasn't as hard as a leather ball, yet it was of a very similar weight and it could swing, spin etc. in much the same way as a cricket ball. There was also a variant that had a white side and a red side which is extremely useful for practicing...

I recall a brand of plastic cricket balls that were the same weight as a real cricket ball, but obviously made of plastic and not leather. They were incredibly useful for practicing with on abrasive surfaces which would destroy real cricket balls. Extremely convenient for target practice and for...

At the start of the video Warne makes an interesting comment - it doesn't matter if batsmen can pick your googly, they've still got to play it and don't know how much it will turn or bounce. I think this is a bit short-sighted, because if the batsman does not pick it it will almost certainly...

Yes I understand that you want one that turns the other way, but I really don't think it's all that necessary for your variation to turn significantly. The slider, if you bowl it well enough, will either swing or drift in, or even be angled in towards the batsman, and if it skids on properly it...

Have you tried rather giving the slider a go? In my opinion it's a far more effective delivery and easier to disguise as well. I recall in Bob Woolmers book The art and science of Cricket, there is a chapter devoted to variations and how easily batsmen can pick them. A large group of...

Slow left arm bowlers have notoriously been the bowlers that produce the least spin of all, and not coincidentally they have been the least successful of them all as well. (Except for those spin bowler types that are so uncommon that they cannot be considered in this argument, ex. chinaman...

What kind of practise do you do at the nets? I used to do target practise since that really is the only useful thing to do in nets in my opinion. Bowling to batsmen in nets is so utterly different to bowling to batsmen in matches that it never really felt like much use doing it. (For your...

Every attempt at being constructive on this website is undermined by your superiority complex. Also you are a hypocrite, I would call the veiled profanity you used against members on this forum rude. Dare you now accuse myself of being rude and having a temper, when you are the first to...

Why don't you try the opposite?

By diagonally I meant angling the bat downwards so that the ball won't jump up in the air off the bat if it bounces extra, as well as slightly opening the face which would enable you to avoid nicks. International batsmen play for turn. If you've ever watched cricket in your life you would know...

SLA, I would like your opinion on my analysis of what it means to threaten both sides of the bat. I mentioned in my post that you have to turn the ball at least 6 inches to beat the bat or get a nick, assuming that the batsman played straight down the line of the ball, which he will NOT do...

Yes that is an excellent observation. The kind of turn that is most desirable is a sharp angle of turn rather than a certain sideways length. The greater the angle, the greater the chance of a dismissal. It truly is of no use bowling slow, short and predictable turning deliveries, but none of us...