OFFspinBOWLER
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I was just working around with a few type of actions to bowl a doosra and i want to know what action you know of or use. I'm working on the way saeed ajmals version with a few tweeks to his action
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Well, as far as I understand, there are three ways of bowling a doosra.
The way used by murali and saqlain, where the wrist is turned so that the back of the hand is facing the batsman - and then slightly further. This is easy to throw, but ridiculously hard to bowl with a straight arm. I think I did one once, but it took me about 100 attempts.
The carrom ball aka the Iverson-Gleeson method, in which either the 2nd or 3rd finger flicks the ball out of the front of the hand with legspin at the moment of release. I can bowl this and get it to turn, but its hard to get the line right so I don't use it outside the nets. Herath and Mendis both bowl their doosras like this.
A legcutter off the 2nd finger bowled with an offspinner's action with the wrist extended throughout. This is the one I use in matches and get lots of wickets with- its not hard to bowl, and if you disguise it carefully then most batsmen can't pick it unless they are specifically looking for it.
Come on Offies - give the bloke some advice!!!
Do you know where i can find a video of the grimmet leg spin flipper?
Do you know where i can find a video of the grimmet leg spin flipper?
Not the wrong wrongun but the legbreak you get with flipper when you have the back of your hand facing the bat and hand points out to cover, thumb goes up. You probably haven't mucked around with it because it is more an offspinners delivery.
Does anyone have any footage of anyone bowling any kind of flipper except the regular backspinning one used by Warne in a match?
Well, as far as I understand, there are three ways of bowling a doosra.
The way used by murali and saqlain, where the wrist is turned so that the back of the hand is facing the batsman - and then slightly further. This is easy to throw, but ridiculously hard to bowl with a straight arm. I think I did one once, but it took me about 100 attempts.
The carrom ball aka the Iverson-Gleeson method, in which either the 2nd or 3rd finger flicks the ball out of the front of the hand with legspin at the moment of release. I can bowl this and get it to turn, but its hard to get the line right so I don't use it outside the nets. Herath and Mendis both bowl their doosras like this.
A legcutter off the 2nd finger bowled with an offspinner's action with the wrist extended throughout. This is the one I use in matches and get lots of wickets with- its not hard to bowl, and if you disguise it carefully then most batsmen can't pick it unless they are specifically looking for it.