Recent content by Alec Armstrong

Hi - do you still look at this forum regularly? We communicated last year about adding over-spin to finger-spin. I spent a lot of the winter developing my over-spin and it is going well for me this season. It would be nice to catch up with you about any progress you have made in this...

Can anyone explain to me any successful methods for bowling a finger-spinner's undercutter? At the moment I try to do this by having the wrist held back (so palm of hand faces upwards) when the ball is balled. However, I clearly do not achieve anything like a "Flying Saucer" position, although...

Hi SLA – thank you for the advice – it was nice to get comments from someone who has already spent time working out what is required to get more top-spin on the finger-spin delivery. Today I tried carrying out your advice in order to bowl deliveries with more top-spin. I managed quite quickly...

Hi SLA – thank you very much for taking the time to reply to my post of which I read with interest. (1.)You wrote most finger spinners are naturally back-spinners - what reason would you give for this? Is it a case of how I was describing it with myself (i.e. ball coming out of hand faster than...

Hi - I am an experienced (orthodox) slow-left-arm bowler, but have just realised that my stock ball is coming out with a slight back-spin motion(!) What is happening is when the ball is released the index-finger somehow drags downwards on the ball (instead of forwards) which results in...