Recent content by SomeblokecalledDave.

How on earth you bowl a wrong-un with your arm at 45 degrees, that's crazy! Most people bowl with their arm over vertical in the opposite direction!!!

My mate Sriram and I compete to take the key wickets in the oppositions teams, I think this season I've taken more of them than him. I think we both approach practice in the nets in the same way. Like your example we're looking to elicit the false shot as soon as possible. In the nets where...

Have you considered an even more relaxed and less stressful approach to the crease. Have a look at my languid approach to the crease in this video - I come on at 1 hour and 4 mins and get hit around a bit by some blokes that play at much higher level than me and I go for some runs, my field...

Oooh that sounds like classic case of a rotator cuff injury. Have you had it looked at? On two ocassions in the last 20 years I've put in way too many hours practicing and ended up injuring my rotator cuff and the consequence was that I couldn't lift my arm above 90 degrees. Both times the...

The going around the loop and the perception of what you're doing in terms of release in my experience will come in time and it's not something I'd dwell on personally. Just as long as you can execute your Leg-Break well without worrying too much about what you're doing with your wrist. If you...

500 members and 20 teams that's mental! Cheers mate for the compliments re all my work on the interwebs!. Good news for you is I didn't play cricket till I was 46! and I'm now 65 and still going strong. I put a lot of work into staying fit, strong and flexible - follow a couple of blokes on...

Not too bad as you can see. I was pretty ill for the first part of the season and nearly died at one point (Quinsey), so missed a bunch of games, but I'm starting to catch up now. Some at the club might say my figures are good because the opposition are rubbish. I'd argue otherwise, at the level...

It looks like I'm to go into the season with the full package this year. I've been working on the Top-Spinner for months now and have finally settled on a conventional grip and all it takes is a slight re-allignment of the wrist angle and it comes out really nice. It's very effective when bowled...

Pre-season for me is working out well - have a look at my blog Pre-season 2025 - https://theoldwristspinner.blogspot.com/2025/04/pre-season-2025.html

Yeah me neither, on very rare ocassions I'll see it and equally rare I'll have a batter say the ball drifted. But it does only seem to happen when I bowl with a lower arm action.

@Leggy88 How's your yips - any better?

I've just knackered myself. I've been playing indoor cricket all winter and we're now into 10 weeks of indoor nets as well which is nice. But a couple of weeks back it was half-term and I'm a lecturer and had to spend the majority of it sitting on my arse all week assessing... No exercise. The...

It'd be good to see her pitch map, the pundits were saying about how accurate she was. Didn't look that tight, looked to me like the drift was a key component.

Just finished, what an ending! Peter Philpott would have loved that I'd imagine, but one thing. King has no variations! The end went on for ages, alternate overs King and Gardner, both on 4 looking for their 5th. But, King was so metronomic, the 2 tail-enders devised a method, and not having to...