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They most certainly do say that the Cor3 doesn't have a splice! http://www.mongoosecricket.com/bats and one of the guys who works for Mongoose is on another forum and he's said its not a proper Cor3. I see what you're saying about the bouncer but there are definitely times when i absolutely...

can you stick up some pictures of this beast Jim? have you had a chance to have a blast with it yet?

well i wish you luck jim! i can guarantee anyone who has a 'goose in any league is going to get acres of stick and coming in down the order any fast bowler worth his salt is going to stick one right up your nose/armpit first ball. personally i would be cacking my pants facing chin music holding...

dunno how much he has to do with the spinners, but he does bowl a mean bouncer... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dmk2aDKkTU I earned my first Spotters badge on the Guardian Sports Classic Youtube blog for finding this one! my proudest moment, lol.

Mushtaq Ahmed! thought you'd know that one Dave seeing as he's one of the best leggies of the last 20 years. mighty ugly action though.

ah you're not wrong, it was Max Waller, recognise his face now. Borthwick is pretty decent, despite the 5 sixes in a row! (i've got him beat i went for 6 in a row once when i first started out bowling leggies). Lets just hope they are letting him mature and leave him alone until he's ready for a...

that's the fella, it was him and Will Beer i think. Personally wouldn't hold your breath on either of them ever playing for England. They'd have made the performance squad by now if they were ever going to.

the worst thing about the mongoose would be walking out to the middle with one! you'll look like a right wally unless you're the same size as and as good as matthew hayden. personally i've gone for a Black Cat Joker, still bound to get sledged a bit but it doesn't look quite so ridiculous and...

and at 8.00 minutes in there's another example of a slider as well.

that is a mighty interesting delivery, he looks incredibly rusty, total shadow of his former self but on first look i would say its a slider as the seam is horizontal to the batsman and its definitely coming out of the front of the hand.

So are you saying Peppers palmed ball was a flipper then? have we got written evidence of this somewhere? i'd love to read it if there is.

there's some pretty hard evidence on page 155 he explicitly describes the orthodox backspinner (using that exact term) almost exactly the same as he does in the wrist spin guide, and he attributes the delivery to a host of players. He makes a point of distinguishing it from the palmed balls...

i came across another interesting thing recently whilst reading Philpotts book A Spinners Yarn.In the most interesting chapter The Spinners Web he talks about various back spinners (flippers, sliders and OBS's) being passed along a lineage (sometimes from friend to friend, dooland to benaud, or...

The first publication of the book was indeed 1994. i'm quite busy this week but i'll try and find some time to scan in the pages at some stage soon. they're not very revealing tbh. like macca says Benaud is a tight lipped ************, wish he'd just cough up the goods and write an explicit book on...

i disagree, he describes it exactly as you do. exactly the same as a leg break but with back spin. the description is pretty vague but its clearly the phillpott OBS/zooter/whatever.