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exactly its just an undercut ball squeezed out from underneath the hand, its probably the easiest of all the variations to bowl, no mysteries. Its working it into a routine and setting the batsman up properly thats the hard part! Will be useful for you down under but on our English wickets it...

If you skip to the 1 minute mark you can see a slo-mo of the wonderful Doug Wright who is often mentioned in leg spin histories as a purveyor of fast unplayable leg breaks. He could have been an English Tiger O'Reilly if he'd been picked for more international games. Jack Pollard devotes a whole...

grab a camera for the next one and let us have a gander how you guys get on. you should try and get a keeper along as well. they'd be crying out for practice like that with all leggies. if you've got a go pro you could strap it to his helmet.

Mate I am so up for it, I've been practising twice a week for the last 3 months, once with a coach and once at open nets. Next month our club nets start at the schools brand new sports hall which will be amazing so I can up the practice even more. I've been reading every spin book I can find and...

Good find with the tiger footage I've never seen him bowl before! It really is a seamer style run up isn't it. I've mucked around with two run ups for years and it's a huge mistake, sort this out asap. I had my macgill and my Warne run up and chopped and changed if things started to go badly...

Literally any chemist will do mate that's the easy part. Boracic powder I ordered from an online lab fairly easily as well.

just thought I'd resurrect this old thread I started. I still have problems with my finger tearing though its much less pronounced these days and its mostly thanks to a wonderful chap who sadly passed away this year, Mr Richie Benaud. I was lucky enough to have a conversation with a third party...

Did it really kill your leg break then? Im strugggling to remember when I finally cracked it you know. I know I had a lot of trouble at the start and could only bowl it by accident but it never gave me full on googly syndrome. There came a point where I could just set my wrist a certain way at...

Got to say I think this is looking pretty great, don't know how consistently you can reproduce that shape and spin on a good line and length but if you can get to that stage boy you'll take a bag of wickets. Googly is well hidden as well and rips! I'm really having to relearn my googly with the...

Yeah looks like an offie spun off the ring finger so he doesn't have to change his grip. Useful variation for 20/20 when you're trying to change it up constantly I guess but not one I'd use.

Sod everyone thinking you're crazy I say! It takes daily practice to really see improvements. Certainly three times a week minimum. I do love the fact spinners are willing to let everyone think they've gone totally potty for the sake of their art. They'll never know the joys of the spinning...

Had a bit of a bowl this evening, I set up a little practice area at work in our warehouse when everyone had gone home. Did the job at least and cheaper than paying for a net! Onto the bowling, was it perfect? No. But the grip is starting to feel more natural as is the walk in. Long way to go...

Well we didn't film at all last night but it was an interesting session. My coach uttered the words that always set alarm bells ringing for me. 'Let's try changing your run up'. I mucked around with switching from a run in to a walk in many times over the years and I've always regretted it. But...

a picture is worth a thousand words as far as that goes then! you can immediately see a great shape on the ball there and its turning nicely. i could see on the video that you put your thumb in the same place i do as well, not actually on the seam but on the leather just underneath it lightly. i...

The problem for me is that I have quite small hands so even though I've trained myself to have strong fingers I'm still a bit at a disadvantage. I'm going to keep up with this for the next few bowling sessions and see how it goes. I've got an hour with my coach tonight so I'll get him to film...

Yeah that sounds spot on for the ideal body action. I actually spent an hour yesterday bowling and to be honest I still wasn't bowling well, I left feeling a bit despondent. But I was reading through my new book Worlds Greatest Leg Spin bowlers and I was struck by some of the photos. I could see...

Yeah that's exactly what I was getting at, definitely a place for practicing over a clearly marked shorter distance before you step up to 22. I learned the bosie exactly that way and god it made it easier. Can't imagine trying to learn the wrong un over the full 22 straight away! As long as you...

I've been trying to build up a bit of a spin library and the latest addition is The Worlds Greatest Leg-Spin Bowlers by Jack Pollard. Not sure how this one escaped me because it's a lovely book with lots of large photographs. One bowler he focuses in on more than any other author/historian I've...

Yes it's purely from the point that how can you gauge whether any of this is having a positive effect if you can't gauge the results at the other end under proper conditions. I can't tell if you're dragging down, over pitching, spinning the ball well or anything really even if you've grooved in...

I'll leave it up to @Cleanprophet for a full analysis as he's a lot better at the technical stuff than I am! But I will say that you should never practise without at least a roughly marked 22 yards, makeshift stumps and popping creases and your run up marked out. It's really hard to analyse what...