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Has your Wilkin's arrived yet Dave? What an incredible book, its the most comprehensive manual on (advanced) spin I've ever read. Simply crammed with ideas, tactics, stories, skills and science. Everything you'd ever want to ask about really I even discovered that the resin Mailey used to use is...

He is called Amol Rajan, and he's an amateur leg spinner just like us, a journalist by profession. He has some interesting ideas on flippers, most of which he has taken from Brian Wilkins the Bowlers Art which goes into them in incredibly deep detail. He doesn't really classify one singular...

looks like its out on june 14th in the states.

its about 400 pages long so I'd be doing well! managed to get through the first 150 or so yesterday, massively impressed by this guys knowledge and research, though I notice he has borrowed a few phrases and ideas. "mystery is temporary, mastery is permanent" for instance which is taken from a...

thought you might like the bit about the flipper being invented in Essex! it really is a good book, I'm loath to put it down but I've can 't sit here reading it all day!

i now have a copy of said book in hand, and I can tell you its basically been written by one of us, only a few pages in and I know I'm going to both love it and hate it, because its pretty much the book I wanted to write myself. Also it has already directed me towards a book called The Bowlers...

well Andy Bull who writes this read our minds regarding quick spin! http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/may/17/the-spin-twirlymen-andy-bull and I'm sure we'll all be rushing out to find a copy of the book as well.

Arguably one of the greatest bowlers of all time, I've read many accounts of his exploits, he's a much admired character. Philpott i think mentions him multiple times as does Frith, often along with a quote from him proclaiming that he SPUN the ball (old or new) and most certainly did NOT cut...

I don't think you should be limiting yourself to one line and one pace, you have to change these things from batsman to batsman. That's where the real art comes into play, hence the necessity for mastering your technique and accuracy. For instance it sounds great to be aiming to hit the top of...

they've actually changed this is my league this season for some reason, now everything above the waist is a no ball. So this is possibly the case in Jim's league as well. I cannot understand the necessity for it but apparently its for 'easier clarification'. Mad isn't it? Here's another far...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thtRIzgJbxw&feature=channel_video_title here's a fun video created by the legendary Rob Da Cricket Man, poor old Athers getting out to Shane Warne, ten times in test cricket!

I guess i should add this as this is what's going through my mind, am I forever going to be the loose, fanciful, apparently carefree leg spinner? no matter how hard i do practice, i mean i've been doing this since 2007, will i always be prone to bowling some rubbish and letting the batsman off...

I had a mixed weekends cricket as far as bowling goes, that wind was certainly something to contend with. During the saturday league game the skipper (who bowls off spin) instantly gave himself what was clearly the spinners end with the wind against him so i had to bowl with a strong tailwind...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/apr/17/scott-borthwick-durham-yorkshire-cricket another spinner makes the difference in the County Championship and its another leggie. seems to me this is the season for leg spin!

yeah its a leg break that goes straight on, had a good look at it and it does look a bit like a slider but its not.

Frustrating start to the season. only got three overs near the end of a game when we only put 152 on the board on a very dodgy wicket. the figures weren't pretty 4-0-27-0. youch. but they really don't reflect what was going on, i was under orders to go searching for a wicket so i bowled with a...

i've been watching it everyday, IPL4 seems a lot more interesting than 3, great seeing Warnie bowling as usual. no flipper as yet this year...thought he'd got that back last year, perhaps he's saving it. Its incredible really, even a 50% fit mannequin version of Shane Warne still manages to be...

well the season starts as it means to go on for Worcestershire! but Adil Rashid took his career best against my beloved county this weekend, and i managed to miss both innings of him bowling and went on the boring day in-between...:(...

crackerjack! just the job seeing it slowed down like this.

I'm actually annoyed with England for injuring him! i wonder what South Africa's next test series is after the world cup? cannot wait to see him bowling for them in a proper test match series.