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as far as i'm aware the only book he has ever written for is the MCC masterclass book which i have, i've seen the same thing reprinted in a few other places. Here is the passage from the variations section of that piece which refers to back spinners: "The sliding top-spinner, as its name...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2010/dec/11/shane-warne-australia-ashes-2010 here's a picture of young Borthwick getting some more coaching from Warnie the lucky sod, i've seen him play a few times and he looks alright, not exactly a massive turner of the ball, but those seem to be few and...

and here's the proof if you think your eyes are deceiving you: http://www.espncricinfo.com/the-ashes-2010-11/content/story/491234.html but on his cricinfo profile he is listed as left arm medium, who knew he was so versatile!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/9278372.stm okay its a pretty brief glimpse but if i'm not very much mistaken Andrew Strauss is bowling chinamen here!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGTCtd0ZSLU here's big Warnie!

don't suppose anyone recorded that segment did they!

Shame he won't be ready in time for you to lose the urn this year! we'll keep gobbling up that lovely rubbish being dished up by young Doherty thanks very much:) but looking ahead to the next ashes in England and indeed the next in Australia...Boyce will hopefully be ready by then, as will Adil...

all out for a hundred in the offing!

Weird isn't it. Katich is never bowled anymore, not in India, not in the last Ashes except maybe a couple of overs? i can't remember. Ponting doesn't seem to see much value in having a chinaman on his team! I for one can never pick a lefties googly, my brain gets tangled in knots thinking about...

Yips! i think this is a very very common cause of bad match bowling. its not exactly full blown yips of course, but a very mild form of it which can you can only be rid of by having total confidence in what you are doing. hard to achieve but not impossible. much harder for us at our age without...

well he's basically saying that drift is the same as swing which we know not to be true. well he's basically saying that drift is the same as swing, which we know not to be true.

this is an extract from the BBC website today, an article talking about the significance of the kookaburra ball in the Ashes. Duncan Fletcher exhibits an absolutely appalling knowledge of drift/dip for an international level coach: Perth's Waca is another ground where he expects the ball to...

biscuit?????

the method i'm going to use is like a ************** child of the slider and the orthodox back spinner. i grip it two up two down, then rather than flicking it out the back of the hand or pushing it out of the front I whip the heel of the my hand downward (karate chop? but its the palm rather than the...

That Bob Simpson article is probably as close to the truth as we're likely to ever come. I'm yo-yoing a bit here but we're told explicitly that Warne learnt this method from a man who learnt it from Philpott. It seems to me this is pretty conclusive evidence that the slider and zooter (at least...

i've just noticed that Lawrence Booth has totally nicked the name of my blog for his Mail column! the thieving swine! if thats a coincidence i'll eat my hat. Anyone got an email address for Stuey? we should drop him a line...

not a single flipper in that series, i recall him not using it again until 2006/07 when he bowled one or two and mark nicholas was saying he couldn't believe he was retiring after rediscovering his flipper. then he cracked it out briefly for the IPL but he was half the bowler he used to be by...

are we in general agreement that the ball to Bell in the first test of 2005 (2nd innings) is simply a leg break that didn't turn? because for me that is the only real contender for a genuine back spinner due to it having perfect seam presentation. There are a couple to Harmison in the same...

hmmm interesting, you're making a strong argument here jim. i think i've had the idea of the OBS slightly wrong in my head until now. i was missing out how it incorporates the big flick and always pictured it kind of rolling out, but now it seems obvious to me thats its flicked as much as a big...

wish i could see that! i'm hunting through footage of the 2005 ashes. he must surely have used one in that series, there's a ton of sliders but no ring/benaud/philpotts as yet...i'm still loath to call it a zooter. i always associate that term with the infamous warne mind games.