Obviously warming up before the game is important, particularly bowling 2-3 overs in the nets just to get the feel of your action and the ball coming out of your hand. Don't do too much, else you will stiffen up in the intervening period and won't be fresh for your spell.
In the field, most...
Good article here on one of the best current spinners in world cricket:
http://www.thecricketmonthly.com/story/1126231/ugly-beautiful--the-nathan-lyon-story
Really great to see how adult spin bowlers think about a whole host of different methods to get batsmen out and "leave their egos behind"...
How many great spin bowlers have you actually met? How many have you even seen in the flesh?
What you mean is, you've read a few ghost written books and seen a couple of snatches of conversation on tv, and now you think you're an expert! You cherry pick comments out of context to try and make...
More interesting is how he acknowledged his own strength to be control.
I watched warne bowl live in 93, 97, 01 and 05. I also met him briefly at a coaching workshop at lord's a few years ago. He bowls far quicker in real life than it looks on the telly. He really flings the ball down there...
It's sad, because you're so far out of your depth, and yet your sheer arrogance prevents your from seeing this.
Maybe if you actually had the humility to actually listen to the advice of a professional coach and high quality spin bowler, you might one day actually be able to become an...
"I set myself a goal for this off season to a gain a consistent delivery that breaks from off to leg."
You realise the slider doesn't break in from off to leg,right? Did you misread this bit of the post?
No professional fast bowler ever just goes out to bowl as fast as they can, even if that means spraying the ball around all over the place. They find a pace that maximises their control over line and length, and the movement they get off the pitch or in the air. Many find that they get more...
Used to play with a leggie who used an off cutter as his quicker ball, with great success. The batsman would spot it was a quicker ball and jam down on the line, but then get beaten on the inside edge.
He also had a decent googly, which I think he could have used more often, especially against...
If you think warne ripped every single ball as hard as he could, you're an idiot.
This isn't about my bowling, despite your childish attempts to make this personal. It's about the bowling of every competent spinner.
Expecting a spin bowler to forget about every other aspect of bowling and...
Maybe if you ever get to the point where you start bowling regularly in competitive games, you might gain enough knowledge about spin bowling to understand what I'm talking about.
It isn't. I say it quite often. I perhaps just say it in a more considered and nuanced manner than some others here, emphasising the different uses of spin rather than just generating turn, the necessity to get a balance between spin, pace and accuracy, and the importance of tactical and...
Maybe I didn't explain simply enough. A batsman can reach out further with his bat - to play a horizontal bat shot - a good 3 feet further than he can stride. You know, that, right?
This is just basic stuff. As is the fact that if a batsman leaves his crease, you don't try to beat him off the...
A simplistic and naive theory, because of course if you pitch the ball too close to the batsmen, he won't simply wait conveniently for it to drop, pitch, and take his edge, he will simply reach forward and wallop it on the full toss. You need to keep the landing point at least a bats length from...
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