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I'm sorry that was all you were capable of gathering from my post, I genuinely thought my point was so obvious as to be idiot-proof; clearly I was mistaken.

So many poor spinners complain that the "captain" doesn't understand them. Mate, you've just got pumped for 47 runs off 3 overs, I can't put fielders in the car park to take catches for you. "Oh but I'm a leggie, I'm meant to bowl a mixture of very wide wides, full tosses and long hops. Its not...

What's the rationale behind any decision the ECB makes? They've proved over and over again to be so utterly and perplexingly incompetent at running English cricket that its beginning to look like a wilful act of destruction. English cricket has produced one genuinely international class spinner...

That's more of an issue with the ECB, who try to discourage spin bowling by heavily fining any county who produce a pitch that turns for a spin bowler. That's a good nugget of advice, do you have any more pieces of top class aussie insight? Like there are three stumps at each end and the rope...

Maybe legspin just isn't a thing in Aus. Here in the UK virtually every team has a leggie. Its just far easier to bowl - all of my juniors find legspin easy and so many adults bowl legspin. You hardly ever see a genuine off break bowler. A ball that turns away from the stumps is more...

Genuine off-spinners are far rarer in amateur cricket than leggies. Almost every team I play against has a leggie, but I can count the number of off-spinners I have batted against in the past 10 years on one hand. A bloke who just ambles in and bowls slow off cutters on a length is NOT an...

I still don't see why this only applies to leggies and not off-spinners, who are often just as erratic and liable to get a bit of tap.

True of all spinners

Any type of sidespin with enough revs will get drift. Topspin = dip Sidespin = drift A mixture of topspin and sidespin = a mixture of drift and dip = the ideal delivery

Consistently adjusting your release point is the reason why simple variations in pace are often far harder to master than people think they're going to be. Think of how much practice it took you to master a consistent length for your stock delivery. Whenever you bowl a ball at a different pace...

Rock back and pull anything short, slog sweep off a length, and get down the track and drive through and underneath anything full. Look to hit the middle of the bat with power, and hit upwards on about a 30 degree trajectory and carry the ball ~ 10 yards over the boundary.

Yeah - I've used the exact same 6 step run-up with a hop in the middle since I was 13 years old. I can stand at the top of my mark, close my eyes, run up and bowl, and the ball will land roughly in the right spot purely from 20 years of muscle memory. The golden rule of bowling is that the more...

Bear in mind that it is harder to bowl from a standing start than a full run up, because you are having to simultaneously suddenly generate energy in both your legs and your arms, whereas when you are bowling with a run up, the kinetic energy in your legs is already there, and you just need to...

I'm curious to know why if you were bowling ok off a full run, you continued to practice off a standing start? Standing starts are used by coaches to teach young bowlers (typically age 9-10) who are learning to bowl for the first time and have not yet learnt the basic movements of the bowling...

If the batsman is struggling to get to you on the front foot (ie you have just spun a couple of balls past the edge) he is liable to try playing you off the backfoot instead. If you sense that this is about to happen, this is the perfect moment to pounce - run up the same as normal but push it...

Is it the season there? I would have thought you just wanted to find a way to keep playing

I broke my spinning finger one summer, I just changed my grip and bowled off my middle finger. If anything, my bowling improved. Have you tried that?

My thought was that if Thivagar is bowling against batsmen who can play front foot, back foot, sweep, all proficiently and have no apparent weaknesses against spin.... which tv channel is showing this test match? Most amateur batsmen have one or two good shots against a spinner, and if you can...

If a batsman is playing you off the back foot, either pitch it up further, or put a little extra mustard on it and clean him up off the pitch.

To be a decent spin bowler, you need pace, accuracy and revs. Of these, the most important is probably accuracy. The most over-hyped and obsessed over by amateurs is big turn, but actually decent batsmen would much rather play a spinner who gets big turn at a lower pace than one who gets small...