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Re: Wrist Spin Bowling (Part Four) I heard Ian chappell say this on air with regards to pakistan's poor fielding "It also depends on what you practice. If you practice without correcting your mistakes, you are probably practicing how to do the wrong things out in the middle"

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling (Part Four) Another decent weekend with both ball and bat - opposition won the toss and elected to bat - first 12 overs their score was 40//0 but opener had just retired when the captain brought me in to bowl. I got a wicket with my very first ball- a little short...

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling (Part Four) Had only two overs to bowl this weekend as one of our matches was rained out. In the other game, we scored 246 and the other team was shot down by our seamers - I believe it was 30/6 and then they struggled on until 45/8. But the seamers were doing all the...

Re: I want to bowl way faster and swing way better I'm surprised that there are 12 year olds bowling at 120kph (even if at state level). Did you get a speedgun at your nets? and 20 to 30kmph extra would take you to 130-140 kmph. If you can bowl at that speed at "top of off stump" like you...

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling (Part Four) Bowled a full spell for second weekend in a row. Was brought on to bowl as soon as field restrictions went out in 12th over,(Was surprised by the amount of confidence my captain showed in me all of sudden :) ) and immediately had batsmen in trouble. Both...

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling (Part Three) Hurt my left shoulder when I put in a dive to get into the crease (as a by-runner). So my shoulder sort of pops whenever I try to rotate it fast. I tried bowling in such a condition and with my left hand falling off(I can't raise it much beyond shoulder level...

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling (Part Three) Had a disappointing weekend with the bat with two innings in single digit scores at No.3 but couldn't have asked more with the ball. The first game we played was on a newly layed out astroturf in an 60 yard small ground with lightning fast outfield (think...

Re: Leg-side or Off-side attack strategies "Length is mandatory, line is optional" I've heard. So as long as you are bowling on a good length, you'd be successful in one or the other way wherever you may bowl. But when looking to get wickets, I'd say you'd have to be attacking the line of...

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling (Part Three) The stride length is primarily decided by whether you can get over and around it. If you look at bowling videos of warne and others- their final bowling steps are quite long - almost the length of the bowling crease. When I do that, I get more pace on the...

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling (Part Three) After 3+ weeks of consistent bowling in the nets (we have nets only twice a week), I finally got a bowl in the match - the last over before the 20 over break. but that was it. My analysis 1-0-1-0.(off a wide on the offside) And I believe I wasn't given...

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling (Part Three) Nope - true blue wrist spinner who's been asked many times by captains if he can bowl something else but never recovered from the time he was smitten by warne bug at the age of 13. It is only in the last month or so that I've begun enjoying consistency in...

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling (Part Three) No dave, the opposite . I'm troubling the left handers more because the ball is turning in sharply off a length from way outside off. Yet it is hitting the stumps so the batsman has to play at those deliveries. Whereas to the right handers- the ball is...

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling (Part Three) Over the years - Muralitharan has had greater success against right handed batsmen than against left handers quite unconventional. I seem to understand the reason a little now. These days, I'm getting the ball to spin miles on our matting wicket and I keep...

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling (Part Three) Warne is the god of tactics in leg spin bowling, but what often gets lost is that kumble was quite adept at setting batsmen up and getting them - and also the fact that his bowling was constantly evolving right up to the time he retired. His main weapon...

Re: Wrong'un as stock delivery When it comes to field placements - I disagree with the thought that dave and jim have expressed with regards to playing straight getting batsmen into trouble. The good batsmen find it easier to adjust to spin (sideways adjustment) than to the bounce(vertical...

Re: Wrong'un as stock delivery I've always been told that if a tailender is looking to defend, the ball turning in is the most difficult one to face, and if he is looking to smash things around, bowl something that leaves the batsman.(swing or spin).Usually because the tailenders end up...

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling (Part Three) Tough luck Jim. On the other hand, a positive spin to look at things would be - you got to bowl so many overs that you might not have got if you didn't play with them. I hope you went to take a look at the game being the 12th man and all so that come the...

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling (Part Three) I think that is a personal thing. I can bowl the googly very gently and without any effort at all. Infact my googlies tend to be loopier than the normal leg breaks. Might be the result of the googly syndrome, but usually I had better control and got greater...

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling (Part Three) Jim a suggestion from what I've seen of the club batsmen so far. The googly doesn't actually get you as many wickets by itself but is helpful like you said in sowing seeds of doubt in batsmen's mind. For most leggies, the legbreak is enough to get the...

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling (Part Three) Jim, could you upload the videos at normal speed along with your estimates on the speed so that I get an idea of the pace you are talking about? Elevated cameras in international games completely skew any perception of pace on the ball