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I like to sledge someone on their technique, e.g. ' Get ready (whoever is at slip), he's opening the face, won't be long before the ball's coming to you', but anything personal is against the spirit of the game in my view.

I would deem the back foot drive as one of my best shots. It is probably because I use the forward press, which gets my weight forward, so when I then come back, my weight is still forward, allowing me to get over the ball. The forward press, however, doesn't work for everyone so if you don't...

Try opening you're stance and then either commit fully to coming forward to the off side, negating any turn, or hang back and play with a straight bat off your original stable stance towards mid-wicket.

Love the sound of it, might be a bit too far away but I'll see...

I haven't read all of this thread but here's my two cents: As a leg-spinner, I love it when batsmen play with their bat at a bit of an angle, I feel that if I can get one to turn in to them, then I can get them bowled through the gate or if I get one to bounce more, then it gets an edge - so...

I have recently tried tying a ball to a string, hanging it up somewhere and playing the ball, purely focusing on watching it. Because it comes from such a short distance, it really helps you watch the ball all the way on to the bat.

Yep. It was really amazing how suddenly just visualizing Shane Warne added so much more spin! I haven't been able to find any of those slow motion close ups on his hand anymore tough...

Having started winter nets now, I've noticed that I'm not playing as fluently as I would with, say, a bowling machine ball or tennis ball. I think it's because I'm starting to get scared of the ball. I'm not backing away or anything like that, but anything from middle stump to outside leg, no...

I haven't been on here for a while, so a quick update: In the last few sessions with the juniors, I've felt in really good nick and realized that I had been letting the ball roll off the edge of my finger rather than giving it a rip, but I soon fixed this. The smaller ball really is a lot easier...

Managed to contact a junior team from around here and they've invited me to indoor nets on Sunday. I picked up a junior ball for the first time ever and it seems tiny! Although, thinking about it, it's probably roughly the same 'hand size-ball size' ratio as you guys have with a senior cricket...

It was pretty much a case of bowling with several other bowlers at a single batsman for 10 minutes and then a new batsman comes in and you do the same to him, but I did take a few positives from the session. I really began to think about what ball I'm bowling and I managed to get a couple of...

My club has just announced that winter nets start tomorrow! It'll be interesting to see what my bowling's like after 4 months without a decent bowling session. You can only improve so much by going on the computer and reading books so I can't wait to get back out there!

Since the end of the season I've started working on my batting. Before that it was just a case of using hand-eye coordination and natural ball skills to hit the ball anywhere, and then focus on my bowling. But now that I've started I'm beginning to enjoy batting more! The query that I have is...

I've tried it hand to hand but never bowled it before. I can't see the advantages of using it as a variation though...

About 80 degrees on it's own but 100 degrees using my other hand (which I guess counts as cheating :))

I've tried them today but, like you, I can't get outside due to bad weather.:(

Spin it, and spin it 'ard!

I do get quite a bit of drift from maybe the ball going from off stump to middle and leg for a stock ball. The main thing with my drift is that I get it consistently every single ball I bowl and so when I bowl a variation it deceives them completely as it doesn't drift inwards.

My arm comes over at about the same height as Shane Warne's, maybe a bit lower.

My natural pace is about the same as yours in the videos from this thread: http://www.bigcricket.com/community/threads/left-arm-chinaman-bowling-videos-any-advice-thoughts-would-be-appreciated.183997/ I've never had any coaching which to a certain extent is a good thing as I now have a nice...