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Its probably because literally no-one has ever bought it

I was watching the cricket yesterday, and not only did Mendis bowl an absolute textbook slider out of the front of his hand with a scrambled seam and 45 degree spin (sidespin and backspin), but the camera captured it perfectly in slow motion AND the commentator correctly identified it as a...

He was given a severe dressing down by the umpire and an even more embarrassing lecture by the bowler in the club rooms after the game. Both the umpire and the bowler should be strongly reprimanded, possibly suspended. Giving people "dressing downs" and "embarrassing lectures" is not acceptable.

Take guard, adjust box, look at the field, visualise defending the first ball, step into my stance, couple of taps of the bat, flex the knees, chin against the shoulder, try to make sure I'm not late down on the first one. Superstitions are for old gypsy women.

Indeed - the time for thinking about technical things is January to March. During the season you should stay in the present, think tactics not technique, and just try to enjoy your bowling.

I wasn't aware Shane was on this forum. There are several well-informed commenters on this forum. It tends to be a mixture of complete beginners asking questions, and then experienced cricketers and qualified coaches trying to help them out - like Liz, Tony and myself. Occasionally we get the...

The 2nd and 4th lines don't scan properly. I'll give you a C-

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...