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  1. J

    Wrist Spin Bowling (part Five)

    Looks like a regulation flipper to me in that video, being confused as other things due to low frame rate. Think you're all over analysing a low quality video, the way the fingers are sat on the ball and the way it comes out just says flipper to me.
  2. J

    Wrist Spin Bowling (part Five)

    full tosses arent bad balls if they hit the stumps so dont worry about those. short balls and extras are far worse.
  3. J

    Wrist Spin Bowling (part Five)

    front on and side on in terms of how they feel are misleading. most times you arent anywhere near to the position you think you are in your brain whilst bowling. i am quite heavily front on but i have tried side on plenty of times. ive thought i got there a few times, but you watch it back on...
  4. J

    Wrist Spin Bowling (part Five)

    Not been on here in ages! Not had a chance to have a read through the backlog yet, will try and find a bit of time to give it all a read and see how everyone else is getting on. I've hardly played any cricket since June/July. Took 4-for in a T20 game and got a mention in the local paper, the...
  5. J

    Wicket Data

    I'm working all the time and just really busy, thats mostly why I haven't been on. But at the same time I am hardly bowling compared to previously. Most of our mid-week T20 games got cancelled due to insufficient numbers and weather, I hardly play Sundays, and Saturdays I don't bowl. Last time I...
  6. J

    Wicket Data

    Can't give you exact numbers as I haven't kept a record, and I'm hardly bowling this season (back injury combined with playing mostly 1st XI cricket as a specialist fielder and not bowling). But from rough memory, I think this year I've had something like... 4 LBW 3 clean bowled 4 caught at...
  7. J

    Run Up For Slow Bowling - Leg Spin

    I've tried that, looking at the crease ruins my action!!!! I put my attention into where my foot lands and the rest of the action falls apart. It is absolutely the worse thing I can do, but that doesn't mean it won't help other people, it is just my personal issue. I bowled my 2nd best ever...
  8. J

    Videos and Links

    Pace does make a huge difference. Again, I will reference to the fact that professional wickets are of a significantly higher standard than club wickets, so the pace through the air is less significant as the pace off the wicket is higher. So it can mask pace. I have generally been most...
  9. J

    Videos and Links

    bear in mind that Warney is bowling on a professional wicket there. it looks rock hard, so the pace off the pitch looks really fast (the same as the bounce looks really big), but its more a case of the ball not slowing up as much as it would on a club wicket. of course he is quick even off no...
  10. J

    Run Up For Slow Bowling - Leg Spin

    everyone has their own personal method for finding rhythm, but the approach is pretty important to this. personally I take 5 steps, 3 are literally just steps, the 4th is a bigger more powerful stride and then the 5th is my pre-release stride. All of the power and momentum is built in the final...
  11. J

    Occasionally Flawed Release - Leg Spin

    if you're consistent then thats half the battle. consistently too full is better than simply spraying it everywhere at random!! you must have some element of control in your action. its simply a case of pulling it a bit shorter. so slightly less flight, aim to land the ball a yard or 2 shorter...
  12. J

    Wrist Spin Bowling (part Five)

    I'm not sure I entirely agree with those points, not in my own experience anyway. Warne turned the ball big much of the time, but you never found him being cut off the back foot every ball. Without wanting to sound arrogant, when you turn the ball as big as I mostly do, you either have to pitch...
  13. J

    Wrist Spin Bowling (part Five)

    Yeh I was gutted not to take 5. I was so close to getting it. I bowled mostly overspun leg breaks and top spinners today as I was dragging my backspun stuff a little short. It was a topspinner that took the LBW.
  14. J

    Wrist Spin Bowling (part Five)

    4-32 in a T20 game tonight. Opened the bowling at one end and bowled 4 overs for 3 wickets, then came back on at the end of my last over and picked up another. Had 1 absolute sitter of a catch dropped in my first spell, and another slightly more difficult one dropped in my last over, so on...
  15. J

    Wrist Spin Bowling (part Five)

    I have a pretty decent top spinner, I've had it since pre season and I use it every game. My stock ball at present is a backspun leg break, probably around 30-45 degs of backspin by the time I release it, so it isn't too far round from a sidespun delivery. It turns pretty consistently and it...
  16. J

    Wrist Spin Bowling (part Five)

    Exactly, Benaud either just made that number up, or used some old slow motion video capture back in his day, which I would imagine would have been extremely crude and inaccurate. There is no way in my mind that he generated revs anywhere near that. Although it is largely irrelevant since Warne...
  17. J

    Wrist Spin Bowling (part Five)

    There was a list in the News of the World today of the revs that spin bowlers generate. The ECB have some kind of laser device that measures it (I have my doubts about its accuracy), which accounts for all of the English spinners, but they have figures for lots of overseas players too, including...
  18. J

    Wrist Spin Bowling (part Five)

    P.S. My rhythm was so good that even all my variations were working yesterday!!!! My stock ball now is a backspun leg break because it turns with the most consistency. I was also throwing in the odd fully sidespun delivery. I bowled a few overspun leg breaks as well, one of which spat up off a...
  19. J

    Remembering Spin Doctor, Terry Jenner

    I was probably going to attend one of those days as well Dave, probably the one in SW London (might have been in Wimbledon I think). It wasn't to be though, would have been amazing to get some advice from him.
  20. J

    Wrist Spin Bowling (part Five)

    Had a good game yesterday. The first team played on the wicket on Saturday and my friend said the other team had an offie that was turning the ball huge and it was a great wicket for spin. Sure enough it was, and we bowled first. I came on 1st change at my end after 20 overs and they had scored...
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