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Well, no more particularly interesting spinners left in the World Cup, it seems. Now to wait for the new blokes to start playing some real cricket matches. I reckon that they look quite well prepared for the test circuit, so that should be good to watch.

It seems that this World Cup is essentially characterised by just about everybody collapsing. After this first farce of a quarter-final, the other teams will perhaps be putting a fair bit of focus on their middle orders. Really, if one is going to collapse, at least do so due to great bowling...

Bishoo seems to have had some trouble adjusting his line for left-handers, although I do like his ability to bowl it flatter to them, and it seems a good way to deal with the problem. He got hit a couple of times due to bowling down the leg side, as well as a few leg-glances. I don't think that...

It looks like it's another leggie to watch here. Bishoo was really impressive; he gave a couple of looser deliveries which Wright hit for four, but he certainly ended up winning that battle. Otherwise, his bowling was really quite solid; he started off somewhat flat, but got sharp turn and...

I must say, as much as I do regret the fact that Collins Obuya's bowling has fallen off from last time, he seems to have really matured as a batsman in the meantime. In addition, his latest knock means that his World Cup record now includes a five-for against Sri Lanka and a 98 against...

Canada's batting today was impressive, good on the blokes for taking advantage of the opportunity of facing a top side. This is likely to be their last World Cup for a while, and it's doubtful that they'll get much of a chance to face top opposition frequently outside of the World Cup, because...

He loves his enemy, and, as such, he wishes to ensure that the batsman enjoys watching his bowling as much as possible. After all, watching the ball carefully, as a good batsman will do, can be somewhat dull, but Price will have none of that. Pace bowlers, as Philpott pointed out, are sadists...

It looks like Tahir is going to be getting his rest right now. I'm not sure how long this will last; I believe that it was suggested that it will take around ten days, but I'm not sure when it would be counted as having begun. South Africa's spin attack didn't look like much of an 'attack'...

Hm, perhaps one could say that India were just undone by Twenty-20. It's somewhat understandable when a team collapses because of great bowling, but here it was just a matter of forgetting that this was the 50 over format of the game.

As soon as I come to post this, there's a stumping off a flighted delivery from Razzak which the batsman just completely misreads. The Bangladeshi spinners seem to be bowling well whenever they flight the ball, whereas otherwise they often seem a bit harmless; however, they seem to be trying to...

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling (Part Four) So, the season'll be starting soon, and I guess I may as well come back here. I was watching some of Warne's wickets recently, and it's notable that in his earlier days (1994, etc) he brought his right arm down quite straight, or even to the right of his body...

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling (Part Three) To be honest, I'm not entirely sure what Warne was doing there. Really, it was some pretty dismal bowling. Though I do like how the commentator said 'Citi Moment for success'; a few friends of mine who watch the IPL for whatever reason have gotten tired of...

Re: Leg Spin Video Analysis Well, unless he was Stuart MacGill.

Re: Mongoose Bat I figure it may be easier to simply make the boundaries even smaller. This should still allow more DLF Maximums, and increase the passion for the game among the populace, without making batsmen look unintentionally amusing. Alternatively, we could allow aluminium bats, or use...

Re: toe guard You posted the original query yesterday. You should probably wait for a fair bit longer before expressing impatience in the future.

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling (Part Three) Generally synthetic. Incidentally, having a ball for when you get hit for 70 per over does sound like a very useful precaution.

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling (Part Three) So, interestingly enough, I'm currently getting my action to be more side-on than it used to be, and it seems to be helping quite a bit as regards spinning the ball. I noticed a nice amount of drift today, and I seem to be getting about as accurate as I was...

Re: Has anybody got any tips on accuracy for leg spinners? I think the most fundamental thing when it comes to accuracy is concentration. Philpott had a good section on this in his book. I generally find it useful to figure out what I'm going to bowl, then just make small movements with my...

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling (Part Three) That actually sounds like a pretty interesting delivery, and looking at the video, it doesn't seem overly conspicuous either, so it may be worthwhile against both right and left handers. What's most interesting is probably it having a lot of spin and turn...

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling (Part Three) If it's hard to bowl, but still looks fairly similar to the normal leg break, then it's still probably worth working on. Though yeah, if it's fairly obvious, it may not be worth it, though on the other hand, it could still be useful as a stock ball for...