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    OMG someone has done it... thanks for this!!!!
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    Wrist Spin Bowling (part Five)

    glad some cricket is being played. I'm really missing it. In my last games before I moved I felt I was getting somewhere. Wondering where I would be if I'd been practicing continually.
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    Wrist Spin Bowling (part Five)

    I have started practising again but without a net! Throwing balls up in the air with various spins. Wish I'd done more of this.
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    Leg Spin Accuracy Progression

    For technical practice, I simply varied the length so I was bowling reasonably flat and pitching on a good length, at the pace I was using at that moment. Generally in a practice session, I'd start off several metres in, and then come back as I felt my way into a faster action. I think when I...
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    Leg Spin Accuracy Progression

    An issue with a higher launch angle is that it requires an adjustment to the spinning action to land the ball on the seam, this is why I would do standing start practice from a shortened distance.
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    Wrist Spin Bowling (part Five)

    While you wait for the injury to heal I suggest getting a collection of balls, twenty plus, then bowl them to an empty net from a standing start. And repeat. And repeat. I would bet that you will find this valuable practice and likely discover new things. You can bowl to batsmen too from a...
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    Wrist Spin Bowling (part Five)

    I remember bowling a while ago in the nets to a confident sweeper. I was just bowling one pace off a shortened distance and he wasn't wearing pads. I thought, I'll throw in a flipper, that'll get him. I bowled it, came out nicely. He played to sweep it but it skidded through and hit him square...
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    Ways to improve BigCricket...help us make the site better

    I don't know what is going on but the moderation has been far too passive
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    Wrist Spin Bowling (part Five)

    This is really rather funny! https://elodieunderglass.tumblr.com/post/178921341318/my-boyfriend-is-trying-to-explain-cricket-to-me
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    Wrist Spin Bowling (part Five)

    That is confidential information. you will need to quote the password
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    Wrist Spin Bowling (part Five)

    Why not do both and see how you go? While practicing legspin probably won't help pace bowling, I think practicing pace bowling is no bad thing for a spin bowler. It cannot be an accident that so many great spin bowlers came from a pace bowling background. Baseball pitchers do not suffer from...
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    Wrist Spin Bowling (part Five)

    I am having a major life change, I've been offered a job in Costa Rica and am emigrating in a couple of weeks. Quite keen to keep up my legspin practice but don't know what it will be like over there. Haven't done any for months but I'd made massive progress last summer. It might be possible for...
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    Wrist Spin Bowling (part Five)

    A way to practice which I'd like to do is to bowl to a partner from a standing start, he catches on the full, then you swap, wearing baseball gloves
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    Wrist Spin Bowling (part Five)

    I've just had a thought: topspin -> superimpose flying saucer spin (anticlockwise as seen from above) = legspin topspin -> superimpose flying saucer spin (clockwise as seen from above) = googly This may or may not make any sense but it is how I visualise spinning a big legbreak. The topspin is...
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    Wrist Spin Bowling (part Five)

    I think I tried it once, but struggled to find value in it as I needed some more freedom to rotate. But looking again, I didn't have my legs set up as in that video so maybe that was upsetting things. I think one thing is that it is practicing off a short distance and the result looks pleasing...
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    Wrist Spin Bowling (part Five)

    We already discussed this, I intend to play for England! So I will practice accordingly. Happy new year to you
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    Wrist Spin Bowling (part Five)

    Although bowling on a 'spin carpet' does sound fun :-)
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    Wrist Spin Bowling (part Five)

    Our team has started indoor winter nets but I am finding it hard to be motivated to go. Bowling 30 balls in a session just doesn't do it for me when I can go to the outdoor nets and bowl five times as many without a batsman in the way. Only reason to go would be to get feedback on progress and...
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    Leg Spin Grip (benaud Grip Specifically)

    When I saw that video I also found that grip quite puzzling. If I was to place the ball in my hand like that, I can spin it comfortably, but it would be cross-seam. I can't conceive of spinning it from that position along the seam.
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    Plastic Balls For Practice

    You are seriously claiming that spin bowling is absolutely about how big and strong you are? That isn't even a rule for fast bowling.
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