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    Wrist Spin Bowling (part Five)

    So many times. Things don’t work so try some alterations and tweaks which make it worse. Three things I always say to myself. 1. Even the best have bad spells. 2. Success doesn’t happen in straight lines: I’m not always going to be better today than I was yesterday. 3. This has happened before...
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    Wrist Spin Bowling (part Five)

    Re: increasing pace - short answer is yes. Not particularly intentionally. Three things: faster run up, stronger front arm, and more power in the back leg hip drive through. I try not to worry about it though. 3rd / 4th team players say I’m bowling very quickly, at almost ‘medium pace’. When I...
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    Wrist Spin Bowling (part Five)

    I have tried a bit of the faster undercut (I.e flying saucer) leg break as another variation. The idea being if you undercut enough it will still drift towards leg but miss the seam when it bounces and instead bounces on the smooth side of the ball, going pretty much straight on. To the batter...
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    Wrist Spin Bowling (part Five)

    This was a great explanation of drift. Other observations I would add are that you get more drift the colder it is, and the less humid the air. Colder air is more dense, and dry air is (counterintuitively) more dense than humid air. The more dense the air the greater the effect and force on the...
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    Wrist Spin Bowling (part Five)

    There’s an interesting piece Sky Sports in the UK did with Rashid Khan where he bowls at Marcus Trescothick and then talks about his action afterwards. It’s on YouTube now. He seems to bowl out of the top of the hand using only his fingers to change the direction, but it does look like they...
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    Wrist Spin Bowling (part Five)

    I’ve found bowling a flipper seam up can be pretty devastating. If you keep practicing the wrist position you can get it to swing like a conventional seamer’s delivery; if the stock ball is a leg break an in swinging back spinner is very hard to play
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    Wrist Spin Bowling (part Five)

    I’m in Surrey. Grew up in the north west.
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    Wrist Spin Bowling (part Five)

    I have just been checking out this forum and amazed I hadn’t clocked this existed earlier, so thought I would say hello. Been bowling right arm wrist spin in club league cricket in England for 20 odd years and am no world beater but got a good idea of what I’m doing. Also am pretty obsessive...
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