is it legal to put tape on your finger to improve your spin bowling?
just wondering if anyone knows, i had a look online at the laws of cricket and couldnt find anything prohibiting it, in my eyes if its not specifically outlawed in the rules then it must be legal until otherwise stated.
im a leg spinner, and what i am asking is whether i can put tape on my ring finger (the spinning finger) to improve its grip? it isnt so much a question of improving the amount of spin i can impart on the ball, with a grippy ball i have no trouble with a bare finger and tape doesnt improve it. but on a dry pitch (and especially in nets where they use astroturf on top of a soft underlay) the ball gets "polished" by the surface and it becomes very hard for me to grip. the result is lots of balls coming out completely wrong because my spinning finger cant properly grip the surface and the ball comes out from my wrist action, rather than my finger action. this results in zero flight and minimal spin and i might as well just be bowling slow and straight. the tape helps.
anyone got any thoughts to clarify the legality of this?
alternatively, anyone got any tips on making the ball grippier without using illegal methods. ive tried spit shining it but that doesnt help, if anything it speeds up the polishing process so the ball loses grip sooner. im wondering if somehow softening the skin on my hands may help, because i dont suffer from soreness on my spinning finger through my action at all, so this wouldnt be a problem. my day job means i have oil on my hands a lot of the time though, making them naturally quite dry, so this isnt really feasible.
just wondering if anyone knows, i had a look online at the laws of cricket and couldnt find anything prohibiting it, in my eyes if its not specifically outlawed in the rules then it must be legal until otherwise stated.
im a leg spinner, and what i am asking is whether i can put tape on my ring finger (the spinning finger) to improve its grip? it isnt so much a question of improving the amount of spin i can impart on the ball, with a grippy ball i have no trouble with a bare finger and tape doesnt improve it. but on a dry pitch (and especially in nets where they use astroturf on top of a soft underlay) the ball gets "polished" by the surface and it becomes very hard for me to grip. the result is lots of balls coming out completely wrong because my spinning finger cant properly grip the surface and the ball comes out from my wrist action, rather than my finger action. this results in zero flight and minimal spin and i might as well just be bowling slow and straight. the tape helps.
anyone got any thoughts to clarify the legality of this?
alternatively, anyone got any tips on making the ball grippier without using illegal methods. ive tried spit shining it but that doesnt help, if anything it speeds up the polishing process so the ball loses grip sooner. im wondering if somehow softening the skin on my hands may help, because i dont suffer from soreness on my spinning finger through my action at all, so this wouldnt be a problem. my day job means i have oil on my hands a lot of the time though, making them naturally quite dry, so this isnt really feasible.