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Let this be a lesson for all young spinners. Maybe as the result of poor coaching, or more likely self coaching, young SLA got it completely arse-about and tried to learn all the variations before he mastered a stock delivery. Big mistake.

Holy Hell, we are trying to keep it simple for Dave.

You could join most of the rest of your former citizens and move to New Zealands East Island, (also called Australia), where you can play cricket all year round. Remember though the last person to leave Aotearoa has to turn out the lights.

They are in the best position to see any drift so that is good feedback.

Maybe, but Warne's average in the Sheffield Shield was a mediocre 35.39 and Warnes strike rate of 73.6 in interstate first class cricket is not quite as good as Boyces strike rate in the shield of a wicket every 71.3 balls. Of course Australian batsmen play Australian legspin on Australian...

"As I spun the ball the hand had to be pointed to the left across toward cover.The wrist had to be bent, and the ball allowed to leave over the top of the hand, the back of which was facing the batsman." That is Grimmett describing his hand position for his topspinning flipper, his nominated...

Well they reckon Grimmett found it hard to get in the Wellington East firsts but when he got his chance he grabbed a stack of wickets and soon after got picked to represent Wellington Province as well.

Grimmett demonstrating his flippers in a bar to the English team of 1935. http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/75717640?searchTerm=grimmett%20mystery%20ball&searchLimits=

Yeah I have got a whole stack more on Grimmett and what he was up to back in the 30's. He premiers the off break flipper in 1938 against Queensland. This is the ball Grimmett told Bosquanet he was working on when he met the great English legspinner at the dinner held during the Oxford v Aus game...

What do you mean by next door? You mean adjoining suburbs or that sort of thing? The tricky thing is signing up for the next season with his current club if he is unsure he has a secure spot in 1sts.

That is so funny.That is gold! Bet you can't bowl it again as long as you live.

This is the first report of the off break flipper from 1932. Grimmett was 3 years into his 12 year development of the flipper. Here some very observant person picked Grimmetts flippers in the indoor nets mid winter and told a journalist. He even heard the clicking sound that Grimmett made with...

I reckon you might have invented a new delivery! You might have gone another 180 degrees anti-clockwise around from backspinner and somehow had your thumb facing the batsman:D. I will call it an upside down top spinner but to you must go the honour of actually naming your creation. Wonder why...

That's too bad. I went off that captain a bit when you posted they were not giving the protege a go until he got a bit more spin. That sounded like he was looking for excuses not to play him.

Got him! That's what we like to hear.

Oh yes! Got him.

How could you? Francais n'ont pas d'humour.

"This ball I called my offbreak flipper, it proved to be a very successful ball, being much harder to detect then my ordinary googly because I did not have to drop my left shoulder to bowl it." C.V Grimmett. "Both Grimmett and Pepper could bowl a bosie by some means other than out of the back...

That's better than your first effort at sledging, but keep practising. I dont think it translates all that well, and the french are notorious for their complete lack of wit and humour so taking that into account, not a bad effort.

That is one of the best sledges you will ever hear my friend. Dunno wtf it means but I hope it is a sign of things to come.