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I'd get a game if we ever played a half-arsed country like france. And to make it fair we could go a round of Frances national sport, running backwards with a white flag, surrender I think it's called.

Did that happen playing cricket? If so were you batting or fielding?

He was a batsman that bowled a bit of legspin.

If an English legspinner is a contradiction then a french one is an abomination. If youse played cricket youse wouldn't have had krauts jumping over your back fence all the time. Then youse wouldn't have needed all the cricket playing countries to get youse out of the poo.

Correct, but more like 20 times more difficult.

No it was a legbreak actually.

Well then I predict a good year ahead for you. Especially early on in the season, provided the wickets are OK, your preparation will more than likely mean you will get your share of wickets. Let's hope so.

Yeah Grimmetts double bluff ball. Looked like a wrongun but was a legbreak.

I agree that's not it and SLA would not pay out his million quid on that but I like your idea of eliminating the bizarre actions starting at the top. We all suspect Philpotts ball will look pretty stupid if ever possible to replicate in the real world so this might be a quick way to find it.

Surely the princely sum of 1 million English pounds (roughly $20 aussie bucks) on offer by SLA for an example of the backspinner is a temptation?

A few could spin with the wrist they just had trouble landing them on the pitch. Admit it "english legspinner" is as nonsensical a contradiction as 'backspinning topspinner"

SLOB has assigned you a special task due to your location in Wellington. That is of course the home of Dr Brian Wilkins. chemist and author of 'the bowlers art'. He claims to have an actual photo of a backspinner, in captivity ,as it were, on those axis spoke gismos he uses to demonstate the...

Common sense but that simple two strand method you espoused is the basis of good spin coaching. Far better start then the convoluted goals and exercises that began the post. Like a ledger the two columns labelled bowling and spinning can be added to as the student progresses. Bowling side...

Be aware though that this clip contains one of the biggest aussie cons perpetrated at the bbc since Rolf Harris convinced them that an old piece of masonite sheeting was a musical instrument called a wobble board. The good news is if you can bowl the ball he calls a backspinner you could win...

Thanks I knew i could count on you. Thanks also to the generosity of SLA, so confident is he in the non-existence of such an impossibility that he has offered the extraordinary amount of I million English pounds (equivalent to about $20AUD) to anyone who can bowl the anomaly known as the...

I suggest we take an approach like SETI ,the Search for Extra Terrestial Intelligence, where a bunch of eggheads with nothing better to do in their spare time try and tune into alien daytime television. We could call it SLOB, the Search for Legspinners Orthodox Backspinner. We can divide the...

The boys from mighty NSW gave Muirhead a lesson today. I agree with Ponting when asks why has Muirhead got the cheer squad and shoehorn behind him. Anyone can see Cameron Boyce is ready for test cricket right now. He should be in South Africa, historically they are as almost as clueless against...

Brilliant.That is one best pieces of advice you will hear my friend. How long do you propose he should spend learning how to bowl before he learns how to spin the ball ? He has his heart set on being a legspinner, we wouldn't want him to waste too much time learning to bowl then discovering he...

"A ball can be made to leave the pitch slowly by means of back-spin. This is done by pulling the top of the ball back with the fingers, or by applying my flipper. The faster this ball is bowled through the air the more effective it will be, because the batsman is more likely to play forward...

Yeah that one has had a good run here a few times. Grimmett's 5th flipper and third wrongun. "If I twisted my hand right over as for the googly I could make the ball turn from the leg, in what I called a wrong wrongun. Coming out of the back of the hand it usually deceived a batsman, but it was...