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Yeah that is terrible, because the term Philpott coined for the backspinner hoax ball of the centuries was "backspinning topspinner". Philpott would probably call a topspinner your "topspinning backspinner" wouldn't he?

Perhaps I am being unfair to Richie, because the original wrist backspinner talespinner was Doug Ring. So the story goes Ring an old war weary veteran legspinning legend has a joke with Benaud on a train in England in '54. He gets a green apple and tells benaud if you turn your wrist around...

Benaud must have spread his hoax over to the land of the long white cloud as well. Bringing Grimmett into it, Old Grum never mentions a wrist spun backspinner in his books. "There are two ways to impart backspin ( he then refers to his backspinning flipper) as one way then the other is " by...

Nothing really. It is off the wrist spinners clock , opposite the topspinner so stictly speaking is an unorthodox delivery. The reason some legspinners call it "orthodox" is to distinguish it from the flipper. But when most people hear "orthodox" in spin talk they think fingerspin. Confused...

My son had a good club game yesterday. Perfect conditions to bowl, not too hot and a good breeze to help drift. Hard grassy wicket, good bounce and spin. Broke the opening partnership by getting a lefthander stumped with his third ball. Snappy wicketkeeping like you wouldn't believe. He hasn't...

OK, so far the great legspinners backbreak (non-flipper) conspiracy started with Benaud who claims it was shown to him by Doug Ring. He got Philpott and Simpson to help spread the lie. Bob Holland and Stuart MacGill were admitted to the cabal early in their careers. Terry Jenner claims on page...

O.K, our cover is blown. The backspinner is just an elaborate NSW hoax. Philpott was the perfect person to front the scheme. A respected scholar and headmaster know one would doubt him they thought as they hatched their diabolical deception on the whole cricketing world. Benaud was in it up to...

Doug Ring bowled it and showed Benaud. Ring may have been shown by Fleetwood Smith. Fleetwood Smith probably found it by going for the biggest possible legbreak, which he was famous for.

Benaud had a few names for it and they all have something to do with slippery dip or slide. Grimmett does not mention it once. Philpott calls it "backspinning topspinner". Here is an article where Bob Simpson calls it Philpotts "backspinning toppie" and how he taught Warne how to bowl it...

Dave, Atherton is right, the Doug Ring ball is not the flipper. Doolan taught Benaud the flipper. Doug Ring was the first bloke to bowl what Philpott confusingly called the "backspinning topspinner". Grimmett didn't bowl one. Benaud was calling that ball his "slider" back in the 50's. You call...

Yeah that's right, you have "the" slider and "a" slider.

Boyce and Muirhead have both brought back the art and craft of legspin to massive free to air tv and live audiences for weeks now. Last night they were bowling like Warne and MacGill in their prime. Hogg and Zampa weren't too shabby either in the BBL, but Boyce and Muirhead are out on their own...

Googly and Wrongun both spun off third finger but for the wrongun the ball should come around the 4th finger. The ball might lightly brush the fourth finger after third finger has done it's thing on a wrongun. And the whole back of the hand including the 4th finger should face straight down at...

Muirhead is the kid in this clip. He has taken the wickets of all the England players in his games against them this summer. Cook, Bell, Pieterson and the rest of the line-up and tail as well. He has been bowling with MacGill/Warne like revs this season and can get spin on any wicket. He is...

You might have to rest that for a while. I bet one of those old style bootmakers might know what to do.

The same thing happened to Grimmett when he moved from NZ to Sydney. He didn't tell them he had played first grade and even first class cricket in New Zealand so he got picked for 4ths for his first game. He was more interested in getting his signwriting business started up than cricket at that...

Yeah. I was thinking he should, if possible, change clubs if he didn't get a game in firsts. You convinced me he should get promoted.

You might have seen him tonight for the hurricanes in the bbl.

Yeah he goes alright for a 20 year old, he has dismissed Cook, Carberry, Pieterson, Bell, Morgan, Bopara, Ballance, Finn and Swann in the three games he has played against England. Getting a good look at all the legspinners going around here. Hogg is a legend of course Mendis is out on his...

He is the kid in this clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMkQdRYHAuQ They reckon he has moved ahead of Boyce and Zampa as the best young legspinner in the country at the moment.