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What you could try is instead of thinking back of hand facing batsman, think back of hand facing ground at the completion of your wrongun. If you forget about wrist and arm position, release timing, left shoulder dropping and any other wrongun does and donts and just think "at the end of this...

As a general rule I wouldn't dispute that.

Grimmett was a champion table tennis player and used the ping pong ball and table to demonstrate the effects of spin. The first night he met Bradman they played table tennis after dinner at Grimmetts house in Adelaide. Grimmetts trick serve was a backspinner that returned straight back to the...

Just a joke name gazza came up for his straight one.

That might have been "Jeff".

There you go, monty on arm speed for young spinners

At least it is better to be on the full side rather than constant underpitching. At your age a good length is around 7 foot in front of batsman. You can build a relatively big target area around that spot if you can spin it a bit. You might be letting go of the ball a bit early? There is a...

It would be good if you could find a turf wicket, maybe a practise one, nearby. End of season can be a good time to use council ones before footy starts. What would be the % of perfect seam deliveries you get off in a spell of say 6 overs? The scrambled ones skidding through, how do the...

It does help to have someone like a coach or another spinner at the receiving end to check your seam alignment. They can concentrate on observing that and you just relax and bowl.

Our indoor comp is a lot like baseball in that we have three strikes out and double plays. Caught and bowled, then run out the non batsman is a good double play for spinners. It has struck me how indoor bowling mindset is like a baseball pitcher. The 6 run penalty to the batting side if they...

Young blokes club game was a spinfest with no less than 7 legspinners having a go. Dead wicket though, I didn't like the look of the pitch and it was too slow for the bowlers. One "chinaman" bowler (politically correct still?) impressed me. In fact the opposition had 3 good wrist spinners but...

Yeah his problem with lefties lately I reckon is he has had a break from bowling for the first time in 8 years and has forgotten how to bowl at their type. Club game he reckons the pitch wasn't wide enough to bowl at the lefthander! He loved the turf wicket yesterday because it was like a...

His first couple of deliveries were probably a bit overpitched, too loopy and slow. And I was thinking he was out of his league, and still too young to take on senior players. He did have an 80>kmh wind from cover which usually goes well for him and he has trained in a lot. You know some...

50 overs but they lost today and it was a knockout comp so that is that. The opposition was an Anglican boarding college from up in the mountains and they were a little bit too good today. They had one outstanding batsman, this huge bearded young bloke that took our bowlers apart. Jimmy only...

Thanks TonyM. Jimmy had a good session yesterday afternoon before todays big game. I could hear the ball buzzing like a big fat bumble bee. Getting it to wobble and drift then spinning with big revs. Landing it in good spots. Got a wicket in his first over of club cricket last week. He was...

My son has a big game on tomorrow. He is in the senior comp against some pretty exclusive colleges with strong cricket traditions. All day game , in a heat wave, on turf and he is the only spinner picked so he should get some overs I reckon. j

It's hard to tell the value of the coaches advice directed at your young fellow. I mean it seems general enough and maybe they went into more detail but to me it sounds like they may have come up with solutions to non existent problems just for the sake of coming up with some coaching to offer...

Its mostly psychology eh? but that dont mean to succeed you have to be this big overwhelming extroverted personality at the bowling crease. Mallett and Grimmett were painfully shy and introverted people, mallett has written about it and it was severe. Grimmett taught mallett at one stage and...

Well im with you and tcs on the basic tactics and a legbreak/topspinner combo is the place to start and master before even worrying about wronguns. Thinking a bit like an off spinner Legspinner has a lot less to play with in terms of line when bowling to LHB. We train to LHB as if we have...

Definately an important topic. As a legspinner you have to work hard on bowling at LHB and that means bowling at targets and lots of lefthanders in practise without developing a "thing" about them. I look at it like you have about half a pitch width to bowl on when faced with a LHB. My young...