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That's a solid delivery.

Oh right haha. Oh well. That's no good, imagine what they'd be like on turf.... At least then you'll be picking up some wickets cause the ball actually hits the stumps, and doesn't go over the top

That's a shame, hopefully you guys can improve your fielding throughout the season. Also, if you wanna see a good offbreak delivery, look at Bumrah's ball to Rizwan from yesterday. Peach.

Jeez, was the pitch staying low? Actually, now that I think about it, 8 of the dismissals in our game were bowled too (from 20 total wickets)

Yeah it did feel good thanks. First game of the season though, bound to not be perfect in the field. Same goes with your team, surely you guys will get a bit better? Doesn't help that I dropped a catch too though to be fair. Should have taken it.

That's stupid, did you raise that point with the umpire?

In my game today (we lost by a fair bit, big middle order- lower order collapse) I think I captained the side pretty well for my first time. Field placings seemed to hold up nicely, bowling changes reaped rewards for the most part. I came on just after drinks with the other team 4/60, first...

Damn mate, nothing you can do about that to be fair. That's just really unlucky. At least you yourself know that you'd done everything right, gave yourself every chance for a few wickets. Don't worry, there will be times when you bowl worse and get five fa's. How does a team get timed out? Do...

Yeah that's no good. Hate when stuff like that happens. Like for instance, the draw for my season will come out on Friday, with the game on sunday, so I won't even know where I'm playing, who I'm playing, or our finalised team until friday. Yeah really satisfied with that slider. I was really...

1st wicket I got when I saw this guy really liked the cut shot, so I threw in a quick slider and he chopped it on trying to cut. Tried the same to another batsman a bit later but sprayed the ball legside, need to improve my accuracy for the slider. 2nd wicket I bowled a topspinner, bit of a...

Damn, that's rough. I had a practice game yesterday (first game of the tournament is on the 15th) and scored 37* and took 3 wickets. Decent start.

Nice. My season starts the week after. Yeah, I'd say you're probably onto something with that explanation.

That's great to hear. Your season starts first week of October right? Sounds like we both should have good seasons with the ball, (fingers crossed) as I am quietly confident in the way the ball is coming out of the hand at the moment too. Also is it just me, or do offspinners get more...

Cheers, yeah that's what I was thinking. Hopefully this year a couple of our bowlers can improve their batting. Otherwise we might be in for a tough season. For context, one bloke who batted at no. 8 for us last year - the keeper - is batting no. 4 now. And back then we weren't exactly getting...

Nice man. Hopefully you can carry that bowling form into the games. On another note, in my team we have four recognised batsman and the rest bowlers... So if I win the toss, considering we have a strong bowling lineup, what would you do if it was a relatively normal, flat pitch? Bowl first and...

True, whenever I've tried offspin I've always bowled sliders haha. Yeah that all makes sense. I really like that idea of seeing how short you can bowl whilst getting the batsman forward too.

When you do this drill do you mostly use topspin or do you vary it and bowl with sidespin too? Wondering cause sidespin deliveries are generally flatter.

No, never tried that, but I think it would be very worthwhile. Definitely something I'll give a go in the next few weeks, should help with dip too technically?

Nice, that sounds great. I don't get much turn on syntho, but just as long as I am getting that fizz off the fingers, and the dip and drift in the air, which you seem to have now, it should turn big on turf.

Nice, wow three four fas in a row is awesome. Was that when you had googly syndrome? Good fielders are key for spinners.