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Slightly off piste with this question. You Aussie's seem to be using the American term 'Guy' more than the traditional term 'Bloke', how long has that been going on and have you ditched 'Bloke' or is this a class thing. Would your Bogans be more inclined to use Bloke over Guy and posher more...

Sounds like my games when I never used to bowl Flippers just the Leg-Breaks, always - every game used to induce massive mis-hits, balls in the air all over the place, all within catching distance of anyone in a decent team. Again and again like you 4 or more simply dropped or the fielder just...

More details about the wickets?

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There was a bloke on here years ago who was a regular contributor, I only chat with him on FB these days, but he went for a coaching session or two with Scott Borthwick and he said that was one of the main things he worked on with him. Never tried it myself, but I reckon it's an exceptionally...

Yep, could get anywhere near a leg-break. I think there might be conversations about it on here right at the start of this thread.

Yeah definitely since probably 2005, maybe longer. I had a year where I was bowling very accurate Wrong-uns mixed with Flippers (No Leg-Breaks) and had a series of games where I had 3 four-fers in a row and was taking wickets in every game. I seem to remember I had a very good strike rate that...

Just tried to work out my bowling data for the season. I can't find records for two games and I reckon there's another 3 or 4 wickets there and in both games I went OK, but the data I can find is... 129 - 9 - 519 - 27 which works out average of 19.22 Strike rate 28.6 Economy 4.02. I'm happy...

Yeah I was tweaking things for years trying all sorts that people were suggesting. I still get tempted to reverting back to that mind set again when if things don't go right. I didn't really get anywhere till I though Oh F*** it, I'm just going to bowl how I feel is right and not worry about...

Even if you came over here for a extended holiday in the summer and just aimed to travel around and look at stuff, you could just sign up to a club nearest your 'Base' and play league cricket, you'd be greeted with open arms at most clubs I reckon. Just the idea of someone doing that - everybody...

Yeah I reckon you'd love it, most of the Aussies I've ever met do love a bit of England and vice versa, I surf as well and would love to spend a 2 or 3 months in Australia.

I'm sitting here thinking how weird it is you all play on Astro.I could paste them all in, but I feel like I'm gloating now 😁 These are early season wickets.

That's pretty good too SR of 24!

That's impressive.

@Darth Spin that's a pretty impressive Strike Rate 26.4. Beats virtually every pro playing in one day games as far as I can make out. Mendis comes close with 27.2. I reckon less overs makes a bit of difference. I'd imagine strike rates in T20 are much better. I did quick calculation of mine and...

Sounds like you've done the right thing. 1st XI teams at biggish clubs seem to be very cliquey, then add to that the fact that you're a Leg-Spinner, there's till that whole thing with Leg-Spinners being a 'Luxury'. You've only got to watch cricket on SKY for a few games and you soon get the...

Does anyone here ever get to bowl with another spin bowler with 2 sets of stumps one at either end bowling taking turns bowling to each other. I used to do with my sons, but they always got fed up with it too fast. I've always rated it as a good method of practicing - because there's the...

When does your season start, as this weekend here in the UK is probably the last game of the season for me despite the fact that tomorrow is going to be 32 degrees and Sept and early October can be gorgeous weather. There's a load of us at my club that would play on till the last week of...