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Have you got other clubs in your area or have you got a 2nd or 3rd XI you could play in where you'd be appreciated?

I've not looked lately, but I reckon I must still be in the top five wicket takers at the club and 95% of those wickets - possibly more have been Flippers. Interestingly the 2nd highest wicket taker with the highest strike rate is a 16 year old girl. She bowls straight and loopy with some...

Is your 'Slider' the orthodox back-spinner or do you just bowl 90 degree leg-breaks hoping that the ball doesn't grip and goes straight on. Or do you have the fine motor skills that enable you to send down a 90 degree Leg-Break but with the spinning axis angled backwards, knowing that it's going...

That's funny! I'll have a look - I can't remember what blog I have linked on here.

Nah no restrictions at all. The cover idea I was pondering, that way they might opt to go more aggressive and try and hit over the top, with cover out that might be too easy to score singles and rotate yeah?

Update on observations with regards where batters hit me. This is now the analysis of 3 nets sessions in the last few weeks. I'm bowling a mixture of Leg-Breaks and Flippers - 85% Leg-breaks, the rest Flippers and a new ball I'm messing around with - which looks like the Iverson Gleeson grip and...

I thought the origins were a little more muddled than that - there were games played in other parts of Europe very similar to the one they suspect to be the one that developed into cricket we know now. I think the paintings/drawings from other places pre-date those of England and there's debate...

Got it at last, yeah that looks sound. I caught a ball a game or so ago at gully off an Offie.

Still confused - says at the bottom 'Bowler' and you're saying the on-strike batter is the yellow dot? LOL or has this got something to do with the fact that you're in the Southern hemisphere :-)

I can't even visualise that properly as you've presented the batters-eye view! I'll have to turn it around to make sense of it!

Looks sound, quite attacking as well. I think you're able to set your field in a different way to me because you play with blokes of the same age, whereas I play with a some other old duffers who are nowhere near as agile and fit as they perhaps should be. I don't usually have a slip - but have...

I wouldn't imagine that they'd be using £90 balls or whatever they cost in the nets? But in order that a similar thing couldn't happen again might be an idea - £2000 worth of brand new balls use them in the nets for differing amounts of deliveries and Voila - balls of differing condition?

Do you have a standard field that you start off with and then modify dependent on what the batters do? If so what's your standard field (Sorry if you've said previously).

Do you know where the batters are likely to hit you when you're bowling? I've been trying to bowl at better batters to figure out how to counter them. I've been taking field diagrams and saying look that's my field now bat accordingly and you tell me how many runs would have got or whether you'd...

Yeah I'm not surprised with your analysis. I for would say that in my mind I'm doing one thing - but executing something completely different. To have such fine tuned motor-skills is quite rare I would imagine, otherwise every wrist-spinner would be able to execute the whole range of balls going...

That'd be comprehensive I'd say!

Yeah I got to admit that the idea of them not having a back-up ball of similar condition seems pretty shoddy and I can fully understand your annoyance. Thing is where would they get such a ball? One of things the bowlers have been moaning about is the difference in ball quality over the last...

Welcome to the forum mate.(1). Do you want to be a wrong-un bowler or a leg-break bowler? It sounds as though you run the risk of losing your leg-break? You might be seeing the first symptoms of Googly Syndrome. (2). If you're getting the ball to fizz through the air, you're obviously getting it...

Warner and Kawaja looking good both on 50 😬

In this game, 2 x bowled, 2 x Stumped and one caught in covers. Normally I think she bowls them. I think this puts her in the top 5 wicket takers at the club now. It was a tricky wicket - damp and not a lot of bounce. But they lost their openers cheaply and they were then put under pressure with...