Probably through summer yeah, just got a few consistency issues in my release atm, but other than that my natural length is better suited for pace and my wrist mobility from bowling spin means I can swing it both ways. I hit 115kmh recently and I've got plenty to work on so yeah.
I was always under the impression that leg spinners pivot around their front leg, off spinners pivot over their front leg and fast bowlers "pivot" through their front leg.
On a personal note, I've been playing winter cricket and have fallen to the dark(er) side.
A large contributor has been playing on wet syntho which is hopeless for spin. But I've also just been enjoying it and I feel like I personally have more potential with it. Still love bowling some spin...
Well here's the full video, it's a little hard to see because my arm is moving fairly fast, but it stays slightly bent as I drop mostly straight down instead of making that big circle. That's where I'm putting most of my energy in and the rest of it is just staying relaxed and allowing my arm to...
Here’s a few photos of me bowling a leggy, I have plenty of technical issues here (leaning back, front foot direction and non bowling arm) but it gets the idea across:
Here you can see my arm is just below being parallel with the ground and my elbow is rotated 90 degrees (inside of elbow is...
You also want the inside of your forearm to be facing to the sky in this position:
How it is currently would be forcing you to fall over and removing pace. But it also puts your hand in a position to bowl top spinners and wrong’uns, not legspin.
It looks like you’re almost pausing when your bowling arm is pointing down during your action. It looks like it might be locking your shoulder up a bit because you’re relying on that shoulder to generate all that pace.
When you’re loading up, try and get that hand right at eye level and...
1. Am I being completely deluded for trying to learn leg spin and should instead give up (for now) and switch my focus on bowling something less cool but also less challenging?
Wrong place to ask that question haha, but seriously if it’s the main thing you enjoy why stop it, it’s way easier to...
Honestly I’m not super sure, the main difference is Sydney and Melbourne I believe tend to be a little more humid. They also get far more rain outside of winter.
As seen by the SCG test losing days to rain every year.
Gold Coast is just more humid and generally hotter.
I’d say the place we’re...
Nope, outside T20s
Pink ball in whites, still play if the synthetic is damp.
We mostly only get (consistent) rain here in WA for 2 or 3 months during winter so there’s a good few months during autumn and spring where you can get cricket it. Even during winter we get dry weeks that are awesome...
I’ve just started up some T20s too. They’re always good fun.
Just made a career best score of 48 opening the batting. Hit my first official 6 in my 4 years of playing cricket [emoji28].
I guess you could get them playing around it too if you’re turning a few onto the pads.
Bowl one straight that skids on and they play inside it a bit thinking it’s going to turn down the leg side.
Not left handed, can’t bowl a flipper and am also not a leg spinner.
But I’d imagine it would still be good for getting chop ons from people trying to pull/slog you and outside edges from people trying to defend you off the back foot.
Not as useful as to a batsman of the same handedness but it...
Do any of you have training sessions where you just forget how to bowl spin. I went to the nets with someone yesterday and was just bowling straight breaks with no top spin or turn. Just could not get it right. Felt weird bowling too.
Was bowling my meds nicely though lol.
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