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Re: Suggest a name??? :D If it doesn't bounce much you could call it the "dead lemming"

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling (Part Three) Correct... It's all paperwork and meetings. I refer you to Law 34.3: Furthermore only overthrows are scoreable, and only if the batsman was either playing a shot or defending his body on the first strike. That is totally and utterly NOT ok... Law 42:

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling (Part Three) Previously I'd injured my non-bowling shoulder, now I've injured my bowling shoulder... Just shows how much I need to strengthen this rotator cuff muscles!

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling (Part Three) Apart from the flipper I think another trick he's missed is that in dealing with the magnus effect he's assumed that the ball flies horizontally out of the bowler's hand and continues horizontally. It doesn't. As any fule know, it will travel diagonally...

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling (Part Three) But surely if someone out there claiming to be an expert dismisses the existence of a ball many leg-spinners can bowl, that's in the interests of the leg-spin bowlers, no?

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling (Part Three) Yeah, and curiously one of the umpires was a certain "Mohammad Ali"...

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling (Part Three) That'd just end up as an extreme in-swinger wouldn't it? Could be used as a surprise non-turning "big legbreak" if you could get the drift to look the same.

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling (Part Three) Are we really that rare? There's at least three at my club, and that's not counting the guys who haven't turned up for the same nets as I have. No bowling updates at the mo as sadly my right shoulder's recovering from a little injury. It would happen just...

Re: Wrist-spinner shoulder problems I have a feeling this is going to take a while and that I'm going to have to work my way up to it. Would it be an idea to do press-ups on the stairs so I gradually put more load on i.e. start off with my feet on the floor and my hands several steps up so my...

Re: Problems Try and get yourself (buy or borrow from a library) a copy of "Bob Woolmer's The Art and Science of Cricket" and read the second part of the first chapter, which is about mental toughness and techniques to improve your confidence and concentration. If your technique's good in...

Re: Wrist-spinner shoulder problems My warm-up's based on the stretches shown on the Bob Woolmer DVD, and goes as follows: A little gentle jogging on the spot, or running about, just to get my heart rate up a bit. (Should probably do a bit more of a warm-up...) Then on to stretches, starting...

Re: Wrist-spinner shoulder problems No, I can't feel a lump. The pain seems further up the bone around the joint.

Re: Wrist-spinner shoulder problems No sorry that's a typo, it's the top of the UPPER arm

Re: Wrist-spinner shoulder problems I've got a more accurate read on where the pain's coming from now: Firstly, if I lift my arm up so that my hand is horizontally in front of my shoulder and move the arm back around horizontally, it starts to hurt once it goes past the line of my shoulders...

Re: Wrist-spinner shoulder problems I'm afraid it's not that, my arms don't feel heavy at all. It's just that certain movements are a bit painful. It does seem to be easing though. It started yesterday quite bad, largely went away this morning, then came back after I had a very short bowl (3-4...

Re: Wrist-spinner shoulder problems There's no major continuous pain, it comes if I move my shoulder certain ways and goes if I return my shoulder to a different position. If I lift my arm up so that my hand is horizontally level with and infront of my shoulder and move the arm back from...

Wrist-spinner shoulder problems I'm having issues with my shoulder at the moment. I haven't been playing long so I'm wondering whether it's just my body being unused to the strains I'm placing on it in such a way that I just need to keep going until I build up more strength, or whether I've...

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling (Part Three) Many thanks Liz, I was feeling pains in my knee, hip and particularly my lumbar area after nets on Saturday and was wondering whether it was just par for the course for bowlers or whether it was down to my action, hence the video was partly to have a look...

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling (Part Three) Thanks for the comments on my action. If I boil it down I have to: follow through at all costs, lift my back leg up and over, build more energy into the final steps, and I know I need to remember to aim my shoulder because obviously I'm the only one who saw...

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling (Part Three) At last I've got round to editing and uploading the video of my bowling from this morning. (Apologies if the quality's not great)