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The batsman I have most enjoyed watching is... Chris Martin. He really is the No11's No11. When I watch him bat it's like I'm watching myself, especially the way a cheer goes up every time he scores a run. Maybe one day I'll have taken more wickets than I've scored in runs too... A more...

Not a dickie bird. You could prepare it on the slope if you wanted as far as the laws are concerned.

It's a curious answer I know, but I think one-day cricket is to blame for this. I think spinners of recent times have grown up with a dot-ball mentality that has led most of them to bowl a lot flatter with less spin, and this flatter trajectory just kills drift stone dead. The two biggest...

I can confirm (because I've specifically looked) that there is NOTHING in the laws that bars a spinner from tossing the ball up with a setting sun behind them, simply that umpires can suspend play if they judge the light conditions to be "dangerous or unreasonable", but that "unreasonable" is...

I've recently finished reading a very good book, "Bounce" by Matthew Syed, and it's one of those books you read every now and then that completely and irreversibly changes your mindset in some important aspect. I really recommend that as many of you as you can get hold of this book and read...

Hello again everyone, nice to see you back "LSIML" :) In terms of getting more side-on I have a couple of suggestions for you to try out: 1. Bowl with a more diagonal run-up. This is very controversial, some (such as Grimmett) will say on no account should a bowler do this as it means not all...

It's not impossible - learn to bowl a back-spinning delivery i.e. zooter or flipper

6 wickets for me so far this year: 3 bowled 1 stumped 1 caught in the outfield 1 caught in the infield 0 caught behind the bat 0 LBW

In my view, in terms of learning the technique your first purchase should be Philpott's "The Art of Wrist-Spin Bowling", which will tell you probably 90% of everything you need to know as a leg-spinner, and Bob Woolmer's "Art and Science of Cricket" is an excellent book covering all aspects of...

I can rip it further than those two, but it doesn't mean I spin it more than them. They probably just bowl a lot faster. The amazing thing about Warne is he can spin the ball to such epic levels that even at 50+ mph they turn huge.

On the basis that I bowl about six hours a week, one day I'll be the best 59-year-old leg-spinner you've ever seen...

To give my own views and experiences, I was a shockingly bad bowler at school because I could never get my arm high enough for seam-up, then when I started playing again last year (after over a decade's break) I somehow latched on to the idea of bowling leg-spin, it seems to suit me and I'm just...

I hadn't seen those, found one tip very useful - primarily using thumb and middle finger to get the flipper action. Time spent listening to Shane Warne talk about bowling is never wasted...

Hello all, My bowling's not really been going anywhere much lately (figures for the last two Sunday games weren't too brilliant: 5-0-0-38 and 2-0-0-22), it seemed to be getting slightly worse if anything, but on Friday evening a guy from the club was watching me bowl and he devised a drill that...

I had a strange weekend bowling-wise, it seems some days I'm hot and other days not. Saturday I was hot and as I was bowling a few pre-match bagfuls in our nets the opposition team arrived and started practising in the next-door net. I made sure everything I bowled thereafter turned as much as I...

Someone was talking about the use of resin, so here's what A.A. Mailey had to say in his wonderful book "10 for 66 and all that"

I just thought you'd like to know - I took my first EVER wicket today, and I really want to thank EVERYONE on the leg-spinners' forum for the support I've had from you all, it is much appreciated. I only bowled 1.3 overs today, and they weren't the best I've ever bowled, slow and loopy and...

Hey Jim, you're not the only one who had problems with the wind. I had a horrible weekend. I was brought on to bowl after about 20 overs and the wind that had been consistently blowing from off to leg all week changed to a tailwind and pushed my first few balls onto a full toss length. I ended...

Firstly, it's much better to have a bat that is too small rather than too big. If it's too big and heavy you won't be able to play your shots correctly, you'll play badly, learn bad technique, and possibly get frustrated, get dropped from the team, or you may even end up giving up entirely. If...

I know he doesn't LOOK like a batsman but he can put a few runs on. In the Ashes only Hussey, Watson and Haddin averaged more than he did. Not bad when your team includes Ponting and Clarke.