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Re: Clarrie Grimmett I've now got both "Getting Wickets" and "Grimmett on Cricket". The latter seems to be a more comprehensive and thorough version of the former, with some added information about flippers and other topics like wicketkeeping and captaincy. I'm already looking for "Tricking the...

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling (Part Four) Yeah as Peter Philpott says in his book "Apples and oranges should be spun too. Spin them a hundred times before you eat them, and they'll always taste a little better!" They do tend to get a bit bashed and bruised to start off with though ;) Sadly my...

Re: Videos and Links Bob Woolmer's giant manual has an interesting section about reaction times, saying that the batsman is essentially a passenger for the last 0.2 seconds before the ball reaches him - beyond that point he hasn't the time to materially react. He's probably got an extra 0.1...

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling (Part Four) I bought myself a Powerball to help me strengthen my relatively puny arms and hands. Not totally sure how much of my development is the ball and how much is six months of bowling practise but it feels as if the ball is pretty effective.

Re: Tips to prepare for flipper/googly I was experimenting with my flipper the other day and I'm really struggling to get it to work at all. I was trying to bowl it over 10 yards or so but it just feels like the ball's slipping out of my hand. I don't think my hand's strong enough hold the ball...

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling (Part Four) I seem to have hit a rich vein of form with my bowling now the season's finished... :rolleyes: Thanks for the standing start drill video Dave, I'll definitely be practising that a lot over the winter. As it is I seem to have utterly dispensed with my run-up in...

Re: Is he too young??? If he's under 4'3" then a size 1 is the right one for him - they don't go any smaller! The most important thing to remember as he grows up is that until adulthood the size of bat is much more important that the quality, as if a bat is too big and heavy it will hurt his...

Re: Is he too young??? For what it's worth all I can see is a kid with mind body and soul totally involved in what he's doing and loving every minute of it. I think if a kid has a passion and it doesn't cause any problems they should just be left to get on with it. As someone else said though...

Re: Leg spin- follow through/body rotation I'm not by any means an expert, but from all the videos I've watched and from my own experience it seems the back leg is all about counterbalancing out the torso as the body pivots round. It looks like the rounder the arm relative to the shoulder, the...

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling (Part Four) I don't think it's anything conscious or unconscious, it's just that the way I've "healed" seems to have left me with several bits of me not quite able to move as freely as they should. I did a lot of stretching to get myself loose before bowling tonight, in...

Re: mongoose mmi3 I seem to remember Matthew Hayden using one in the IPL, and they have lots of coverage on YouTube. I don't fancy using one myself though, mind you I did grow up listening to Boycott on Test Match Special...

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling (Part Four) Thanks for the response Dave. I'm beginning to thing part of my problem comes from some of the whiplash from my car crash in March coming out of the woodwork, or perhaps that it's been restricting me without my noticing. I'll try some of the things you...

Re: Wearing helmet I play at a pretty low level and always wear a helmet, partly for my own confidence, but also because while not many bowlers bowl bouncers some are not good enough to avoid slipping in the odd accidental beamer.

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling (Part Four) I was bowling in the nets last night and I'm beginning to get really quite disillusioned. I know it's not supposed to be easy to bowl leg-spin but is it really supposed to be this difficult? At times it feels like my stock ball is the one that loops up into...

AERO cricket kit experiences Hi all, I recently got some Aero "strippers" thigh pads and I'm very impressed with them, so was wondering what people's experiences were of their other kit, particularly the batting leg-guards. The Wisden Cricketer calls Aero "the Mongoose of protective equipment"...

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling (Part Four) Much obliged :)

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling (Part Four) I've got a really simple question but in all the coaching books and online resources I've seen I've never come across the answer: What exactly is a braced leg?!

Re: Tips to prepare for flipper/googly My understanding of a knuckleball is that the intention is to pitch it with absolutely no spin whatsoever so that the movement comes from the natural unpredictability of the turbulent wake behind it. I don't think it works so well in cricket because the...

Re: Tips to prepare for flipper/googly To answer my own question it looks a lot like my Baffler is a cricket version of a baseball pitcher's fastball - the grip and action seem very similar and the end result in both cases is a back-spinning ball which travels flatter. Obviously there's a...

Re: Benaud's childhood home under threat I think it's here: 5 Sutherland Road, North Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia - Google Maps