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Re: Wrist Spin Bowling (Part Four) I had a go in the nets tonight trying to get that back leg up and round off a negligible run-up. I didn't have the camera rolling so I don't know exactly what was going on but it felt like I was doing the right things - quite often I followed through so much I...

Re: Videos and Links Not so fast...

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling (Part Four) In theory, because the seam has more drag a flipper with a dead-straight seam should maximise the differential in drag on the two sides of the ball and therefore the lift on the ball should be slightly greater, and Grimmett refers to something like this in...

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling (Part Four) The leg's only been bad for a few days - I don't think I was bowling any different to how I normally would, it just hurt more... ;) I think my delivery stride looks far too long, and it's clear my shoulders aren't doing enough. It's weird how I had this...

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling (Part Four) Thanks for the tips Jim, much appreciated. I'm going to have to wait until my left knee's feeling better before I can work on this properly, but I suppose the closed season is not too far away so I'll have plenty of time to work on things then and arrive...

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling (Part Four) I've finally got round to taking a camera to the club's nets with me and have put together a video of my bowling action from three different angles. The whole action of my upper body as I deliver the ball just looks so wrong and I was wondering if anyone had...

Re: Clarrie Grimmett According to this seemingly reliable source it would seem those were the only books he wrote. My copy of "Getting Wickets" came this morning and I've already read it right through! What are the other two like?

Re: Videos and Links Yeah that video is epic. I don't have the talent but it would be amusing to see some video of Shane Warne getting big drift dubbed over with the sound from this trailer for The Last Airbender. I also found an answer to what the spin bowler's anthem is, it is of...

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling (Part Four) Hi all, I haven't been on here for what seems like an age. Just thought you might like an update on how I'm getting on. A period of having something on seemingly every weekend meant that unfortunately I missed a couple of months in June and July, but I was...

Re: Leg spin bowling action That said I'm the reverse, i.e. topspinners in my head turn out as leg breaks, so it varies. Most if not all people here will tell you that if you can get your hands on a copy of "The Art of Wrist-Spin Bowling" by Peter Philpott you will find it extremely...

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling (Part Three) I finally got to bowl in a league match today. We were on our way to a good win with our opponents 9 wickets down and 120ish runs short of the target, but I'm not quite sure what to make of it. In the scorebook it looks absolutely woeful - I bowled 8 wides in...

Re: Post Pictures of your Kit! The shoes on the left are proper cricket boots, but I found in indoor nets that I couldn't get much purchase from the rubber spikes, and my old trainers were putting too much shock through my joints when I bowled, so I got the trainers on the right. Also I...

How to prepare a ball for the swing bowlers Hello all, I'm not on this part of the forum much as I'm a spinner, but we've got one or two excellent swing bowlers in our club and I wanted some tips on how I can help them in preparing the ball so that it swings. I've asked one of our swing bowlers...

Re: Question on Wides My interpretation of this would be that, since a wide should be judged both on a normal stance AND the actual stance of the batsman at the time the ball reaches him, a reverse shot means that as long as the ball is close enough for it to be possible for the batsman to...

Tips on what to do when waiting to bat I was playing yesterday at #6 and after a few early wickets went down I found myself next in to bat, but such was the success of our 4 and 5 that I was waiting a full hour and three quarters to go in, whereupon I was out first ball. Can someone give me...

Re: Post Pictures of your Kit! Here's all my stuff: Nothing too fancy, but it's all there.

Re: Wrist Spin Bowling (Part Three) For the sake of avoiding confusion, I have to say I think that's wrong. If the axis of rotation (i.e. the axis around which the ball spins) is parallel to the direction of travel there will be NO effect. A leg-break drifts because as it dips towards the...

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Re: Tips to prepare for flipper/googly I haven't seen any off-spin variations that have exactly the same intention as a flipper, i.e. a purely back-spun ball, but it would seem my "baffler" is similar in its delivery to the Arm Ball. From what I've seen, the Arm Ball has a slighty different...

Re: Tips to prepare for flipper/googly I can do the action, it's just never made a sound...