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It can be a real pain finding somewhere reliable. I would say it's worth setting aside a few hours and going out in the car, driving around various spots and seeing what you can find. Or looking on google maps for any open spots nearby.

Anyway, it has been another long break from this forum for me. Life has been complicated with a change of career and three(!) house moves in the space of a year. I am settled now, though, and enjoying my solitary legspin practice again. I am lucky enough to live very near a concrete tennis...

I would say you're ready when you're taking "wickets" regularly in the nets. By wickets I don't mean clean bowling batsmen left, right and centre. I mean beating the bat if someone comes down the track at you (stumping), finding the edge, lbw shouts and most of all those dolly catches that...

I'm in my 40s and practice for about 2 hours per day, four or five days per week. I probably bowl about 20-30 overs in a typical session, sometimes more. I have a bag of 30 balls to assist with this. My run up is also quite short and is of the slow walk-in kind.

I played my first match in several years today and came away with:- 2 overs 0 maidens 5 runs 3 wickets First wicket was a full leg break to a tall batsman. He stayed rooted in his crease and tried to play a strange pull shot on the leg side but only succeeded in cleaning out his own stumps...

You sound like Alan Partridge.

There you have it. No technical advice allowed, lads.

The lad obviously wanted some help with his bowling to achieve better results. Part of being a good leg spinner is seeking out advice, choosing what to listen to, what to discard and knowing how to use the advice to your own advantage. In your dogmatic world nobody can give technical advice on...

I have yet to see you offer anything constructive in relation to the videos posted other than "go and find a professional".

For what it's worth having posted my own videos on here I agree with Neville Young. I found SLA's default attitude to be critical and not constructive. Telling someone who wants good free advice on the internet to go and pay for professional coaching seems less than helpful to me.

Liking the visual image of you turning up all pumped with a machete and leaving sad-faced with no balls. Hah!

You'll end up on a sticky wicket... About this bowling over shorter distances thing. I can see its use, kind of like a musician slowing down the tempo to master something technical. But surely you want to move on from, erm, chopsticks and play a full concerto, or something.

It's a shaggy dog story... it was the dog what did it!

I practice on concrete so I scavenge for balls like a common thief.

Personally I would use this sort of thing as an occasional drill instead of the main mode of practice. I guess whatever works for the individual is best, though.

Liverpool champions of Europe after being 0-3 down at half time. Best year of sports evah!

Without the blog it's doubtful if I would have gone for it. It definitely helped push me over the line and think "yeah, this is for me".

I started bowling leg spin age 36 and three quarters. I hadn't played cricket for years and was invited along to some nets. I bowled my bog standard medium (slow) seamers and there was a batsman there coping with me comfortably, this annoyed me as he was making it look too easy. At the next...