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Sounds like you had a similar day to me. I think you would get more wickets with the leg break as your stock ball, but it would be harder to control the runs.

I play in our second team on Saturdays in the league (40 overs) and in the friendly team on Sundays (35 overs). The guy who got 128 not out was one of their first team batsmen and they were relegated last season, so they are basically a division above us in standard as we are second bottom of...

Tough away league game today. We lost the toss and were made to bowl first. The openers took 1 wicket between them, bowled okay. Then I was first change at one of the ends after the 9th over. I started tight and rhythmically and the second over was a wicket maiden, so all was going well...

I don't deduce anything from it, I just thought I'd give it a whirl. I don't trust the answer. I asked it the details you wanted and it then said the slider is a googly that spins in the opposite direction.

Both my matches were cancelled this weekend so I just bowled a lot in the nets instead.

I asked our AI overlords to give a view on this topic.

Sometimes I haven't played that much, other times I haven't been used enough but I think enough to keep me happy. This season is different I think, I've got a bit of a track record behind me with this club and am being given more overs.

Just timing and practice, eh? I'm sure my flipper got better from doing loads of hand to hand practice and many press ups. And then bowling it full blooded with good timing and follow through. I also think bowling loads of them, quick fire, off a one or two step run up is a good drill.

I think it's down to the rain mostly, my stock ball turns and bounces pretty comfortably past off stump on harder wickets and I'm sure that will be the case later in the season. I put it down to my stock ball hitting the stumps consistently because of a skiddier, deader surface. And I don't...

Look at this craziness. I think it's because of all the rain.

My league match tomorrow for the 2nd team is cancelled due to lack of numbers (our team's shortfall). Friendly on Sunday going ahead and I'm in the team for that.

This is how my stock ball mainly comes out.

I can make the ball skid on consistently using a "slider" type release, bowling it cross seam. If I get it right it goes straight on. Sometimes it will turn a little or straighten up from an angle, but I can get it to go straight on fairly consistently. I've only bowled it in a match once, it...

Yeah, it's difficult to get a large amount of lateral movement in the air like the Gatting ball. Personally, I think the wind really helped Warne with that delivery. He wasn't trying anything special, he just got big revs on the ball in what looked like a moderate headwind, which helped a lot...

The new videos look great, zjitu. There's definitely progress with that back leg coming through at the target. As for drift, you don't need huge amounts of lateral movement as the ball travels down the wicket. All you need is that late drift and dip to open up the right handers, just like you...

No league game yesterday for me because the division the second team plays in had a break this week with no fixtures. I played in an enjoyable 30 over friendly game at our home ground today in great weather against good opponents, with both teams only having 9 players available. We batted...

Here's a "wrong wrong un", pitching on off and turning away a bit. It's not very good. That was my seventh attempt before I got one to turn a fraction.

I will have to to figure that out.

Not off the index finger, but squeezed between my third finger and thumb (flipper click release) with the back of the hand facing the batsman. In my view this is similar to a doosra, it just comes down to which fingers are used because the wrist isn't involved much if at all in imparting the...

I also try this concept with "the wrong wrong un", which is the flipper out of the back of my hand and if I bowl it well enough I can produce a small back spinning leg break. it's almost like a doosra but using the flipper click technique. Personally, I think the flipper and off spin are very...