Is spinning the ball from hand to hand very important? I do it regularly, but not as much as Philot suggests. Whenever I do it it feels like I'm not really practicing anything, only damaging the callus on my spinning finger. I do the round the loop drill too, but I don't really need it anymore...
Here in South Africa your the next Shane Warne if you can toss a leg spinner up higher than Mount Everest and turn it a bit with an occasional telegraphed googly. Or if you can fire in 80kph flat darts that don't even straighten. That's how spin dyslexic our batsmen are! The whole system here is...
Even if it is noticeable, why would the batsman be looking? After all it's just a spinner, and what can a spinner do? HA! Spinners are made to be smashed out of the park! (That's if your a batsman at club level or even first class level sometimes)
You can disguise it if your arm speed is quick...
It is actually possible to an extent, if you can get the perfect seam alignment in two different deliveries which have the seam pointing in the same direction, spinning in opposite directions. The 45 degree OBS and 45 degree googly are the best to use. You need to get some hard revs on them and...
Sounds like fun:D
Personally I don't know how you spin a ball besides a cricket ball with the same wrist and finger flick. If I do it with a tennis ball I barely have any control. A stress ball is even lighter, so how do you have control over it? (When you try to give it a huge flick and get...
It sure is. But I think it's even more difficult to become a reasonably good player in tennis than it is in ping pong. If you can get some good revs on the ball your on your way. But tennis requires much more skill, stamina etc.
It can be. Especially if your a beginner! But your eye takes a while to get in when you play ping pong, you never do your best from the beginning. It's the same as batting, at the start of your innings you should only focus on getting your eye in. Ping pong is a lot more complicated than batting...
Interesting! I also think the fact that Grimmet dismissed Bradman so often may have contributed to him saying that away-spinning deliveries are better than in-spinning deliveries. From what I have seen, experienced, and reseached this is far from the truth. But of course he wasn't used to...
Most of his off breaks look like "straight ones" to me:D there has been something on my mind for some time now, and I'm not sure if anyone here knows the answer but I hope so. If you can spin the ball much more than anyone at your level and you get drift, dip etc. Will you be able to get the...
Do you notice any difference in your deliveries when you take a short stride? (Besides being inaccurate, less revs or similar negatives) Changing your action subtly is a good variaton. Sometimes I deliberately pull my front leg back once I land it, almost like I'm slipping. This holds the ball...
Darth Spin, you might want to try the 45 degree OBS, it's my "slider" and it works better than any other variation I've ever bowled in my life. It's so good that I can even use it as a stock ball sometimes. You bowl it similar to a leg break, the same grip and use of the wrist and ring finger...
Lyon was going around the wickets right? Lots of his off breaks skid on from around even though he doesn't want them to. It's not an intentional slider, it's just natural variation and not something you can control. There are spots on the pitch which don't allow as much turn, and sometimes you...
Yes and of course anything that goes straight is an "arm ball" "straighter one" "slider" and "other one" to a commentator! It probably doesn't matter what they call it, but they could provide some more details. Robin Peterson bowled a few carrom balls today against India and none of the...
Yes and to help with that your front leg usually has to be more or less braced. I think it helps you balance a bit more so you don't feel like your going to fall over. It also gives you some extra speed because of the whippage you get.
Hockey balls and bowling machine balls are a bit smooth, but they work well if scuffed up enough. Some cricket balls last for very long, up to 5 months even if you bowl on concrete with them.
They aren't only clueless when it comes to spin... When AB de Villiers bowled an over with his medium pacers that barely get to 110 kph, he bowled 5 outswingers then a conventional inswinger. The commentators went crazy about the "reverse swing" that he got.
They also talked about the...
Zaheer Khan bowls a knuckle ball as a type of slower ball. The idea of using it in cricket is actually to put some spin on it. He bowls his with a little leg spin on it so it nips into the right handed batsman. I have tried using it as a spin variation, it's not really worth it but has an...
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