Funny you should say that I've just watched a documentary on Youtube about the same thing in the USA. Shame thing here in the UK an awful lot of people have succumbed and we're catching up with the Americans.
He's the leading wicket taker after the match with the Dutch. Good to see a wrist spinner in that situation, shame we don't get to hear Warne's views on him anymore. Shame MacGill seems to have disappeared into obscurity these days, be interesting to hear his opinion.
I saw some news about him being implicated in drug dealing via a relative or something. Jeez! Just looked, that's not good.
Was it recorded for Youtube?
I don't know how your league systems work, but here we have divisions within the league and each division has around 10 or 12 teams and everyone plays each other 1 game at home the other away. The top two or three get promoted up the division - no idea what happens at the very top. As an old bloke playing in a 5th XI team made up of other generally older blokes, kids and big lads and only getting into the league this summer just gone, we come up against a variety of levels and usually the teams that get promoted at the end of the season are good. This year the team at the top didn't lose a game and I think like us it was the their first year in the league. They were completely different to any of the other teams - they were all in their 20's and 30's except maybe the capt who looked in his 40's. They were all fit and athletic and could all bowl and bat really well. Seems as they were an unknown entity with no other teams in their club, they were put in our division at the bottom, they just decimated everyone, so yeah I can relate to your comment here. But TBH I like the challenge, although frustrating when I get them to mishit and the balls not caught. Another thing we come across, which we do very rarely is the rotation of players from their better squads. I can find myself bowling against a bloke who bats incredibly well and then when you check him out latter you find he's spent 15-20 years playing in their 1st or 2nd XI and he's been drafted in to try and ensure their team win the game and stay off the bottom of the league. I guess you all face similar situations?
Yeah all of those. I'd also add your variation/s. I don't know about you lot, but in these situations I've tended to bowl faster, but I don't think that's the answer at all. A plan is useful, quickly assessing where they're going to hit you if you put the ball in a specific area, then knowing if you go for that approach you have the players in the field to follow through with the catching if you execute your ball correctly - so being able to bowl to your field (Accuracy). I've often got captains in my ear giving it "Make him play" e.g. bowl at the stumps, which I get, but that gives them options for hitting either side of the wicket and makes it harder to set fields to. What do you reckon to setting these points in order of importance? I reckon there's a range of opinions on this, there'll be the Peter Philpott professional school of thought which you'll hear so many pro's advocating, which assumes that it's the 1960's and everyone just plays sport in the sun 24/7 or has access to space and time to bowl every day for 4 hours, that school of thought leads with the mantra 'Spin the ball hard'. I think if you totally focus on spinning the ball hard, but don't have the time to put in the hours to practice doing that - that may be a flawed approach as without the hours practicing you're not going to be that accurate? Again that might be fine against weaker bats with good athletic fielders who can take catches, but with poor fielders against good batters I reckon you're onto taking some tap.
Yeah I guess, there are multiple factors to consider. I just know that I was basically out of the game when I used to spin hard, hardly any wickets - balls being dropped every game, five-fers alluding me in most games due to poor fielding and expensive. Got dropped. There's a Terry Jenner video on Youtube made by the BBC - in the video he chalks a massive circle as a landing zone and says if you spin it hard and land it in there, you're going to take wickets. The thing to take away from that, is accuracy isn't necessary as the circle is enormous (Previous post (Leggy)? talks about needing to land it on an area A4 in size) but what you have to realise he's pretty much saying most of your wickets are from stumpings or catches. Playing in far better teams, the inaccuracy but spin hard mantra does work, especially on bigger pitches because the fielders will play their part. But on wickets of a certain nature accuracy in my opinion is primary - this is not to say I'm not spinning it, I am, but I'm not totally focused on getting it really fizzing over everything else, which is what I've done previously. It's interesting to see currently how Zampa is doing so well, yet he hardly turns the ball, but is relatively accurate. Spin/dip might be a factor, but it's not apparent in way some spinners use if dip is.
