Wrist Spin Bowling (part Five)

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Managed to get dropped down a grade because I’ve been batting 9, bowling pace but struggling with it a bit (weirdly have bowled well on turf in my Sunday Colts matches).

Will be opening the batting and likely bowling a few overs of leg spin instead of pace because my right knee is at the backend of a weird injury I got. Try make you guys proud .

I’ve always been able to bowl a good stock ball and a topspinner but I recently was messing around with bowling a side spinner and actually got really great results because it still drifts into the right hander but then doesn’t turn.
 
doc8176 said:
Managed to get dropped down a grade because I’ve been batting 9, bowling pace but struggling with it a bit (weirdly have bowled well on turf in my Sunday Colts matches).

Will be opening the batting and likely bowling a few overs of leg spin instead of pace because my right knee is at the backend of a weird injury I got. Try make you guys proud .

I’ve always been able to bowl a good stock ball and a topspinner but I recently was messing around with bowling a side spinner and actually got really great results because it still drifts into the right hander but then doesn’t turn.
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What do you reckon is the key thing to getting the ball to drift? In an over can you bowl 6 that drift?
 
SomeblokecalledDave. said:
What do you reckon is the key thing to getting the ball to drift? In an over can you bowl 6 that drift?
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Probably can get 6 to drift. Can’t tell you why, I rip the ball and it drifts. I’ve seen the discussions on here about it and I don’t really have anything to add to it.

I do get the seam basically perfect on my leg break which likely helps.

Just have to spin it hard I guess.
 
Only bowled 4 balls, ranked half tracker first ball, wide the next, good ball and then a run out which always seems to happen off my bowling.

Other news, I opened the batting, left one that went for 2 wides, got hit on the pad by a left armer going over the wicket (pitching outside leg), and then got pinned middle stump trying to flick one off my pads.

I need to stop trying bat on off stump and work the ball off my legs, that’s not what I’m naturally good at. I need to move back on to middle, stand tall and be dominant through cover and the pull shot. If the ball hits my pads there it’s probably down leg.
 
doc8176 said:
Probably can get 6 to drift. Can’t tell you why, I rip the ball and it drifts. I’ve seen the discussions on here about it and I don’t really have anything to add to it.

I do get the seam basically perfect on my leg break which likely helps.

Just have to spin it hard I guess.
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I see it on some occasions if I bowl more round arm, but I've no idea if I spin it harder when I do that, but it is possible. I don't bowl round arm so much as it really stresses my arm and shoulder. Must be great if you can do it.
 
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SomeblokecalledDave. said:
I see it on some occasions if I bowl more round arm, but I've no idea if I spin it harder when I do that, but it is possible. I don't bowl round arm so much as it really stresses my arm and shoulder. Must be great if you can do it.
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Round arm makes sense because it forces you to put more side spin on the ball than than top spin.
 
Still catching up with the England/Aus women's game. Kings bowling is phenomenal, Gardner's not too shabby either. But King, this is like watching Warne almost. Can you imagine if she had a couple of variations? England are a shambles.
 
Just finished, what an ending! Peter Philpott would have loved that I'd imagine, but one thing. King has no variations! The end went on for ages, alternate overs King and Gardner, both on 4 looking for their 5th. But, King was so metronomic, the 2 tail-enders devised a method, and not having to get runs (The game was well lost) they just dug in. It wasn't till about 10 overs of going nowhere that King then slowed it up and tossed some above the eye-line and a few balls later, she got the 5th. Yeah - kind of bizarre that someone who plays at this level is so limited, I'd have thought somewhere in her career she must have at least toyed with a top-spinner but seemingly not - as surely she'd have tried it. Gardner at least tried some short balls that nearly worked. Yeah good game, good series but England - what the hell? I just have to wonder how many girls in Australia play cricket is it exponentially higher than us - it must be?
 
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