Wrist Spin Bowling (Part Four)

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macca;409026 said:
Just about to head out for young blokes first training session with new club.Great day for bowling not too hot and a good seabreeze straight down the guts of his new nets. Only a stones throw from the Pacific Ocean.

( Dave ,speaking of the Pacific, we have had the best surf in years here lately, bit big though 9 to 12 foot off huge swells. Only lasted a week but perfect waves all over the place)
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Yeah I had a mate of mine who lives in Sydney face book me saying that he was out of the water as he'd fin sliced himself in big surf and I'd seen this just up the road from you (in comparison to up the road from the UK) Surfing News - Cloudbreak And Enter
 
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someblokecalleddave;409053 said:
Confidence and reputation is even better!
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very true indeed!!

maybe you should make a statue of yourself and parade it around the streets of Essex then? :D
 
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Young blokes first training with new club couldn't have gone better. He was first to hit the stumps, catches galore and no-one got on top of him. I Still reckons he gives it a bit too much flight but the bounce he gets is fantastic.

They are a really talented squad but not used to facing legspin, though soon will be. Coach predicts bags of wickets for my son this season to come via catches, I hope so.

Combination of him playing indoor comp and all year round bowling training saw my son as the most accurate bowler by a long way yesterday. He gave it plenty of length and no width in a long spell of bowling.

He's the only leggy in the squad and has a good pace battery to hide behind and a great little finger spinner to partner in crime as well. Excellent.
 
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No - my confidence this year was pummelled into the grass on the neighbouring fields back in April and never managed to get back on it's feet again till August! I'm feeling a little better now, especially with this new bowling action and I'm optimistic about how it may develop over the winter. Grays & Chadwell play the same 20-25 teams year in year out and of those couple of hundred blokes that would have seen me play there may be 10 - 15 that I had good battles with that might remember me and take the crease with a degree of respect. I'll have to start again this season as I will move to my sons team Basildon and Pitsea.

But with my sons both being bowlers one a quick and the other a potential Leg - Spinner I can see the potential for a reputation for the 'Thompson brothers combo'.
 
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macca;409071 said:
Young blokes first training with new club couldn't have gone better. He was first to hit the stumps, catches galore and no-one got on top of him. I Still reckons he gives it a bit too much flight but the bounce he gets is fantastic.

They are a really talented squad but not used to facing legspin, though soon will be. Coach predicts bags of wickets for my son this season to come via catches, I hope so.

Combination of him playing indoor comp and all year round bowling training saw my son as the most accurate bowler by a long way yesterday. He gave it plenty of length and no width in a long spell of bowling.

He's the only leggy in the squad and has a good pace battery to hide behind and a great little finger spinner to partner in crime as well. Excellent.
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Sounds good, when's his first match?
 
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Well Im over the moon, I got my first leg spin wicket today!!!!! It was a nice length leg break that the batsmen came out of his crease to meet but didnt get to the pitch of and it turned past the bat at hey presto, some nice work by the keeper and that was it.
I actually started the match opening the bowling with pace but they put on a big opening stand of 130+ and my 8 overs had figures of 0-33. Anyhow every one else was getting belted all over the paddock except for our offie. We finally got the openers and spin was really troubling the remaining batsman so my captain asked if I would bowl a few leggies. No need to ask twice.
I was pretty nervous and dragged the first ball down a bit but they only got a single. The next two landed nicely and were blocked. The next ball was a wide and then the wicket. The last two balls landed nicely too with one taking a thick edge. So 5/7 were good balls. Our offie took 2 wickets in the next over to finish with 5 so I didnt get another over.
My pace bowling has figures of 6/109 this season and leggies 1/2!!!
That one wicket has brought me more satisfaction than just about any wicket Ive ever taken.
 
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chippyben;409112 said:
Well Im over the moon, I got my first leg spin wicket today!!!!! It was a nice length leg break that the batsmen came out of his crease to meet but didnt get to the pitch of and it turned past the bat at hey presto, some nice work by the keeper and that was it.
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Stumpings would be a new kind of experience for you, having been a pace only previous? Great feeling.
 
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Went out last night and celebrated my son getting the legspinning gig with the U/13 firsts at his new club. He bowled his heart out at the trial, grunting with every ball he bowled, and impressed everyone with spin and control.

It was bounce, more than anything that blew them away. None of the bats could handle it. He has a few rep players to bowl at now and they couldn't play him at all. That will change when they learn to move their feet.

Win win situation, he has good players to bowl at now every week at training and they will learn how to play slow legspin.
 
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chrisbell;409187 said:
Sounds like your son's really showing promise, Macca.
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He goes OK but he is in a much stronger comp now than last season.

He went real well bowling slow and high the other day, but that wont always work against the better players he will be bowling a this year, I know that for sure.

We went to work straight away on getting faster and more flat once he got picked for the firsts.

In the early games most kids dont handle the loopy full stuff. In the lower grades they never come to terms with it but these rep players he will be bowling to now get coached to use their feet.
 
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macca;409366 said:
He goes OK but he is in a much stronger comp now than last season.

He went real well bowling slow and high the other day, but that wont always work against the better players he will be bowling a this year, I know that for sure.

We went to work straight away on getting faster and more flat once he got picked for the firsts.

In the early games most kids dont handle the loopy full stuff. In the lower grades they never come to terms with it but these rep players he will be bowling to now get coached to use their feet.
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Don't coach all the loop and flight out of him, though.:cool: Too many attacking, loppy spinners get coached into bowling flat, defensive stuff.:rolleyes:
 
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My thoughts exactly Chris. OK its useful to have a quicker flatter ball but only as a variation. Macca, whats the keeper like at the new club? Its worth your lad having a session or two with him on his own because if lads are going to use their feet against him then he and the keeper could have a field day in stumpings this season. Hope all goes well
 
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Yes, a flatter ball is a good variation purely because it's all about the flight. Using the effect of different angles of ball rotation to affect the way the ball arrives at the batsman is as important as what it does off the pitch.
 
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TonyM;409407 said:
Macca, whats the keeper like at the new club?
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That I dont know yet. I forgot about how important that will be. Thanks for reminding me, I'll be finding out on friday.
 
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chrisbell;409409 said:
Yes, a flatter ball is a good variation purely because it's all about the flight. Using the effect of different angles of ball rotation to affect the way the ball arrives at the batsman is as important as what it does off the pitch.
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Isn't bowling faster just being able to get the same flight effects at a higher pace ? It doesn't just mean bowling flatter AFAIK. To achieve that, along with increasing the speed, you'll have to coach him to 1) increase the revolutions on the ball
2) Practice an overspun legbreak with seam pointing at 1 or 2 slip as stock delivery.
 
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Firstly, thanks to Dave again for starting the threads.

My son bowled up a storm here tonight at nets. Last week he overdid the topspin a bit, it still worked a treat, but this week we really put some work in on sidespin, so as to get the legbreak happening bigtime.

A few of the kids got a couple of wickets but my young bloke got over a dozen. 3 clean bowled, 4 stumpings, I hit wicket and umpteen catches, i lost count.

coach comes up to me and says what a great little legspinner he has got in his team, in my son. Very happy to have a leggie, reckons he will get shedloads of wickets this season and lots of bowling.

He pointed out one of the guys my boy got out a few times played rep last year. But he reckons my kid "made him look like a fool".

He got a wicket with both a flipper and wrongun, Howzat!
 
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macca;409600 said:
Firstly, thanks to Dave again for starting the threads.

My son bowled up a storm here tonight at nets. Last week he overdid the topspin a bit, it still worked a treat, but this week we really put some work in on sidespin, so as to get the legbreak happening bigtime.

A few of the kids got a couple of wickets but my young bloke got over a dozen. 3 clean bowled, 4 stumpings, I hit wicket and umpteen catches, i lost count.

coach comes up to me and says what a great little legspinner he has got in his team, in my son. Very happy to have a leggie, reckons he will get shedloads of wickets this season and lots of bowling.

He pointed out one of the guys my boy got out a few times played rep last year. But he reckons my kid "made him look like a fool".

He got a wicket with both a flipper and wrongun, Howzat!
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I'd consider even getting a flipper to land properly an achievement worth celebrating - getting a wicket with it is out of the world!
 
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