Re: Wrist Spin Bowling
im trying to learn an off-spinning flipper. i cant figure out the round-the-loop wrong'un at all, my arm just wont go there yet, il have to keep with that for the long term, keep bowling toppers and try to just move my wrist around that little bit extra. that might take years though, il just have to stick at it.
the flipped off break seems like the easy way to have a wrong'un in my armoury in the shorter term, also i can potentially have full control of the spin angle from 100% overspin round to 100% backspin, meaning i can bowl a wrong'un in every possible guise from big turning to big bouncing to skidding through. it makes more sense to me to have a delivery like that at club level than a carefully disguised round-the-loop version. how regularly do you face a batsman that knows your game well enough to be confident judging deliveries out of your hand? id imagine most batsman are completely baffled by EVERY delivery, even the "easy" to read leg break lol. unless you bowl a long spell against them and they get settled i doubt any batsman at club level would learn a leg spinners game to the point he could pick the rather different wrist angle as an off break. even if they spotted the variation, theyd have no idea what it was going to do.
the only real issue im having is that the ball comes out slightly angled off the seam because of the nature of my action. its got awesome revs, perfect seam balance, its just that the seam doesnt touch the floor! it still turns back in about 6" off of the side of the ball, if i could land it on the seam it should turn huge.
im trying to learn an off-spinning flipper. i cant figure out the round-the-loop wrong'un at all, my arm just wont go there yet, il have to keep with that for the long term, keep bowling toppers and try to just move my wrist around that little bit extra. that might take years though, il just have to stick at it.
the flipped off break seems like the easy way to have a wrong'un in my armoury in the shorter term, also i can potentially have full control of the spin angle from 100% overspin round to 100% backspin, meaning i can bowl a wrong'un in every possible guise from big turning to big bouncing to skidding through. it makes more sense to me to have a delivery like that at club level than a carefully disguised round-the-loop version. how regularly do you face a batsman that knows your game well enough to be confident judging deliveries out of your hand? id imagine most batsman are completely baffled by EVERY delivery, even the "easy" to read leg break lol. unless you bowl a long spell against them and they get settled i doubt any batsman at club level would learn a leg spinners game to the point he could pick the rather different wrist angle as an off break. even if they spotted the variation, theyd have no idea what it was going to do.
the only real issue im having is that the ball comes out slightly angled off the seam because of the nature of my action. its got awesome revs, perfect seam balance, its just that the seam doesnt touch the floor! it still turns back in about 6" off of the side of the ball, if i could land it on the seam it should turn huge.