tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24286818786447943622024-03-18T23:37:07.147-07:00Legspin bowlingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2428681878644794362.post-50380828305554799532015-11-28T11:23:00.002-08:002019-01-06T11:35:52.403-08:00Leg Spin basics - Consistent and repeatable action - the run-up <span style="font-family: "calibri";"><strong>Leg Spin basics - Consistent and repeatable action - the run-up</strong> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">No-one ever showed me how to run-up to the crease and bowl,
I just worked out a way of doing it as a kid, so when I returned to cricket
much later in life, I just reverted to the way I did it at school. For the last
8 years or so I’ve worked on it a little with some guidance from people on the
internet and as a result modified it a bit, but I’ve always been aware that
it’s not that good and it's massively inconsistent changing in games and during the season and I’ve never been able to figure out how to go about improving it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">This year at the start of the season I bowled fairly successfully
off of a slightly longer run-up than usual. This happened after some feedback from a good
wicket keeper I played with for a month or so, and as a result I took a decent amount of
wickets. I then injured myself and went back to shorter run-ups for the rest of
the season while my Achilles tendon healed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Towards the end of the season I
watched a SKY TV master-class featuring Glenn McGrath which has since been
removed. In this master-class, he explained how important the run-up is, but
went further in that he explained how he established his run-up and this
resonated with me, because I’ve never heard anyone explain how you might go
about establishing a run-up. This is basically what he said as far as I can recall and it’s pretty straight
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a mate to watch what you’re doing and mark out the specific finishing
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a football pitch or somewhere with straight line on to run along. </span></li>
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a ball in your hand run along the line gathering speed or establishing a rhythm,
at this point don’t worry about starting and ending points, just run along
the line gathering pace until it feels right to go into the delivery
stride. Do this about 10 times or longer if required until it feels right.</span></li>
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mark a starting point and repeat that run-up watched by your mate/coach.
Each time you stop, get him/her to mark your BFC (Back foot contact) point
– where you land coming out of the bound. Repeat this, 10 times to
establish your most consistent landing point.</span></li>
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that length out – that is your run-up, work with it and tweak it so that
you don’t over-step the crease. </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Keep an eye out for the video as it may reappear someday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">In the meantime despite the fact that this is a seam bowlers run-up - the basic premise relating to setting off on the correct and consistent foot and maintaining a smooth approach is all relevant and worth having a look at, as to is Stuart MacGills video.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Run-up basics <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2oQROhiQFk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2oQROhiQFk</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Stuart MacGill - basics of Leg Spin including the run-up <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRalbzmKIEM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRalbzmKIEM</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">This Youtube channel also has some good basic stuff about aspects of bowling albeit aimed at fast bowlers, but the principles are pretty much the same and are worth looking at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YUDKUooHeg"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YUDKUooHeg</span></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> - The gather</span></span><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrUx5TU0Jgo"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrUx5TU0Jgo</span></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> - The follow through</span><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKjWsWg2p2s"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKjWsWg2p2s</span></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> - Run-up stride length</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt;"><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Leg-Break, known to most as Leg-Spin. This is the Wrist Spinners main ball, this is the ball most of us bowl 95% of the time and therefore is known as our "Stock Ball". Having said that there are sub variations, but we'll come to that later in the post. If you're totally new to Wrist Spinning and you want to get some sense of what it's all about you should check out some of the videos linked at the end of this post.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">1. Basics;</span></strong> As mentioned in the paragraph above your 'Leg Break' is known as your 'Stock Ball'. This basically means this is the delivery you use most of the time and therefore have to be totally in control of, as </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA7YC7SF71Q"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Terry Jenner</span></a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> would say... <em>"This is your go to ball, the one that will get you overs and the one that will get you wickets or dry up the runs".</em> </span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is the ball that you practice the most, this is the ball that you have to be able to spin hard and land in a relatively small area of your choice, again quoting Jenner... <em>"Your bread and butter ball".</em> </span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">On the point of being the ball you practice the most, you have to realise that this is the most difficult of all cricket disciplines, this is recognised by everyone that plays cricket even though they have never tried it, they simply know though having seen and read about Wrist-Spinners at all levels... this is not easy. Most reckon that it'll take you four years of constant practice and if you're looking to do it at a high level you might be </span><a href="http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/372200.html"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">looking at 10 years!</span></a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Needless to say there are those that have natural ability and the basics may come quickly. </span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Described as Slow Bowling, the approach to the crease is generally off of a short run up and the speed at which you would bowl if playing professionally is around the 45-55mph speed. Primarily you would bowl over the stumps landing the ball 4-5 metres in front of the stumps attacking the stumps (The impression from the batsman's perspective is that the ball will go on to hit the stumps line B) if left forcing the batsman to play the ball. The ball on pitching 'Breaks' (C) towards the off-side of the pitch looking strike the edge of the batsman's bat producing a catching chance for the keeper or slips fielder. (D - red dotted line is the line that the ball would be perceived to travel along if left and not deviated off of the pitch). The ball in this illustration is angled at 45 degrees - this has elements of both side and top-spin.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The image above (Basic Wrist-spin grip) shows the grip from another angle. Dependent on how big or small your hand is it should look similar to this. With regards to the grip </span><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Art-Wrist-Spin-Bowling/dp/1861260636"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Peter Philpott</span></a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> writes...</span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><em>You may like to experiment with the way you hold the ball - the grip. I have seen so many leg-spinners grip the ball differently, yet still bowl the it effectively, the most important factor is that the grip is comfortable and suits you.</em></span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><em> Even so, it is always sensible to understand the orthodox method. For 'the orthodox' simply means the way that suits most people. Whether you eventually choose to use the orthodox method or not, you should understand it, and experiment with it.</em></span><br /><em><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"></span></em><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Peter Philpott, page 21, The Art of Wrist-Spin Bowling.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><strong>Grip it hard or soft?</strong> Again different people say different things, Warne for one says to grip it softly and Richie Benuad differs in that he suggests that you grip the ball quite firmly. Have a look at the clip<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW1fRPqsa-A" target="_blank"> here </a>at 2:40 where he describes his grip and the firmness of the grip. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Benaud's grip is slightly different to that of Warne's, but having tried it, I'd say that it's worth experimenting with as your fingers might wrap around the ball in a different way and it may just feel like a far better method for you? Inevitably it'll probably be the case that you'll try and number of different ways before you settle on the one that works for you, but it's impossible to say to someone... "Hold it loose" simply because your idea of loose is probably</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> very different to mine. It then means you're going to have to try this basic aspect of your bowling in numerous ways before you establish a way that suits you. I still have to say to myself when I'm bowing "Ridiculously loose, ridiculously loose", over and over again to force myself to bowl with an exceptionally loose grip, as through recent experimentation I've noted that the exceptionally loose grip works so much better for me. Having said that and also having looked at the Warne description of his grip </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyHX7GsrMlo" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, I've noted that they both have their fingers either side of the middle finger spread very wide, so I myself may have a go at this in the nets in the coming months and see if it creates any significant difference in my bowling. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It's this trial and re-trial process that a lot of us will have to go through over a period of a few years before we feel as though we're at a level that we're happy with.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.bigcricket.com/community/threads/wrist-spin-bowling-part-five.57795/page-139" target="_blank">Boogie Spinner has just said</a>...</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><strong><i><span style="font-family: "bradley hand itc"; font-size: 13pt;">"Just reading your blog Dave, I'm reminded of some early commentary on Warne from Benaud. I couldn't possibly say exactly when but I distinctly remember Benaud exclaiming that Warne would 'spin it on glass' and more importantly that he wished he'd known about Warne's loose grip on the ball when he was bowling, because he gripped the ball tightly simply through a belief that it was preferable at the time".</span></i></strong></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Again further reinforcement of the need to work through the various methods to establish what will work for you. Warne himself says...</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"></span><em><b><span style="font-family: "bradley hand itc"; font-size: 13pt;">"The actual pressure of the grip is something you have to feel comfortable with. What I do... and what I do is not necessarily right for you, but it is right for me, remember it's got to be right for you, as long as you're getting the basics right. A lot of people are taught to grip the ball really tight, really squeeze it and spread these fingers out. (The 2 up fingers). The reason I don't like that is that, already everything is tight and tense when you come to the wicket, you're already tense and everything is getting hard. I don't like that, I want to come to the wicket feeling relaxed, if I feel relaxed, I feel like I'm going to be able to do what I want with the ball.</span></b></em><span style="font-family: "bradley hand itc"; font-size: 13pt;"><br /><u1:p></u1:p><br /><strong><span style="font-family: "bradley hand itc";"> </span></strong><em><b><span style="font-family: "bradley hand itc";">So I have a loose grip, fingers are probably a little bit close together... but that works for me, the fingers are loose - two fingers up, two fingers down and the thumb just resting on the ball, that works for me".</span></b></em></span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM4ASXrv5ic"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM4ASXrv5ic</span></a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> Shane Warne talking to Mark Nicholas.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><strong>Flickers or Rollers? </strong>The Wrist-Spinners bowling action is a whole body affair, from the tip of the toes to the tip of the fingers. Getting up on the toes, bracing the leg, pivoting on the toes, rotating the shoulders over one another, rotating the body 180 degrees, high release, 45 degree release, low release, the point at which the ball is released, the flick of the wrist and fingers all combine to send the ball down the wicket in a particular way. At each stage something can go awry that will effect the outcome and one of the key stages is the final stage - <strong>what happens with the hand...</strong> </span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">One of the conundrums you'll be faced with, especially if you've learned the basics of bowling previously is the one of accuracy over spin. Intuitively you may feel or have learned from your previous bowling experiences that accuracy is an important aspect of your approach and that both accuracy and spinning the ball should be learned side by side with equal importance attached to them. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Everyone without exception advocates that first and foremost the thing you need to do above all else is <strong>spin the ball really hard. </strong>Not hard, but really hard, so hard, that at the start it will mean that you've got to practice so much on your own you're going to wonder why the hell you started. Reason why - you're not going to be able to land the ball on the cut strip all of the time because of the effort you're going to be putting into spinning the ball! </span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">In his book "The Art of Wrist Spin Bowling" <a href="http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/player/7117.html" target="_blank">Peter Philpott</a> at the start of the chapters where he explains in detail the "Eight Stages of Spin" one of the first ground rules he sets is the Spin it hard rule. He discusses orthodoxy and variations in grip and actions and says that there should be some flexibility in approaching how people bowl. Coaches shouldn't interfere too much unless of course there's some cause for real concern and even then after much observation. But when it comes to the spinning mantra he says...</span><br /><br /><em><b><span style="font-family: "bradley hand itc"; font-size: 13pt;">But if there is one factor in spin bowling which all spinners should accept if they wish to perform to their optimum, it is the concept that the ball should be spun hard.<o:p></o:p></span></b></em><br /><br /><em><b><span style="font-family: "bradley hand itc"; font-size: 13pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not rolled, not gently turned, but flicked, ripped, fizzed. If young bowlers learn to spin hard from the start and then enough spinning it hard, they can achieve accuracy.</span></b></em><b><i><span style="font-family: "bradley hand itc"; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: xx-small;">Peter Philpott, page 19, The Art of Wrist-Spin Bowling.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">One of the difficulties that you're going to face whether young or older, is the fact that if you go for this 'Spinning it hard' approach which you should, you are going to have to be really thick skinned if you're learning your craft in match situations. In the first few years, you're probably going to be carted all over the shop in matches and other days you'll get a bag full of wickets. There's a mantra that says S**t bowling gets wickets, so in between the days when you see ball after ball go down the legside and the umpire stretching his arms out and shouting "Wide Ball", there will be days when you come away with wickets and some success. A lot of it will be through luck and not design, but you have to grasp these moments and stick in there knowing that in a few years you'll be able to get the ball down the off-side a lot more often than not. But it does take a lot of determination and being very thick skinned, because you will be coming away feeling it was you that lost the team the match. </span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">It helps therefore if you have a supportive captain and it may be an idea to play Sunday cricket or friendly matches as opposed to league cricket where the outcome of the game is subject to different dynamics within the club. I learned under the tuition of a bloke called Neil Samwell who was an exceptionally good Offie for Grays & Chadwell cricket club in Essex. At the time I played under him as captain he held the record for the most wickets taken at the club. But more than that, this bloke gave me a chance, he gave me overs, knowing that the chances were I'd get a ball or two down the legs-ide, so wide they'd be off the cut strip, or I'd bowl 4 wides down the leg-side before getting the ball on the stumps. I went through stages of having the yips almost and still he'd give me 4 or 5 overs and when I was successful, he celebrated my success in a way that enabled me to hang in there and not walk away from my desire to be a wrist spinner, he seemed genuinely interested in my long term goals and I'm extremely grateful for his input and support during my years at Grays and Chadwell. </span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">I think if you have someone at your club that supports you in this manner and you don't feel totally isolated, the chances are in the longer term you'll get there, you'll be able to turn up at games and put the ball in areas that you design to do so and spin the ball and get it to turn off the wicket. How do you get to that place though?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Lovely day here in the UK, we're just a few days short of November when you'd expect to see frost, even snow some years and generally miserable cold and wet rainy weather, but as it's an </span><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34120583" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">El Nino year</span></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">, so everything is a little weird. It's usually the case that summer lingers as it has today and then suddenly around about November 5th it changes dramatically and the wind shifts from the south to the East and we get unusually good snow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">A couple of days ago both son Joe and Ben joined me over at the home of cricket - </span><a href="http://mpafirsteleven.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/cricket-pavillions-typology.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Mopsies Park</span></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> and we had a bat and a bowl, but it was a little damp. So I kept an eye on the weather looking for a better day and that was today. 27th Oct and we had bright sunshine, southerly winds and temperature of about 20 degrees centigrade... Warm!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Physically - knackered now 6 hours later and was beginning to feel a bit knackered towards the last 50 balls. But, that aside there were some promising things to make note of and consider going forwards. There were some periods where the bowling was going a little haywire, I did at one point bowl 5 balls one after another wide down the legside. But I was able to get things back on track and soon after was bowling decently with a lot of the ball drifting as far as I could make out which is pretty unheard of for me!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(Good and Bad). I've come away with a range of feelings about how this went and since last night when I originally started this post I've looked at the video footage. Yesterday when I videoed my bowling and batting I had two cameras when bowling - one shooting the batsman's perspective which is something I often do and the other shooting from the side at the bowlers end. It's this perspective that is more interesting and looking at it I can gain a few positives and some negatives...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Good first; overall I'm quite pleased with the development and the basic idea of acquiring a consistent and repeatable action. This I think I've improved massively and looking at the footage each delivery looks pretty much identical. I'd been working on the gather aspect and this too has massively improved along with the leading arm. Bad stuff; It just looks slow and lacking in dynamism and looking at the way my 'landing foot' lands it looks as though it's not square enough to the wicket and I'm therefore not getting my body set-up enough to get side on and therefore the hip rotation is weak. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This potentially opens up a new avenue of thought on my bowling action, but at the same time I'm running out of time because the UK winter is all but days away and the chances of their being warm dry weather in the next couple of days is diminishing. Looking at the video here, which is the side on shot with all the revealing information...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I can break down my bowling action into sections and start to analyse it and make sense of it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I'm happy with this and as far as I'm aware this now happens naturally and I don't have to worry about it at all and it sets me up to then reach out <em>long and strong</em> with the leading arm.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><strong>Terry Jenner</strong> - big stride..</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><strong>Shane Warne</strong> - Big Stride</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <strong>Pravin Tambe</strong> - Massive Stride</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Stuart MacGill - Big Stride.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><strong>Yasir Shah</strong> - Massive Stride.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">All of the Delivery strides shown here are far longer than mine, which gives me food for thought, but then they're far younger than me and their speed approaching the crease and dynamism through the crease is that much better than mine quite obviously. But is it something I need to consider and explore? Part of me believes so, but it's something I may look into and consider trying and experimenting with.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As in the diagram there's some scope to get that landing foot exactly 90 degrees, how significant this is I'm not 100% certain but everyone advocates getting that foot correct as it lines up the shoulders, hips so that you're side on and ready to rotate. Looking at some of my </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH3knyapZWY" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">previous videos</span></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> I can see that coming out of the bound and landing side on is reasonable...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Landing out of the bound - looking over the shoulder down the wicket, almost with my foot at 90 degrees. Hips and shoulders almost in line with the wicket. But, if you watch the video footage, the rotation is then somewhat thwarted? Looking at the videos here..</span><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT1HhHntF2o"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT1HhHntF2o</span></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> - Shane Warne at the end of his career in the IPL, his rotation is very evident and in some cases he over-rotates to some extent. Terry Jenner in this video here...</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA7YC7SF71Q"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA7YC7SF71Q</span></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> demonstrates a good 180 degree rotation. Both of the rotations seem to be a product of getting right up onto the toes of the braced pivot leg and the leading arm coming down strong. Jenner in his video talks about rotating 180 degrees so that your shoulder ends up pointing down towards the batsman. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Watching the IPL footage I noted with interest how short Warne's follow through is in a lot of instances, but at the same time how smooth. Another thing in the IPL footage is the position of his landing foot out of the bound, it's not always at 90 degrees.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Look at this video here which is very new of Warne bowling - watch the rotation of his hips as he bowls to Michael Clarke. </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=805j4dAPKUQ"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=805j4dAPKUQ</span></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> I also like the way he bustles in during his run-up something I don't seem to be able to do.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This one is a tricky one with loads of different examples to look at that confuse you and contradict each other. Looking around the internet for examples one thing you shouldn't do is refer to finger spinners as this aspect of their bowling is a desired attribute for them. But for wrist-spinners despite the fact that you'll no doubt be able to find examples of it including Warne there is a definite sense within the Wrist Spinning community that what I'm about to discuss and advocate is the correct way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">First Warne and the incorrect way. Not for him obviously as it worked quite well, but for the rest of us this aspect of his bowling is something I'm increasingly being told not to do. Look at </span><a href="http://s1231.photobucket.com/user/funkster192/media/Leg%20Spin/WarneActionfront.jpg.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Funkster192's sequence</span></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> here. At the bottom right-hand corner you'll see that at the end of his action his right leg swings out and round and you'll see many images of him doing this in stills images and video images. But this is not the best way to do it and it increases inaccuracy in your bowling.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">But here below is Stuart MacGill who in so many ways was a better bowler than Warne and one aspect that is increasingly recognised as being better is his bowling action as a template to emulate. You'll easily see that MacGills leg doesn't swing out like Warne's - instead it pushes through. Watch the video...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">At 2:57 Watch the bowling action of MacGill from the back and how his knee does <strong>not </strong>swing out and round described by one friend as the 'Dirty Dog Action' e.g. cocking your leg up. Instead MacGill's leg comes through like someone knee butting another person in the nuts. It pushes forwards and through.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I know looking at the footage of my own bowling that my leg swings out and round doing the 'Dirty dog' and this is something I need to address. As far as I'm aware and this is reinforced in MacGill's video, this leads to inaccuracy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: x-small;">So out of this one of the things that I thought may be worth looking at and exploring is the length of the run-up in order to get more speed and vigour into the whole bowling action. At the start of the season in 2014 I did really well with my bowling and that was partly down to the input of a bloke called Mike Blerkom who kept wicket for us for a few games. Normally he'd play in the 2nd XI rather than the 4th. But he made some useful observations about my bowling and one of them was around the issue of an erratic run-up. At the time I was caught between the notion of (a). A short step in like Terry Jenner, which was slow but produced more spin. Or (b). A much longer run-up - but a perception on my part that the ball spun less and if I got it wrong I'd go for runs and getting it wrong was likely to be more frequent, or (c). A compromise between the 2. Mike said - 'Use the faster run-in' and I did and it worked really well for a number of matches till I damaged my Achilles tendon. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: x-small;">So, today having seen this and realising that it kind of looks like the option (c) a compromise between the two methods, I'm now thinking how difficult would it be to add another 2 steps on to the run-up and look to get more dynamism and speed? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: x-small;">But - is it the case because of my age I'm never going to be able to produce the kind of explosive energy speed a younger bloke would be able to produce?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: x-small;">Upload the video's and see if there's any advice on <a href="http://www.bigcricket.com/community/threads/wrist-spin-bowling-part-five.57795/page-182#post-579980" target="_blank">Bigcricket</a>. Then in the meantime while I'm waiting for feedback I'll explore the idea of working with a slightly longer run-up. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: x-small;">I'll also look at trying to extend the delivery stride and video that.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: x-small;">Finally just look at getting the leg through straight at the batsman and not cocked in the 'Dirty Dog' method.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: x-small;">2016 - With only a few weeks now till the start of the season here in the UK, I'm working on the new action increasingly trying to bed in the muscle memory aspect of the delivery. See the two videos below as I start to get it together prior to the first league game in the first week of May...</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.teamtechnology.co.uk/metarasa/cricket/spin/the-mechanics-of-finger-spin-bowling/">http://www.teamtechnology.co.uk/metarasa/cricket/spin/the-mechanics-of-finger-spin-bowling/</a><br />
<a href="http://files.pitchero.com/counties/1/1397142351.pdf">http://files.pitchero.com/counties/1/1397142351.pdf</a> - This is really useful - diagrams and illustrations.<br />
<a href="https://static.ecb.co.uk/files/hitting-the-seam-issue-8-page-7-227.pdf">https://static.ecb.co.uk/files/hitting-the-seam-issue-8-page-7-227.pdf</a><br />
<a href="http://www.strengthspeedagility.com/leg-spin-bowling-tips/">http://www.strengthspeedagility.com/leg-spin-bowling-tips/</a> - Interesting stuff about <em>closing off</em><br />
<a href="http://www.cricketvictoria.com.au/files/pages/2011-state-coaching-seminar/The_Modern_Spinner_Bryce_McGain.pdf">http://www.cricketvictoria.com.au/files/pages/2011-state-coaching-seminar/The_Modern_Spinner_Bryce_McGain.pdf</a><br />
<a href="https://cricket.co.za/category/15/Coach-Education/2394/Bowling-The-basic-action/">https://cricket.co.za/category/15/Coach-Education/2394/Bowling-The-basic-action/</a><br />
<a href="https://cricket.co.za/category/15/Coach-Education/2400/Bowling-Leg-spin-bowling/">https://cricket.co.za/category/15/Coach-Education/2400/Bowling-Leg-spin-bowling/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.quintic.com/education/case_studies/Cricket%203.htm">http://www.quintic.com/education/case_studies/Cricket%203.htm</a><br />
<a href="http://www.pitchvision.com/harry-shapiros-leg-spin-primer#/">http://www.pitchvision.com/harry-shapiros-leg-spin-primer#/</a><br />
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to get smashed to all quarters of the ground by tail-enders, middle order
players and openers at some point. To some extent this sorts the wheat from the
chaff, only those that are tough enough mentally are going to survive such
encounters and be able to pick themselves up and turn up for the next game and
give it another go. Adil Rashid being a perfect example of the mental toughness
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you don’t need as a spin bowler is the same crap when you’re practicing.
Clarrie Grimmett famously practiced in isolation, having a net in his back yard
where he practiced all of the time. He never practiced in the nets against
batsmen in the Aussie team because he knew that he’d meet them again in
domestic games in the <st1:place w:st="on">Sheffield</st1:place> shield matches
and he didn’t want them to have any idea about how they might approach his
bowling. He was also aware that there was very little to be gained bowling in
the nets because batsmen never batted in the way that they’d bowl in a game and
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similarly warn of the same problems with young spin-bowlers…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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quality specific practice.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
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bowler needs to have a bag of balls or at least a fence behind the stumps. I
used to have 24 balls and would bowl 24 from one end then collect them up and
bowl from that end for hours on end. Over the years I’ve developed different
ways of doing it, but believe it’s essential to have several balls so that you
can bowl in overs. Six balls would be a minimum if you’re bowling in nets as
the collection of the balls kind of replicates the break between the over at
the other end and yours.</span> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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batsman).<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 9pt;">coach should seek to make<o:p></o:p></span></em><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 9pt;">the practice as close to a<o:p></o:p></span></em><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 9pt;">match simulation as possible<o:p></o:p></span></em><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 9pt;">for both the batsman and the<o:p></o:p></span></em><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 9pt;">bowler. Fields should be<o:p></o:p></span></em><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 9pt;">identified, goals set, overs<o:p></o:p></span></em><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 9pt;">bowled, scores kept, coaches<o:p></o:p></span></em><br />
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</span>should be given for wicket taking.<o:p></o:p></em><br />
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method for the spin bowler is a far more preferable approach. We have a
collection of balls e.g. 24 and we practice on an artificial wicket or a wicket
set aside specifically for practice. Using 10 cones or anything you have at
hand the bowler set his/her initial field. A target is set e.g. the batsman has
to score 50 runs off of 48 balls to win and the bowler has to take x amount of
runs or what-ever combination you feel is reasonable for each player. Between
the two players you make decisions as to how many runs the ball goes for or
whether it’s fielded or caught. Better still if there’s a coach or a neutral 3<span style="font-size: small;"><sup>rd</sup>
person they keep a tally of the score/wickets. The field can be re-set and the
bowler should be encouraged to make observations as to where the ball is being
hit and make decisions with regards the field as to where a gap may be left and
the ball bowled in order to encourage the shot that’s required to gain runs
through that vacant area, but bowled in such a way that it’s tactically
advantageous to the bowler…</span></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2428681878644794362.post-22087978395951117382015-09-26T12:25:00.000-07:002016-02-21T08:08:58.890-08:00Leg Spin Bowling - Bowling Plans & Psychology <span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>Bowling Plans and Psychology</strong></span> <span style="font-size: xx-small;">Work in progress.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;">
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: black;">As you get better at your
bowling and more serious about your cricket, you're going to become
increasingly aware that in order to perform better you will need to have plans
and strategies in place to work with in order that you get results. I would
imagine that the transition from Youth Cricket to 4th team cricket and then
making your way up through the ranks to first team cricket as a wrist spin
bowler is pretty difficult and one where your learning curve is pretty steep.
You as a bowler have to be pretty thick skinned to be able to accept that in
between being hit for 6 by far superior and stronger batsmen, you have to
somehow put that out of your mind and focus on the positives. It's at this
stage I would imagine a lot of kids lose the plot and give up wrist spinning
because of the negative side to what you're doing. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: black;">If your team has got a
several teams... first team down to the 4th or 5th XI it may be the case that
you're moved back and forth, given the opportunity to play at different levels
- trying you out, which is completely normal - think </span><a href="http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/244497.html"><span style="color: blue;">Adil
Rashid </span></a><span style="color: black;">here in the UK... He's been around the <st1:country-region w:st="on">England</st1:country-region>
set-up for some years now and has played international one day cricket for <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">England</st1:place></st1:country-region> back in
2009. He didn't do that well and therefore, soon disappeared again. It seems to
be universally acknowledged that wrist spinners (and the other blokes as well) <em><span style="font-family: Calibri;">mature</span></em> with age and as you
get older and wiser your approach to the game changes, you become more wily and
less affected by being hit for 6, you internalise it and see it as a positive
and you don't let it get under your skin. Rashid, now 27 has recently played in
a one day series against <st1:country-region w:st="on">Australia</st1:country-region>
and <st1:country-region w:st="on">New Zealand</st1:country-region> and has done
fairly well and there's speculation that the up and coming series against <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:place></st1:country-region> on
spin friendly wickets, will see him possibly break into the Test Arena? <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: black;">At 27, that's seen as
still being pretty young and if he doesn't do well it may be the case that
he'll disappear again to play around the fringes of the England set up </span><a href="http://www.ecb.co.uk/news/england/england-lions/england-lions-squads-tour-south-africa-2015"><span style="color: blue;">"England
Lions".</span></a><span style="color: black;"> and for his <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">county</st1:placetype>
<st1:placename w:st="on">Yorkshire</st1:placename></st1:place>. It'll probably
be the case that if he doesn't make the impact that he needs to this year in
the test side if he's given the chance we'll see him again later on in his
career when he's in his 30's. It is just the case that this thing that we all
do, is one of the most difficult if not <em><span style="font-family: Calibri;">the
most difficult</span></em> of all the disciplines in cricket and it takes
years and years to learn and be good at it.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: black;">Part of the <em><span style="font-family: Calibri;">being good at it</span></em> includes the need to
have a good cricketing brain. Something you'll hear said about Shane
Warne very often. This means thinking about it, planning, scheming, and working
out batsmen.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><strong>Working out the Batsman</strong></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: black;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: black;">In Bob Woolmer's book 'The Art and Science of Cricket' there's a good chapter that is dedicated to this in a section headed 'Thinking cricket'. The section starts with this aspect, discussing the importance of it and he mentions Glen McGraths ability to dismiss both Sachin Tendulkar and Michael Atherton again and again based on observations about small flaws in their techniques. Woolmer says that despite being geniuses at their game, all batsmen have flaws, it may not be entirely technical, it may be a flaw in their psychology as Woolmer says...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;"><em><span style="color: black;">"Be alert to the signs of tension and be willing to dominate him emotionally as well as technically".</span></em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;"><em><span style="color: black;"></span></em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Bob Woolmer's Art & Science of Cricket; 2008; New Holland Publishers; London; Page 399.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">Bill O'Reilly<strong> </strong></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">Is mentioned in Woolmer's book The
Art and Science of Cricket as being a advocate of keeping notes on the batsmen
that he faced, making meticulous notes of new information at the end of each
game. Teams for years have had staff members that draw up pitch maps that show the where
batsmen score the majority of their runs and nowadays this is being increasingly
recorded using digital technology and there are even apps on mobile phones and
tablets that allow you to store this data and make use of it, if you have a scorer, coach or someone off the pitch that can record it for you.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Clarrie Grimmett was so serious about his bowling that when he played for Australia, he never netted with the other Australian players because he new that when they went back to playing state cricket he would have to face them. If he bowled in the nets with them he knew they'd potentially be able to work out some aspect of his bowling. You can see Grimmett watching and learning about them, but never giving them the chance to get one over him!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The thing is what can we do in our situation? As mentioned if you have </span><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.echoz.tc.cricketscorer&hl=en"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">access to the equipment</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> and someone to record the data you could start to do your own Bill O'Reilly. The sooner you can start to do this the better and potentially the better you'll be at cricket generally. If you are a youth player and you're good enough to play in leagues where they mix club players up to represent larger areas that you play/live in, these are the perfect opportunities to observe the players that you'll meet in club games. In the UK, the next step up for kids that play for their clubs are 'District' teams...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This allows such players
to play with all of the best players in their local area that they'll meet
again and again over their cricket lives (if they go on to play cricket as
adults). So this is one of those opportunities to bowl against those blokes
when they're young and start to work out what it is they do well and what they
do wrong. The environment is one of sharing, so it's one of those situations
where if you're clever you could even ask the bloke - what's the weakest aspect
of their batting? What don't you like about facing Leggies? <o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">If you're not that player
and you're in a position where you only get to see the players twice a year as
I do, then the problem isn't that easy to work with. But you can make a start and
you do have to see it as a long term project and the younger you are the
better, because you will over the years get to know these blokes and you will
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This is the hard part as far as I'm concerned - partly because I can't bat and I've never had any training or coaching in batting, so I haven't got a clue basically, and everything I've learned (and never been able to implement in any meaningful way) has been through observation and listening, without any confirmation that my assumptions and conclusions are sound. So, I'll turn to Bob Woolmer for guidance...</span><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It is important to be able to spot the gap between the batsman's pad and bat, or to tally a flinch when you slip in a short ball, or a shuffle too far across to off-stump; but it is vital to be able to sense the batsman's state of mind as you run-in. Many batsmen betray their characters and emotional states through small visual clues. Perhaps his eyes are very wide, or he's gripping the bat handle tightly. Some batsmen beat the toe of the bat against the pitch much harder when they're about to hit over the top. A nervous batsman will be a tense batsman, and a tense batsman will be slow to get the bat down to a Yorker, or get his foot to the pitch of the ball swinging away on a good length. Be alert to the signs of tension and be willing to dominate him emotionally as well as technically. </span></em><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Over at one of my </span><a href="http://www.legspinbowling.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/leg-spin-bowling-bowling-plans.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">other blogs</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> I'm slowly writing a post where I'm looking at tactics and plans, so at the moment that post is a bit disorganised and I'm still at the research stage. Last night I was researching </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKGWwo6icSM" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Pravin Tambe</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> and watching a </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_qqZaJM6wg" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Rajastan Royals match with Royal Challengers Bangalore</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">, where he takes 4 wickets in his four overs. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Pravin Tambe has an </span><a href="http://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/player/587152.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">interesting story</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> in that he came from nowhere, progressing from being a club cricketer to playing for RR in the IPL bowling at the likes of Virat Kohli, AB Devlliers et al. Despite that massive progression he's done exceptionally well, partly due to the fact that it is T20 cricket and the batsmen have to go after the ball and score and the fact that he's been handled well by the captains seemingly. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Watching the Youtube video Tambe's spell is interesting because of the way that he goes about getting Virat Kohli's wicket. In the game Kohli is the only bloke that looks as though he's going to be able to put runs on the board because all around him the other players are falling for pitiful scores. On his side Tambe has the benefit of the fact that Kohli therefore is under immense pressure to score runs. Up to the point where Tambe gets the Kohli's wicket, Kohli has played Tambe fairly well, scoring singles and rotating the strike. Then Tambe does something very simple, not changing his action - so he runs in exactly the same as before, the bowling action effort is the same, but he does something quite obvious in one respect, especially if seen from the side, but from Kohli's position at the crease, possibly not that apparent...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I've just been listening to Chris Jordan talking about death bowling in the 2016 England v South Africa. Whist this might be obvious to most people captains especially, to learners and people that don't think about this stuff 24-7 it's good to hear people reiterate the point and explain it. Very basic, but if the ground is big - square on the leg-side, put a man out there (your best catcher) and just sneak a ball an over on middle and leg with more top-spin, so that the batsman goes through the ball too early and potentially hits it up in the air - your equivalent of Jordan's slower ball.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Not started on this yet but it'll come. In the meantime check out Shane Warne being smacked for 22 off of one over by a tail - ender. That's never happened to me to date (Not that bad), but the thing is take heart - this is the best Wrist Spinner in the history of the game and he's gone for 22 off of one over. Watch it and empathise!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p><b>The Grip, flick and release</b><br />
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The grip is a contentious issue as it follows that the way you grip and hold the ball has some bearing on the way that you release the ball and the release is integral to imparting as much spin on the ball as possible. All Wrist Spin bowlers of historical note from Grimmett to Warne say the same thing <i>Spin the ball hard. </i>The mantra is that the spinning of the ball is first and foremost <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">and that issues such as line, length, flight are secondary to the ability to get the ball spinning. This it turns out is the Australian approach and has been advocated since the days of Grimmetts first books.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span">If there is one factor in spin bowling which all spinners should accept if they wish to perform to their optimum, it is the concept that the ball should be spun hard. Not rolled, not gently turned, but flicked, ripped, fizzed.</span></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Peter Philpott; The Art of Wrist Spin Bowling; 2006; Crowood Press; Wiltshire, England.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The grip therefore is important in getting the ball to spin in the way that wrist spinners do. A good wrist spinner is able to impart so much spin on the ball that, as it flies through the air it hums. The basic grip is referred to by Shane Warne as the 2 fingers up, 2 fingers down technique as seen here below.</span><br />
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Dependent on the size of your hands in relation to the ball size, your own grip may not match this image. Indeed the idea of the 2 up 2 down finger configuration is a template for a basic starting point. Many people bowl with slightly different looking grips, but in a roundabout manner they are normally modelled on this version. Again all of the master Wrist Spinners say that there is no regulation grip and that if people grip the ball in a slightly idiosyncratic manner and still get the ball to produce a good leg break you shouldn't mess with their technique. But if you're starting out this image above will serve as a good starting point.<br />
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Most of the advice with regards the grip and how hard you should grip it is standard in that you shouldn't grip the ball hard. The logic behind this advice is that when you bowl your Leg Break well, the whole action is usually performed in a flowing fluid motion where all of your 'Levers' work in tandem with each other to bowl the ball. Tension within the bowling action at any point tends to lead to problems with inaccuracy and dragging the ball down short. With regards how and where the ball sits in your hands - especially if you have large hands will be down to trial and error. I personally use differing positions in the hand to affect variations. I bowl a smaller turning ball that is bowled faster using a slightly harder grip, high in the fingers pretty much as in the image above. But my general leg break is bowled with the ball lower and sitting further into the palm.<br />
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The most important aspect of the grip though is the position of your 3rd finger on the seam. It's the 3rd finger and it's contact with the seam that is used to impart the spin on the ball. When you release the ball in the bowling action, your 3rd finger is the last point of contact as it's flicked from the hand using that finger to put the revs on the ball. The contact therefore needs to be deliberate and positive and along the seam whilst the '2 Up' fingers go across the seam.<br />
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Here's a still from <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EznP02ZQOWE">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EznP02ZQOWE</a> where you can see that the last point of contact is Warnes 3rd finger.<br />
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Again below, but not quite so clear is this screen grab from the Cloverdale series <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlWYcuaTosc">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlWYcuaTosc</a><br />
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<strong>Three Different Approaches to bowling this delivery</strong><br />
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I suppose I should tow the party line on Wrist Spinning and advocate the Aussie way and say that it is of utmost importance to spin the ball hard and learn to do so before anything else. I've had discussions with many people about whether there is any merit in establishing first, whether you can actually bowl at all, e.g. straight and there are big differences in opinion. If, you read both Grimmetts and Philpotts books, the premise is that the books are for boys looking to bowl wrist spin, but there is a tacit understanding that, at the 1st stages in the process, your raw material is a boy that can bowl. I would still argue, that even before you start to try and spin the ball you should have a basic ability to bowl the ball seam up with a side on action and a regulation bound. This action should then enable you to get the ball to batsman with a degree of acceptable accuracy.<br />
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I would say that, if you're there you can then go forward with all the instructions with regards to spinning the ball hard. The foundations to your bowling are there and you can now build on them. I would imagine that if you've got those fundamentals already in place you're in a good position to go forwards<br />
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<strong>The <em>real Leg Break</em> with a big flick</strong><br />
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The real leg break requires the big flick. Look at the earlier explanations regarding the throwing of the ball from one hand to the other and the video on-line at<strong><span style="color: red;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8wAzBKmgYM">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8wAzBKmgYM</a> </span></strong>. As you work on this and get used to the feeling you’ll soon begin to develop an action where rather than just rolling your hand over and round the ball you’ll begin to produce an action more akin to a flick. hopefully this flick will incorporate the use of the 3rd finger, the wrist, the elbow and shoulder in putting the spin on the ball. Again the exact way in which this is done varies from person to person, some people note that the amount of work that the 3rd finger does is such that it produces blisters, Shane Warne apparently was able to produce his spin without having blisters or callouses at all. The important thing is that the flick is there. My own version creates an audible sound not unlike the Flippers click as the ball is flicked off my 3rd finger. In trying to understand the wrist flick and the role the 3rd finger plays my own experience is that the sensation that I have is that I’m primarily bowling the ball off the 3rd and 4th fingers, the rest of my hand apart from the wrist has very little involvement in getting the ball to spin, the thumb and the 2 up fingers only support the ball in holding the ball poised against the fingers that impart the spin.<br />
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To see the emphasis and action of the 3rd finger on the ball watch the two sequences of Shane Warne in this video in high quality (HQ). <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x72rFy1YmU&feature=related" style="color: #5588aa; text-decoration: none;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x72rFy1YmU&feature=related</a><br />
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When learning this, note the sideways action of the ball being thrown from one hand across the body to the other right to left with the flick. This is the basis of the leg break with the big flick. This is the action that gives you the flick coupled with imparting spin off the 3rd finger.<br />
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Similarly with the other versions the hand still releases the ball with the *palm facing the batsman, the ball should leave the hand rotating anti-clockwise with the seam at right angles to the direction of flight so that when the ball hits the ground the seam bites and propels the ball towards the off-side away from it’s expected trajectory. You may find that with this variation that your thumb is instrumental in some way and holds the ball in the hand so that the ball is tucked up ready against the 3rd finger on release as the ball is released the hand closes around the thumb. With all these slight variations and approaches there is one consistent aspect and that’s the position of the wrist on release. The underside of your wrist with the veins needs to be<br />
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The Straight Ball with the drag off the 3rd finger<br />
The Cocked Wrist with the straightening of the hand at release<br />
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<strong>The Straight Ball with the drag off the 3rd finger</strong><br />
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If you are struggling with the Leg Break, one approach is to bowl the ball with the palm of the hand at the point of release facing the batsman. As the ball leaves the hand the last part of the hand that has contact with the ball is the 3rd finger and it’s this that imparts the spin. This approach seemingly doesn’t use any or minimal wrist action but still produces a small leg break with a good degree of bounce. Some people say that as you bring the ball over you should also have a feeling that you’re pushing the ball forward out of your hand rather than flinging it. Also try turning the wrist slightly clockwise so that your thumb comes round towards you and the little finger moves towards the bat so that the hand starts to move towards being in the Karate Chop position. You’ll notice that this small variation in the wrist position will affect the spin and the bounce. This approach would probably fit Philpotts description of you 'Rolling the ball' rather than ripping the ball out of the hand.<br />
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<strong>The unfurled cocked wrist approach</strong><br />
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Many wrist spinners you’ll note will start with their wrists cocked at the start of the delivery and then release the ball with the hand in the ‘Traffic Cop’ position on release. Again if you’re having problems getting your Leg Break together this is an approach that you may want to explore that could potentially lead to a break through or an improvement. The unfurling of the cocked wrist to the ‘Traffic cop’ position with the palm facing the batsman on release involves a degree of wrist flick and incorporates the 3rd finger as the last point of contact on the ball thus producing the spin. You only have to do this gently over a couple yards so that you can step forward and catch the ball yourself and you can see how readily the ball comes out of the hand rotating perfectly with the seam rotating at right angles to the direction of flight. Again this isn't quite the 'Ripping' phase, but it's an intermediate approach that will produce a Leg Break for many people.<br />
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At this point I need to mention anomalies in the ability to carry out complex motor activities despite the ability to mentally formulate the action. We've seen the need to present the hand in the manner as indicated by the images and we understand that in order to release the ball with the seam spinning approx 70-80 degrees to the direction of flight or thereabouts to obtain maximum turn off the wicket, there can be difficulties in executing this action. Without the use of high speed video recording we're unable to see exactly what it is we're doing as we release the ball. If your motor coordination is perfect, you're not going to have a problem, you'll release the ball in the manner as intended and it will spin in the direction as imparted by the flick and the position of the wrist. The subtleties of the wrist position dictate whether you're going to bowl the Leg Break with differing degrees of over-spin or side spin. If you're able to formulate the action prior to bowling and then execute the delivery with accuracy and consistency you've probably got extraordinarily good fine motor skills. I would suggest that if you do have this kind of control over your Leg Break you should follow all of the guidance with regards to learning how to bowl the Googly e.g. do so with due care and attention to your Leg Break, do not over do the learning of the leg break see <a href="http://www.bigcricket.com/forum/t79461/">http://www.bigcricket.com/forum/t79461/</a> The consequence of over doing it when learning the Googly is that you end up losing the Leg Break (Googly Syndrome) and my own anecdotal experience to date would suggest that it seems to have an extremely detrimental affect on your ability to contol your Leg Break release (Fine Motor skills). For further reference see the links at the bottom of the page with regards the grip.</o:p> </span> </div>
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<strong>Ian Healey </strong><em>"You can pick his variations from the clubhouse it's that easy. And, on every tour we went on he went up into the media boxes and showed them all what he'd be doing for the next two months"!</em> Healey shows the variations like he's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM9UpUV3fHM">Terry Jenner</a> ... <em>"There was the Leg-Spinner, there was the Top-Spinner, there was a Wrong Un and then there was the Flipper". </em>Ian Ward the SKYTV interjects...</div>
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<strong>Ricky Ponting </strong><em>"Yeah every tour we went on over 10 years there was a new ball, he'd go up there to the media centres and show them the obvious ones and then say, but I haven't shown you the other one". </em>All three of them laugh and smile and the 10 year psychological trick. Healey comes back in...</div>
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All the time Warne is 22 yards away at the other end and at no point does he butt in and say, <em>now hold on you blokes, that's not necessarily true, what about my 'Slider'?</em> That's because there is no slider. The 'Slider' doesn't exist and never did exist. It may have been the case that like a Finger Spinner he may have brought his arm over and released a non-spinning ball once or twice, but that would be a classic Finger Spinners 'Arm Ball'. On many occasions it's pretty obvious as in the video below featuring Javeen Patel he may have bowled a Leg Break every now and then looking for the Big Leg Break, which requires a tilted seam and landed on the smooth part of the ball and that accidentally and completely unintentionally would have skidded on in some cases. </div>
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</span>I still think the jury is out on whether there are such
deliveries as Sliders and Zooters and still maintain that in most instances
when they’re featured on TV they’re automatically labelled with these
descriptions by the commentators by way of laziness or to give the impression
that they know what they’re talking about. Increasingly the TV coverage now
includes high speed cameras that allow for detailed slow motion play-backs and
we’re able to see the subtleties of the delivery and the angles at which the
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</span>Interestingly I came across the video below via reading an
article with an interview with Javeen Patel where he makes the comment that
English Spinners (Moeen Ali) do not practice enough. The video I then found
shows the highlights of a county match where Patel bowls pretty spectacularly
at a number of batsmen bowling his Finger Spin. In amongst the deliveries he
bowls a delivery that looks like classic finger spin delivery, but it has just
a little more tilt on it in order that when it hits the wicket it does so on
the smooth surface as opposed to the seam. With the slow motion play back we’re
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</span>Indeed the ball does exactly that. But the question is in my
mind, was that intentional? Has Patel got such a controlled command of the ball
that he’s able to send it down with that subtle variation in the rotation of
the seam? Looking at the rest of the footage I would say that it appears that
he has in which case he may have a case for naming the delivery I might suggest, but a mate of mine on the <a href="http://www.bigcricket.com/community/forums/spin-bowling.36/">Big Cricket Spin Forum</a> says that it's a classic 'Off Break'.<br />
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spell it looks as though he has a very good command over his bowling and I
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There’s an adage in cricket – Shit bowling gets wickets. I’m
a fan of Adil Rashid because the bloke is so resilient. He’s in the team - out
of the team, carrying drinks and missing finals at Yorkshire in which he'd have played a significant part so that he can sit on the side-lines and watch
England play hoping to be given a chance. As I write he’s probably waiting to
be included in the team to play Pakistan in the UAE. Rashid gets smacked all
around the park some days, but he stays at it, he digs in and bowls another
ball which goes for six, but then the next ball he sets the batsman up for
another leg break and he bowls a variation and Rashid gets his man. But when I
watch him, it looks to me as though he bowls an awful lot of short balls, but
are these accidental short balls or intended? Patels bowling is unbelievably tight and accurate and it
looks like the angled seam could be intentional, but Rashid’s short balls which
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</span>I’m sure we’ve all bowled a dreadful delivery on a number of
occasions and as a result picked up a wicket. The difference between us and
someone like Warne or Patel is that there’s no ex international batsman in a
commentary box somewhere being paid a shed load of money to make sense of
what’s just happened “That’ll be his Zooter/Slider” etc. Interestingly Warne
took several big wickets over his career with full tosses – I wonder if they
were intentional?<br />
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<strong>Shane Warn again with Ian Ward & Nasser Hussain on Sky discussing his bowling...</strong><br />
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There's some footage of Warne Bowling against Alec Stewart where Warne bowls on the middle stump and Stewart expecting the ball to break is trapped LBW because the ball goes straight-on (What some people call a 'Slider'). <br />
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<strong>Nasser Hussain</strong>... "A few minutes later if you look at Alec with that delivery... it looks like a leg-break but goes straight on". The footage shows Warne jumping up and down appealing and the finger of doom goes up and Alec Stewart is given out.<br />
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<strong>Ian Ward </strong>"It's fascinating to speak to you Shane about how and why that delivery came about. Shoulder op, finger op, you found it very difficult to grip the ball for the Flipper, so you came up with what and how did you do it and why did you do it? It's because you couldn't grip the English ball is that right?".<br />
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<strong>Shane Warne... </strong>Yeah, the one later on was as I played my first year of county cricket in 2000. The Duke ball is a lot different to the Kookaburra... it has lacquer around the seam, so bowling <em>an 8 ball </em>... Leg breaks in the freezing cold and raining, it was very hard to bowl a leg break. So I tried to bowl a big side spinning leg break and it went straight on. So, then what I end up doing is thinking... Well, hang on that's a pretty good delivery, so I tried to keep on practicing the whole season with that delivery and you know I'm always shooting my mouth off about having different deliveries, this time I actually did.<br />
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<strong>Shane Warne... </strong>Yeah all of it was bluff except that this time it wasn't - this time I came up with one which we called <em>The Slider</em> which was basically down to not being able to bowl the Duke ball in April and being able to grip it in the wet. <br />
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He then goes on to say more about the shoulder and finger op, but doesn't elaborate on the method of delivery, so going back to the explanation of why the ball goes on straight...<br />
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Yes. A big side-spinning leg break if bowled with a some angle on the ball has a tendency to land on the smooth side of the ball rather than the seam. Warne doesn't say that he developed the idea/delivery e.g. he changed it in any way. It is just a Leg Break gone wrong, and if you can bowl a leg break just try it, try and bowl a whole sequence of Peter Philpotts 'Big Leg Breaks' and you'll see, a lot of them will simply stay low and skid on. Okay I'm happy to concede that for the purposes of 'Bluff' and guile Warne then in this instance calls it a 'Slider' but in essence it is simply a Big Leg Break gone wrong and therefore if you was a coach teaching it you'd be saying to a kid or anyone...<br />
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Mate if you develop the big side spinning leg break this ball is a killer ball because it comes down with the seam turning at 90 degrees or there about to the direction of flight and like Alec Stewart facing Shane Warne, the batsman thinks it's going turn like crazy, but one of the assets and characteristics of this ball is that it'll often land on the smooth part of the ball and therefore 'Slide' or 'Skid' on without turning. <strong>It is not a Slider it is a Leg Break gone wrong! </strong>But Warne and everyone else calls it a Slider. I honestly still don't believe he bowls it knowing 100% that it'll not turn because fundamentally it's a big side-spinning Leg Break as he initially describes it as being.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>25th Oct 2015</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Bit cold and damp today here in the UK, but managed to get both sons out on an artificial wicket today and had a bowl and a bat. Earlier in the morning had a knock about with younger son Joe in the street outside of our house and was trying the Googly with the new bowling action and it worked. At one point I bowled an over of only Googlies and all of them were (a) Accurate (b) turning quite a bit, so this afternoon with a real cricket ball I gave the Googly a go and came out very well, taking wickets with it two or three times. That's good news as last year the Googly was pretty much non existent after the Achilles injury at the end of May and prior to that it had along with the top spinner got me a few wickets. I'm off for this week as it's half term, so fingers crossed if the weather stays dry and warm enough I'll still get a few more practices before winter sets in properly (usually around about Nov 5th).</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Winter draws nearer, but there's hope that tomorrow will be sunny and mild with the temperature around about 14 degrees centigrade, so we may be able to get out on the artificial wicket at Mopsies?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">At this time of year my mind turns to what can I do in order to maintain a level of fitness to allow a decent start to nets in January and what do I do about any lingering injuries. This year I've picked up an Achilles injury (Strain) which affected my bowling throughout the rest of the season, so that's still there in the background at the moment as a twinge. So with the Achilles injury there's the need to rest it so that it has a chance to fully recover, but total rest might also equate to losing all my fitness, so that's something I need to think about and resolve.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I've also had a physio/trainer have a look at my body to identify any anomalies and he's noticed a few things that I was surprised at because of his thoroughness, but on the other hand wasn't surprised at because they're linked to a few injuries that exist (Achilles) and some very old injuries. So the recommendations I've had from the bloke are...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I've made a start on some of these and hopefully I'll be working on these over the winter. I'm pleased that the bloke said that "Overall pretty good" and I do like to think that I do enough generally to keep things ticking over, but at 55 I'm acutely aware that it would be easy to let things go and get myself in a position where I'd struggle to regain fitness and end up in a spiral heading for a fitness abyss!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I'm also getting out on a bike (Single speed) and doing a very fast quick blast route (10 mins) that takes in two big hills one at the start which is very steep and one at the end I try and sprint up, this hopefully does the cardio work, core strength, legs, knees and thighs. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Squats, planks, side planks amongst others all of it intermittent. At the moment the idea of doing this at regular times just isn't possible. But hopefully it's enough? Finally almost forgot, one of the key ones is my <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN0sYBsHpvo">Gluteous Medius</a> which I do a number of different exercises on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The weather here in the UK is holding out and I've been able to bowl today and I've been working on getting up on my toes bracing the pivot leg. The expectation was that I'd lose some of the accuracy and that's what happened. I found it really difficult to bowl trying to hit a small mat as I usually do, but easier once I had a batsman to bowl at. I managed to get my younger son out 12 times in 46 balls only going for 20 runs or so, most of the dismissals would have been catches. All of which is worked out by placing cones on the pitch where I'd have my fielders. My son's quite weak playing through the offside, so I loaded up the leg-side with fielders only having slips, point and mid-off...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Forcing him to take higher risk shots swinging across the line trying to either pierce the filed or go over the top of it on the Leg-Side or try and play through the off-side. Unfortunately there's no footage as I didn't set the camera up properly and we were unable to shoot any footage. The weather's going to be okay tomorrow, so with a bit of luck we'll get a couple of hours tomorrow as well and I'll try and get some footage shot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">There's a load of historical content at <a href="http://www.mpafirsteleven.blogspot.com/">www.mpafirsteleven.blogspot.com</a> but I'm trying to log a diary in this section from now on as this Blog receives a lot of visits.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So currently after 8 years of messing around with differing run-ups, see... <a href="http://www.legspinbowling.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/leg-spin-bowling-repeatable-consistent.html">http://www.legspinbowling.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/leg-spin-bowling-repeatable-consistent.html</a> I've eventually got it so that I'm happy with it now after watching the Glen McGrath video in the link above. But, it kind of leaves me in a situation where I've almost got re-learn everything I've been doing over the last 8 years. Additionally my focus has been on being able to spin the ball hard and fast and the run-up and action through the crease has always been a secondary aspect of what I do. I'm now of the opinion that the run-up and movement through the crease is fundamentally important and improves your chances of putting more spin on the ball and having more control of where it lands. The run-up and action through the crease is the foundation on which you build everything else, without a sound foundation, you're going to be doing remedial work all your life. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I've established a run up which is 13' foot long and I lead with my left foot from my mark and take three steps and then go into the bound. That part is coming together nicely. It was then noted on the spin threads at <a href="http://www.bigcricket.com/community/forums/spin-bowling.36/">http://www.bigcricket.com/community/forums/spin-bowling.36/</a> that I fall away to the left and that my leading arm is flailing around all over the place, so that's what I've been working with in the last week or so and the first stage is that I've been trying to get the leading arm in the 'Gather' so that my hand is up around my right ear. That's coming along well and has led to me not falling away to the left for some reason and added energy to the run-up. The next stage which I was working on yesterday was getting the hand forwards from the starting position and reaching out towards the batsman. So far (2 hour session yesterday) this hasn't come together because I was still thinking about the gather aspect. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The conclusion is - I need to work with the gather and the hand up around the ear aspect more so that it becomes in-grained and wholly natural before moving on to the reaching out part of the action. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">In 2015 (see other sections of this blog and my Youtube channel <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtkyk-NkFTxMDscqPwDEPkg">here</a> ) I made the decision to completely re-configure my bowling action, looking to improve it. Looking around I found that there seems to be very little that is spin-bowling specific and that the majority of the advice and guidance deals with fast bowling. So this is my attempt as producing a series of illustrations and images that might be useful to the spin bowling community. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: x-small;">The bowling action whether it's fast or slow is pretty much the same thing and can be broken down into these different phases. Using this blog post you should be able to improve your bowling action.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Standing at the top of the crease - </strong>What are you doing and thinking? First, you need to know exactly where it is you're going to stand. I've heard people over the years say things like you shouldn't measure your run-up. Their reasoning being that if you're a good bowler, you should know exactly what you're doing and be able to get it right without measuring it out. I personally like that notion, but couldn't actually do it with any accuracy, so what I do is measure it out when we're playing at home before the other team are turn up. I have in the past used bowlers markers...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: x-small;">But always forget to retrieve them at the end of the game, so instead I now use the tops of Lucozade bottles and just press them into the ground as my marker.</span></div>
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But whatever approach you take, obvious or discreet, it does need to be part of your approach and therefore needs to be consistent and repeated. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: x-small;">Stuart MacGill says that at this point you should be relaxed with your wrist nice and floppy and a loose grip on the ball. This is backed up by Warne in his tutorials on-line, he too advocates a loose grip, he equates a tight grip with having an overall sense of tension throughout the body and therefore unlikely to be relaxed. At this point make the decision as to what it is you're going to bowl, if necessary make field adjustments, Warne would suggest just make small adjustments but be obvious about it so that the batsman is focused on what you're doing, it may be the case that you may break his focus on his batting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: x-small;">MacGill in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRalbzmKIEM">his video</a> emphasises the fact that you always set off on the same foot and that this process must be exactly the same each time... <em>"Repetition, Repetition, Repetition".</em> For me when I started to re-configure my bowling this was one of the key things that I changed right at the outset and it had a massive impact immediately.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: x-small;">Zubin Barucha in the Praveen Tambir video similarly advocates the need to have the exact same run-up each time, another point he makes with regards to the run-up is that your eyes should be level and your head not to one side (Something that Tambir used to do). As you run-in keep straight, don't zig-zag and keep your eyes along the same plane as much as you can both vertically and horizontally looking at where you're going to bowl. Barucha and Warne in videos both talk about the variation in the run-in being implemented by running in and arriving at different points on the crease. This means the delivery is executed for instance - close to the stumps or wide of the stumps, but when you do this, the way you run-in should be exactly the same, if you start slightly wider at your mark - do so discreetly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: x-small;">The run-up is important... very important and for years I've messed around with it and have never been able to establish a consistent way of doing it. I would suggest to anyone who bowls spin to take this aspect of what you do seriously. It may be that I was never coached, so never had this reinforced as being such an important aspect of what we do, but the bottom line is when you bowl you must be able use a...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: x-small;">Far too many of us look to Warne as a method of bowling, but I would look a lot further, look at Stuart MacGill, Pravin Tambe, Mushtaq Ahmed, Yasir Shah and Shahid Afridi examine and watch their bowling, watch their videos on Youtube, look at their run-ups and the way that they approach the crease. The Warne method is possibly one of the most difficult to emulate and use as a template because his physique and build is probably not like yours or mine. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: x-small;">But, more than anything you need to at some point synthesise the information you glean from watching the videos with something that suits your physique, lifestyle and age, it may mean like me, you will have to do some additional exercises working on core strength or your glutes, especially if like most of us you sit around all day working at a computer. (<span style="background-color: yellow;">See this link here</span>). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: x-small;">Have a look at this post <a href="http://www.legspinbowling.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/leg-spin-basics-consistent-and.html">here</a> from my blog that looks specifically at developing a run-up. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: x-small;">For most of this, if you're going to analyse and deconstruct what you do you will need some form of camera and access to a computer with at least the standard windows software such as windows live movie maker. That will enable you to video yourself and easily edit the footage and slow it down in order that you can analyse what it is you're doing right and wrong.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: x-small;">PDS (Pre delivery stride). Sometimes referred to as the load up and the point at which you 'gather'. The key point in phase 1 for us as Wrist Spinners is that we set off into the bound setting ourselves so that we start to get 'Side-on'. It's essential that we get side on and avoid having a front-on or a mixed bowling action. My new run-up is short, some people have said that it is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=va3nkw4p5F0">Mushtaq-esque </a>I take three steps before going into the 2nd phase, I stand square on, without any angled run-in and start off on the left foot. The PDS gets me landing on my left foot, setting me up to get my body fully side-on through the bound (2nd Phase). </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="">Front on view above you can see that I'm looking over my left shoulder in the gather, my shoulder have started to get into position whereby I'm side-on.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Again (above) you see that I'm looking down towards where the batsman would be - over my shoulder and outside of the leading arm in the gather. The wrist is cocked and through the run-in and the approach to this phase in the action, my head has been along the same plane not deviating from side to side - simply moving straight at the batsman - click the image to see slow mo footage of the action.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: x-small;">In the process of getting this right, one of the key pieces of information that helped me was the advice to get the leading arm hand up around my ear in the gather. Other key things you need to be doing at this stage is cocking the wrist, keeping your head up-right and your eyes focused on the target. This next piece of advice comes from a fast bowling tutorial but seems to make sense to me. Look at the two images below here and look at the position of the elbow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">If you click on the image there's a video that explains and illustrates the theory here. The image on the left is poor presentation of the elbow as it's hanging out wide, both the leading arm and the bowling arm should be compact at this stage as this aids accuracy, but having said that many of us bowl with a more round-arm action and it may be the case that this doesn't suit or work for you. Remember these are just ideas and each of these suggestions can be disregarded if they don't appear to work with you. For me this might make sense as I tend to bowl with more over-spin looking to be accurate.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: x-small;">This is the section where if you're a right arm bowler you'll have leapt off of your left foot and got airborne. It's while you're in the air that you'll then start to go from the chest on position to the side on position you'll need as you land out of the bound. It's therefore essential that you have enough 'Hang-time' in the air to get this side-on aspect. When you're learning this I found this is one of the sections that I had to really focus on in order to land out of the bound with my right foot landing side-on (BFC) Back foot contact. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">When you're learning this or adapting this to improve your bowling think about how you land - your right foot needs to land side-on ready for the 3rd phase BFC - Back foot contact. It's while you're in the end getting ready for BFC that you start to get really side on which is required. It may take a lot of practice and concentration to get this phase working. It may also require that you go away and do some strength and agility work in order that you're able to execute and perform this part of the action?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: x-small;">My bound at this point has been commented on in that it may be a little high, some people reckon that it should be around about half the height of a set of stumps as a rough guideline, but I'm happy with mine and it may change over the coming months, but for the moment it feels good and it enable me to get side-on. If you struggle with the bound the advice is to use hurdles or some kind of object to jump over in order that it becomes more active and obvious. A coach that I've worked with and take notice of recommends that in the off-season when you can look at these issues, one of the ways that you can address them is to do things in an over-exaggerated way and then tidy things up in pre-season nets. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Fully side on at this stage, we’re into the bowling action where we focus on the upper body, the arms now start to gain momentum, the leading arm reaches out
high and long, Beau Casson describes it as being ‘Long and Strong’, this
reaching out needs to be towards the batsman/off-stump and is described as the
‘Rudder’ – it dictates where you’re going to bowl the ball. As the leading (Left arm) straightens and
comes down towards the hip, the delivery arm comes up in unison, </span><br />
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perpendicular to each other in the way that you might teach kids to bowl when
grasping the basics. There’s a crucial aspect to the timing here and the arms
can be out of sync with point at which you move into FFC (Front foot contact). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The movement from BFC to FFC involves the delivery stride
and this </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">seemingly needs to be relatively long. If you
look at the current leg-spinners they all have long strides, so the inference
would be that this adds something, it may make the movement through the crease
more dynamic and add the necessary torque to get the ball spinning more. Most
of the advice discussing this part of the action talks about the energy levels
and making this part of the action ‘Explosive’, which makes sense as you’re
loading up to release the ball. But, it has to be comfortable, don’t look to
develop a massively long delivery stride in the way that Tambir does if it
feels wholly wrong and reduces the smoothness and rhythmic feel of the action.
Although having said that when practicing, consider and try using the over
exaggeration approach. I’ve always found that when I do things that feel
enormously exaggerated, on viewing them they’re never quite as dramatically
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">As your front foot lands your foot should be pointing
towards **** Most of the advice says that the leg should be braced as you land
on the ball of your foot or heel and then go up onto the toes and pivot. There
may be some additional value in twisting the foot at the ankle at this stage to
accentuate to pivot. The back foot, led by the right knee, which is now coming
out of the BFC, drives through towards the batsman, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">NOT OUT AND AROUND,</b> everything for the most part should be moving
forwards towards the batsman at this stage. Again, when practicing this out of
season, look to exaggerate this, one of the things I was told in the past was
to do this knee drive so exaggerated that the right foot actually touches your
butt, or at least you aim to do so as you drive the knee forwards. Look at <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Nathan Lyon</b> for an example of how high
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come down straight from its long and strong position reaching for the batsman –
not swinging out wide and maintaining a compact aspect from the front, this arm
comes to fading stop at around the hip. (Check to see the ‘Tuck’ aspect – look
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hand/ball come out of the gather in an un-coiling action in an ever increasing
circular action, as the ball arm reaches about <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhnPiWob0QI">11 to 12 o’clock</a> the ball is released
with the wrist in whatever position in accordance with your delivery –
Leg-break, top-spinner, Flipper etc. The arm then comes down across the body
and generally your momentum will mean at this point having released the ball,
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after the fastest and most dynamic part of the action. You’ll be sideways, but
moving down the wicket, your legs in relation to your body will now have to
compensate for your side-on aspect as you slow down and finish the follow
through. Don’t pull up sharp, don’t look to jump into a catching position, be
alert to the fact that the ball may be coming back your way, fade out of the follow-through
smoothly again maintaining a straight line down the wicket being mindful not to
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<a href="http://www.strengthspeedagility.com/fundamentals-of-rotation-in-cricket/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">http://www.strengthspeedagility.com/fundamentals-of-rotation-in-cricket/</span></a><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2428681878644794362.post-49685550204656993062010-12-12T14:18:00.000-08:002017-08-03T16:45:22.824-07:00The Flipper<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: 180%;">The Flipper and its variations</span> </strong>(Under construction and being re-edited Aug 2017). </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Copyright Dave Thompson 2017</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">With the Flipper and its variations we’re now moving into the more advanced techniques. Again I have to mention that if you’re still struggling with your basic stock delivery – The Leg Break, you should work on that before moving on to bowling any of the following variations. There’s another warning that comes with the Flipper and this has to do with the stresses that the technique for imparting the spin on the ball puts on your body. During Warne’s career he went through a phase where he lost or didn’t bowl the Flipper due to surgery on his shoulder. It appears that because of the surgery or maybe because the Flipper was a part of the problem that led to the injury, Warne was Flipper-less for quite some time. The inference is that during the rehabilitation process Warne was either advised not to bowl the Flipper or simply couldn’t bowl the Flipper, suggesting that the strain the technique puts on the body needs to be recognized. Anecdotally Richie Benaud another exponent of the Flipper warns that people under the age of 18 whose bodies are still developing, should steer away from the Flipper as a variation because of the stresses and strains that it puts on the body. My own experience can pay testament to the fact that it can cause a condition called Medial Epicondylitis, also known as ‘Golfers Elbow’. The exertion of clicking the ball from between the finger and thumb whilst holding the ball in peculiar wrist configurations causes strain from the fingers through the hand and wrist right up the arm to the inner elbow. This causes a fair bit of pain in the inner elbow that becomes evident when performing a whole range of different non-cricket activities and requires attention and re-habilitation in order to rectify.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Unlike all of the classic Wrist Spin deliveries that impart the spin through the use of the third finger and wrist action (at the hand-stage of the delivery), the Flipper uses a completely different mechanical action. First described in detail by an over-arm bowler - Clarrie Grimmett in his book <em>Getting Wickets</em> in 1930 the spin is imparted using the fingers and the thumb...</span><br />
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<em><span style="color: #000099; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The ball is held between the second finger and the thumb, and I spin it or twist it. The method of spinning is similar to that used in clicking the finger and thumb to attract attention. </span></em><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Or in a more up to-date rendition – clicking the fingers in the manner you would to the beat of music. It’s easily understood by using a small light-weight ball such as a table tennis ball or a tennis ball even. Place the ball between the clicking fingers and thumb and squeeze them together to click the ball out of the them.</span><br />
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<strong><br /></strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">If you’re serious about this delivery, you should start to incorporate the flick into your Philpott-esque drills. In the same way that Philpott advocates that you “Spin,spin,spin”! As much as you can at every opportunity to get the wrist working over the top of the ball giving it a good flick, you should do the same with your Flipper. At every opportunity in amongst your daily spinning of oranges, apples, cricket balls and tennis balls - learning the wrist spin techniques as you sit watching the tele etc. You now need to incorporate the clicking of the same objects from hand to hand using the Flipper technique. Initially try it with something lighter and smaller such as a tennis ball and just do it as much as you can and as often as you can. You’ll probably start out with very little control over it, but given time and practice you’ll be able to click it from one hand to the other with control and ease. If, you do experience any muscle strain you would probably be advised to stop and rest it for a couple of weeks before resuming the drills. If this happens you should be cautious when you resume the practice you should consider looking into some warm up exercises used in medial epicondylitis rehabilitation...........</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Beyond that if you do the stretches and then resume the training with a ball and still experience the pain I’d advise leaving the Flipper and seeking advice from a doctor before resuming. It may be that your lifestyle is pretty sedentary and that you need to look at fitness programs that help develop muscle strength and flexibility.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The Flipper like the Big Leg Break and the Orthodox Back-Spinner and even to some extent the Wrong Un are not seen that much in club cricket or indeed the higher levels of cricket. With slow bowling falling out of favour in the 1970’s and 80’s and the fact that most Wrist Spinners focus on using their stock ball to good effect with only the Top-Spinner as a variation, the Flipper amongst others has disappeared into obscurity. This is not surprising when you consider that Peter Philpott in his book ‘The art of wrist spin’ which surely must be seen as the definitive work on the subject of Wrist Spin Bowling spends very little time describing the flipper and comes across as being unsure about this variation and writing as though it’s not a variation that he has ever used himself? Philpott then shrouds the ball in further mystery by commenting on the fact that expert cricket commentators continually embarrass themselves again and again on TV claiming that they have just seen someone bowl a Flipper. The only detailed instructions relating to bowling the Flipper can be found in Grimmetts book Getting Wickets and even in there Grimmett describes the variations as experimental and isn’t sure at this stage in his career as to whether they will ever be used in first class cricket.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">So obscure is the Flipper with regards to written descriptions of it, that again and again people mistakenly call ‘Flipper’ when in fact the ball bowled was an Orthodox Back-Spinner or one of the more advanced deliveries that has gone wrong and simply skidded through because the seam didn’t bite. The obscurity of the delivery has meant that some commentators on the subject like this one which you’ll find on the Cricinfo website (See link below) almost goes as far as claiming that it doesn’t actually exist. The writer purports to undo the ‘The Physics’ of Leg Spin bowling and the piece reads like the comments of an expert until it comes to The Flipper. The bloke points out some contradictions between Benuad’s and Jenner’s description of the Flipper and ends the article with…….</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Rest assured Mr Whittaker the Flipper does exist and it does so in several variations. With Wrist Spin Bowling there is a great tradition of bowlers claiming to have a mystery ball, one that no-one else bowls or one that the bowler bowls better than all the others for some reason or another. Much of it is bluff and hot air, but it’s all a part of the psychological game. Maybe because of the very nature of the bowling e.g. slow there’s always been a need to compliment the ability of the bowler with the ability to deceive the batsman into pre-empting the delivery in a number of ways and one of those is the talking up of the individuals abilities and variations and setting an expectation prior to the duel on the pitch. Shane Warne in our lifetime has proven to be the master of this, using every opportunity to sell his abilities to every batsman that’s ever faced him. Warne claims again and again before each series to have an array of deliveries that will see him rip through a batting order like like an adult bowling at a bunch of 7 year olds. We all know that more often than not he succeeds and in my opinion this is down to the way that his career started out with the ball to Gatting that has gone on to be described as the ball of the century. This ball set him up to be super-human, but it wasn’t entirely bluff, because he did go on to repeat similar deliveries again and again, but he never let up with the psychological bombardment, promoting himself in anyway possible to always be at the forefront of a batsman’s nightmares – a slow bowler that would make virtually any batsman look like fools. The Flipper fitted into this scheme nicely, a delivery that probably hadn’t been seen on a regular basis since Abdul Quadir a ball that most of the batsmen had never faced in their careers – a mystery ball. It would have had the commentators scrambling around looking for obscure references to it and probably unable to find any descriptions of it other than the briefest of mentions. Benaud I’m sure would have been at the centre of any clarification on the matter and it may have been around this time that the notion arose that Benaud was the inventor of the delivery? The emergence of the Flipper would have fitted into Shane Warne’s smoke and mirrors approach to talking about his bowling, never quite telling the truth, always playing with the anxieties of the batsmen, talking up his mystery balls and playing with the fact that Wrist Spinning deliveries are extremely esoteric and un-impenetrable. But, as a Wrist Spinner with a copy of Clarrie Grimmett Getting Wickets I can tell you that not only does the Flipper exist in the form that Both Warne and Jenner demonstrate in several video demos on-line, but it exists in 3 or 4 other variations! Including one variation that Clarrie Grimmett would tell you is the better of the four which has been lost in the annals of time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The general consensus is that the click between the fingers and thumb is done with the use of the index finger and the middle finger and this will work quite well. When Grimmett first conceived the idea of the Flipper back in the 1920’s he had no idea that he’d be able to convert the concept into a bowling delivery. He initially came up with the method as a means to demonstrate how the mobility of the wrist worked in conjunction with the regular Wrist Spin deliveries – Leg-Break, Googly etc. Not able to demonstrate a full wrist spin delivery in seminars and to friends, Grimmett realised that by twisting the ball out of the thumb and fingers in the Flipper manner he could show that by rotating the wrist as you do with the regular wrist spin deliveries, he could demonstrate on a table top that the ball would spin forwards, backwards, to off and leg. By the 1930’s when he published Getting Wickets he had explored the possibility of bowling his new Flipper deliveries on a wicket and wrote that he was able to affect Top/Back/Off and Leg-Spinners over a distance of ten yards. Writing about the development of the Flipper later in his book Grimmett on Cricket, Grimmet says about the Flipper ………..</span><br />
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<span style="color: #000099;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>By this means I could apply much more spin than I could in bowling my Leg Break. To apply this kind of spin to overarm bowling was difficult, however, it was comparatively easy to get it to spin this way, but extremely difficult to bowl a ball that made pace off the pitch: and I had long since decided that it was useless bowling a ball that did not make pace from the pitch except as an occasional variation. For twelve years, summer and winter, I practiced, goaded on by the fact that I could do it for a short distance. It was difficult but I kept at it, bowling a few yards first and then and then increasing the length. I discovered that the position of the hand at the moment of release was what I had to concentrate on. As I spun the ball the hand had to be pointed to the left across towards cover. The wrist had to be bent, and the ball allowed to leave over the top of the hand, the back of which was facing the batsman. </em></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The thing that I find amazing about this is the fact that with no fore-knowledge of whether there was any guarantee that this would pan out to be successful, it took Grimmett twelve years of trial and error making sense of what he was trying to do. Once the discovery is made and someone is able to tell the next person how to do it with the fore-knowledge that there will be a positive outcome. The time in the new scenario, that is required to develop and master the delivery is exponentially reduced. Warne I’m pretty certain talks about picking it up in a matter of a month or so. I picked up the basics over a period of about 2 months and found it pretty easy bowling the basic back-spinning version and it was for some time my stock ball.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Anyway, so for arguments sake we’ll refer to the Basic Flipper as the one demonstrated by Warne and Jenner. If you’ve followed the initial instructions with regards developing your finger and thumb action the next stage is relatively easy assuming that you bowl with a fair degree of accuracy anyway. By way of not wanting to give away the fact that you are bowling a variation – your movement through the crease should be identical to your Leg Break bowling action. I bowl with a fairly high, almost vertical bowling action and bring the arm over quite close to my ear. As the arm comes over in the action the batsman would see the hand coming over in a similar manner to a Top-Spinner except that the grip of the ball would be that of Flipper grip.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The basic Flipper is modeled on Shane Warne and Terry Jenners versions as seen on line as that’s the most easily referenced illustration of how it’s bowled, although there is at least two videos of Warne explaining and demonstrating the method in a slightly different way, which I’ll examine later. Their Basic version is very slightly different to Grimmetts back-spinning version, but I’ll address that later too. When bowled in this manner the seam is presented up-right and back-spin is imparted with the use of the click release. The amount of spin that can be imparted will be down to the individuals strength and dexterity, but it’s interesting to read(1) that Grimmett claimed that he could impart more spin using the flipper click than he could flicking the ball with his fingers and wrist in the conventional Wrist Spinners method.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Because of the up-right seam and back-spin, the ball is subject to similar aero-dynamics as seam bowling deliveries and where we saw that Top-Spin with the Top-Spinner made the ball dip, the reverse happens with the Flipper because of the back-spin. Through its trajectory from being propelled from the hand, the ball takes a far straighter line seemingly being held in the air longer and strikes the ground on a fuller length. Mixed in with your stock Leg-Break which would have a proportion of Top-Spin and therefore dip, the Flipper could see that batsman playing for a ball that would be expected to bounce and catch them unawares? There’s also the potential for the delivery to be bowled a great deal faster than the conventional wrist spin deliveries because of the exclusion of the wrist flick, but the down-side to this is the delivery is potentially picked because of the different level of exertion put into getting the ball up the wicket at a faster speed. A recent discovery I’ve noted only in the last season is that the ball swings massively in certain atmospheric conditions. Initially I thought that I was bowling badly, but on closer examination I noticed that the ball was swerving radically about half way down the pitch moving from Off-to leg swinging into the RH batsman.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Many people that bowl the Flipper also note that the ball breaks slightly when bowled in this way, my own personal experience is that it tends to break like a small Leg Break and might simply be due to bad seam presentation during the release, but this slight turn off the pitch coupled with the in-swinging properties presents a ball that can surprise the batsman and catch him off-guard. Bowled with prodigious back-spin on grassy or damp wickets the ball also stalls and loses momentum and batsman play through the shot before the ball has even arrived.</span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The Top Spinning Flipper</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The jury is still out for me whether Grimmett favoured the Top-Spinning Flipper or the Off-Spinning Flipper combined with some Top-Spin. Grimmett, I think would be surprised at seeing Warne and Jenner promoting the back-spinning version of the delivery over and above the Top-Spinner and the Off-Spinner. There are no records as far as I’m aware of Grimmett ever using the back-spinner in first class cricket and he seems to have disregarded it as having any potential. The evidence suggests that Grimmett favoured a ball that increased in pace on hitting the pitch so he would have gone for a ball that was overspun. Interestingly it does seem that at least up until 1930 he wasn’t and I’m assuming the rest of the slow bowling fraternity wasn’t too, aware of the potential of bowling back-spinners. As nowhere in his Getting Wickets book does he ever go anywhere near exploring a ball that sounds anything like the Orthodox Back-Spinner.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The same theory of going round the loop as exemplified by Peter Philpott in The Art of Wrist Spin Bowling can be applied as mentioned earlier in the execution of the Flipper deliveries, so with that in mind you might be asking why have I gone 180 degrees round the loop straight to the Top-Spinner, shouldn’t there be an out the front of the hand delivery first? Well, yes, but the out the front of the hand delivery I think is far more difficult to execute than the Top-Spinning variation. My own experience was that on trying the out the front of the hand (Off-Spinner) it was virtually impossible to bowl and caused all sorts of issues with Medial Epincondylitis and I had to stop. With further reading of Grimmetts books and through discussion on line with an Australian wrist spinner from NSW Chris McDonnel the consensus seemed to be that Grimmett was an advocate of the Top-Spinner. There’s also evidence that Bradman was impressed with the Top-Spinner referring to it as Grimmetts Mystery Ball with stories of him being dismissed by it. So, I went 180 degrees and skipped the off-spinner in favour of exploring the potential of this version.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">If you’ve mastered the back-spinning variety I’ll assume that you’ve developed the muscles in the thumb and forearm to put the revs on the ball. To produce the Top-Spinner I would advise that you put in some time – 2 weeks or so flicking a smaller light weight ball such as a tennis ball using the new wrist position. In the same way that you practice for the Big Leg Break and the Orthodox back-spinner with your bowling arm extended out in front of you – do the same with this Flipper. If you were to stand looking down the wicket have your arm extended forwards pointed towards the batsman. Your wrist should be presented so that your palm faces the Off-side and the back of your hand naturally the On-side. With the ball in the hand the thumb will be on top and the fingers beneath the ball. Now click the fingers and you’ll see that the ball clicks out of the hand and if allowed to fall to the floor will bounce forwards e.g. making pace off the pitch. If you get a lightweight ball mark a circle round the ball with a marker pen or a piece of tape to emulate the seam. With this action you can flick the ball so that it spins forwards and catch it in your other hand. Do this again and again until you’re able to do it with your ‘Seam’ aligned so that it rotates perfectly upright to produce the Top-spin that we’re looking for.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Over a period of time, you’ll start to feel the stress on the new muscles as you stretch them enabling you to hold the wrist in position and affect the spin. If you sense the stress is too much, as with any of these variations err towards caution as the Medial Epicondylitis condition is painful and debilitating for you as a bowler. Once you get the hand of it try turning your arm over across a short distance and see if it is working for you. Once you get the necessary mobility and flexibility in the arm, wrist and thumb to release the ball with some accuracy over a decent distance move on to a 4 ¼ ounce ball and work with that gradually working up to 22 yards eventually bringing in the 5 ½ ounce ball and the full length.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">If you’ve already got the back-spinner and you practice it consistently you may find that you convert the Top-Spinner into a promising prospect relatively easily and quickly as I did. The attribute that I liked about this delivery was that very quickly I was able to bowl it with very good accuracy and far more speed than my stock ball. Theoretically because of the Top-Spin it should dip, but I’m not 100% certain that I’ve ever been aware of the dip being a key factor in my own bowling despite the fact that I say that it is an attribute of the ball in my video clip on Youtube.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Unlike the back-spinning Flipper I can’t say that I’ve ever noticed this swinging or doing anything through the air. Its best feature I find is that it’s easily bowled with very good accuracy and increased speed and in amongst my stock balls this is a wicket taker. An interesting note is that Terry Jenner has been quoted by both Ashley Mallet in his biography on Grimmett that the Top-Spinning Flipper is physically impossible to bowl and at best you might be able to get it a few yards up the wicket. Interestingly there’s been a few newer demo’s of Warne bowling the Flipper and these have differed from those as demo’s by both Warne in the example shot talking to Mark Nicholas and Jenners demo’s for the BBC and the Cloverdale series. In those cases the variation that both these blokes show us are the back-spinning variety whereas the newer uploads show us deliveries more akin to the Top-Spinner, but are probably a hybrid of the next variation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Again, another pretty obscure variant of the Flipper, but one that I’m fairly convinced that Warne demo’s in at least one of the on-line video clips although without mentioning the fact that it is a variant of what is seemingly perceived to be the common version of the Flipper (The back-spinner). Again using the theory first identified by Grimmett in 1930 that if you bowl with the wrist in different positions you’ll get the ball to spin all ways – Back, top, off and Legspin. This was then taken up by Philpott using his round the loop explanation. Assuming that you’ve followed my advice and gone 180 degrees from the back-spinner to the top spinner and got that sussed? I’m now going to suggest going back round the loop 90 degrees towards the back-spinner. You use exactly the same grip as any of the other Flippers, but with this one you present the wrist so that as your arm comes over the palm of the hand is facing the batsman and herein lies this balls magic the delivery looks like a Leg Break delivery, but because of the method of imparting the spin the ball is going to leave the hand rotating clock-wise to effect off-spin!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I found this a very difficult delivery to master and as you’ve read previously eventually came to it by learning the top-spinning delivery first which helped to train the hand and the wrist to become more dexterous so that I click the fingers and hold the wrist up-right and present it with the palm facing the batsman. I then added another aspect to the delivery after reading Bob Woolmers analysis of Shane Warne’s now partly discredited Ball of the century </span><a href="http://mpafirsteleven.blogspot.com/2010/11/warnes-ball-of-century-was-fluke.html"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">http://mpafirsteleven.blogspot.com/2010/11/warnes-ball-of-century-was-fluke.html</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The image here below indicates the 90 degree seam presentation to the direction of flight. Woolmer suggests along with physicists that have conducted tests in wind tunnels that the ball spun perfectly from the hand with the seam rotating perfectly at 90 degrees to the direction of flight will not drift. Whereas the image above (rotation diagram A.) with the seam angled forwards towards the direction of flight rotating off axis and with the seam angled slightly forwards of 90 degrees, the ball will produce the most pronounced amounts of drift.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">With this in mind and realising there was potential to impart drift with a Flipper and with potentially more ease (for me at least). The position of the wrist when bowling this delivery seems to be subject to more rigidity through the arm, elbow and wrist than the conventional Wrist Spin deliveries and for some reason in order to tilt the ball backward or forward so that the axis differs to the horizontal plane of flight is only a matter of maintaining rigidity through the wrist and angling it slightly different. My experimentation through the last season seemed to suggest wholly different characteristics with the ball definitely drifting in flight and possibly dipping as well in a fairly dramatic manner and this is with an Off-Spinner that looks like a Leg Break.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I wouldn’t say that I’m anywhere near being an expert at this, but in a year bowling sporadically in nets and practice situations, my ability levels with it have increased exponentially and I have taken at least one wicket with it where the batsman read it as a Leg Break and it went the other way and hit the stump between bat and pads. It’s definitely one that I’ll be working with and exploring further.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">For the purpose of the blog and trying to explain things as clearly as possible when talking about these variations in relation to going round the loop, I’ve tended to talk in terms of moving from one variation to the other in 90 degree jumps focusing on what would be the perfect delivery. It’s obvious that all of these deliveries would work in intermediate forms in some way or another, the classic example being with the Leg Break. The leg break is generally a ball that is spun with the seam aligned at 45 degrees further round the loop if you move on from the top spinner, anything with lesser angle has more Top-Spin emphasis and may dip more, but will still turn a little. So anything that goes further than 45 degrees is still going to dip a little but have an increase in the amount of turn off the wicket as it’s moving towards the realms of being a Big Leg Break. The Flippers are exactly the same, so it’s entirely likely that you may bowl with a scrambled seam and might not be able to get absolutely perfect seam presentation, but it will still be a valid variation if it’s bowled with your Stock ball.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">In my experience at club level and watching Warne and partly because Wrist Spin Bowling is such an underrated and dark art not many batsmen have been subjected to the Flipper, so if used with scarcity this can be a devastating delivery that can take the batsman by surprise. The Flipper can also be used as a slow ball as well and this works particularly well with not very experienced batsmen. I find the slower and loopier the ball is thrown up, the more it tends to turn (Towards the off-side) but better still the back-spin causes the ball to almost stop which can catch people out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">At club level I’ve only ever come across it used by one other person, my mate ‘The Wizard’ and he bowls it as I have till recently as the Bog Standard Flipper as seen on Youtube demonstrated by Warne & Jenner. (BBC, Channel 9, Cloverdale videos). But if you delve further into crickets history you will come across the balls originator a bloke called Clarrie Grimmett arguably the best Wrist Spinner ever. Between 1928 and 1940 he spent 12 years developing the ball using the same principle as Peter Philpotts ‘Around the loop’ theory but applied to the ball being spun using the Index finger and thumb to ‘click’ it out of the hand.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Grimmetts Flipper is slightly different to Warnes and Jenners who’s version owe more to Richie Benuads adaption of Grimmetts original. Benuads bowling action was near vertical with the seam being upright like a seam bowlers delivery. Whereas Grimmetts action was far more round armed almost to the point where it resembles Sri Lanka’s Lasith Malinga but then corrected by the fact that he then dipped his head and body through the action so that the arm came through in a more vertical manner. Grimmetts grip as described by himself and Philpott meant that his hand through the delivery was over the top of the ball whereas Benauds version is virtually the same as the one demonstrated by Warne and Jenner. The intricacies of Grimmetts grip I’ve not fully grasped, but Benauds version is easily understood.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This variation is possibly the way that Murali bowls his Doosra but requires ridiculous flexibility in the wrist and arm, but Philpott describes it in the Flipper section of his book. Start at the ‘Mystery ball’ position and rotate your wrist another 90 degrees clockwise so that at the point of release the palm of your hand is facing up-wards with the flipper grip. The more the hand is bent inwards towards the body at the point that you flick the ball the more it’s going to produce a Leg-Break action when pitching on the wicket. To be honest without you being able to bowl with the same inward arm/wrist action that Murali uses this variation looks physically impossible.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The key to these deliveries is the practice that you’re able to do off the field. In his book Peter Philpott advocates spinning the ball back in towards yourself initially and the description reads as though he is going to take you on to explain ‘The Mystery Ball’ but he doesn’t. So why you would go through the process of spinning the ball in towards yourself as you do when learning The Big Legbreak I’m kind of baffled when he doesn’t then go on to describe the ‘Mystery Ball’. I think most people would practice bowling the ball from one hand to the other across the body marvelling at the amazing backspin you eventually get through the clicking of the fingers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Once you’ve got the back-spin, go back to Philpotts description of how you should learn the action. Hold the ball out at arms length in front of you holding it with the Flipper grip. Cock the wrist so that the back of the hand faces away from you almost and the thumb is under the ball and the fingers over the top with the seam up facing you. The clicking of the fingers in this position will now propel the ball back towards your face with over-spin (Top-spin). Keep doing this being careful not to strain any tendons (Medial Epicondylitis). In his book Philpott overlooks the potential of this as a way of bowling and then suggests that you go from this practice action to the hand to hand action which then produces back-spin. But it’s this spinning towards yourself producing Top Spin that is Clarrie Grimmetts ‘Mystery Ball’ action that Grimmett was so protective of and held in high regard. The same practice action also has the duel purpose of being good training to enable you to bowl the awkward Variant 4.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Probably the most obscure wrist spin variation and possibly the most difficult to bowl with any effectiveness. I stumbled across this a few years ago before reading Grimmetts Getting Wickets. Frustrated at losing my Leg Break to the Googly Syndrome I was aware of Philpotts Round the Loop theory and how it’s applied to the position of the wrist in order to effect the different variations – Leg-Break, Googly etc. I’d already looked into the potential of the Off-Spinning Flipper, but discarded that idea as seeming almost impossible having tried it. But with the Wrong Wrong Un I had instant success because of the combination of the principles and action of the Wrong Un combined with the Flipper finger and thumb click technique used to impart spin on the ball.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I’d completely lost my Leg-Break so only bowled Flippers and Wrong Uns, both of which I’d become pretty adept at. My Wrong Un was very strong being able to bowl a delivery that was like the Big Wrong Un and because of the constant practice with the delivery I had increased mobility in all the joints making it possible. The Flipper in the exact same way was pretty good too and I was able to impart a lot of revs on the ball by clicking the finger and thumb together. On the day in question I was bowling and thought what would be the outcome of me combining the Flipper and the Googly – looking at the position of the wrist, fingers and thumb it struck me that this would potentially produce a ball that would break towards the Off-side like a Leg Break but would come out of the hand and be delivered looking like an extreme version of the Wrong Un and sure enough the first attempt at it, although very short across 22 yards turned almost square to the wicket!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">That same day practicing over another half an hour or so I managed to get the length and line right several times producing a ball that turned like a big slow loopy leg break. Because of the combining of the two deliveries Googly and Flipper, I christened the ball The Gipper completely unaware that Clarrie Grimmett had explored the same delivery in the 1920’s and identified and explained it in his book Getting Wickets in 1930.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">To get some understanding of the delivery look at the image here, </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq2Ijyn2ksW51Quht41oeaaRZM9Z1HV8a_rIEGhRDUs7CtRk8bBNsaF8YI-NS5ab_ZUIC_BNt6nYO8IjXCRU9faohoKfQg03G-NXjTlpEH6iRR6VXre1SiX0tq3Ht7jJz0k93rEc0jOfA/s1600/Wring+Wrong+Un.jpg"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5549925093822411794" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq2Ijyn2ksW51Quht41oeaaRZM9Z1HV8a_rIEGhRDUs7CtRk8bBNsaF8YI-NS5ab_ZUIC_BNt6nYO8IjXCRU9faohoKfQg03G-NXjTlpEH6iRR6VXre1SiX0tq3Ht7jJz0k93rEc0jOfA/s400/Wring+Wrong+Un.jpg" style="cursor: hand; height: 400px; width: 285px;" /></span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">which is an approximation of the view the batsman would see at the point of delivery. If you think of the wrist position in the image being rotated 180 degree anti-clockwise, you’ll see that the wrist and fingers would end up being poised for the classic Flipper.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">In order to get the rotation of the wrist round 180 degrees it necessitates the additional twisting of the arm in the manner that the Wrong un requires to bowl the bigger turning Wrong Un. With the distortion of both the wrist and the arm the delivery position is then attained.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I practiced with the ball over a winter in the nets and across one season exploring its potential, but at the same time I was also looking to overcome the Googly Syndrome and was focusing on bowling the Leg Break the majority of the time. This may have affected the outcome of whether there is any real merit in this delivery because I gradually lost the ability to twist my arm and wrist as far as I could when I was bowling massively turning wrong uns. Because of the focus on re-attaining the Leg Break and limiting the amount of variations that I bowled, I discarded the Wrong Wrong Un, dropping it with the general feeling that it didn’t fit with my overall strategy and wasn’t required.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Grimmett explaining the principle of using the Flipper action to impart variations in break off the pitch……….</span><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It is possible, however, to bowl a Leg-Break with a Googly action in this way, and also an Off-Break with a Leg-Break action. </span></em><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Clarrie Grimmett; Getting Wickets: Hodder and Stoughton:London; 1930.</span> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 85%;"><br /></span><em><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">By Varying the hand position slightly at the moment of release I could bowl several different balls, but they were slow off the pitch and I hardly ever used them. If I twisted my hand right over as for the Googly I could make the ball turn from the leg, in what I call a Wrong Wrong Un, coming out of the back of the hand is usually deceived a batsman, but it was so slow off the pitch he had plenty of time to play it. </span></em><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Clarrie Grimmett: Grimmett On Cricket: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd: Edinburgh:1948.</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">As you can see I eventually came across the description of the very same ball that I thought I’d discovered and christened The Gipper, Grimmett too drew the same conclusions with regards the usefulness of the ball in that it was difficult to propel down the pitch with any great speed. There’s a pay off between speed and break and the initial feeling with this variation is that its key attribute is the amount of break caused by the Flipper technique to impart the spin. But I found that the more speed you put into the delivery the less it turned which is pretty obvious. The other issue I had with it is that I couldn’t bowl it that well without having a pre-positioned arm at the start of the gather, so when winding up for the delivery it signaled something odd was going to happen and alerted batsmen to the fact that I was about to bowl a variation of some kind. As Grimmett says it’s one of the balls you might use once in a spell against a batsman. Very difficult and possibly not worth the effort learning it, but a variation none the less.</span><br />
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<strong>Introduction -</strong> In this section I’m going to be looking at Back-Spinning deliveries other than the Flipper. Anecdotally, there’s potentially a handful of different back-spinning deliveries, but when you try and pin them down and establish which is what, who invented them and how they evolved, you’ll find that the information out there is very limited, vague and contradictory. In this section I’m going to try and clarify the deliveries that do exist and can be verified and makes sense of the confusion out there regarding the terms Slider and Zooter.<br />
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<strong>Research –</strong> My approach to trying to get to the bottom of the murky origins of the back-spinners was to do so in the manner that an academic might use. Within academia it’s recognised that any serious research needs to quote established and recognised texts on the subject in order to be taken seriously. As I’ve intimated previously throughout the blog the information with regards to the origins and techniques of Wrist Spin Bowling are extremely limited – probably restricted to two sources, Grimmetts book Getting Wickets from 1930 and Peter Philpotts book The Art of Wrist Spin Bowling from 1996. Between these two books we’re able to establish that there are only two recorded and explicitly described back-spinning variations, the Flipper and the Orthodox Back-Spinner. Thereafter, all other variations of back-spinners I would argue are evolutionary deliveries that have yet to still be pinned down and described in print in the same manner that the two established deliveries have been.<br />
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Other people will argue that there are several other deliveries and that these are well recorded and established. One of my aims is to present an argument that says that this is not the case. One key aspect of presenting your findings is that with secondary research - using the internet, to try and establish fact from fiction (and this does include this blog) you cannot trust the content. Using the internet for serious research is simply not acceptable because the writers are usually journalists or enthusiasts like myself. Another point that will be raised is that a lot of the commentary on these deliveries is made by the protagonists – Warne, Jenner, Benaud and other professionals. I’ll also make a case as to why this information is also sketchy at best.<br />
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The problem with accessing learning materials on Wrist Spin Bowling is that there are so few books written on the subject by the innovators and experts in the field. I’m only aware of one other body of printed work that attempts to explain the deliveries in great detail and that’s Woolmers book 'The Art and Science of Cricket'. The book covers the subject fairly well looking at Shane Warne’s Delivery of the Century in detail, coming up with a very convincing theory as to how and why. But then he acknowledges that he isn’t an expert in the field and resorts to quoting Grimmetts Getting Wickets and Grimmett on Cricket, the very books from which much of my own material here is based on.<br />
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I would argue that the most comprehensive book on the subject has still yet to be written by Warne. Potentially amidst all the bluff and psychology used by Warne over the years, there are definitive explanations of a handful of deliveries that either he invented or have been handed down over the generations since Grimmett. It wont be until Warne or Jenner perhaps sit down and collaborate and write definitive and published descriptions and explanations of the other deliveries will we ever be able to pin down exactly what a Zooter, Zinger or a Slider are.<br />
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<strong>How to Bowl the Orthodox Back-Spinner</strong><br />
Throughout the blog I’ve written about the fact that the Wrist Spinners armoury is made up of two distinct methods of bowling, the traditional Wrist-Spinners action with the 2 up and 2 down grip with the ball being spun off the 3rd finger which is described through the use of Peter Philpotts round the loop theory. And Grimmetts squeezed between the finger and thumb Flippers. Both actions are able to produce balls that spin to Off, Leg, Forwards and Backwards using the variation of the wrist position when releasing the ball.<br />
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Throughout the blog I’ve advocated that one of the most important things that you need to do is to take every opportunity to flick the ball from one hand to the other across the body and to flick the ball from an outstretched arm in towards the body catching it with the left hand at the chest<br />
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If you’ve been following these guidelines and drills you should by now be able appreciate the differences in how the ball spins in response to the position you present your wrist in as you flick……<br />
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The thumb pointing at the batsman and the ball flicked with the 3rd finger and wrist forwards – The Top-Spinner.<br />
The Thumb pointing anywhere towards Slips and Gully with the palm of your hand now slightly facing the bat as you flick should produce a Leg Break.<br />
The thumb pointing towards edge of the square directly to your left as you bowl with your palm now facing directly at the batsman will produce the Big Leg Break.<br />
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As you’ve probably seen, the wrist position has moved further and further round through 90 degrees and there’s still potential for it to go further still. Hold you hand up and have it facing palm towards the batsman and flick the wrist and see that you will be rotating the ball with the spin anti-clockwise to the Left to get the big leg break. Now turn the wrist further round inwards another 90 degrees so that your thumb is facing you and the ‘Karate Chop’ edge of your hand is facing the batsman. If you now flick your wrist you will be Top-Spinning the ball in towards yourself (The 2nd drill). The ball is flicked back towards yourself with an up-right seam. Now the difficult bit; As you bring your arm over you need to keep the wrist in this acute position – your forward body motion as you explode through the crease and your arm coming over will propel the ball forwards and down the wicket as you flick the ball putting top-spin on it as in all your other deliveries, but you need to allow the ball to be released out of the back-off the hand and down the pitch. Because you’ve spun the ball hard in towards yourself, as you look at it, it will have forward spin, but as the batsman sees the ball, it will have back-spin.<br />
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The seam should be dead straight and the back-spin will mean that the ball will hold its trajectory through the air far longer than your stock ball, so if bowled as a variation, the batsman will be expecting the ball to dip in the same way that your Leg Break should landing several feet in front of him. Instead the Orthodox Back-Spinner will land on a fuller length potentially catching the batsman out. Additionally with a perfectly upright seam there’s the potential that like the Flipper the ball may also swing? Finally, because of the upright seam and the back-spin the ball on hitting the wicket will stall and bounce irregularly. The suggestion is that a back-spinning ball will in most instances stay low and sneak under the bat where the batsman might be playing for a Leg Break and far more bounce. My own experience is that the bounce is irregular and dependent on a number of variables the ball will sometime rear up rather than stay low. Needless to say, all of this is subject to experimentation and trying it out to see what happens in your own situation.<br />
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In my opinion this is possibly the most difficult of all the deliveries because of the acute angle of the wrist required in the delivery. With practice using the Inward Spinning Drill you’ll get a feel for it. Once you’ve got a sense of being able to do that with a good degree of control – take it outside and flick the ball up in the air and forwards either against a wall to watch how the ball spins on hitting the wall or off of the flat ground. You should be able to propel the ball forwards and observe that it then bounces back towards you. This is easy enough and looks very promising, but trying then to convert that into a full 22 yard delivery is another matter. A positive though that may come out of it though is, if you can get the accuracy and speed in the delivery and land it on a good length, you may find that attempting to get your wrist round so far with the inward flick, you’ll improve your Big Leg Break as the work that’s gone into learning the Orthodox Back-Spinner is an extension to the wrist position for the Big Leg Break. Another observation from people that bowl the Orthodox Back-Spinner and the Big Leg Break is that when these deliveries go wrong, the ball will come out of the hand with a scrambled seam and frequently land on the smooth surface of the ball and Slide On. Far from being a complete disaster, what you’ll end up doing is bowling an unintentional variation. Looked at in a positive manner you could argue that this is an attribute of bowling the Orthodox Back-Spinner?<br />
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<strong>Smoke and Mirrors</strong><br />
The difficulty in trying to establish the facts with regards the more obscure back-spinning deliveries is the fact that a key part of Spin Bowling strategy is the psychological aspect of the game. From the earliest days bowlers have claimed to possess a mystery ball and this is especially true of Spin Bowling. From the Internet………..<br />
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Here’s an article written by Bob Simpson who trained Warne in the early days.<br />
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<em>A clever bluffer on the field, he didn't mind using the media to his advantage, especially at the start of each season when he'd announce the discovery of his latest "mystery ball".<br />His opponents would see the headlines everywhere about something that didn't exist. In reality, there was never a new trick, only a revamping of the name for Peter Philpott's "back spinning toppie".<br />Shane originally called it his zooter, now he calls it his slider and over the last decade or so the ball has brought him numerous lbw decisions. What there was, though, was a further improvement in his accuracy and flight. He was always fine-tuning his bowling and increasing his arsenal.<br /></em><a href="http://www.hinduonnet.com/tss/tss3001/stories/20070106000201700.htm"><span style="font-size: 85%;">http://www.hinduonnet.com/tss/tss3001/stories/20070106000201700.htm</span></a><span style="font-size: 85%;"> </span><br />
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It has to be recognized that the popularity of Wrist Spinning and therefore the proliferation of these supposed new variations since the 1990’s is probably down to Warne as the article above indicates. The suggestion by Bob Simpson is that there never has been a Slider, Zooter or whatever and that the back-spinner that Warne bowled was always the Orthodox Back-Spinner. Warne and the team that surrounds him, be it trainers, captains, marketing men or the Australian cricket board have obviously been involved in hyping him up as much as possible. For instance in 2005 prior to, or during the matches in London a giant effigy of Warne was driven around the streets of London on the back of a lorry in an attempt to remind England, that ours was a lost cause. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuOV3rR3TZVlMkDxoR1CfofUk-gquDl47-SFbvE_JrRsAKBUdq-9MvcbG4bFF4l-uU378dG0funB5-oR4JaZYqjtJ4AkSAFXsiJ6vBdUfoYYLlainOedeLcLk1WXlECJo5PwyEvXJmo3A/s1600/bigwarnie.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5549855446090870914" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuOV3rR3TZVlMkDxoR1CfofUk-gquDl47-SFbvE_JrRsAKBUdq-9MvcbG4bFF4l-uU378dG0funB5-oR4JaZYqjtJ4AkSAFXsiJ6vBdUfoYYLlainOedeLcLk1WXlECJo5PwyEvXJmo3A/s400/bigwarnie.jpg" style="cursor: hand; height: 283px; width: 400px;" /></a><br />
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Just type in 'Big Warnie' in Youtube and you'll get some sense of the extent Warnes marketing/propaganda machine used to go to.<br />
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There have been adverts, documentaries, books and articles throughout Warnes career that serve to remind everyone about his genius and proliferation of deadly variations. But some of his most powerful media weapons I reckon are those based around his associations with Mark Nicholas and Terry Jenner. There was for a while a clip from years ago of Warne doing his now familiar demo of his deliveries. The clip appeared to be no-where near as slick as the ones that he did much later in his career, but did feature Mark Nicholas in exactly the same role – asking questions of Warne and then Warne showing the kids. But then look in the background of this old clip and who else is there amongst the kids – some of the English batsmen! They appear to be there trying to learn and un-ravel what it is that Warne does, so that they can possibly hold out some hope of surviving against him next time around? It strikes me that in the great tradition of Wrist Spinners this would have given Warne the perfect opportunity to weave his web of deceit….. ‘Yeah I’ve got em all mate….. Leg Break, Toppie, Wrong Un, Orthodox Back-Spinner, Slider, Zooter, Flipper and the Zinger’. You can just see Graham Gooch walking back to the dressing room and telling the rest of the England blokes ‘He’s got variations coming out of every orifice’!!! But, if you go looking for these other variations you start to see a pattern arising. Certainly when they get mentioned in books by third parties – authors on the subject of cricket in a generic sense, invariably they’re mentioned in conjunction with a handful of names – Warne, Jenner, Benaud and Doug Ring. But mentioned in a manner that has no clarity or certainty, as Philpott mentioned earlier, most of these bowlers had at least 2 back-spinners, but they would never divulge their technique. The Flipper and Orthodox Back-Spinner perhaps?<br />
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So it does seem that all the other variations that go by a number of different names cannot be pinned down and verified in the same way as the two ‘Prime’ back-spin deliveries. Warne himself describes in videos and articles written by 3rd parties all of these newer variations in a number of different ways, contradicting himself and generally confusing the issue and establishing very little that can be described as concrete. He mentions them in a number of different ways, making references to bowlers in the 1950's who as Philpott writes were also in the business of keeping these deliveries secret as a part of their guile and strategy. It strikes me that the more you investigate, the more the truth becomes murkier when applied to the new variations.<br />
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<strong>The Zooter<br /></strong>The Zooter and The Slider are the two main contenders vying for recognition as deliveries in their own right with some kind of pedigree. Neither Grimmett or Philpott use the term Zooter to describe any of the established Wrist Spin deliveries. With Philpotts book being first published in 1995 there's the possibilty that the term Zooter isn't used within cricket until after this date. But towards the back of Philpotts book on page 112 in the 2006 edition in the advanced tactics chapter Philpott writes..........<br />
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<em>5. The front foot commiter who wants to get down the track at you all the time: With 5, I would have kept on spinning hard over the top, throwing the ball up and gradually widening on him. But as the years went by, I would have zooted back-spinners at him, holding him back and hoping to frustrate him/or change his plan of attack, then thrown up the Top-spinning Leggie a little wider of the Off-Stump.<br /></em>In the context of this paragraph, the word Zoot is used as a verb in conjunction with the bowling of the Orthodox Back-Spinner. This led me to looking into whether the word was an Australian slang word that combined two words such as Shoot and Zoom/Zip to create a potentially more dynamic and energetic word....... Zoot. One suggestion was made (with no substantiation) that, Philpott who works tirelessly even to this day with kids teaching them Wrist Spin, may have used the word coloquially/Slang style to engage kids with their bowling. Maybe adapting the use of Zooting the ball in to Zooter to describe the Orthodox Back-Spinner? The name, Orthodox Back-Spinner is a right mouthful and at best a bit dull when teaching small boys how to bowl wrist spin. It's easy to see that many people coming into contact with Philpott having that sense of being within the inner circle of Australian Spin history would readily adopt the esoteric language of their great master Philpott. So could this possibly be one explanation as to why people confuse the Orthodox Back-Spinner with the term Zooter and even use the description?<br />
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<strong>Evidence of the Zooter<br /></strong>We'll now look at my findings with regards some of these potential newer deliveries and the confusing array of descriptions that surround them. First we'll look at the Zooter and its descriptions. Again I have to reiterate that looking at all the books that I could lay my hands on I couldn’t find one single reference to the Zooter at all. Even Woolmers seminal works The Art and Science of Cricket omits the Zooter and in doing so casts derision on the premise that the Zooter is anything new. But, having said that I have to also point out that Woolmer doesn’t even mention the Orthodox Back-Spinner. The following section I’ve collated a series of descriptions of the Zooter and you’ll see that there’s a fairly consistent description of one method which bears no resemblance to the Orthodox Back-Spinner, but could be seen as a delivery in it’s own right………………<br />
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<strong>(1). Zooter:</strong> <em>The grip - The ball is held much further back in the palm of the hand, which holds the ball back as you let it go. The delivery - The ball is pushed out the front of the hand, from the palm, and either floats or skids through the air, maybe swinging in a little. The seam is straight up and down and the zooter does not spin.</em><a href="http://www.liveindia.com/cricket/Bowling.html"><span style="font-size: 85%;">http://www.liveindia.com/cricket/Bowling.html</span></a><span style="font-size: 85%;"> </span><br />
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<strong>(2). Zooter:</strong> <em>A type of ball bowled by a leg spin bowler, which has little or no spin on it. cf. armball.</em><a href="http://www.dangermouse.net/cricket/glossary/z.html"><span style="font-size: 85%;">http://www.dangermouse.net/cricket/glossary/z.html</span></a><span style="font-size: 85%;"> </span><br />
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<strong>(3). Zooter</strong> – <em>one of a leg spinner's subtler variations, this ball is slipped out of the hand without much spin imparted and tends to dip into the batsman. The term was coined by Shane Warne and his spin 'doctor' Terry Jenner, perhaps partly to enhance his mystique.</em><a href="http://www.channel4.com/sport/cricket/analyst/jargon/ana_42.html"><span style="font-size: 85%;">http://www.channel4.com/sport/cricket/analyst/jargon/ana_42.html</span></a><span style="font-size: 85%;"> </span><br />
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<strong>(4) Zooter:</strong> <em>You have come to the right place, because I'm a legspinner, although not quite in the Shane Warne class (who is?). The flipper is a difficult-to-bowl delivery which is squeezed out under the wrist, with an action rather like that used to click the fingers. When it's bowled properly, the ball hurries on to the batsman, who can be beaten by the unexpected pace. Shane Warne has often dismissed Daryll Cullinan with this ball. Warne claims to have invented the "zooter", so we asked Mark Ray, the Australian journalist who helped write Warne's autobiography, how you bowl it. He said: "It's difficult to explain without drawings ... but basically the zooter comes out of the front of the hand, with the fingers running across it sideways, like a legbreak - but the ball is propelled more by the palm. It's not unlike a knuckle ball, but not as slow. The zooter does very little in the air or off the pitch - which is part of the point. It's not flatter like the flipper, which is under-spun - the zooter sort of wobbles down." So now we know!</em><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2000/aug/24/cricket7"><span style="font-size: 85%;">http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2000/aug/24/cricket7</span></a><span style="font-size: 85%;"> </span><br />
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<strong>(6). Zooter</strong> - 11 % (A variation of the flipper, bowled by a leg-break bowler with little or no spin on it. Typically zoots along the ground with little bounce.)<br />
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<strong>(7). Zooter:</strong> <em>A spin bowling variation, first devised by Shane Warne. This is a delivery that snakes out of the hand with little or no spin imparted, and so deceives through its very ordinariness. Some question whether the delivery has ever existed, for it could be another of Warne's mind-games to keep his opponents on their toes</em><a href="http://static.cricinfo.com/db/ABOUT_CRICKET/EXPLANATION/CRICKET_TERMS.html"><span style="font-size: 85%;">http://static.cricinfo.com/db/ABOUT_CRICKET/EXPLANATION/CRICKET_TERMS.html</span></a><span style="font-size: 85%;"> </span><br />
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<strong>(8). Zooter:</strong> <em>As a fledgling leg-spinner, he was coached by Terry Jenner, Shane Warne's mentor. He was reminded of how Warne would often begin a tour by announcing a new mystery ball — the zooter, for instance. "Oh, that's just a slider," said Rashid, all matter of fact. "They're just the same ball with different names."</em><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/jan/19/adil-rashid-england-cricket-yorkshire"><em><span style="font-size: 85%;">http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/jan/19/adil-rashid-england-cricket-yorkshire</span></em></a><em><span style="font-size: 85%;"> </span></em><br />
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<strong>(9) Zooter:</strong> <em>During the training for the tour of Sri Lanka, Shane basically relied on his big spinning leg breaks and flippers. He didn't bowl the googly, and his normal top-spinner was only fair. When I asked him if he knew how to bowl a top-spinner through the front of his fingers he seemed surprised. He seemed even more bemused when I said Peter Philpott, the respected Australian leg-spinner of the 1960s, called it his "back spinning toppie". I could never understand why either. Perhaps my aerodynamics weren't as good as Peter's. I showed Shane how it was done and while I thought it would probably take him six months to master it, he was bowling it in a Test match three weeks later.<br />A terrible irony of his life is that the media have sometimes come down hard on him, exploiting those moments when he let himself down off the field. I say `irony' because, being a clever bluffer on the field, he didn't mind using the media to his advantage, especially at the start of each season when he'd announce the discovery of his latest "mystery ball".<br />His opponents would see the headlines everywhere about something that didn't exist. In reality, there was never a new trick, only a revamping of the name for Peter Philpott's "back spinning toppie".<br />Shane originally called it his zooter, now he calls it his slider and over. The last decade or so the ball has brought him numerous lbw decisions. What there was, though, was a further improvement in his accuracy and flight. He was always fine-tuning his bowling and increasing his arsenal.</em><a href="http://www.hinduonnet.com/tss/tss3001/stories/20070106000201700.htm"><span style="font-size: 85%;">http://www.hinduonnet.com/tss/tss3001/stories/20070106000201700.htm</span></a><span style="font-size: 85%;"> </span><br />
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This last bit here by Bob Simpson (9) is probably the most telling. This to me supports my argument that the term Zooter is anomalous and that there isn't really a clear definition of it and the confusion is all a part of the Warne/Jenner propaganda machine. If the Zooter is indeed just another name for the Orthodox Back-Spinner like Bosie/Googly/Wrong Un, which I'm quite willing to accept, there seems to be an awful lot of people writing about it and getting it wrong with all those 'Non-Spinning, out of the front of the hand' descriptions? The Orthodox Back-Spinner is ripped off the fingers using the wrist to impart the flick like all of the classic Wrist Spinning deliveries, so why the confusion? Simple….. As it says on the Cricinfo website <em>“Some question whether the delivery has ever existed, for it could be another of Warne's mind-games to keep his opponents on their toes”. </em>I would suggest that indeed this is the case.<br />
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There seems to be some recognition of a delivery that has attributes similar to the Knuckle-Ball used in baseball. Indeed, many Spin Bowlers have toyed with the idea of adopting some of the techniques used in Baseball and Philpott amongst others advocates exploring such ideas. It could be the case that Warne has used a variant of the Knuckle ball and this is where this description of a straight ball being pushed off the palm of the hand comes from? If you look into the Knuckle ball, you’ll possibly find that its reported as having the weird property of ‘Wobbling’ through the air appearing to turn one way and then another through its trajectory. Further investigations explain this is due to the stitching pattern on the ball which is very much different to a cricket ball. Therefore the use of such a delivery is subject to personal investigation and experimentation.<br />
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<strong>The Slider</strong><br />
<strong>(10) The Slider:</strong> <em>In cricket, a slider is a type of delivery bowled by a wrist spin bowler. Whereas a top-spinner is released with the thumb facing the batsman, a slider is bowled with the thumb facing the bowler. On release the wrist and ring finger work to impart backspin to the ball. A top-spinner tends to dip more quickly and bounce higher than a normal delivery. The slider does the opposite: it floats to a fuller length and bounces less than the batsman might expect. The classic slider heads with its seam aligned towards the batsman and may tend to swing in slightly. Sliders may also head towards the batsman with a scrambled seam (with the ball not spinning in the direction of the seam, so the seam direction is not constant, unlike in conventional spin bowling). This has less effect on the flight and bounce but absence of leg spin may deceive the batsman. </em><br />
<em><br />It is claimed that Shane Warne invented this type of delivery. However, this is inaccurate. The Australian spinner Peter Philpott used the technique in the 1960s, calling it simply an orthodox backspinner, while Australian all-rounder and captain Richie Benaud used what he called his 'sliding topspinner' which appears again to have been similar. Since he was taught the technique by Doug Ring, it may be more accurate to suggest that Ring is the originator. Either that, or the ball is one of those deliveries with no easily identifiable point of origin.<br />Although there is often a good deal of confusion on the subject, the slider is thought to be more or less an identical delivery to the "zooter".</em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slider_(cricket"><span style="font-size: 85%;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slider_(cricket</span></a><span style="font-size: 85%;">) </span><br />
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<strong>(11) The Slider;</strong> <em>How to bowl a slider This article is an extract from Spin Bowling Tips. Master the art of spin bowling with the most comprehensive eBook on spin bowling ever produced, available now at PitchVision Academy. The slider or back spinner is the reverse of the top-spinner. Instead of bouncing and kicking as the top-spinner does, the back spinner delivery will skid onto the batsman. This delivery is great for trying to trap the batsman LBW. Grip - The grip is exactly the same as the leg-spin stock delivery. Two fingers up and two fingers down with the thumb on or off the ball as preferred. Release - The ball releases the hand rotating backwards. It is essentially the reverse of the top spinner (explained in previous chapter). The thumb must face the batsmen and the side of the hand (on the little finger’s side) must face the bowler, but with the back the hand facing towards mid-wicket.</em><a href="http://www.pitchvision.com/how-to-bowl-a-slider"><span style="font-size: 85%;">http://www.pitchvision.com/how-to-bowl-a-slider</span></a><span style="font-size: 85%;"> </span><br />
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<strong>(12) The Slider:</strong> <em>Slider is the delivery bowled by a Wrist spinner or a Leg Spinner and it is just the reverse of a Top-Spinner. The thumb faces the bowler in the slider delivery rather than facing the batsman as in Top-Spinner. The slider delivery floats to a fuller length and bounces less than the batsman might expect and also the ball skids towards the batsman making him difficult to connect.It is usually called as the terrific delivery for the Leg Before Wicket (LBW).It is claimed that the Spin legend Shane Warne of Australia invented this delivery.</em><a href="http://www.cricketupdates.org/how-to-bowl-a-slider-in-cricket.html"><span style="font-size: 85%;">http://www.cricketupdates.org/how-to-bowl-a-slider-in-cricket.html</span></a><span style="font-size: 85%;"> </span><br />
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<strong>(13) The Slider:</strong> <em>This one is useful as it’s a section from the Pitch-Visions bloke and includes some decent images that explain the Orthodox Back-Spinner, but again and I can only summise that he’s chosen to call the Orthodox Back-Spinner a Slider because it just sounds sexier? Again, look at the webpage, look at the description and then go back to Philpotts The Art of Wrist Spin Bowling and you’ll see that this blokes Slider is in fact an Orthodox Back-Spinner, unless of course he’s got a book in print that precedes Philpotts and he can then potentially claim it as a Slider. See the link below………</em><a href="http://www.spinbowlingtips.com/extract.pdf"><span style="font-size: 85%;">http://www.spinbowlingtips.com/extract.pdf</span></a><span style="font-size: 85%;"> </span><br />
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<strong>(14) The Slider:</strong> <em>The Slider: Well, generally a slider can be bowled with two different grips like it can be bowled with seam up and it can also be bowled with cross or scrambled seam. Most of the leg spin bowlers will choose to slide the ball with the seam up since it is easy to release or slide the ball from the edge of the fingers when it is seamed up rather than with the cross-seamed. E.g. Shane Warne has always bowled a slider with a seam up ball. Any ways grip the ball with the seam up in such a way that the two fingers index and middle has to be rested on the seam. The other two fingers thumb and ring has to be rested on both leather sides of the cricket ball. Now the bowling action will be similar to just as leg break bowling. Like the arm has to be at an angle of 45 degrees such that the back of the palm has to face towards the sky just like as seam bowling and thumb facing towards the bowler. Here you need to understand that the ball will not be released from back of the hand like googly, it simply comes out or slips out from edge of the fingers (from front of the hand) with the seam rotating in back direction just like as we see in seam bowling. Now when you release a ball from edge of the fingers, the fingers should be able to drag the seam in down or back direction such that there should be no spin on the ball. At the end of the day the ball after hitting the pitch will have to slide by holding its same line with out any spin. Similarly to bowl a slider with scrambled seam we need to just follow the same above application. But at the end of the day a genuine and smooth slider can be always bowled with the seam up.</em><a href="http://www.questioncricket.com/2010/02/slider.html"><span style="font-size: 85%;">http://www.questioncricket.com/2010/02/slider.html</span></a><span style="font-size: 85%;"> </span><br />
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<strong>(15) The Slider:</strong> <em>Slider - A real wicket-taker for Shane Warne in his twilight years, the slider is basically the opposite of a top-spinner. It has a fuller length and bounces a lot less than expected. The slider is achieved with the thumb facing the bowler, the ring finger providing a substantial part of the spin, and the ball being released from the front of the hand.</em><a href="http://www.talkcricket.co.uk/guides/cricket_skills_leg_spin.html"><span style="font-size: 85%;">http://www.talkcricket.co.uk/guides/cricket_skills_leg_spin.html</span></a><span style="font-size: 85%;"> </span><br />
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<strong>Slider conclusion</strong><br />
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Again, you can see that like the Zooter, the Sliders origins and existence are as equally as murky. Description (11) from Wikipedia immediately states that it (Slider) is in fact The Orthodox Back-Spinner and its description is that of Philpotts ball. The conclusion at the end suggesting that the <em>‘Ball is one of those deliveries with no identifiable point of origin’. </em>Entry No.15 is interesting again in exactly the same way that No.4 is. This website (No.6) describes all the Wrist Spin deliveries with a degree of reasonable knowledge listing them all, but instead of listing the Orthodox Back-Spinner by its real name, the bloke opts to call it the Slider. I was going to go through a number of websites, but to be honest they’re all virtually identical and almost without exception include the phrase ‘It’s the opposite of the Top Spinner with the Thumb facing the bowler in the delivery’, which basically tells you it is the Orthodox Back-Spinner.<br />
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So, I’m now moving towards a final conclusion, which I think I’ve offered enough evidence of and that is........... When it comes down to it the Orthodox Back Spinner (first recorded properly by Philpott) is exactly the same as Bosanquets Off-spinning delivery in that it no longer has one fixed name. Bosanquets ball is the Wrong Un/Googly/Bosie with Bosie seemingly being the most obscure term used for it, and possibly the original name? Philpotts ball is the Zooter/Slider/Orthodox Back-Spinner with the last name seemingly like the title 'Bosie' gradually disappearing into obscurity despite the fact that this is the deliveries real name.<br />
There is plenty of anecdotal evidence that, in the same way Christopher Columbus wasn’t the first European to discover the USA, Peter Philpott probably wasn’t the bloke that invented the Orthodox Back-Spinner. In his own book Philpott writes about the existence of Back-Spinners over the period between Grimmett and himself……….<br />
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<em>Outstanding Wrist Spinners since Grimmett have all developed their back-spinner, some innovative ones amongst them, and almost all these bowlers have persistently refused to discuss the mechanics of such deliveries. That's how important they were to them, and perhaps explains why so many non-wrist spin cricketers were and are totally ignorant of them.</em><br />
He then goes on to virtually credit the ball to Benaud………….<br />
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<em>Despite the innovators, however most Leg-Spinners have relied on the Orthodox Back-Spinner. This is the one I referred to with Richie Benaud, a delivery he bowled superbly and, at times almost used as a stock ball.</em><br />
<span style="font-size: 85%;">Peter Philpott; The Art of Wrist Spin Bowling; Crowood Press Ltd, Marlborough; 1995. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 85%;"><br /></span>Again it’s clear that the origins of the Orthodox Back-Spinner like most deliveries are obscure, but as first mentioned at the start of this piece in order to pin the delivery down in an academic sense you need to find the first recorded definitive account of the ball in detail and despite the fact that Grimmett wrote three books, one of which includes the Flipper descriptions and probably some of the earliest accounts of the Wrong Un, Top-Spinner and Leg Break, there is no mention of an Orthodox Back-Spinner. The next easily traceable mention of a Back-Spinning delivery other than a Flipper is the story of Doug Ring showing Benuad a back-spinner……….<br />
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<em>After the Lord's Test of 1953, Doug Ring picked up an apple on a train journey and showed a young Richie Benaud how he bowled the slider, pushed out of the front of the hand between the second and third fingers. And there, in essence, was Warne's armoury: the original legspinner and top-spinner, the googly, the flipper and the slider.</em><br />
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<span style="font-size: 85%;"><br /></span>Interestingly this delivery doesn’t conform to the description of the Orthodox Back-Spinner as this delivery comes out of the front of the hand unlike the Orthodox Back-Spinner which comes out of the back of the hand and this delivery is credited with the name Slider making it very different to the Orthodox Back-Spinner. But, we’ll never know whether this explanation was called a Slider at the time and if it did, indeed differ from the Orthodox Back-Spinner. And besides that, Doug Ring and Benaud unlike Peter Philpott who followed them never committed an explanation and description of the delivery to text, at least not in a published and edited book. It then seems that just as we’re getting to a point where there may be some indication of an eminent bowler bowling a different ball and accrediting it with the name Slider you only have to dig around the internet and find other accounts that contradict the Doug Ring story above………<br />
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While Australian allrounder and captain Richie Benaud used what he called his 'sliding topspinner' which appears again to have been similar. Since he was taught the technique by Doug Ring, it may be more accurate to suggest that Mr Ring is the originator. Either that, or the ball is one of those deliveries with no easy to identify point of origin.<br />
The slider (a straight ball delivered from the front of the hand) is to be compared with the zooter (a straight ball delivered out of the back of the hand).<br />
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So, just as we’re about to get our teeth into something different – “the slider, pushed out of the front of the hand between the second and third fingers”. Further investigation muddies the waters again. I must admit, I’m not a big fan of Benaud and have read little on him, so I’m not sure as to whether he ever committed descriptions of his deliveries to text, but I’m fairly certain he never did.<br />
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<strong>The Real Mystery Balls<br /></strong>Prejudices aside though, I like the account of Benauds Slider, it sounds like the ball that I refer to as the Mickey Mouse Slider alluding to the fact that it’s an easily learned bastardised variation of the real thing. How I came across this, I don’t know, but it may well have been the account above. I’ve also heard Warne describe this delivery too and had discussions with people all round the world on forums who also relay the same experience and anecdotal references to Warne speaking about it. Throughout this research and putting this piece together I’ve noticed that there have been two descriptions that pop up here and there that allude to two mystery balls that get accredited with the name Zooter and Slider and yet their descriptions differ fundamentally to the Orthodox Back-Spinner which as we all know is a stable-mate of the Top-Spinner, Leg break, and Wrong Un as they all use the same grip configuration, wrist action and flick to impart the spin. My take on the Slider prior to writing this piece was that one of its key features was that – on hitting the surface of the pitch the ball would ‘Slide through’ rather than respond in an adverse way caused by hitting the seam. I always thought of the Slider as a ball that by design would hit the smooth surface of the ball more than it would the seam? Neither the Orthodox Back-Spinner or the Flipper if bowled correctly would do this and therefore the term Slider used in conjunction with these deliveries – especially the Orthodox Back-Spinner is wholly anomalous as far as I'm concerned.<br />
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The only descriptions of deliveries that I’ve seen described consistently with enough evidence to suggest that they would land on the smooth surface of the ball and therefore slide through and perhaps therefore merit being assigned the title of either The Slider or The Zooter are the Palm Ball (No.1) and the Fingers Rolled down the back delivery (Doug Ring/Benaud train journey account). These techniques could be adopted and described as genuine deliveries and incorporated into the Wrist Spin Bowlers armoury. The Benaud/Ring delivery which Warne had described before as having used, which I refer to as the Mickey Mouse Slider is this –<br />
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<strong>The Mickey Mouse Slider:</strong> Holding the ball using the two up two down grip, have all the fingers in place to bowl a Leg Break, but through the bowling action straighten the cocked wrist smoothly (Not a flick) and position the wrist ready to bowl a seamers ball by dragging the two up fingers down the back of the ball to impart the spin, the fingers will be across the seam and the seam will rotate over itself or come out scrambled. With this delivery there’s potential for the ball because of the seam presentation - for the ball to land hitting the seam sideways in which case the ball will bounce in an unpredictable manner or the ball will land on the smooth part of the ball and slide through. This allows a much faster flatter delivery that, because of the back-spin slides in and keeps low with the added potential of doing something unusual if it comes into contact with the scrambled seam.<br />
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Before writing this article this is the ball I always thought was a Slider by design. There are other potential Sliders which are accidental deliveries which come about through trying to bowl The Big Leg Break and the Orthodox Back-Spinner both of which are exceptionally difficult deliveries to master. In practice both in games and during training at all levels I believe that anyone attempting to bowl perfect deliveries of the ‘Advanced’ variations – (Big Leg Break and the Orthodox Back-Spinner) the execution is going to go wrong and the ball wont land on the seam and in these incidences the ball will Slide through. In these cases if the ball does something unusual you’re just simply going to claim it as one of your many variations and because of it’s attributes these accidental deliveries could be claimed as ‘Sliders’ in the generic sense of the term?<br />
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The other contender for a completely new variation is the one that conforms to the description here which crops up again and again being described as a Zooter. Again if we’re going to stick with the premise that the Zooter and the Slider are indeed different names for the Orthodox Back-Spinner, this ball here which is completely different but seemingly used by Warne needs to be assigned a name and described in detail by a professional in a book in order that it’s verified as a legitimate delivery…………….<br />
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<strong>The Un-named variation ;</strong> From Shane Warne’s biographer………. Basically this ball comes out of the front of the hand, with the fingers running across it sideways, like a legbreak - but the ball is propelled more by the palm. It's not unlike a knuckle ball, but not as slow. This delivery does very little in the air or off the pitch - which is part of the point. It sort of wobbles down.<br />
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These two obscure deliveries were the ones that I was hoping would prove to be the real contenders for the Slider and the Zooter, but all the evidence that I’ve been able to collate as previously mentioned point to the conclusion I’ve already made. So it seems as though these two deliveries could well be legitimate and useful deliveries with their place amongst a Wrist Spinner armoury, but as yet no-one has seen fit to describe them in a book and therefore are evolutionary balls.<br />
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Now we're moving into the realms of really thinking outside of the box. If you give this subject a great deal of thought you eventually arrive at Baseball as offering other options and one of the more interesting if you do your research is the Knuckle Ball. Interestingly I've just done a little research today and came across this link - http://i.ehow.com/images/GlobalPhoto/Articles/4665793/curveball-main_Full.jpg<br />
which is an image of a knuckle ball, but if you research wider you'll soon notice that this image rather resembles the Wrist Spinner grip rather than the majority of other representations of the Knuckle Ball. Also associated with this link is the parent link as such here - http://www.ehow.com/how_4826158_throw-knuckle-curve.html and again if you read the description again it virtually describes a Wrist Spinners grip even down to the fact that you flick the wrist! So as you can see there's a degree of interesting cross-over going on and it's something I feel that can add to your potential as a Wrist Spinner.<br />
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My own variation which is very much developmental is based on the images found here at wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuckleball the tips of my fingers are bent very much inwards with the ball secured resting on the actual knuckles in the side shot here. When I get a chance I'll shoot some images of my knuckle ball and upload them. But with regards a description of my version the main thing I find is that it's a faster ball with a flatter trajectory. The interesting aspect for me is the claim that when bowled with the smooth side of the ball facing the bat and the seam at the edges there's the potential for the ball to drift - but not in one single direction but in two directions so that the ball across 22 yards may wobble significantly from one side to the other. This is so extreme in baseball that the Knuckle Ball poses difficulties for the catcher who wears those enormous big catching mits!<br />
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I'm probably going to include some of the Finger Spin techniques in this section including the Iverson Gleeson technique which has found popularity recently via Sri Lanka's Ajantha Mendis who seems to have renamed it the Carrom Ball.<br />
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Coming soon. (Working on it now 30th Sept 2015). <br />
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the aero-dynamic feature of spin bowling that sees the ball move laterally in
the air in the opposite direction of the spin (Stick in a video or images of
mine in a sequence from you tube). When executed well using Leg spin, the
batsman will see the ball coming down the wicket towards him initially in a
straight trajectory, but then as the ball dips, the ball will appear to veer to
his leg side late in the delivery, leaving very little time to make adjustments
for the fact that it has moved off its initial trajectory. There's also the
fact that the visual aspect of the movement might also suggest that without the
ball spinning the ball might simply then 'Go down leg'. For the ball to 'Drift'
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<em>"It's all to do with alignment," Jenner said. "It's something we have done quite often over the years. Shane can sometimes tend to close off in his action, which robs him of the drift that he has used over the years to get a lot of batsmen out. The ball will drift across a right-handed batsman, which makes him open up and leave himself exposed.</em><br />
<em>"We did the same thing last year after Lord's. He was closing off in the first Test, and we worked on getting him back to where he should be. It seemed to work."</em></div>
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Drift described back in 1930 in Clarrie Grimmetts wrist spin bible ‘Getting Wickets’. He refers to it as ‘Swerve’……….. <br />
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Grimmett on Drift <br />
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The ball or sphere which is perfectly round, and has no seam, swerves because it is affected by the pressure of the atmosphere. This is dependent on the way that the ball is spinning. Take, for instance, a ball spinning in a horizontal plane from right to left. That is, if you were to put a chalk mark round a sphere, similar to the seam on a cricket ball it would be spinning round at right angles to the line of flight, parallel with the ground. The ball would then be traveling much faster on the right side than on the left, because it is spinning forward. On the left side, the ball is spinning back, and, consequently, not going so fast as on the other side. Hence, the different sides of the ball are differentially affected by the air pressure. <br />
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It is therefore, easy to see that the ball must tend to travel or swerve to the side on which there is the most resistance. In this case, the most resistance is on the left because the ball has a spinning motion backwards, and is traveling forward. Consequently, it swerves to the left; and, if the spin is reversed, it will swerve to the right. Similarly, top and backspin operate the same way in their respective directions. <br />
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A cricket ball introduces something different again by reason of the fact that it has a seam raised above the main surface of the ball. Through the fact that the seam is in such contrast to the smooth, shiny surface – this varying as the ball becomes worn – it necessarily follows it offers more resistance to the atmosphere than the shiny part. Consequently, it swerves according to the way in which the seam is spinning. <br />
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Bowl a ball spinning over towards the slips as for the leg break, the seam being gripped so that it touches the first two fingers and thumb. The seam would be then pointing in the direction of the slips, and, with the atmosphere striking it in this position it would act as a rudder, steering the ball towards the slips – an out-swerve. Now grip the ball with the seam exactly opposite, spin it the same way, and it will swerve towards fine leg – an in-swinger. <br />
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It is possible, however, for the seam to spin in such a way that, in the prevailing conditions it does not act as a rudder, and the ball swerves simply because it is traveling faster in one place than in the other, as for instance, the ball spinning on a horizontal plane. <br />
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In the case of a ball bowled as for a leg break, a previously described, with the seam spinning like a hoop towards the slips, the top part of the ball is traveling faster than the lower part, and causes the ball to drop quickly. Hence the curving, deceptive flight of a ball from a slow bowler. <br />
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In baseball, they use for practice purposes a ball with the seam raised about an eighth of an inch, the idea being to enable learners to get the impression of swerve more easily by means of the contrast between the raised seam and the ball itself. This suggestion could be applied to cricket. Bowlers anxious to solve the mysteries of swerve could have a cricket ball made to order with the seam so raised, and would thus more clearly be able to note the effect of swerve. <br />
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Much useful experience can be gained by noting, particularly with the raised seam ball, the effect of the wind. Young bowlers should also watch carefully to see how the swerve varies according to the way they grip the ball. <br />
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In swerve bowling, like other branches of the art, it must be the bowler’s object so to regulate his swerve that the ball will hit the wicket. A new ball swerves much more than the old one, and it is vitally important that this advantage should not be wasted. <br />
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<em>It is always advisable for a slow bowler to work against the breeze, which causes the ball to dip or swerve, together with other peculiarities of flight impossible to obtain while bowling with the wind. It also helps greatly to make the ball break.</em><br />
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Philpott on Drift…….. <br />
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Philpott points us to looking at Tennis and baseball for clues as to the way that a ball spins and we as Wrist Spinners need to be aware of the potential for applying drift to our game. <br />
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“For the left handed server (Tennis), it is easier to slice down the left side of the ball, creating ‘Leg-Spin’. The serve now drifts from left to right. It drifts ‘in’. The ball always drifts the opposite way to the eventual ‘Turn’ after bouncing’. Peter Philpott; The Art of Wrist Spin Bowling; 2006; Crowood Press Ltd, Wiltshire.(Page 31). <br />
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And that’s it, apart from a diagram that illustrates a ball that is spinning with its seam 90 degrees to the direction of flight. There’s no mention of whether the seam is fully upright or slanted backwards or forwards. The illustration suggests that the ball is delivered with the rotation 90 degrees and perfectly up-right. But then you could argue that Philpotts book is aimed like Grimmetts at young boys and is written in a manner that is accessible to kids in the 1990’s. Whereas Grimmetts is far more complex and assumes that the kids have far less to distract them and therefore will take the time to read it over and over again until it sinks in. <br />
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Woolmer on Drift <br />
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Woolmer, on the other hand attempts to take a very in depth look at Drift in his book. Page 301 through to 307 he writes several thousands of words illustrated with some good diagrams explaining the Magnus affect. If you want to explanations of the magnus affect youtube is particularly good if you search around links to Baseball as there are video clips of wind tunnel and water experiments showing the affects of turbulence around balls. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oph9BP4lKjs">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oph9BP4lKjs</a> <br />
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Having tackled the subject of the Magnus effect he then moves on to the ball of the Century from Warne to Mike Gatting <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeLn8sEAKfE&NR=1">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeLn8sEAKfE&NR=1</a> <br />
There’s a couple of interesting points that Woolmer makes that are in opposition to many people’s explanations and theories and the key one contradicts Philpotts diagram of the ball with the perfectly presented up-right seam spinning at 90 degrees to its flight path. Woolmer concludes that a ball presented in this manner will not drift. He then goes on to explain in great detail Warnes Ball of the century which has a great deal of drift, but as he gets into it and starts to explain the theory he then notes “In order for the delivery to drift towards leg, the wake of the ball must be disturbed upwards towards the off-side. How this happens is not yet well described in scientific literature. Thus, some speculation is warranted – and illustrated in Figure 5.23”. Which is the diagram used to explain the ball of the century. <br />
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The key revelation within the text is the speculation that in order that the ball does drift in the manner illustrated in the video link, it was probably tilted slightly backwards from vertical (When seen from above). For me personally, its just this line from everything I’ve read that I feel is new and definitely worth looking into. Additionally another resource that is available to everyone on the internet and is exceptionally comprehensive is fellow bigcricket forum contributor ‘Spiderlounge’s blog that looks at the subject - <a href="http://pencilcricket.blogspot.com/p/magnus-effect-in-leg-spin-bowling.html">http://pencilcricket.blogspot.com/p/magnus-effect-in-leg-spin-bowling.html</a> <br />
I can follow what he’s saying up to a point but then I get a bit lost but within his explanation I’ve noticed too that he looks at the possibility that big drift occurs when the seam moves off the perfectly upright (Viewed from above) position and slants one way or the other. <br />
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I find the difficulty with all of the explanations is the visualising of the written explanation with the reality and sometimes the written explanation and the combination of the illustrations still leaves me confused, Having looked at this now for several days and numerous explanations in books and on videos dealing with the physics of a spinning ball I’ve come to a inconclusive conclusion. <br />
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Some of the information relating to spinning balls is easy to grasp and the magnus force when it relates to some types of balls makes sense. But, with regards to wrist spinning and the fact that it in itself is a relatively unexplored and unexplained with very few people prepared to put their hand up and say that they are experts in the field either as protagonists or researchers (the researchers would need to work with the protagonists) it seems that the fact that it is such a dark art amongst all of the cricket specialities that information is scant. The fact that not many people bowl wrist spin apart from Danish Kaneria and 2 others (His words not mine) the scope to explore the physics using players is limited. Then add the fact that we spin the ball around a horizontal axis with the seam 90 degrees to the direction of flight and it all starts to get a bit messy and exceptionally complex. So much so that when you read the few books that there are, that, deal with the subject of Wrist spin in any depth (see bibliography). You then see even the experts in the field with the help of physics and cricket experts come to a similar inconclusive conclusion. <br />
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On the Bigcricket Forum as I discussed this with the others we all more or less came to the same conclusion…….. <br />
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· It is a very complex theory to understand and apply to your actual bowling. <br />
· If you spin the ball hard with your Leg Breaks you will produce drift and if you notice it or someone else notices it keep it in mind and try and work with it. <br />
· Don’t get hung up on it though, because similar to seamers who can swing the ball some days and not other days – it may be the same kind of thing with drift. <br />
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Woolmer winds down his section on Wrist Spinning holding Warne up as an amazing bowler with an exceptional degree of technical mastery and that the Ball of the century was probably a ball in a million. He finishes the chapter though quite fittingly as I have at the start of this section on Drift transcribing Grimmetts original work from 1930’s and saying it was Grimmett who literally wrote the book on spin. <br />
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<strong>My final thoughts on the matter.</strong><br />
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Right here we go, I hope this makes sense. Last night I couldn't sleep thinking about this and I kept trying to visualise why this might happen. I had some of the things Pencil cricket had written about going on in my head and some of the stuff in the Woolmer analysis. But last night the thing I was mulling over was the fact that the drift happens at the end of the flight. Somewhere along the way in all of the explanations someone had said that the fact that the ball was dropping was a key part of the equation. This morning my older son who's much better than me at maths was explaining his theory and some of what he was saying had a ring of truth and an obvious connection with the Magnus force. Again using a ball I tried to visualise what might happen and why. Then the eureka moment happened... I realised I was only thinking about the ball travelling along one plane and obsessing about the forward motion only in relation to the Magnus force. Others had said the drop was a factor and as soon as I started to think about the drop in relation to the Magnus force it started to come together and make sense, but I was still sceptical and unsure how it would be visualised as a diagram.<br />
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Then I read the old post by the bloke earlier in this thread realising I'd never read it before, but as I read it, it made sense with regards to my visualisations earlier in the day. I then found the video above and realised that this like most of the others, this relates to balls either dipping (top-spin) or balls that hold up in the air or in the case of base ball side-ways swerve. I then thought - it's the drop! The drop is the factor - the ball going through the air initially is much faster than the drop stage and will also be running out of spin, it's something about the drop - the Magnus force comes into action as the ball starts to drop. I then thought of the same diagrams that have so far completely confounded me and visualised them on their sides. As soon as you do that it makes total sense...<br />
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The dropping ball then goes through a different plane and meets the same physics as the ball moving horizontally through the sky, but as you've all pointed out and explained in different ways, the reaction of the ball is the opposite to the spin and this exactly fits the theory offered by the Magnus force...<br />
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The intention is that this blog will become a resource for wanna be Wrist Spin bowlers or Legspin bowlers as they're also known as. While it's under construction have a look at -<br />
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Constant support and ideas when you're learning can be found at http://www.bigcricket.com/forum/t58854/<br />
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Here's our big cricket Wrist Spin Manifesto - http://www.bigcricket.com/forum/t58854/<br />
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There's a new one that should be added next time that we update it and that's a point about the value of bowling in the nets as a Wrist Spinner. One of the best reading resources that you should try and get hold of are books that deal with or are by Clarrie Grimmett on Wrist Spin. Grimmett was the forefather of wrist spin and possibly the greatest wrist spinner ever and unlike many of the others seemingly more than willing to explain his art. But one of his great observations with regards Wrist Spin bowling was about the usefulness of bowling in nets.<br />
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1. Nets sessions are primarily there for batsmen and their use to the Wrist Spinner is negligible.<br />
2. The batsman is able to bat against the bowler with impunity with no consequence for his actions, if you manage to bowl him, he is allowed back for another chance.<br />
3. The batsman therefore approaches his batting in a manner that he would never employ in a match against a wrist spinner.<br />
4. If you do choose to bowl against a batsman in a nets situation disregard and ignore any of the balls that the batsman deals with effectively as it's not how he'd bat against you in a match.<br />
5. Never be disheartened by being smashed every in the nets.<br />
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If you want to practice you should find yourself somewhere that you can do it alone, so that you can concentrate and focus on your bowling. Both Grimmett and Peter Philpott advocate practicing alone and taking it very seriously and being 100% focussed on what you are trying to do. Grimmett had his own wicket in his back yard where he would practice. I use several places - playgrounds and basket ball courts in the winter and anywhere there's some grass in the summer - outfields of cricket pitches, artificial wickets but mostly football pitches.<br />
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Look at this bloke Jim on the Big Cricket Forum and the progress he made once he stopped bowling against his brother - http://www.bigcricket.com/forum/t58854-189/ track back through a few pages and see how disillusioned he was before he tried bowing on his own.<br />
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So if you're trying to learn what is known to be the most difficult form of bowling in cricket you've come to the right place - follow the links and check back here and see this resource grow. <br />
Posted by MPA first eleven at 16:15Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2428681878644794362.post-34243521774674380532009-03-13T16:56:00.001-07:002011-02-15T14:06:00.908-08:00The Legbreak<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvlccidZWrHpAo1eYrcwtpeTbQ2GJAOpgqEcw6pXstWb2FgF8h_HTjtooWiJsZNGwUXlkGj6XuJUT1leFpWO470CRH5xYHhHGuqDWAzFitm8uoYKGXkFf0WKZvn_x9WcA3oeAHWzmTZ58/s1600-h/Bowling+Small+Leg+Break.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 285px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313153912215600178" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvlccidZWrHpAo1eYrcwtpeTbQ2GJAOpgqEcw6pXstWb2FgF8h_HTjtooWiJsZNGwUXlkGj6XuJUT1leFpWO470CRH5xYHhHGuqDWAzFitm8uoYKGXkFf0WKZvn_x9WcA3oeAHWzmTZ58/s400/Bowling+Small+Leg+Break.jpg" /></a><br /><div><div><strong>The Legbreak;</strong> Of the several deliveries that the wrist spin bowler uses this is the primary weapon. Attributed to right arm bowlers the ball is bowled relatively slowly in comparison to the medium pacers and fast bowlers. The ball is pitched up towards the batsman at different and varying lengths and then spins away towards the Slips fielders. So from your point of view as the bowler the ball lands and spins away to the left. From the batsmans perspective it lands and spins away to his right as he looks up the wicket back towards the bowler.<br /><br /><div>From your point of view as the bowler it's necessary to be able to make the ball spin away from the point it lands. The levels of accuracy required for both the length and the line are exceptionally important and as a leg spinner the ability to bowl different, speeds, lengths and line all combine to make this a tricky ball to play. The Legbreak has a number of other attributes - Dip, Bounce and drift.</div><br /><br /><br /><div></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlOpjjU0hEhKEByMmesmvUow_iCQdDX6kAEq2ZDtn1O7Y_y58qsKXixkWZsTc6P7zhkknBRiYwq7LjG02kyHl2ORbnD07rkU5WH4juTwVy-G2eMLCnVE9QDUecKq3ZNICd-62cAngpcV4/s1600-h/Leg+Break+diagram.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 105px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313153714784317138" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlOpjjU0hEhKEByMmesmvUow_iCQdDX6kAEq2ZDtn1O7Y_y58qsKXixkWZsTc6P7zhkknBRiYwq7LjG02kyHl2ORbnD07rkU5WH4juTwVy-G2eMLCnVE9QDUecKq3ZNICd-62cAngpcV4/s400/Leg+Break+diagram.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong>Dip; </strong>Is a description relating to the flight of the ball. The ball is usually delivered in such a way that it is bowled above the eye-line of the batsman, this has the effect of making it more difficult to judge with regards to it's speed and it's likely point as to where it's going to land. The leg break spins anti clockwise with the seam of the ball pointing in the direct of cover/point so it combines some of the attributes of a Top Spinner ball. It' this top spinning characteristic that causes the ball to be affected by the magnus effect <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_effect">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_effect</a> . The ball flies through the air and from the side it would inititally give the impression that it would land beyond or on the stumps, but because of it spinning and the magnus effect coming into play it suddenly falls out of the sky rapidly far sooner than a ball thrown without spin. Which as you can imagine as a batsman is problematic. This then helps with another of the Leg Breaks characteristics....</div><br /><br /><div><strong>Bounce; </strong>This is an obvious consequence of the ball suddenly dipping. If the ball was to have been thrown a similar distance without spin, the entry angle into the impact with the surface would be mariginally lesser than the mirrored exit angle. So seeing the ball pitched up above the eye level the brain would then calculate expected entry angle and exit angle out of the bounce and quickly put into action a strategy with the bat to deal with the ball. But then the magnus affect causes the rapid dip and surprising high bounce that is designed by the wrist spinner to be either struck on the glove or the top edge of the bat forcing an error whereby the batsman will be caught.</div><br /><div><strong>Drift; </strong>This is another attribute caused by the fact that the ball is spinning and is a consequence of the Magnus affect. As well as potentially dipping at the last moment because the ball is spun with the seam at 45 degrees it cuts threw the air and reacts in a way that causes it to swerve off it's initial line swerving in the opposite way to the spin direction, so it swerves towards the leg side.</div><br /><br /><div><strong>The Grip; </strong>The grip is described as a 2 fingers up, 2 fingers down with the 2 up fingers across the seam as opposed to along the seam in the case of medium pace and fast bowlers. The most important finger is the 3rd finger as it's this that imparts the spin on the ball. It's easy to get really hung up on the grip as there are loads of opinions as to how you do it. Some people have a loose grip, others have a tight grip I had success when I was learning with a solid grip but making sure that the gap between the two up fingers and the 3rd finger was quite wide. I find in my bowling that now the up fingers and the thumb have very little to do with the bowling action and that the position on the seam is absolutely essential. I have to make sure that I place the 3rd finger very purposefully on the seam and concentrate as I bowl on ensuring that the 3rd finger stays on the ball till last micro second. It's this 3rd finger dragging across the seam as the ball comes out of the hand that puts the spin on the ball.</div><br /><div>Other people I've observed have very different grips, kids I've noticed including my 7 year old have evenly spread fingers which make their grip look like a conventional 'Holding the ball' grip, but their fingers are all across the seam and they get it to spin. I remember when I first picked up a ball I did something similar and just used a flick of the wrist and got it to turn. </div><div></div><div>Currently I'm noticing the subtleties of my own grip make a big difference. Currently I'm employing the 'The Straight Ball with the drag off the 3rd finger' approach (See below) and I'm noticing that this gets the ball turn particularly well and it very accurate. By not rolling the ball off the 3rd finger so positively and using subtle changes in the wrist position more top spin and less turn is acquired and this produces a different ball that keeps the batsman on his guard.</div><br /><div><strong>Round the Loop; </strong>There aren't that many resources available to the wrist spinner but the most important is possibly the book <em>The Art of Wrist Spin Bowling </em>by Peter Philpott. ISBN 1-86-126-063-6 published by Crowood. Philpott in this book writes about the subject in great depth and anyone learning Wrist Spin bowling needs to get a copy and read it not once but several times.</div><br /><div>In the book as Philpott describes how to bowl wrist spin he uses the analogy of going 'Round the loop' to describes the position of the wrist in conjunction with each of the variations. It was through reading this book and realising the relevance of the wrists position that I was eventually able to bowl the Leg Break. So look at the diagram and consider the wrist in relation to the batsman. All of the main images here depict the view of the hand and wrist as the arm comes over so the images are of the hand position as seen by the batsman. </div><br /><div>The Loop aspect describes the rotation (Twisting) of the wrist with regards to each of the deliveries. The Leg break has the under-side of the wrist as it comes over the top of the head in the delivery facing the batsman with the back of the hand facing you as it passes beyond the position of 12.00 o'clock.</div><div></div><div>Another piece of advice that I was given through <a href="http://www.bigcricket.com/">http://www.bigcricket.com/</a> was that when the arm came over instead of the action being that of a fling it needs to be something that is more akin to a push, this for me gives me the sense that the wrist remains in that forward facing position in the delivery and as the hand comes over and down and the ball leaves the hand the fingers unfurl with the 3rd finger staying on the ball for as long as physically possible so that it then spins the ball.</div><div></div><div></div><div>On the subject of arm action here's some wisdom from the great <strong>Clarrie Grimmett....</strong></div><div></div><div>I'm currently reading Grimmetts on taking wickets kindly copied and sent to me by Macca, cheers bloke very much appreciated! Anyway he's just mentioned a point regarding round arm verses a more vertical arm. The comparison he makes is that of skimming stones across a pond. Suggesting quite rightly that if you throw a flat stone using a vertical arm action it's simply going to disappear into the water, whereas the sideways arm action means that the flat stone doesn't break the surface and instead skims bouncing several times before disappearing. The inference is that the round arm action facilitates a faster movement off the pitch. The vertical action would mean some of the kinetic energy would be absorbed into the pitch and thus slow the ball down.</div><div><strong><br />Three Different Approaches to bowling this delivery</strong></div><ul><li>The Straight Ball with the drag off the 3rd finger</li><li>The Cocked Wrist with the straightening of the hand at release</li><li>The real leg break with the flick</li></ul><div><br />Some of the mastery with the Leg Break is psychological and a brilliant exponent of this is Shane Warne exemplified for example in the lead up to the Ashes in England going so far as having a giant statue of himself being paraded through central London on the back of a truck coinciding with news reports that he was currently able to produce at least 5 variations including his Flipper which it had been previously reported he’d lost because of shoulder operations. The sense you got from the build up was that England were virtually doomed because of Warne’s presence on the team and his ability to completely bamboozle any of the English batsmen with his ridiculous ability to spin the ball a la the Mike Gatting ball.</div><div><br />What I’m trying to say is that with some psychology you can find yourself in a situation where you are in the ascendency before you even bowl a ball simply because you are a <em>Wrist Spinner,</em> so even with a small amount of leg spin you’ve got the potential to dominate the batsmen. You’ve only got to watch small boys with reputations of being spinners bowling against adults at club level to see that simply by flighting the ball and varying the length and speed that spin doesn’t have to be an enormous component of the game. But once you’ve got some spin abilities and skills your potential increases.</div><div><br /><strong>The Straight Ball with the drag off the 3rd finger</strong></div><strong></strong><div><br />If you are struggling with the Leg Break, one approach is to bowl the ball with the palm of the hand at the point of release facing the batsman. As the ball leaves the hand the last part of the hand that has contact with the ball is the 3rd finger and it’s this that imparts the spin. This approach seemingly doesn’t use any wrist action but still produces a small leg break with a good degree of bounce. Some people say that as you bring the ball over you should also have a feeling that you’re pushing the ball forward out of your hand rather than flinging it. If you’re suffering from the Googly Syndrome this may be the solution to getting your leg break back because it focuses your attention on the fact that you need to keep the wrist facing forwards along with the palm of the hand. Also try turning the wrist slightly clockwise so that your thumb comes round towards you and the little finger moves towards the bat so that the hand starts to move towards being in the Karate Chop position. You’ll notice that this small variation in the wrist position affects will affect the spin and the bounce.</div><div><br /><strong>The unfurled cocked wrist approach</strong></div><strong></strong><div><br />Many wrist spinners you’ll note will start with their wrists cocked at the start of the delivery and then release the ball with the hand in the ‘Traffic Cop’ position on release. Again if you’re having problems getting your Leg Break together this is an approach that you may want to explore that could potentially lead to a break through or an improvement. The unfurling of the cocked wrist to the ‘Traffic cop’ position with the palm facing the batsman on release involves a degree of wrist flick and incorporates the 3rd finger as the last point of contact on the ball thus producing the spin. You only have to do this gently over a couple yards so that you can step forward and catch the ball yourself and you can see how readily the ball comes out of the hand rotating perfectly with the seam rotating at right angles to the direction of flight.</div><div><br /><strong>The <em>real Leg Break</em> with a big flick</strong> </div><div><br />The real leg break requires the big flick. Look at the earlier explanations regarding the throwing of the ball from one hand to the other and the video on-line at<strong><span style="color:#ff0000;"> (link & Info coming soon)</span></strong> . As you work on this and get used to the feeling you’ll soon begin to develop an action where rather than just rolling your hand over and round the ball you’ll begin to produce an action more akin to a flick. hopefully this flick will incorporate the use of the 3rd finger, the wrist, the elbow and shoulder in putting the spin on the ball. Again the exact way in which this is done varies from person to person, some people note that the amount of work that the 3rd finger does is such that it produces blisters, Shane Warne apparently was able to produce his spin without having blisters or callouses at all. The important thing is that the flick is there. My own version creates an audible sound not unlike the Flippers click as the ball is flicked off my 3rd finger. In trying to understand the wrist flick and the role the 3rd finger plays my own experience is that the sensation that I have is that I’m primarily bowling the ball off the 3rd and 4th fingers, the rest of my hand apart from the wrist has very little involvement in getting the ball to spin, the thumb and the 2 up fingers only support the ball in holding the ball poised against the fingers that impart the spin.</div><div></div><div>To see the emphasis and action of the 3rd finger on the ball watch the two sequences of Shane Warne in this video in high quality (HQ). <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x72rFy1YmU&feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x72rFy1YmU&feature=related</a></div><div></div><div>When learning this, note the sideways action of the ball being thrown from one hand across the body to the other right to left with the flick. This is the basis of the leg break with the big flick. This is the action that gives you the flick coupled with imparting spin off the 3rd finger. The combination of both. </div><div><br />Similarly with the other versions the hand still releases the ball with the *palm facing the batsman, the ball should leave the hand rotating anti-clockwise with the seam at right angles to the direction of flight so that when the ball hits the ground the seam bites and propels the ball towards the off-side away from it’s expected trajectory. You may find that with this variation that your thumb is instrumental in some way and holds the ball in the hand so that the ball is tucked up ready against the 3rd finger on release as the ball is released the hand closes around the thumb. With all these slight variations and approaches there is one consistent aspect and that’s the position of the wrist on release. The underside of your wrist with the veins needs to be facing the batsman on release. </div><div><br /></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div><strong>Tactics; </strong>I think with regards tactics it's easy to get carried away with watching video clips of Shane Warne, as you kind of get drawn into the idea that as a Wrist Spinner you're supposed to be bowling Leg Breaks down the leg side with the intention that they turn round the back of the bats legs. Well - if you are Shane Warne yes maybe. But as a novice wrist spinner you're more than likely going to be better off sticking to a more basic approach. I found as I learned most balls down the leg side get put away quite easily by the batsman. A potentially better approach would be to bowl with an emphasis towards the off-stump. My own approach (RH batsman) is to bowl at middle and off so that each ball is threatening to hit the stumps and therefore needs to be dealt with and not left. I've seen this approach used by a bloke who was playing on a wicket that offered very little assistance in the way of turn, but he bowled a very accurate line but varied his length using his ability to use dip and keeping the ball up above the eye-line. This bloke was in his 60's and bowled about 10 maiden overs out of 13! </div><div></div><div></div><div>I vary my line slightly but always keep the ball down the offside looking for opportunities of a catch at point, gully, cover etc. But the line I bowl worries batsmen who are not that confident and with the ball spinning away to slips there's always the potential to force an error.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong>Practice; </strong>The key to all aspects of Wrist Spin bowling is practice. Almost without exception anyone that knows anything of cricket all say that Wrist Spin Bowling is the most difficult of all of crickets skills. Therefore it follows that to bowl wrist spin and do it well you need to practice constantly and practice seriously. Philpott writes chapters in his book on this subject emphasising that if you're not obsessed with the idea of being a wrist spin bowler and don't view the prospects of spending virtually every waking hour of your life practicing it you'll never become an accomplished wrist spin bowler.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div><span style="color:#000099;">In C.V.Grimmetts book 'Taking Wickets' he makes some observations with regards Medium Pace bowling. He concludes that Medium Pacers should have as a part of their armoury the Wrong Un because he explains that it is far more natural and therefore easier to release the ball out of the back of the hand at speed to obtain spin than it is out of the front of the hand as you do for the Leg Break. This got me thinking. At my own club we have small boys that bowl seam up medium/fast style and seemingly they can turn their hand to bowling a decent turning Leg Break with some ease. Additionally I've suffered a forearm injury which has coincided with my own sons aged 7 and 10 starting to play for a club and the balls that they invariably face are seam up medium/fast. So in order to rest my forearm and give my sons some practice which is specific to their cricket experience I've been bowling medium pace seam up and been really surprised how easy it is to get it on the stumps.</span></div><div></div><div><span style="color:#000099;"></span></div><div><span style="color:#000099;">I then realised that there may be some logic in Wrist Spinners who are learning to bowl leg breaks or maybe trying to recover their leg breaks to explore Medium Pace Bowling? The theory is linked to the fact that the small boys find it easy to go from one speciality to the other and I rather suspect that this is because the Leg Break delivery shares some commonality with the seam up delivery in that it comes out of the front of the hand, which as I've just mentioned Grimmett observes as being the more un-natural technique in some respects. So might it be the case if you're struggling with the leg break that you leave all of the complex stuff and strip your bowling technique down to basics by applying yourself to bowling Medium pace. Could it be that in doing this you learn the fundamentals of bowling, run-up, gather, delivery, follow through, line and length using a far easier mode and you're releasing the ball in that palm forward style? </span></div><div><span style="color:#000099;"></span></div><div><span style="color:#000099;">It strikes me that if you acquire some mastery of Medium Pace and get the fundamentals sorted it may as in the case of the small boys take the adoption of the 2 fingers up, 2 fingers down grip and then apply the cocked wrist and have someone show you that you simply unfurl the wrist in a flick at the point of release to find yourself bowling half decent leg breaks? It then follows that initially you may lose your line and length because you are bowling in a different way, but surely having already mastered line and length with the Medium Pace bowling their would be some self belief in your ability to practice this new delivery and get it nailed?</span></div><div><span style="color:#000099;"></span></div><div><span style="color:#000099;"></span></div><div></div></div></div><br /><br />The following bit is something I need to incorporate somewhere in the blog at some point ......<br /><br />The other thing we do is for the first five overs or so we whip eveything into the keeper and attack the ball as though its a run out every ball just to make the openers think, bloody hell these guys are on the ball. Its impossible to go the whole match doing it but its a good little thing to do when a long partnership is going on to get the fielders awake again and put a bit more pressure on the batsman. Its also intimidating to have a ball whistle past you to the keeper every ball you play if you are a batsman.<br /><br />A good website link <a href="http://www.activatecricket.com.au/content_common/pg-Activate-Cricket-Spin-Bowling-Part-4-Angles-Flight-Turn.seo">http://www.activatecricket.com.au/content_common/pg-Activate-Cricket-Spin-Bowling-Part-4-Angles-Flight-Turn.seo</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong>Length</strong><br /><br />This is an essential aspect of your bowling and one that is difficult to get the hang of. Bowling the ball short in most instances isn’t going to work as it gives the batsman time to see how much turn you’ve managed to put on the ball, track the ball and then play the appropriate shot. Better batsmen are going to be able to hit the ball easily and score runs and it’s generally seen as poor bowling. If in doubt, or if you’re bowling poorly try and bowl fuller, but not so far that the ball becomes a full toss and arrives at the batsman still in the air having not bounced.<br /><br />The optimum length is a variable distance (3.8 Metres see below) that subtly changes with each batsman, dependent on his position in the crease, his height, reach and the strokes that he plays. I was shown a basic method of judging where to bowl, when explaining to a bloke that I try and bowl around 4.5 yards from the stumps. He said that this was flawed because of the characteristics of each batsman as listed above. His advice was stand where the batsman takes his guard and reach forward with the bat and to draw an arc with the toe of the bat. His advice was the length to bowl was on or around this arc. The theory is that this length is the most difficult to play and generally no matter what approach the batsman takes this length of bowling will cause him far more problems (if the ball is turning) than any other. There are solutions, skip down the wicket and smash the ball back over the bowlers head. Stride forward with a big positive front foot defensive block, angling the bat down killing the spin at the point of contact that ball makes with the ground. Step back and play a back-foot defensive block or play the ball on its merits having watched it turn off the wicket. All of which as far as we’re concerned are still risky, simply because of the length you’ve bowled. This approach can then be further enhanced………..<br /><br /><strong>Flight<br /></strong><br />This is an aspect that is often over-looked by learners of the art as it seems to be a high risk strategy. At the early stages of your development it may be the case that you do not recognize or indeed simply have the skill to bowl the ball with differing degrees of over-spin. Your, Leg Break, dependent on the direction you get the seam to spin in and how much spin you put on it will dip rapidly towards the end of its trajectory. Explanations of this, involve complex physics but an analogy that is often used that people seemingly are familiar with are those using Tennis. A tennis ball hit across the top of the ball with a slice action spins with top-spin and dips ferociously towards the end of it flight path. You may also recognize the action in table tennis as well. The same physics applies to a cricket ball and if the ball is ripped from the fingers and wrist with over-spin (Top-Spin) the ball will suddenly dip from its expected flight path and fall short of its predicted trajectory causing the batsman problems. Additionally, because the ball has suddenly dipped, its angle of entry is nearing the same exit angle once it bounces. This sudden increase in bounce can be unexpected and cause yet more problems, coming off the gloves being a typical dismissal from a ball with more over-spin. The Top-Spinner one of the Wrist Spinners variations is the delivery that exemplifies this affect most dramatically, but a Small Leg Break e.g. one that has very little seam angle will have many of the attributes of a Top-Spinner. Again, this is only conjecture, but even a ball that is spinning at right angles to it’s direction of flight is still over-spinning albeit side-ways and to my way of thinking must include the attributes of dip caused by the over-spinning ball?<br /><br />The conclusion thus far is that once again we return to the mantra of making the ball spin viciously in order to extract every advantage we can in our pursuit of slow bowling. Now, we come to another attribute, the trajectory or flight of the ball. Key to this next section is this from Bob Woolmer……<br /><br /><em>The brain is unable to predict the exact landing position of a delivery that, for a significant portion of its flight, moves above the horizontal direction of the gaze. So instead of telling spinners to get the ball above the batsman’s’ eyes, coaches should be telling them to get it above his eyes for as long as possible.<br /></em><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">Bob Woolmers Art & Science of Cricket; 2008; New Holland Publishers; London.<br /><br /></span>This, therefore reinforces the necessity, to put revs on the ball. One of the things I find amazing about Warne’s bowling is the fact that he bowls his deliveries up in the region of 50mph and yet he bowls with a loopy action. The only way I could bowl at 50mph would be in a straight line and no way (At this stage) get it to go above the batsman’s eye level and come down before his feet, I simply do not have the skill to impart that amount of spin on the ball. But all is not lost, fortunately we’re not usually facing Sachin Tendulkar and simply getting the ball above the eye level of a club batsman is going to help our bowling a great deal. Additionally the small Leg Break with its Top-Spin attributes shares a wicket taking feature with the pure Top-Spinner, Woolmer again quoting research conducted by Renshaw & Fairweather (2000)…………<br /><br /><em>Expert batters were better able to distinguish the different types of deliveries than less good players. They also found that for all groups, detection rates (percentage of deliveries correctly identified) were best for Leg Breaks (90%) and Googly (52%) deliveries, but were considerably less good for Flippers (32%), Orthodox Back-Spinners (23%) and Top-Spin (12%) deliveries. Surprisingly, viewing the full flight of the delivery did not add any further predictive value in the case of these deliveries.</em><br /><br /><em>This study shows that essentially all the relevant information that the batter requires is provided in the spin bowlers action. Thus the batter makes his prediction of what the ball will do in the basis of advanced cues in the delivery action. In addition, it seems that if the ball lands 3.8 metres or closer to the batsman, he is unable to play it ‘Off the pitch’. Rather he is playing it on the basis of his predictions made at the time of ball release.<br /></em><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">Bob Woolmers Art & Science of Cricket; 2008; New Holland Publishers; London.<br /></span><br />The conclusion is for the spinner that you should endeavor to make your deliveries as identical to one another as you possibly can, as the skilled batsman’s key cue as to what the ball will do when it lands is taken from your release. Again as club players this would only be the forte of the 1st XI teams I would imagine.<br /><br />The interesting aspect of the Woolmer information is the fact that the Top-Spinner and therefore the smaller Leg Break with the over-spin dip attributes and the potential to really give it some air and keep it up above the eye-level makes this delivery combined with that loopy flight a killer ball. This goes a long way to explain some of the innings of good batsmen that I’ve witnessed coming to very abrupt endings at the hands of small boys and old blokes that are barely able to walk let alone run! The characteristics of their bowling has been very good line and length, combined with loopy flight and perhaps a touch of Top-Spin.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2428681878644794362.post-22272496525538610162009-03-13T16:44:00.000-07:002019-01-06T12:53:06.576-08:00The Big Legbreak<br />
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I’d never heard of the Big Leg Break being described as something different to your bog standard Leg Break until I read Peter Philpotts book. I thought a Leg Break was a Leg Break and when it turned big it was either - you putting more effort into it or you getting lucky and the ball turning out of some rough! I didn’t realize that there was a technique to it, but there most definitely is and if you haven’t read the book the <em>art of wrist spin bowling</em> you may find this contentious or simply physically impossible. The characteristics of the biggun are all pretty much as you’d expect of the Leg Break, but it just turns more – a lot more! This comes about through the application of Philpotts round the loop theory whereby the position of the wrist dictates the direction of the spin and therefore the direction of the deviation from the expected line of delivery.<br />
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The top spinner with it’s over-spin - spins forward because the wrist flicks forwards with the thumb leading the way. The batsman sees the hand with the thumb at the front and the side of the hand visible. Hold your hand out in front of your with your thumb facing your nose that’s the aspect that he sees. Now turn your hand 45 degrees anti clockwise between the Top-Spinner position to one where your thumb is pointing to your right and the face of the hand is facing you. This is the leg break position and any variation between those 45 degrees potentially offers you varying degrees of sideways deviation off the line of flight because of the sideway rotation. Needless to say the palm facing you with a big flick would mean that the ball would come down the wicket to you as the batsman with seam rotating sideway and only the smooth side of the ball visible, so once it hits the track it’s only going to go one way – sideways.<br />
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So have you realized what’s coming next? In order that the ball spins even more radically to create even more deviation off its flight line once it hits the track, you apply the around the loop theory. From the Leg Break position of the hand facing you - now turn your hand further still anti-clockwise so that side of the hand with little finger (The karate chop side) comes round to start to be in front of your face – this is now the side of the hand that should be facing the batsman during the delivery of the Big Leg Break (see image) or put in another way if your were throwing a spear forwards it’s that side of the hand that goes forward that faces the bat in this delivery. In addition you then give it the big flick. If you’re keeping up with this you’ll be sitting there thinking but that suggests that I spin it backwards? Exactly! The ball spins inwards with the seam spinning towards somewhere between Square Leg and Fine Leg.<br />
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In the book Philpott alludes to this early on, suggesting that as well as spinning/flicking the ball from your right hand to left hand with the seam sideways to you, also hold the ball at arms length with the seam straight on to you and spin it back in towards your body. </div>
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<em>As we have already discussed, spinning it from right-hand to left-hand. The other is to hold the it out in front of your body and spin it back towards your chest. I'll come back to that later. (The Art of Wrist Spin Bowling - Peter Philpott 2006 -page 22), </em></div>
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So right from the start he’s suggesting that you learn the back spin technique as well as the conventional side to side technique when you're just standing around learning how to flick the ball and get the rotation going with the use of the wrist.<br />
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It’s this that produces the Big Leg Break. The ball lands and has diagonal backspin towards the off-side. The forward motion is suddenly interrupted by the contact with the surface in the same way that the Flipper is but the diagonal nature of the seam angle means that the forward energy is combined with the diagonal backward forces and the result is the big turning Leg Break.<br />
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I think I’ve said before that lots of people do have the ability to pick up a cricket ball and simply using common sense and agility can bowl leg break balls using all sorts of variations of the 2 up 2 down grip and sometimes other more unorthodox grips. When I first discussed this technique (Big Legbreak) on website forums it was met with derision by some people and I personally couldn’t do it across 22 yards always instead producing a Googly/Wrong Un ( Googly syndrome ). But I did have an hour once practicing with a mate throwing the ball back and forth and I got it and was able just for that hour to produce massive turning Leg Breaks. Other people on the forum that tried it have developed it and now report that their little leg Break is now a big Leg Break simply by using Philpotts back-spinning into the body technique.<br />
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If you try this standing up at arms length and bowl it over short distances it’s relatively easy to replicate with the big flick and back-spin and you’ll see how the forward motion is interrupted on impact and the ball spins away to the left (Off-side) massively as a result of the seams position and the back-spin. If you have any doubts with regards the validity of this as a technique I can only point you in the direction of Peter Philpotts book <em>The Art of Wrist Spin Bowling.</em><br />
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The Top Spinner probably the most basic and least problematic of the lot and potentially a very useful tool in learning some of the other variations or at least a starting point with regards putting some of the theory into practice. This delivery is a forward spinning ball with the seam aimed directly at the batsman. On impact it bounces more than expected and shouldn't deviate off it's incoming line after making impact with the wicket. The desired effect is that the bounce catches the batsman off guard and glances off either the gloves or the top edge of the bat and ends up with a catch being made.<br />
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The batsman sees the hand viewed from the side with the thumb leading the hand as the hand comes over the head. My personal experience with this ball is that this is the one that allows easiest flick action of the wrist. Other observations are that if you're concentrating on learning how to bowl a good line and length this is the ball that could be instrumental in facilitating this process. With no need to try and do anything tricky with the seam e.g. make it come out of your hand with the seam rotating sideway (Leg Break & Wrong Un) you can bowl straight unhindered again and again just tweaking your delivery until you find the right feel. After a lot of bowling you'll reach a very satisfying point when your accuracy comes to you.</div>
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The top spinner with its forward spinning characteristics is potentially the ball that drops out of the sky the most dramatically as it’s not subjected to any side spin as the Wrong Un and Leg Break are? It’s here that I have to concede that my lack of experience means I can’t confirm this as it’s not something I’ve observed or had a batsman come back to me and mention. But reading about spin and the Magnus affect it makes sense that this ball is potentially the one where this comes into play the most? Again, the effect would be the batsman would see the ball released and it would begin it’s trajectory through the sky and he would calculate it’s expected path based on experiential information – the entry trajectory would be mirrored with a slight decrease by the exit trajectory out of the bounce off the track. Henceforth with the top-spin the ball suddenly dips rapidly out of the sky and in doing so with the forward spin then bounces far more than expected because of the sudden increased angle of entry into the bounce. The effect is the ball bounces far higher than expected and comes off the top of the bat or the gloves for a catch.<br />
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As far as I know a well delivered Top Spinner doesn’t particularly produce drift because the rotation of the seam is upright. But in the same way that an outswinger or an inswinger is affected by the surface of the ball e.g. one side is shiny and the other not as shiny there's the potential for the ball to swerve through the air as a result of the rough side causing friction against the air. Similarly if the ball is bowled with a slight emphasis with the wrist towards the Leg Break or Wrong Un position on an un-responsive track the affect may be a dead straight non-turning ball with the Top Spinners bounce but the accompanyment of drift through the air.</div>
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<strong><br /></strong>At club cricket level one of the best passages of play I’ve ever seen was a spell by an older bloke in his late 50’s bowling primarily Top-Spinners. The team were short of bowlers it seemed and between 4 blokes they had to bowl 50 overs. This bloke bowled 13 of them and got 10 maiden overs. I didn’t see his initial overs and I can only assume that at some point he got one or two of the balls to turn because when I picked up the spell he had the batsmen tied down and he was into his Top-Spinners. The batsmen were two of our openers, cricket players of many years (In their 40’s) on our own wicket and yet this bloke was had them fixed to their respective ends playing defensive shot after defensive shot. The only ball I could see that he was bowling was a Top Spinner. After the match I asked our bats ‘What was going on out there’? and they said "There was nothing we could do he was so accurate and was bowling different lengths, different speeds and different flight all of them on the stumps meaning that you had to play the ball.<br />
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