Your Cricket Me bowling leg spin.

[Simbazz]

If that's the case you need to check your hand position at the moment of release.

My main worry at the start of the season is hand position, you'll not forget where the seam goes, or how to release the ball. But your gunna forget when your wrist is going, so you need to find where it spins, and your hand aswell, my coach gave me a good tip, "open the door," he said, think its one of the old doors with them round nobs on them, just like opening one of those

 

[Almost_Austwick]

That's a pretty neat tip! I'll remember that one!

 

[Simbazz]

That's a pretty neat tip! I'll remember that one!

When ever im wayward or spinless i grab the ball and have a few minute chat with myself and just say to myself, "open the door," works with me ive found, if i have my head on one thing, such as the ball, and then opening the door, i usually get it right, im a simple guy, so cant have 10 things going through my head, so i listen to my coach's tips, and no one elses!

 

[Gilly Fan]

Like AA and myself said, make sure that your palm is facing the batsman at the point of release. Make sure it isn't pointing the sky or anywhere else (Eg. Midwicket).

 

[Almost_Austwick]

When ever im wayward or spinless i grab the ball and have a few minute chat with myself and just say to myself, "open the door," works with me ive found, if i have my head on one thing, such as the ball, and then opening the door, i usually get it right, im a simple guy, so cant have 10 things going through my head, so i listen to my coach's tips, and no one elses!

Sound advice again. If you can clear your head and picture what you want to do with the ball, from your run up to the ball being bowled it really does help. I mentally run through my spell whilst I'm warming up and between overs.

Then its just the little checks, such as making sure I'm relaxed, focused and backing myself to do well. Its strange at times but the mental aspect can really have a massive impact.

 

[Gilly Fan]

Went bowling yesterday for the first time in a couple of months. First 10 balls were off the pitch. LOL! Then I got into a rhythm and started bowling alright. But I wasn't bowling to anyone. Bowled for an hour, and my shoulder is a bit sore.

 

[jeromedascorp]

Man. All these tips are great. I have to try all of this because I can spin the ball right arm leg spin quite a bit. But it always come out by luck because i dont stick with a grip.

My problem though is the surface. The only surface I can get is artificial turf. Is this a good surface to practice and judge spin on?

 

[Gilly Fan]

Dunno, I play on concrete pitches with green matting on them.

 

[freddiw]

hours and hours of practice i bowl left arm leggies and find it hard to perfect
remember turn is everything never lose turn for accuracy at out age(under 20) because line and length will come with practise
dont be afraid to change our pace as well

and whatever track you play on pitch the ball on middle and leg/leg or outside leg and pitch it up the ball will turn differently on different pitches whether turf or artificial

 

[Gilly Fan]

I have my first training session for the season in an hour. I'll see how I go and report how I went.

 

[Hooper]

Ok, lets see if you landed them on the pitch.

 

[Gilly Fan]

Ok, lets see if you landed them on the pitch.

For the first 5 balls I didn't.

I bowled really crap at the start. Probably because I hadn't bowled since July. And before that I hadn't bowled since March. So 1 session of bowling for what was only 30 minutes 6 months isn't the best preparation.

I then had every ball on the pitch for the rest of the training session and beat the bat quite a bit. I'm happy with how I bowled. I also tried out my new bat, and it feels great!

 

[Hooper]

Cool, what bat?

 

[Gilly Fan]

Cool, what bat?

Gray Nic Matrix. English Willow.

 

[dtrain]

The videos don't have a great focus, so it's hard to tell, but it looks like your delivery stride is inconsistent. Do you have a set mark where you begin your approach from? All good spinners have a consistent "run up" and mark it out so they start from there every time. What happens when you don't is your delivry stride becomes inconsistent, therefor your ball control also becomes inconsistent.

It's important that the length of your delivery stride and the direction of your left foot when you release the ball have a great effect on the delivery. If you look at the clips of the balls that you bowl wide, I notice that your body weight isn't always travelling down the pitch with you. That's what leads me to think that it's your front foot that is the problem.

Just get a set sun up if you don't have one, and work on your approch to the crease being as consistent as possible. Everything else should roll on from there because you have a pretty sound technique. Good luck mate.