Your Cricket Spin Bowling thread

[embi]

I bowl offies with my fingers or alternatively i can bowl a google, can't bowl a leg break to save my life though, before today ive only ever played in nets, i broke a club record today when i became the first player to get a wicket with their first ball of their career/spell with the club, and it was one of the most average arm balls you can imagine, good old off spin

You can bowl googlies but not legbreak?
The two are almost exactly the same, just the googlies flipped around abit. Also, there wouldn't be an awful lot of point in being able to bowl a googly unless you can legspin it, because googlies, if done correctly, should look a bit like a legspinner coming out of the hand.

I'd say it is a good idea to be able to bowl more than one type of spin, its an easier alternative to developing a mystery ball.

Some great advice coming through here, thanks everyone.

 

[obelisk]

I bowl legspin because it feels much more natural than off-spin. Im fairly average so i only have 2 main types of deliveries; normal and flat/fast, with the occasional ripped one.

 

[Dare]

i kno its no instant help or tip but get a book called "The art of wrist spin bowling" by peter philpott, i just got it today from the library and i read a few pages it gives some great tips and how to really learn to spin the ball hard. after i get a to read more of the book ill try to sum up a liltle bit of it and post it in here.

 

[embi]

i kno its no instant help or tip but get a book called "The art of wrist spin bowling" by peter philpott, i just got it today from the library and i read a few pages it gives some great tips and how to really learn to spin the ball hard. after i get a to read more of the book ill try to sum up a liltle bit of it and post it in here.

I saw a book like that on Amazon and added it to my wishlist...Let us know how it goes

 

[angryangy]

You can bowl googlies but not legbreak?
The two are almost exactly the same, just the googlies flipped around abit. Also, there wouldn't be an awful lot of point in being able to bowl a googly unless you can legspin it, because googlies, if done correctly, should look a bit like a legspinner coming out of the hand.

I'd say it is a good idea to be able to bowl more than one type of spin, its an easier alternative to developing a mystery ball.

Some great advice coming through here, thanks everyone.

It's very easy to bowl a wrongun in a manner similar to an off break, which is how I imagine he's doing it. By just flipping the wrist, the ball will come out the back of the hand and it doesn't require the bowler to loosen the elbow. To bowl the leg break, it's vital that the ball comes out of the front of the hand; the bowler must roll the wrist, rather than simply cock and flip it.

I'd advise him to see if he can find some of that super slow motion footage of Warne and to pay attention to how the elbow bends with the wrist at release.

 

[RoboRocks]

I am practicing now.
I need find a place to land the ball becuase my garden is full of dog crap.
I am practicing:-

• To keep the seam right
• Going through my action
• Learning the leg break and googly

I am bowling the leg break out of the side of the hand and bowling the googly out of the back of the hand.
Is this right?

 

[ZoraxDoom]

Yup, perfect.

 

[embi]

Yep, thats what you need to do. One thing you might find handy with the googly, is that at delivery the wrist should be completely straight, rather than bent off at some angle.

I had a little practise on our drive with my dad on Sunday, at the start I was the complete opposite of what I was a few months back - I had perfect flight and not too bad accuracy, but my legspinner was not turning at all. By the end I had managed to start turning it, whilst not losing the flighting.

 

[embi]

i kno its no instant help or tip but get a book called "The art of wrist spin bowling" by peter philpott, i just got it today from the library and i read a few pages it gives some great tips and how to really learn to spin the ball hard. after i get a to read more of the book ill try to sum up a liltle bit of it and post it in here.

I just bought this book off amazon. It is quality. Its very serious, assumes you're training to play Test cricket, but thats how it should be, it has some fantastic hints in it.
It does claim that learning to rip the ball and then controlling that is the best way to go. I would get this book if you've got ?8 to spare and you're trying to get better at wrist spinning, surprisingly. It hardly gives offies a mention.

 

[RoboRocks]

http://www.cricketweb.net/coaching/spintowin.php
I found this guys.
Is is useful?

 

[embi]

http://www.cricketweb.net/coaching/spintowin.php
I found this guys.
Is is useful?

That is, although I havent read through most of it.

That book was absolutely amazing, in one day I regained my hugely spinning legspinner, without the inaccuracy and mess I had before. I also started trying to get my topspinner back, and have nearly suceeded.

 

[Simbazz]

Ive had a quick glance over it as its late but i shall read it tomorrow after college!

I think most things you would need to know about spinning, either leg or off, have been answered, really nothing has been said about variation balls and other little things but if someone asks i for one will happily help

 

[Iron-Haggis]

I'm only a part time off spineer, usually bowl medium pace. I bowl off spin for 2 reasons. If the pitch looks like it will take kindly to spin or if it seems like we need some more variation in our bowling, as my side has no permanent spin bowler.

I find the key to taking wickets is variation, which have already been mentioned. But you can also occasionally throw in a bad ball on purpose. Of course when doing this you're better off not bowling your stock delivery. Throw one out wide with little spin on it and if you have a slip in place, there is a good chance of finding an edge. It is important to be prepared to give away the odd boundary, unless in a situation where you need to keep the runs down.

 

[whitekickboy]

could you help me bowl left arm leg break or offspin cos i dnt no which way to spin them

 

[JikJak]

when i first started i did what were practically off cutters to make the ball move that way, it was that but i moved my wrist around, this then turned into a fluent left arm legspin action which i then perfected to make a proper bowling action,
i am a left arm offspinner though and although i can legspin i am much better at off, the ball turns so muhc more and it is the reason i take my wickets in matches, when i started off offspinning i started by doing leg- cutters and moving my wrist sideways, this turned into a slight flick of the wrists, then onto a push out of the fingers, a angle change so as i brought my arm over my fingers were facing the off side and just by magic i was offspinning

and also got some animations for spin:

This is what i bowl:



and then some more:
Leg Break:



Off Break:



Slow Left Arm: