Spin or accuracy?

You are right now. Off spin is the easiest, but certainly not the easiest to master. Few people bowl it well enough to consistantly take wickets.

geez guyz u aint ever gona get a conclusive answer.....it depends what you mean by accuracy, to an acomplished spin bowler it could mean landing 6 balls in the exact same spot, or landing the ball where you want eg 1 ball 10cm outside off.. next one a little shorter next one a little slower ..... what is important is CONTROL...meaning you can bowl what you want when you want this includes spin, drift, length, speed, and line.....all of these aspects interplay to produce a good leg spin bowler.....

"accuracy" is to broad of a subject to be discussed

wat the hell are u smokin mate...if u cant land a ball on the pitch ur strugglin

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Everyone has different thoughts on this which is good, BUT this isn't go anywhere and shorty and warney are going round in circles, and very soon I predict this will turn into CRICKET WORLD WAR III and everyone who posts here will be eternally doomed, but I don't really care anymore because I think spin's more important but other people disagree and no matter how many messages are sent explaining which is more important NO-ONE is going to listen. In conclusion, I think this post should be turned into a poll.

 

How do you change it in to a poll, do I just create a new thread?

Well i'm not sure a poll is needed. It seems mighty obvious to me the general consensus is that accuracy is the most important.

C'mon shorty, miniwarney is right. Without the accuracy, the turn is useless. I know turn is important too but think about bowling a long hop with plenty of turn, whats the result - a 4 or 6. Whats the result for bowling accurate - wickets or no runs - as simple as that.

Turn combined with accuracy is deadly and thats makes murali and warney special. CASE CLOSED NOW !!!

OK, point proved.

Case Closed Boys and Girls. Clobber close this thread. We have come to a compromise.

Originally posted by TCA123 You are right now. Off spin is the easiest, but certainly not the easiest to master. Few people bowl it well enough to consistantly take wickets.

You can't have much variations with it. You have to vary the line, length and flight of the stock ball.

My bowling partner has once demonstrated me how to ball the arm ball (he is a left arm orthadox bowler). It is bowled as a finger spin ball, seam rotating nicely, but tilted and the shiny side of the ball hits the pitch. Hence it will not grip and will go straight. Other type of arm ball was the orthadox seam up, which was swinging in to the right hand batsman. He also had a dealdly flipper which was forced between fingers. (he did not make Sri Lanka A due to his academic work and advancing age - now 30)

You can deliver a off spin with lot of side spin or with lot of over spin (axis of the rotation changes seam is like "-" in side spinning off break and like "/" in over spinning off break)
That will give you a very nice variation which is very difficult to pick. Just rotate the wrist counter-clock wise (if right handed) to deliver the over spinning ball nad clockwise (beware of the chuck) to deliver the side soinning ball. side spinning ball will turn more, but slowly, is useful when bowled with a flat trajectory, aiming to get LBWs. Over spinning ball has to be flighted as it will jump off the track because of the top spin it gets. So bowl it slowly.

Then add a rolled offie (which you don't try to force to spin) which will turn less and can get slip catches with RHBs. Then orthadox seam up arm ball (with out swing) or the difficult one that my bowling partner had. You'll be a dream offie if you have above variations

Wal Bada your quite right in what you say about seam positions. But I do it already  I tell to what though, any new offie should read your post because it will really help them.

As for 70DS. I understand what your saying about no need for variation. I'm devloping a doosra which is not bowled in the convential Murali style. It's simply the fingers dragging down the left hand side of the ball to almost make a leg cutter. Very much like Saqlain. I know what you mean when you say i should focus on my stock deliveries and i have been doing so. But now i feel i need something extra. I'm working on the flipper, as diguised off break that skids and the doora as mentioned. 

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