Your best bowl

inswinging yorkers are my favorite bal to bowl. prety much every time it gets the wicket. especially on the days im really swinging it.
they are extreemly hard to keep out especially when bowled at the right times.

also. for STNOOR
the taped up tennis ball will always swing double as much as a normal ball. i feel bowling with that makes me thing swing is too easy so i stuck to bowling the normal ball and im swinging it like a beast. just experiment and exagerate with grips and you may find some more swing comes your way

That's good practice for the batsman. When I'm at home, me and my brother usually tape up a tennis ball - sometimes one side so it acts as reverse swing and other times, we put tape as a seam so the ball will swing conventionally if you get the seam position correct! Turns out I got very good at the balls going away from me but I hate those bloody inswinging yorkers!

I am only 13 and playing for my school, i got a hat trick but the pick of it was a googly that almost bounced off the strip but came back in to trap him lbw:hitting middle the guy i was bowling to was their best batsman and had got a valuable 38

My best bowl was with a ball that I sort of cheated with. I am a swing bowler  so I picked one side of a brand new ball with my nails and with any sharp object I could find, then on the other side I spread vaseline all over it and rubbed. I then waited for a really cloudy day to try it out and when that day came I was pretty excited, even though the ball wasn't  "in the spirit of the game." I told my friend to pad up and he's a pretty tight batsman who has played me millions of times so knows how I bowl and how to play me but he didn't know what was in store next for him.
   My first ball was a wide, starting out a foot outside off, then hitting the net as it swung far, far too much. Next ball started outside leg by a few feet and swung back so he just played a normal leg glance. Third time lucky, I thought and my god it was. It started out a foot outside leg and swung SOO far, I couldn't believe it. He played for the backward defensive stroke covering all but a smidgeon of the bail. Yes, thats right, I whiskered the bail and it fell off the stump. He didn't even know he'd been bowled. It was a wonderful feeling, despite the cheating nature of it.
   I usually open the bowling for my club and I bowl it about 65 mph which gives the ball a chance to swing as I'm not particularly fast. I will never forget that ball till the day I die.

   Oh and I once set the bowling machine to a 95mph inswinging yorker starting out on off and moving to leg. Gave my mate a fright, I'll tell you, considering he plays in our 3rd XI.


Edited by top-of-off - 12 September 2007 at 11:18pm

My best bowl was during a match against a team around the middle of the table we had took  a few wickets but then a batter came in who defended nearly everything we sent up against him and he made some steady runs we dropped about two chances on him i was put on too bowl on my second over i sent thebowl just about 2 inches away from off stump as he played it it cut in and sent the stump flying.xD I smiled a lot after that.

Sorry - ignore this post

Edited by wolves f c1 - 07 July 2007 at 11:03am

i was on a hat trick once but never thought much of it because i got on them quite a bit but always end up cockin them up. But this time i trundled up to bowl my right arm off spin and did not believe how fast the ball came out. He did not see the quicker ball and all three stumps went flying. My best ever ball.

Originally posted by Howzat16 I don't think I've ever bowled many unplayable balls, but I've bowled really good spells. I was playin in a 20 overs game a couple of years ago (this was a juniours match) and we batted first I think we got ended up on about 110 through the openers taking their time on what was a good track. First our bowlers we're getting a bit of a slapping away bowling tat balls. I they needed about 20 with about 8 overs left with about 5 wickets remaining. I get brought on (I'm usually first change bowler) and I'm quite decent at bowling at the death (I can get some swing at the end) and the two bats at the other end are well in. First ball I bowl was left it was quite a good leave because the ball wasn't too far away from the stumps it swung in. Second ball I've bowled it a bit fuller and he's in two minds to leave or play it at it, in the end it swung late and just play an in between shot it hit his pad, all the team went up (I'm very loud on the field) and he gave it, it was plum though my second wicket I manage to pitch it on off stump on a good length and it seemed away caught the edge and  my mate Matty the keeper took it nice and easy The other bowler I think it was my mate Chris on at the other end, he was getting a bit of tanking so I had to bowl even more tighter. I was very fired up, I like to compare myself to an Allan Donald with my attitude and fireyness. I was at that time probably the quickest bowler in our side this when I was about 14-15 I could bowl about 60 mph and get it swing, and I sometimes got abit too fired up. At this time I had my tail up and I run in for my third over and I was fire up I bowled a good length ball and it was swing into him it just zipped past his edge (leftie) then I bowled a very good bouncer that he had to duck out of the way of, then after that I got him with a yorker that swung into him. then we only needed to wickets to win I finish the rest of my over with a single and dot balls last over I bowled it was the second from last over and mt last over I tie this kid up with a few good length balls then I bowled him with an off cutter that cam right back into him. was a beautiful ball. They still had a guy who was on 50 so he tried to keep him off of the strike cus he was gonna give us a canning. So we tried to give the tailender the strike but putting the field back abit they needed 6 to win off of the last over, they didn't take the single. Last over they knocked them off, the tailender edged it to 3rd man and he got the kid who was past his 50. They knocked them off in the last over. I felt so disapointed though :-( I ended up with my figures being 4/7 which is one of the best spells I've ever bowled. I've got 5 fors before but I mean I gave my heart and soul for the team, but ehhh it happens was a great game though really tense. Cus they're a posh club and we're a bunch of riff raffs, scrubbers, working class lads and they're a bunch of snobs. We always wanna stuff the snobs cus they always look down on us, and we nearly did it aswell :-(

Great story mate. That is what cricket is all about. Matches like that one.

I don't think I've ever bowled many unplayable balls, but I've bowled really good spells. I was playin in a 20 overs game a couple of years ago (this was a juniours match) and we batted first I think we got ended up on about 110 through the openers taking their time on what was a good track. First our bowlers we're getting a bit of a slapping away bowling tat balls. I they needed about 20 with about 8 overs left with about 5 wickets remaining. I get brought on (I'm usually first change bowler) and I'm quite decent at bowling at the death (I can get some swing at the end) and the two bats at the other end are well in.

First ball I bowl was left it was quite a good leave because the ball wasn't too far away from the stumps it swung in.

Second ball I've bowled it a bit fuller and he's in two minds to leave or play it at it, in the end it swung late and just play an in between shot it hit his pad, all the team went up (I'm very loud on the field) and he gave it, it was plum though

my second wicket I manage to pitch it on off stump on a good length and it seemed away caught the edge and  my mate Matty the keeper took it nice and easy

The other bowler I think it was my mate Chris on at the other end, he was getting a bit of tanking so I had to bowl even more tighter. I was very fired up, I like to compare myself to an Allan Donald with my attitude and fireyness. I was at that time probably the quickest bowler in our side this when I was about 14-15 I could bowl about 60 mph and get it swing, and I sometimes got abit too fired up.

At this time I had my tail up and I run in for my third over and I was fire up I bowled a good length ball and it was swing into him it just zipped past his edge (leftie) then I bowled a very good bouncer that he had to duck out of the way of, then after that I got him with a yorker that swung into him. then we only needed to wickets to win I finish the rest of my over with a single and dot balls

last over I bowled it was the second from last over and mt last over I tie this kid up with a few good length balls then I bowled him with an off cutter that cam right back into him. was a beautiful ball. They still had a guy who was on 50 so he tried to keep him off of the strike cus he was gonna give us a canning. So we tried to give the tailender the strike but putting the field back abit they needed 6 to win off of the last over, they didn't take the single.

Last over they knocked them off, the tailender edged it to 3rd man and he got the kid who was past his 50. They knocked them off in the last over. I felt so disapointed though :-(

I ended up with my figures being 4/7 which is one of the best spells I've ever bowled. I've got 5 fors before but I mean I gave my heart and soul for the team, but ehhh it happens was a great game though really tense. Cus they're a posh club and we're a bunch of riff raffs, scrubbers, working class lads and they're a bunch of snobs. We always wanna stuff the snobs cus they always look down on us, and we nearly did it aswell :-(

my best ball has to be in the nets a few months ago. i was bowling to one of our off spinners who is a decent batsman when i bowled on that drifted down the leg side and pitched about a foot away from the batsman about 6 inches outside leg stump and clipped the top of off. Bamboozled.

Hey, The Best Ball I Ever Bowled Was A Swinging Yorker, I Was Getting Punished In My First 2 Overs So I Changed My Arm action Just Slightly And I Bowled A Yorkers Staight On The Middle Stump, The Batsman Tries To Defend It...It Didint Work

Would have to be a two wicket in two ball over. I got one batsmen playing and missing at every ball, and the fifth one was a perfect yorker bowled.

The second was caught and bowled.

Probably the quickest i have ever bowled, i have a very slingy action.

so has anyone else got a good bowl they want to share?

it was in a friendly match, last over, me vs a lhb, i bowled a doosra which pitched just outside off and crashed into middle stump, the batsman didn't kno what happend, the sad thing is, ive lost how to bowl a doosra, very tough delivery to bowl. probably y its one of the best balls ive ever bowled

Edited by SEHWAG NO.1 - 17 April 2007 at 12:25am

Probably an inswinging yorker which broke the middle stump. Then I repeated it next over, same result - wicket.