Bowling with your wrong hand
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Topic: Bowling with your wrong hand
Posted By: benkola13
Subject: Bowling with your wrong hand
Date Posted: 04 January 2008 at 10:34pm
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Has anybody here practiced really hard bowling with their opposite hand, like for a joke or dare or something, and gotten really good at it. It is a bit random but I was just wondering. |
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Posted By: Monty
Date Posted: 04 January 2008 at 10:38pm
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im fantastic with my wrong hand, i just aim for the seagull floating 30 feet above the pavillion, and it somehow reaches the wicket every time, and then if i aim for the burger van outside the ground, it should hit off stump as well ------------- Flavia et Cornelia sedebat sub arbore!!! Oh My goodness!! Sitting under a tree! |
Posted By: fishcake14
Date Posted: 04 January 2008 at 11:29pm
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Some guy I know can bowl left-arm chinaman amazingly well now (ie match standard) he started when he was injured. Injuries are always blessings in disguise. ------------- |
Posted By: NZ_Fast
Date Posted: 05 January 2008 at 1:48am
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I can bowl some good tight swinging deliveries with my wrong hand, but they are so slow its not funny, i can also bowl orthodox spinners that turn a bit, but no accuracy. As i've said before somewhere, at indoor rep trials one guy just started bowling with this other arm, was heaps faster, and got crazy, uncontrollable swing. |
Posted By: MP12
Date Posted: 05 January 2008 at 4:38am
| I've tried to bowl with my left hand. For a while I thought I was improving, I could dart a few off spinners outside off on a good length. It was the angle that decieved the batsman. After a while batsman could pick it up and hit me either on the legside if I bowled too straight or drive through the covers if too full. It was a lot slower then my usual bowling. |
Posted By: benkola13
Date Posted: 05 January 2008 at 12:14pm
| There is a player at my club that I had forgot about, and in matches he switches between leg spin to off spin to left arm leg spin to left arm off spin. The batsman don't even notice that he is doing it with his wrong hand and he is good at all four methods!! |
Posted By: MP12
Date Posted: 07 January 2008 at 11:11am
| All I know is that if anyone wants to try it, you're gonna need to put in heaps of hours of training. Obviously being ambidextrous is a massive advantage! |
Posted By: fishcake14
Date Posted: 07 January 2008 at 11:30am
It'd be a much better trick if you could bat ambidextrously, that'd be awesome!  ------------- |
Posted By: benkola13
Date Posted: 07 January 2008 at 12:15pm
Yeah, that would be awesome. ------------- "I Need You To Remember One Thing, I Came, I Saw, I Conquered" |
Posted By: fishcake14
Date Posted: 07 January 2008 at 12:25pm
Another guy I know did that (I know a lot of folk  ) in an innings once and scored 29*, i think, with a 6. He got told to stop in case he injured himself.... it was clear he'd injured most peoples' minds though. ------------- |
Posted By: benkola13
Date Posted: 07 January 2008 at 3:19pm
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Yeah, the bowlers probably thought they were seeing things! ------------- "I Need You To Remember One Thing, I Came, I Saw, I Conquered" |
Posted By: MP12
Date Posted: 07 January 2008 at 10:35pm
| If I saw this happening I'd be going crazy over it for the whole match. Wasn't he right handed just a minute ago? |
Posted By: Pietersen Fan
Date Posted: 08 January 2008 at 1:28am
is he left handed? ------------- check out the ultimate spinners guide - spinny.co.nr |
Posted By: The Tyke
Date Posted: 08 January 2008 at 3:53am
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The hardest thing to learn when you switch batting hands is foot movement.
It's an absolute nightmare to do to begin with because you're so used to having one foot forward (for me a LH batsman, my right foot is forward) that when you switch it to become your back foot it still ends up moving first.
I started to meddle around with this earlier in the year and would advise people to try it out.
I found that my control over keeping shots down and general control over certain shots, especially the late cut, had improved. I'm going to work on it more because it could prove a major advantage for a team.
Imagine a LH,RH opening partnership, the RH gets out and the no. 3 is a LH batsman. If that opening LH batsman switches to be a RH then it keeps the LH,RH combination going. This can affect bowlers lines and can cause them to bowl into the pads too much. ------------- Minn hugur er minn sverš (My mind is my sword) |
Posted By: benkola13
Date Posted: 08 January 2008 at 5:06pm
To be honest, if somebody was able to do that in a match,(able to bat left handed and right handed at the same standard) then they would have to put in loads of training on their wrong hand, whilst this is going on their proper batting hand will lose technique etc. ------------- "I Need You To Remember One Thing, I Came, I Saw, I Conquered" |
Posted By: fishcake14
Date Posted: 08 January 2008 at 5:39pm
Unfortunately not no. Would have made it slightly less exciting if he was. Then again anyone who bowls spin in Scotland has something wrong with them.  ------------- |
Posted By: benkola13
Date Posted: 08 January 2008 at 5:58pm
I guess with all the rain (  ) the ball just slides straight through?------------- "I Need You To Remember One Thing, I Came, I Saw, I Conquered" |
Posted By: tommyboy
Date Posted: 08 January 2008 at 6:49pm
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ive tryed but i am so bad at bowling with my wrong hand so i have just give it up
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Posted By: fishcake14
Date Posted: 08 January 2008 at 8:33pm
Yeah, plus the fact your hand falls off with the cold, so bowling ambidextrously in Scotland really does put the acheivements of Don Bradman in a lower category. ------------- |
Posted By: benkola13
Date Posted: 10 January 2008 at 7:31pm
I hate bowling in the cold. As I am a leg break bowler I generally can't get my fingers and wrist going so the ball just goes straight on  . ------------- "I Need You To Remember One Thing, I Came, I Saw, I Conquered" |
Posted By: RightHandBat
Date Posted: 13 January 2008 at 7:11am
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I gave some Left Arm Orthodox a go and suprisingly it came out beautifully, but only around the wicket. If I come over the wicket it goes off the pitch, hahaha. Threw left handed too and it was alright.
------------- "His classical hits down the ground, met with a checked drive, were Tendulkar at his best. It was though he had a new lease of life." - Sachin Tendulkar's return to cricket with a 91-Ball century. |
Posted By: TKORL
Date Posted: 27 March 2009 at 10:17pm
Tendulkar is ambidextrous, I bet he could do it. Maybe having both hands strong gives him an advantage in his shot selection. |
Posted By: milkman
Date Posted: 28 March 2009 at 3:53am
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Mate of mine back in our younger days used to dabble with a bit of left arm chinaman with relatively decent turn, pace and accuracy. He is a right arm medium fast bowler normally.
------------- Ideal cricketer: Bowl like Warne, bat like Tendulkar, field like Jonty!! |
Posted By: zuhair_abbasi
Date Posted: 28 March 2009 at 6:01am
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Whenever I tried, it went horribly wrong. Cant even throw the ball accurately with my wrong hand from 22 yards. ------------- http://thecricketinsight.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: milkman
Date Posted: 28 March 2009 at 6:17am
Absolutely. Even at the gym when I want to use my left arm to lift a dumbbell I can't control it as well as I can with my right. It's all about the grip and getting stability and control. I'm VERY right handed. ------------- Ideal cricketer: Bowl like Warne, bat like Tendulkar, field like Jonty!! |
Posted By: zuhair_abbasi
Date Posted: 28 March 2009 at 6:39am
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I write with my left hand though. and use the left foot when play football. But the left side does not work in cricket ------------- http://thecricketinsight.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: milkman
Date Posted: 28 March 2009 at 6:45am
I can't even use a computer mouse with my left hand  ------------- Ideal cricketer: Bowl like Warne, bat like Tendulkar, field like Jonty!! |