Pace or spin
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Topic: Pace or spin
Posted By: young shiv
Subject: Pace or spin
Date Posted: 28 January 2009 at 9:07pm
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Hey guys I need your help I play in the under 15 schools cricket league here in Antigua I need to chose between Medium pace or leg spin which should i chose ------------- 100 posts YEAH |
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Posted By: mystery
Date Posted: 28 January 2009 at 11:21pm
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If you want to play as a all-rounder than Medium pace is a better option but if you only want to bowl than Leg spin is the right option. |
Posted By: spin wizard
Date Posted: 28 January 2009 at 11:59pm
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Bowl spin mate, you'll get loads of wickets. Nowadays West Indians are quite weak against spin. ------------- In troubled times, being philosophical helps a great deal, it helps you to remain sane and not do any further damage. |
Posted By: young shiv
Date Posted: 29 January 2009 at 12:10am
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Thanks guys but what mystery said was right i want to become an all rounder but I have until the 13 of February to decide But SW was right West Indians are weak against spin and i'll get loads of wickets Difficult Difficult ------------- 100 posts YEAH |
Posted By: Sledger
Date Posted: 29 January 2009 at 6:12am
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Medium pace trundlers are two a penny lad - go with spin !
------------- Mental disintegration works for me !! |
Posted By: NZ_Fast
Date Posted: 30 January 2009 at 10:14am
| Have to agree with sledge here. Unless you can bowl a huge amount of variation off cutters, leg cutters, effort ball, at least 2 kinds of slower ball as well as stock standard perfect line and length then spin is the way to go. |
Posted By: young shiv
Date Posted: 30 January 2009 at 10:34pm
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thanks guys for all your opinions i will see how succesful i am at practice ------------- 100 posts YEAH |
Posted By: Clobber
Date Posted: 31 January 2009 at 12:13am
| Would it be too controversial to suggest going with whichever one you are best at??? |
Posted By: young shiv
Date Posted: 31 January 2009 at 12:21am
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No Clobs but I am not sure what the competition is like and i am better at medium pace but everyone says spin ------------- 100 posts YEAH |
Posted By: Clobber
Date Posted: 31 January 2009 at 12:30am
| In my view you should only bowl spin if you can actually spin it - otherwise you might pick up a few cheap wickets at lower levels but you will get slaughtered by any decent player you encounter. |
Posted By: spin wizard
Date Posted: 31 January 2009 at 3:36pm
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Clobber is right. You can bowl straight spin and take wickets in the West Indies. If you're not turning it and have no variations, might as well try and turn over some gentle medium pacers and when you get older and stronger, increase the pace a bit and do some Ian Harvey style bowling. ------------- In troubled times, being philosophical helps a great deal, it helps you to remain sane and not do any further damage. |
Posted By: young shiv
Date Posted: 31 January 2009 at 6:06pm
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well guys i played 3 practice matches i took 6 wickets in 2 of them bowling medium pace and one in one bowling spin ------------- 100 posts YEAH |
Posted By: thekeeper
Date Posted: 10 March 2009 at 11:27am
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If you have the dedication, stick with the spin. You will be a greater weapon and be able to more overs than a medium pacer.
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Posted By: fang
Date Posted: 23 November 2009 at 7:30am
Sorry !I do't know that! ------------- www.nflsupport.com Have you made me love lonely |
Posted By: freddy
Date Posted: 15 September 2010 at 9:41am
| I'd go with bowling medium pace (much easier than mastering spin in a short space of time). Whilst you're at it, why don't you try bowling fast? Fast bowlers are much more valuable in a cricket side. |
Posted By: Sledger
Date Posted: 15 September 2010 at 1:17pm
Not so , the reason the game is so fascinating is simply because there are so many facets to the game. Bowlers Muralitharan and Warne , in their prime ,wouldn't be turned down by any side currently playing test cricket. And the surface wouldn't matter either! ------------- Mental disintegration works for me !! |
Posted By: milkman
Date Posted: 15 September 2010 at 1:22pm
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Dead right Sledger. Warne was useful on any wicket, even a green top. But then someone like Brett Lee was really poor in England as compared to the way he bowled in South Africa or Australia. It's a definite misnomer that spinners are less useful on wickets that don't turn square. Most of Warne's wickets came from straight deliveries ! ------------- Ideal cricketer: Bowl like Warne, bat like Tendulkar, field like Jonty!! |
Posted By: spin wizard
Date Posted: 15 September 2010 at 3:57pm
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From being a spinner, I can safely say that a surface doesn't matter one bit if you know what you're doing in relation to turning a ball. The way Warne got the ball to go through the air, seam in a perfect angle, not too slanted although he did that at times plus the sideways rotation along with revs means that the surface didn't matter at all. ------------- In troubled times, being philosophical helps a great deal, it helps you to remain sane and not do any further damage. |
Posted By: freddy
Date Posted: 20 September 2010 at 11:19am
Maybe I'll re-word my previous comment - fast bowlers are much more valuable in a cricket side than medium pace bowlers. I might be biased (bowling seam up myself) but I'd still go with trying to become a seam bowler. Generally speaking, there are 3 spots in a cricket team for quick bowlers, and only 1, at most 2 spots in a team for a spinner. |