The use of the scrambled seam

many people use the scrambled seam when they cant get the correct line with the swing! so to simplify bowling

Swing bowlers use the scambled seam when bowling swing makes it swing the oposite way ie an out swinger bowled with a scrambled seam would swing in. it gives a bit of variation to the bowler and confuses the batsmen. Any condition where you can get swing will do.

well he is the swing king!

Do any of you actually bowl swing?

U can't make a ball swing with a scrambled seam, aslong as I am understanding the term scrambled seam properly, in that u bowl with your fingers across the seam.

Its an impossibility simply because both sides of the ball are balanced

right i am a swing bowler, an a pretty gd one. i dnt no the physics of bt it will swing the opposite direction. so ur just a crap swing bowler then cus every one knows that!

Originally posted by Ck_spin Do you scramble the seam at a certain angle then?

yeah good point, if it is a randomly scrambled seem, then physics says it wont swing, or if it does, it ma go slightly one way, then the other, but so minimally that it isn't noticeable,

 

So what ur trying to say is that u don't actually bowl with a scrambled seam at all, and u just reverse swing it

Sort out ur own knowledge of swing before u go criticising other peoples

So what ur basically saying is that everything u have said has no relevance to the thread whatsoever? -

Topic: The use of the scrambled seam

 

I was advised by an older teammate to not bowl with a scrambled seam when we were in the nets once.

Well, I think bowling with a scrambled seam just makes it go a random direction when it lands, but I don't know why you wouldn't just keep the seam straight and have it land on a straight seam then deviate.

I think i have got enough of advice mates ,thanks for them now Jp or Sledger please lock this thing