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    Posted: 28 January 2009 at 9:07pm
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
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Post Options Post Options   Quote mystery Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 28 January 2009 at 11:21pm

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.

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Post Options Post Options   Quote spin wizard Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 28 January 2009 at 11:59pm
Bowl spin mate, you'll get loads of wickets.  Nowadays West Indians are quite weak against spin.
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Post Options Post Options   Quote young shiv Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29 January 2009 at 12:10am

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

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Post Options Post Options   Quote Sledger Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29 January 2009 at 6:12am
Medium pace trundlers are two a penny lad - go with spin !
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Post Options Post Options   Quote NZ_Fast Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post 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. 
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thanks guys for all your opinions i will see how succesful i am at practice

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Would it be too controversial to suggest going with whichever one you are best at???
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Post Options Post Options   Quote young shiv Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 31 January 2009 at 12:21am

No Clobs but I am not sure what the competition is like and i am better at medium pace but everyone says spin

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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.
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Post Options Post Options   Quote spin wizard Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 31 January 2009 at 3:36pm
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.
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Post Options Post Options   Quote young shiv Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 31 January 2009 at 6:06pm
well guys i played 3 practice matches i took 6 wickets in 2 of them bowling medium pace and one in one bowling spin
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Post Options Post Options   Quote thekeeper Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 10 March 2009 at 11:27am
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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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. 
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Originally posted by freddy

Fast bowlers are much more valuable in a cricket side. 


  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!
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Post Options Post Options   Quote milkman Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 15 September 2010 at 1:22pm
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 !
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Post Options Post Options   Quote spin wizard Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 15 September 2010 at 3:57pm
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.
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Originally posted by Sledger

Originally posted by freddy

Fast bowlers are much more valuable in a cricket side. 


  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!


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.
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