Would any one want help with spin?

thanks, thats pretty much the field I use as well.  Although, i dont use silly mid off.

Also, I tend to bowl googly from side wrist rather than upside down wrist which is more orthodox.  I was trying to learn slider but discovered bowling googly from side wrist with ring finger involed.  But it tends to be always fuller in length and stays in air a lot.  Should I be trying to bowl it with a bitmore speed so it will pitch a little shorter.

Another way that can be effective is to change the angle of attack. If they're getting used to you bowling over the wicket, then bowl around the wicket for an over or so, just to force them to get used to that change of angle.

hiya guys, just needed to tell you something; when i release the ball it kind of feels I spun it with my pinky? And when the ball lands most of the time it hardly spins? But I think ive come up with a soloution for that last question. You see now Ive been playing at ECB in loughborough for about 5 weeks (1 one and a half hour session per week) and they have all kind of different nets there for all kinds of different bowlers. But theres only one problem; I bowl in the medium pacers net but I can't move to the spinners net because its a adults net and im only 14...Anyways if I go to my local park and bowl my spin I can almost get it to do all of the variations (except the slider which is purley because of my release) and bowl them all with good spin and bounce. But when I bowl at the ECB as I say, the ball just bounces and doesnt spin? The only way I get wickets there is sudden change of pace in an over which sounds ludicrous for a spin bowler to do to get wickets when he can perfectly spin the ball anywhere else? What do you guys recommened?

Edited by legspinner102 - 04 April 2008 at 6:14pm

Ah well yes but theres only 1 problem with that...I dont get coached by any of the ECB coached i get coached by my club coaches

Originally posted by benkola13 Can someone please tell me how to bowl the slider?   Cheers

Edited by fishcake14 - 06 April 2008 at 7:49pm

I am sure this has been asked/answered a lot of times on this this thread but i dont want to go thru 94 pages of posts haha.

So i saw bunch of jenner and warnes videos.  Acording to them you basically snap your fingers while bowling a flipper. 

So is the flipper bowled under the hand? if Yes then it would be 'back spinning' while going towards the batsman making it slower after pitching.

if it is spinning 'forward' going to the batsman then what is the difference in a slider and a flipper.

I have leg break and googly in my armoury.  My googly is new (i bowl it from side wrist) and it pitches too full...very few times it pitches shortish.  I am trying to bowl a ball that just goes straight on.

if you want a ball that stays straight i would go for the topspinner as it is much much easier to bowl than a flipper or slider becasue of the position of the hand. the flipper, when you know how to do it is not hard to do but very hard to place. it is bowled with the same wrist position as the topspinner, but it comes out of the hand the oposite way. so not from behind the hand but almost like an off spinner but with kind of clicking your fingers.

the leg break is bowled with the palm of your hand facing the batsman. the slider is bowled with your little finger towards the batsman and your thumb pointing towards you. bowled in the same way as a leg spinner.
you might want to watch a terry jenner video for more advice on that.

i am a left arm pace bowler but i want to move into left arm spin within a few years.

do any of you have trouble bowling legspin with a tape ball? I certainly do, when it comes to bowling with a tennis ball i spin it heaps but with a tape ball its exactly the opposite. Do you think i'm doing something wrong?

Originally posted by Shane Warnabee do any of you have trouble bowling legspin with a tape ball? I certainly do, when it comes to bowling with a tennis ball i spin it heaps but with a tape ball its exactly the opposite. Do you think i'm doing something wrong?

Edited by fishcake14 - 18 April 2008 at 9:30pm

Originally posted by Shane Warnabee if i'm a good spinner i should be able to spin with all the balls

trying to turn it too much, relax wrist and dont cock ur stifly

i need help, i thought i was bowling leg breaks and recently i just found out i was bowling sliders, can someone help? I bowl leg spin from front of my hand.

Well, to get my big leg breaks, I spin the ball sideways but not completely sideways.  It's not backspin at all but the closest it looks like is = although it's not that sideways. But yeah, it's more difficult to bowl.

Edited by spin wizard - 02 June 2008 at 1:49am