Your best bowl

My best bowl was with a ball that I sort of cheated with. I am a swing bowler  so I picked one side of a brand new ball with my nails and with any sharp object I could find, then on the other side I spread vaseline all over it and rubbed. I then waited for a really cloudy day to try it out and when that day came I was pretty excited, even though the ball wasn't  "in the spirit of the game." I told my friend to pad up and he's a pretty tight batsman who has played me millions of times so knows how I bowl and how to play me but he didn't know what was in store next for him.
   My first ball was a wide, starting out a foot outside off, then hitting the net as it swung far, far too much. Next ball started outside leg by a few feet and swung back so he just played a normal leg glance. Third time lucky, I thought and my god it was. It started out a foot outside leg and swung SOO far, I couldn't believe it. He played for the backward defensive stroke covering all but a smidgeon of the bail. Yes, thats right, I whiskered the bail and it fell off the stump. He didn't even know he'd been bowled. It was a wonderful feeling, despite the cheating nature of it.
   I usually open the bowling for my club and I bowl it about 65 mph which gives the ball a chance to swing as I'm not particularly fast. I will never forget that ball till the day I die.

   Oh and I once set the bowling machine to a 95mph inswinging yorker starting out on off and moving to leg. Gave my mate a fright, I'll tell you, considering he plays in our 3rd XI.


Edited by top-of-off - 12 September 2007 at 11:18pm

I am only 13 and playing for my school, i got a hat trick but the pick of it was a googly that almost bounced off the strip but came back in to trap him lbw:hitting middle the guy i was bowling to was their best batsman and had got a valuable 38

That's good practice for the batsman. When I'm at home, me and my brother usually tape up a tennis ball - sometimes one side so it acts as reverse swing and other times, we put tape as a seam so the ball will swing conventionally if you get the seam position correct! Turns out I got very good at the balls going away from me but I hate those bloody inswinging yorkers!

inswinging yorkers are my favorite bal to bowl. prety much every time it gets the wicket. especially on the days im really swinging it.
they are extreemly hard to keep out especially when bowled at the right times.

also. for STNOOR
the taped up tennis ball will always swing double as much as a normal ball. i feel bowling with that makes me thing swing is too easy so i stuck to bowling the normal ball and im swinging it like a beast. just experiment and exagerate with grips and you may find some more swing comes your way