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[tim2000s]

As a bowler, one of the most annoying things when bowling is the complete lack of understanding about keeping the ball shiny. You all know the basics - keep it off the floor, choose a side, use something to shine it...

But does your team have any special tricks they use to keep that ball extra shiny? Any Murray Mints used? Hair Gel? What techniques do your bowlers employ (legal r otherwise) to make sure that the cherry is as fresh as it can be?

[legger123]

Mint Technique

[Number4]

Banana boat

[Pitbull]

Just pure hard work, never used anything to help aid the shine of the ball and It always swings for me (not bragging or anything) haha.

[tushar sehgal]

Sunscreen work well to if you have a towel, specially the spary-on water repellent kind. Put a little extra on your arms and use when need

[Talisman]

Shiny balls require liberal use of nut oils.

[Number4]

Shiny balls require liberal use of nut oils.

Why does the word Deviate keep popping into my head when I read this...haha

[bigbenh99]

When I'm not keeping the ball tends to go through me, I have very dry hands so ball comes to me between stumper and bowler and I give it a good going over, no extra ingredients just spit, sweat and polish. And keeping rough side dry as possible

[Bruce]

Worthers Originals or Glacier Mints.
Other types of ball shining mint are available

[Alvaro]

Charlie Dagnall was on five live sports extra complaining about the murray mint fad and how it made the ball sticky...

[charlie15]

The ball tends to come to me to be shined and I found that Wrigley Cool Breeze worked really well last season!

[acko109]

i find that i get the ball to swing more with just natural shining .. aslong as you dont keep getting the shiny side full of spit . keep it dry works a treat

[PM7]

The challenge can be to keep the other side dry and roughed up.

[acko109]

The challenge can be to keep the other side dry and roughed up.

 

If got quite sweaty palms though so hold the rough side into my palm when shining .. so the rough side gets heavier .

[bigbenh99]

 

If got quite sweaty palms though so hold the rough side into my palm when shining .. so the rough side gets heavier .

Getting the rough side wetter and heavier counteracts the effect of the shinier side moving through the air faster, gotta keep the rough side as dry as possible, then later in the innings when the shiny side is considerably heavier from all the spit etc absorbed into it, that's when reverse swing occurs.