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[Bats_Entertainment]

This used to be called 'donkey drop' bowling? I can remember reading about a guy who took a lot of wickets in a pretty high standard of club cricket (possibly prem.) up north.

Good players ought to have the confidence to turn everything into a half-volley or full toss? Going back is not an option as the ball will barely bounce.

[Gurujames]

push into gaps and run singles/twos. Hit the bad balls to the boundary. Just because it is slow does not mean they are bad deliveries and play each ball on its merit. These bowlers know what they are doing and know people will try and hit them straight. Their lack of pace and means it's difficult to clear their deep mid on/off field.
Wickets come because people think every ball should be a boundary.

[Bats_Entertainment]

Just because it is slow does not mean they are bad deliveries

It does if you are good, for the reason I have stated above.

[Lumsden]

This used to be called 'donkey drop' bowling? I can remember reading about a guy who took a lot of wickets in a pretty high standard of club cricket (possibly prem.) up north.

Good players ought to have the confidence to turn everything into a half-volley or full toss? Going back is not an option as the ball will barely bounce.

Back in the 2011 season, a guy who played for Welburn and Brough finished 2nd highest wicket taker in the York & District Senior Cricket League with exactly this type of bowling.  I know this because I actually played against him in the last match of the season and went in at 19-5 (this was before he came on to bowl).  I then faced 6 or 7 overs from him where he actually went wicketless and my major memory of this encounter is that he bowled with a gale behind him (so I was hitting into the wind). He stationed fielders in from the boundary trying to tempt me to hit over them but with his lack of pace and the wind, I refused to take up the challenge. From a spectators point of view, it was probably the dullest hour of cricket they have ever seen but I enjoyed it.

[Bats_Entertainment]

Sounds like that might be him!

[Jaffa]

And just hope he doesn't have a quicker slider with a scrambled seam. That's really going to mess with your timing whether you go forward or move back in your crease.

[Nothing2SeeHere]

This used to be called 'donkey drop' bowling? I can remember reading about a guy who took a lot of wickets in a pretty high standard of club cricket (possibly prem.) up north.

Good players ought to have the confidence to turn everything into a half-volley or full toss? Going back is not an option as the ball will barely bounce.

I think you have hit the nail on the head here. 'Good' players. I play for a 'team' rather than a club. Its about the lowest level of cricket I think you can get ( no league - just a number of regular fixtures between teams - mostly scheduled so that the rosters are filled with the keen players from other teams that haven't scheduled a match that weekend). The occasional teenage son who turns up tends to take most of the bowling attack apart. The rest of us with more worn out eyesight and balance can only dream of that level of hand/eye coordination.

Looks like the playing straight and using ones feet to create space to play shots into gaps seems to be good. As always, the challenge is going to be to restrain from hitting the leather off the shot and timing it instead
 

[FattusCattus]

I am a slow, loopy bowler of poo . I swing it a little bit and pick up a few wickets. The players who play me well are the ones who come out of their crease and meet the pitch of the ball.

@ppccopener is a particular expert at this. It makes me bowl flatter and takes away the loopyness.

[LBWCandidate]

Being patient and waiting for the ball is a big challenge in this case. Sometimes you get tempted and the bowler bowls a quicker one. Once, I went down the wicket every ball to this type of bowler and he started bowling medium pace which helped.

[Woodyspin]

I am a slow, loopy bowler of poo . I swing it a little bit and pick up a few wickets. The players who play me well are the ones who come out of their crease and meet the pitch of the ball.

@ppccopener is a particular expert at this. It makes me bowl flatter and takes away the loopyness.

Or bat on off stump to you  i miss netting with you! Makes me think like a batsman rather than a brainless 'bowler'

[Bats_Entertainment]

I am a slow, loopy bowler of poo . I swing it a little bit...

Swing? Really?

[velvetsky01]

Funny enough I got out to one this evening and had this thread running through my head the entire time lol

I was patient and took singles and twos off him where I could - then my eyes lit up and I spooned one to mid off

Frustrating

[FattusCattus]

Swing? Really?

Yes, as amazing as it may seem, I do swing it a bit, as any hungry batsman who has faced me a bit would attest to.

[Number 11]

I am a slow, loopy bowler of poo .
@ppccopener is a particular expert at this. It makes me bowl flatter and takes away the loopyness.

Me too. Generally off spin, some away swing with the arm ball and on a good day leg spinning wrong 'uns. Speed up to 55mph and down to absolutely so bloody slow it might not reach.
Had a batsman come down the wicket to push a dead slow one around, missed the ball, carried on walking 3-4 paces then was bowled 

When we loopy slows are bowling well, there's not too much you can do apart from taking big risks to slog us out of the attack or shut up shop and try to tickle the singles around.

[Big Mac]

Get forward, nudge it into a gap and watch from the non-strikers end as the other batsman tries and fails to launch him over the rope.