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« on: April 04, 2010, 11:53:23 AM »
Kind of a Weird topic, can anyone bowl one? I can bowl a sick one with a tennis ball and an even better one with a plastic ball, can bowl a semi decent one from 12-15 yards with a cricket ball but big struggle to get it any further.... So for all you Leggies and show offs, tell us what you can do!?
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« Reply #1 on: April 04, 2010, 11:59:20 AM »
Just practice but very few leg spinners can bowl all the deliverys I can't bowl a googly but I still get wickets as I use what I have as more of a kumble bowler but for pro advice just look up a terry Jenner video he explains all better than anyone else will
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« Reply #2 on: April 04, 2010, 12:01:37 PM »
Quote from: roco on April 04, 2010, 11:59:20 AM
Just practice but very few leg spinners can bowl all the deliverys I can't bowl a googly but I still get wickets as I use what I have as more of a kumble bowler but for pro advice just look up a terry Jenner video he explains all better than anyone else will

Yeah I've seen it and I know how to bowl it just can't very well! lol. I can bowl a googly and a toppie and all the rest. :) just not enough finger strength for the flipper.
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« Reply #3 on: April 04, 2010, 12:04:51 PM »
i can but i don't always do it on purpose, i have a dodgy action, and almost every ball i bowl comes out slightly differently, the only delivery i can bowl consistently is a googly, im better at a googly than a leg spinner, but i can bowl flippers, all be it often i do not mean to bowl them
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« Reply #4 on: April 04, 2010, 12:06:32 PM »
Heh? For a flipper you have to move your thumb around to the back of the ball.... how can you do that by accident!? lol
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« Reply #5 on: April 04, 2010, 12:07:56 PM »
All I bowl is the leggie, slider some times flipper but rare really quick one(as used to be a fast bowler) plus my googly is an obsvious off spinner but works some times but depends what type of leg spinner you want to be a big spinning warne or a kumble two different keg spinning styles but both very effective
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« Reply #6 on: April 04, 2010, 12:12:40 PM »
Quote from: niall1995 on April 04, 2010, 12:06:32 PM
Heh? For a flipper you have to move your thumb around to the back of the ball.... how can you do that by accident!? lol
trust me, i hold the bowl differently lots of times as well, its hard to explain unless you see it
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« Reply #7 on: April 04, 2010, 12:13:11 PM »
I can do it, but it takes a lot of Dedicated time and effort to bowl it well, it doesn't happen like that. Variation is key to a leggie but, if you aren't already, focus on your stock ball pitching around middle and off. If you can land it there on a good drivable length, thats when variation is at its most useful.
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« Reply #8 on: April 04, 2010, 12:14:21 PM »
Some people are just different like that we have a lad that can bowl big spinning doosras but can't bowl an offie just weird
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« Reply #9 on: April 04, 2010, 12:15:27 PM »


Useful link.
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« Reply #10 on: April 04, 2010, 12:25:35 PM »
Quote from: roco on April 04, 2010, 12:14:21 PM
Some people are just different like that we have a lad that can bowl big spinning doosras but can't bowl an offie just weird

yh i can bowl leg spin googlies, but cannot for the life of me bowl normal off spin
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« Reply #11 on: April 04, 2010, 12:26:21 PM »
Quote from: espocrespo on April 04, 2010, 12:25:35 PM
yh i can bowl leg spin googlies, but cannot for the life of me bowl normal off spin

where as my brother can and he turns it square, but i mostly get my wickets because people don't know what i'm bowling and half the time nor do i, LOL
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Re: Flipper
« Reply #12 on: April 04, 2010, 12:28:50 PM »
I bowl SLA, but I've tried bowling chinaman before, with very varying degrees of success. The flipper is really difficult to bowl well, or at all! I can bowl googlies, toppies, and a very slight-turning leggie. that's about it! I'll stick to real spin cheers...
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« Reply #13 on: April 04, 2010, 12:29:00 PM »
I've been told to bowl leg-spin because I can turn it alot. I don't have much variation apart from flight and I can bowl a top spinner, googlies are hard lol.
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« Reply #14 on: April 04, 2010, 12:29:36 PM »
my leg spin hardly turns at all but my googlies turn very sharply
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