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[golders]

Right Fellow Leggies,


It's time to share the love!!

I hope you are having a decent start to the hardest part of the season for us leggies- i've started slowly to say the least- bowling too many bad balls and letting them off the hook- how much do you guys practice during the week??


This is my current armoury:

The leggie, the backspinner,toppie and the wrong'un. Then I have the fuknose, which is a bog standard legspinner that does something crazy and people think you're a genius- it cannot be replicated!! I also have the 'dippa', which must be said in a strong mock aussie accent, which is the horrid full bunger that should get hit into the bush but goes down a teammates throat!


I'd like to develope a flipper- any hints and advice guys? or any other interesting deliveries you could share?


Let's hope it stays dry and our skippers love us!


happy spinning,

Adam

[anthonyant]

Haha, hello fellow leggie!
i also have the full bunger in my armoury as well as the double bouncer as my wicket taking deliveries! I can also bowl a wrong'n and a top spinner! As to a flipper i would love to know how to bowl one! But i think trying to prefect the normal leggie is the first point of call!

[will5210]

There is/was a great guide by legspin guru Terry jenner on the BBC sport website - have you seen that?

Hats off for bowling the leggies - I can't get one to the other end, let alone drift, dip or turn

[peplow]

i love bowling leg spin but most of mine come out as "fuknose" balls. Well i can spin it miles tbh, just not a bloody clue how to get a repeatable action to put the ball where i want it!

[peplow]

hence why i only bowl it at nets, so not a proper out and out leggie i forgot to add!

[Watsontotty]

I bowl a few leggies in the nets and have three good variations, the one that goes straight on and doesn't turn and i also have the pie and the long hop.

[Colesy]

Ahhh the amount of times my teammates have told me to persist with leg-spin. I'm glad that I'm not the only one with a full toss as a standard delivery.

I am able to bowl the main three, leggie/top spin/wrong 'un although the wrong'un isn't as consistant as I'd like. Also I play at a low enough standard that I can also chuck in a quicker yorker which gets me LBWs and bowled.

I do enjoy beating the bat with drift and spin but not going for alot of runs, often bowling to sloggers!

[ianbuchanan]

hello fellow leggies!

not a great start to the season to be honest, but its the first time i've bowled consistently for over 2 seasons... took 1-32 off 8 in first league game i bowled in, and 1-39 off 7 in the next, but was unlucky... :S

currently i'm only using 3 types of deliveries- standard leggie, quicker ball and the dippa! this is because i'm just trying to find some rhythm going for the rest of the season. i can bowl a googly, that sometimes goes straight on and the odd one grips a lot.

i'm quite lucky as i get a lot of bounce being tall, so when the standard leggie goes right i can bowl very economically, however when the dippa goes wrong, so do my figures!

[golders]

 Yes Will I saw that, very useful- wish I had him as my own personal spin doctor, he could provide me with unlimited prescriptions- god knows I need them! ''Now remember, the thumb is optional!''

Does anyone know the difference between a flipper and a backspinner- am I right in thinking with the backspinner you literally spin the ball backwards, but the flipper you flick out with a finger-clicking-style?? but then aren't both spinning backwards, but on reverse sides- how do they differ in flight and on landing?
I find with the backspinner you have to pitch it very full otherwise it sits up for tiiiime blood!



Happy spinning boys!

[thaman303]

what is dippa ?

[kavi]

well season started okish, 0-16, but then got 3-4 and 4-4 (4 overs).
I really struggle with the googly, the ball spinners like a leg break.
My deliveries are the leg break (big and small turn), top spinner, sliding legbreak, quicker straight one (slides).

[Buzz]

Kavi - that is all you need, Warnie only used those variations (although he called them all sorts of different things) - chuck in an off-spinner and you will be deadly - especially if you can control the length well

[niceonechoppy]

There is no point bowling variation if you can't control it! Leg spin is the style of bowling which requires most practice for each delivery, practice it as often as possible...

[kavi]

Nowadays legspin is not so much about how much you turn it but how accurate you are.

Buzz- I do have a nice dipping off break ball, but it has a slight change in my action, still think it will be good?

[Buzz]

Kavi - yes - so many batsman, especially tailenders only read the ball off the pitch, which will be too late if they are playing back you you, it is worth using.
Other than practicing the second most important thing is to use the variations as a surprise, rather than using them because you have them. Very few batsmen understand how to play legspin, so just varying flight and spin should be enough - just practice practice practice - then you learn how to set the batsman up to be stung with the unexpected variation.