What is the teesra?

[Richard]

Maybe it shifts into a 4th dimension, and then reappears on the batsman's off stump...

And maybe not...

 

[silentstriker]

It's possible its a beamer, except bowled at a slow bowler's speed.

 

[Pratters]

It can be a combination of partial usages of any number of the below:

* Full toss/Beamer
* Fast bowling
o Bouncer
o Indipper
o Inswinger
o Leg cutter
o Outswinger
o Off cutter
o Reverse
o Slower ball
o Yorker
* Spin bowling
o Arm ball
o Chinaman
o Doosra
o Flipper
o Googly
o Leg break
o Off break
o Slider
o Topspinner

Bowled in an underarm, roundarm, overarm or lob styles or a combination of partial usages of the four styles.

Or some thing even more innovative.

 

[Richard]

A record for most names butchered within one post?

Your reply is certainly the funniest ****-take of a quote since aussie's debut and tec's comment which was something along the lines of "could there be more incorrect information in this post?"

 

[The Baconator]

or maybe it just is a doosra that shapes away halfway after pitching thean a doosra?

You mean a doosra with less spin imparted?

 

[silentstriker]

You mean a doosra with less spin imparted?

Nah, it pitches on off stump, and goes towards leg and then mid way through it makes a U turn and goes back towards off and ends up clipping the edge of off stump.



Oh wait, that means its just like a straight on delivery.

 

[Fusion]

A record for most names butchered within one post?

 

[marc71178]

Doesn't even make any sense. Doosra is one that goes the other way. Teesra is one that goes straight? We already have a name for that.

Ashley Giles.

 

[silentstriker]

Ashley Giles.

Thats funny because I had that in my post but edited it out. The poor guy is the butt of way too many jokes and by all accounts he is a nice guy and a team player.

 

[Turbinator]

It could be something that is pitched full of length and then turns back towards the non-strikers end.

Or it could be something similar to the knuckle-ball with a hint of spin.

Or it could be the third delivery in an over .

 

[FRAZ]

Banned

That was one of those moments which keep all the forums alive !

 

[shortpitched713]

As I say - once you've got three deliveries that do everything it's possible for a cricket-ball to do, you can't develop anything else.

Gonna have to disagree with that. What the hell is the use of the top-spinner and the flipper then? Why didn't Warne just bowl arm balls?

 

[adharcric]

It could be something that is pitched full of length and then turns back towards the non-strikers end.

Or it could be something similar to the knuckle-ball with a hint of spin.

Or it could be the third delivery in an over .

Or it could be a load of BS. Yeah, that's what it is.

 

[Barney Rubble]

I don't think the possibility of the 'teesra's existence or effectiveness should be doubted just yet - there are any number of things a ball can do besides go straight on and break in either direction. Look at Warne's flipper - essentially it goes straight on, but in reality it's far more than just a straight ball - ditto his topspinner.

I think it's likely, given that offspinners naturally impart topspin on the ball and it's pretty easy to bowl a topspinner, that the 'teesra' is some sort of underspinner, similar to Warne's flipper. It's about the only thing that could still conceivably be done by a finger-spinner, or at least it's the next logical progression barring something extraordinary.

 

[Richard]

Thats funny because I had that in my post but edited it out. The poor guy is the butt of way too many jokes and by all accounts he is a nice guy and a team player.

Not to mention a damn good bowler when the pitch offers him some turn...

 

[Richard]

Gonna have to disagree with that. What the hell is the use of the top-spinner and the flipper then? Why didn't Warne just bowl arm balls?

A top-spinner is a Flipper...

Wristspinners bowl Flippers, fingerspinners bowl Arm-balls... they do the same thing, they're just disguised differently by different bowlers.

 

[silentstriker]

Not to mention a damn good bowler when the pitch offers him some turn...

I wouldn't go so far as to say 'good'. More like 'does better on the crappiness scale'.

 

[Richard]

If you wouldn't go so far then you haven't experienced his bowling on a turning pitch.

He's taken good figures just about every time he's had the chance on a turning pitch. For me, that rates considerably above 'doing better on the crappiness scale'.

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

A top-spinner is a Flipper...

You beat me to it.

 

[GIMH]

I have it on good information that the Teesra pitches and then simply stops, leaving the batsman to play a golf shot.