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Leading Oz coaches refuse to teach doosra

Andre

International Regular
Noble jesture, but can't help but think it will further handicap spin bowling in Australia - and ensure that batsmen don't get exposure to the delivery before international cricket.

IMO, they are spot on though - it's impossible to deliver it without chucking. Unfortunately, though, it ain't going away.
 

Aritro

International Regular
Ill considered and sanctimonious nonsense.

It's amazing that a gathering of the top people at the national Academy have actually got together and effectively agreed to sabotage the country's prospects.
 

four_or_six

Cricketer Of The Year
Whether all doosra's are throws or not, if they don't know how to coach it without teaching the bowler to throw it they certainly shouldn't do. Either don't teach it, or find a coach who can teach it legally.
 

Neil Pickup

Cricket Web Moderator
Ill considered and sanctimonious nonsense.

It's amazing that a gathering of the top people at the national Academy have actually got together and effectively agreed to sabotage the country's prospects.
Everyone else is taking drugs. You might as well do so too, right?
 

Aritro

International Regular
Everyone else is taking drugs. You might as well do so too, right?
Pretty wayward analogy there.

If taking drugs was legal, not taking them was somehow detrimental to results, and you were put in charge of getting those results, then yes, you may as well do so.
 

Richard

Cricket Web Staff Member
Hate to sound ignorant here, but what is a doosra?
Effectively it's whatever each person defines it as. Unlike the Googly or the outswinger, it has no concrete definition.

The closest to something would be the fingerspinner's alternate delivery that turns in the opposite direction from the standard fingerspinner's break. But many insist on dubbing Murali's wrong-'un a Doosra as well, despite Murali being completely different to any other bowler so far to exist.

Either way, what a laughable thing for this set of coaches to do. "Ill-considered sanctimonious nonsense" just about sums it up. It is impossible for a delivery to be impossible to bowl legally, unless that delivery specifically involves straightening the elbow by more than 15 degrees. The Doosra is all about the wrist and fingers and if the elbow is forced straight in the course of the bowling action then it would indeed still be possible to bowl.
 

pup11

International Coach
How can they teach something in the first place, none of them know how to bowl?
Exactly...

To be very honest its mindset like this that has created such a lack of good spin bowlers in Australia, people like John Davison (FFS), are teaching spin bowling to aspiring spin bowlers.

Dean Jones recently said that CA should seriously think about hiring people like Saqlain and ask him to coach young Aussie spin bowlers, and that's definitely something that should be done, a lot of spin bowlers in Australia hardly know much about their trade, because most of them aren't being coached by the right people.

I think all these "spin mentors" really need to wake up and smell the coffee, they need to realise that's its year 2009, and every finger-spinner around the world is either bowling a doosra or trying to develop one, because since the pitches are flat like ****, they know they won't last long without having any variations.
 

BoyBrumby

Englishman
Exactly...

To be very honest its mindset like this that has created such a lack of good spin bowlers in Australia, people like John Davison (FFS), are teaching spin bowling to aspiring spin bowlers.

Dean Jones recently said that CA should seriously think about hiring people like Saqlain and ask him to coach young Aussie spin bowlers, and that's definitely something that should be done, a lot of spin bowlers in Australia hardly know much about their trade, because most of them aren't being coached by the right people.

I think all these "spin mentors" really need to wake up and smell the coffee, they need to realise that's its year 2009, and every finger-spinner around the world is either bowling a doosra or trying to develop one, because since the pitches are flat like ****, they know they won't last long without having any variations.
Three spinners with the most test wickets in 2009? Swann, Shakib & Harris. All seem to be coping pretty well without one, then.
 

Pigeon

Banned
Three spinners with the most test wickets in 2009? Swann, Shakib & Harris. All seem to be coping pretty well without one, then.
Two of them being left armers and hence cannot bowl the doosra. The third one's presence denotes absence of cricket played by the usual suspects and the general deficiency of solid off spinners of late.
 

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