**Official** West Indies in Australia 2012/13

[ajdude]

Hey it's Darren Bravo's birthday today.

no candles on the birthday cake though contamination etc

 

[uvelocity]

Why would the effort to bowl a slower ball be any different to bowling a regulation delivery?

well i'm not an international standard bowler. having said that when bowling slower its important to still be accurate, whether bowling out the back of the hand or off or leg spinning type it's harder to land it. you can sacrifice a bit of effort to compensate for the change in wrist to keep it accurate.

still needs to appear to be a regulation delivery but you knew that

 

[uvelocity]

lack of knuckle balls in intl cricket too

 

[benchmark00]

No, the whole point of a slower ball is to make the batsman think its a normal speed delivery. The more effort you take off the less effective the ball is going to be. You practice your accuracy in the nets like you would with any type of delivery, and build up so it is the same effort just a different release type.

 

[uvelocity]

ill put effort into giving you a wedgie in a minute

 

[benchmark00]

In other news, my personally signed Greg Blewett playing card arrived in the mail today.

 

[Ruckus]

No, the whole point of a slower ball is to make the batsman think its a normal speed delivery. The more effort you take off the less effective the ball is going to be. You practice your accuracy in the nets like you would with any type of delivery, and build up so it is the same effort just a different release type.

I'm sure that's what an ideal slower ball is meant to be in theory, but does it actually turn out exactly that way in practice? Maybe it's an illusion or something, but to me it looks like the actual speed of rotation is slightly slower than a regular delivery, in addition to back of the hand release.

 

[benchmark00]

Try rotating your arm and bowling a normal delivery. Then try and rotate it like you're trying to bowl a back of the hand slower ball.

Tell me which one requires more effort.

That's just talking about the back of the hand. There are a number of other more conventional type of slower balls.

 

[Ruckus]

I was born with no arms I can't

 

[uvelocity]

Try rotating your arm and bowling a normal delivery. Then try and rotate it like you're trying to bowl a back of the hand slower ball.

Tell me which one requires more effort.

That's just talking about the back of the hand. There are a number of other more conventional type of slower balls.

gonna give you the back of my hand boi

its about appearing to be a normal effort delivery, it doesnt actually have to be. and yes bowling out of the back of the hand is tricky and hence wise to ease up a bit.

my standard slower ball is an off spinner so i just bowl pretty much normal and the spinning action slows it up, but the variance is not as much as these guys dropping 20kph - if i did that it wouldnt get to the other end probably

 

[Spikey]

not pretty stuff this

 

[benchmark00]

Ffs, if you find a ball 'tricky' and you have to 'take it easy' then don't bowl it!

 

[benchmark00]

I could genuinely train a chimp to bowl what Glenn Maxwell does. God he's junk to watch.

 

[uvelocity]

Ffs, if you find a ball 'tricky' and you have to 'take it easy' then don't bowl it!

generally dont in matches. look you clearly are going off what you read in one of james brayshaw's blog posts, take it from someone who can bowl all of those deliveries that it's harder than it looks

 

[Spikey]

it's pretty rare for me to be gagging for MJ, but christ he's the 2nd best bowler on show here. ****ing slower balls and leg stump darts

 

[benchmark00]

I have it on good authority that the players will be heading to the planetarium after the match.

 

[benchmark00]

Jeez that's a good shot.

 

[Spikey]

isn't this so much more fun #MJ4evr

 

[uvelocity]

off to the beach or shops

starceh to save us

 

[Spikey]

wi should double their score from here tbh