Cricketing skills that fascinate you

[Daemon]

Also a well maintained cricket ball swings in the air when you throw it

Baseballs curve too, and more easily from experience. Might just be my poor throwing technique though.

 

[honestbharani]

The wrist snap is the issue I think. Have not played any baseball but doesn't that ball also drift and hence those curve pitches or whatever they call them?

 

[honestbharani]

lol Daemon..

 

[Daemon]

The wrist snap is the issue I think. Have not played any baseball but doesn't that ball also drift and hence those curve pitches or whatever they call them?

Its the spin you impart on the ball as you throw it.

 

[cnerd123]

Yea maybe we cricketers just got or throwing technique all wrong. I know that in general the average cricketer doesn't use their full body to throw the ball the way a baseballer does, part of the coaching certification course I did was emphasizing the correct technique as to optimise power and reduce injury, but I don't recall anything being said about the wrist snap. Maybe we shouldn't be doing that?

 

[Daemon]

I think at lower levels cricketers don't focus on their lower body as much when throwing. All about the shoulder.

 

[honestbharani]

and the wrist snap can happen just out of routine that players get into, I think. Back in my school practice sessions, I used to throw down to the batters when I was not keeping and the back up guy was practicing (we had only one full set of keeper stuff) and I tried to chuck down a lot of leg breaks then. Whenever I ended up fielding, there was a bit of wrist snap that way out of sheer force of habit.

 

[vic_orthdox]

They don't work on it hard enough, probably due to other priorities. Reckon most baseball players would throw down the stumps with Ponting levels of regularity simply because they throw all day.

In a controlled environment (throwing from standing start), most of the international cricketers would hit one stump from fifteen metres away 30% of the time. John Buchanan had the Australians going around 60-70% at one stage, via testing.

Hard to control in the heat of the moment though. It drifts if you throw it with the seam at any sort of angle and with a nice wrist snap.

Most guys are able to move the ball in their hand in the time between grabbing it and throwing it. Shouldn't really drift over the infield distance - it will from outside of that though.

 

[indiaholic]

Vic, as somebody who has played at a reasonable level what are the skills you find fascinating?

 

[Daemon]

In a controlled environment (throwing from standing start), most of the international cricketers would hit one stump from fifteen metres away 30% of the time. John Buchanan had the Australians going around 60-70% at one stage, via testing.

Baseballers don't just stand around and throw either though, not talking about a pitcher here.

 

[Burner]

This is a classic example where reputation overrides the reality..........Warner has been on a shocking streak for knocking the stumps down of late.

Might be true and I haven't watched Aus' recent games but oddly still I have an image of Warner throwing down the stumps in my mind.

 

[indiaholic]

Maybe remembering Warner running out Bell?

 

[Burner]

No