Set your Home PageAdd to the Favorites List
Russian


   

  Outdoor Activities
Earth :
   - Skateboarding
   - Cricket
   - Bowling
   - Golf
   - Baseball
                         more...
Water :
   - Boats and Yachts
   - Diving
   - Water Skiing
   - Windsurfing
   - Canoeing & Kayaking
                         more...
Air :
   - Kiting
   - Parachuting
   - Paragliding
   - Base Jumping
   - Bangee Jumping
                         more...
Mountains :
   - Snowboarding
   - Mountaineering
   - Rafting
   - Biking
                         more...
Spirit :
   - Collectors, collections
  Creative Hobbies
  Unusual hobbies
  Organizations
  Photogallery
  Search
  Guest book
  Share your experience!
  News
Mail system 15Mb!
 @boxmail.biz
 
[Register]
 
Constructor
Free Hosting
Game server

 
 
Main \\ Outdoor Activities \\ Earth \\ Cricket \\
  Bowling: Right arm Fast

firstball


Fast bowling


Opening bowlers are, literally, the giants of cricket - huge, tall men with a killer instinct. They will emerge at the start of play, fired-up, looking for first blood; the batsmen facing have to be confident and calm. The opening bowlers have the most physical job in cricket; you can't project a cricket ball down a pitch at 90mph without expending a huge effort. However, the best are also tacticians, knowing when to tempt and when to torture a batsman.


The Pacemen


The fast bowlers (they are the ones who are always given the new ball) will have listened to the captain's challenge: 'get early wickets, and don't let them get off to a flier'. It is the usual fast-bowler's lot. Somehow, he must bust a gut to take wickets without giving runs away. That's never easy with fielders clustered round the bat. Two wickets in his first spell (six or seven overs) would be good, three ideal. He might, if things are going well, bowl throughout a whole session (about thirteen overs on the trot).


However, things may conspire against him - the pitch may be unresponsive, slip catches could go down, suddenly the score is 50-0 and the opening bowler is retiring to the boundary, feeling demoralised.


The decision as to which bowler bowls from which end will have been made. The senior (or faster) bowler will get preference, and will usually opt to bowl with the wind. If it's a cross breeze, he'll choose the end where the wind will help his natural movement. It is very useful to have a pair of opening bowlers who move the ball in opposite directions so that they can both benefit from the breeze.


Fast bowling is very much an individual skill - all you ask from your team-mates is that they are alert to every chance. These are the players most prone to injury because the strain on their bodies is enormous. Courtney Walsh, the world's leading wicket-taker, has a relatively easy, fluid action and has remained remarkably injury free, but many a fast bowler's body has buckled under the strain.


A Test team without at least two big pace men seems a very toothless attack. Pace dominates, and with it has come improved helmets, gloves and padding of all sorts, to protect the batsman from the onslaught.

Bowling: Left arm Fast
Bowling: Off Spin

Batsmen don"t see left-arm fast bowlers all that frequently, so having one to open the bowling is a priceless asset. Bowling from the other side of the stumps, he is coming at a different angle from the right-armer. He will therefore ask alternative questions and most batsmen feel they need to adjust their stance and guard. With no swing, his natural delivery, if pitched on the line of the stumps, will veer towards the slips. This is something the majority of batsmen just aren"t used to.

more...

Off-spin, a traditional skill, turning the ball from off to leg (left to right) - has produced the greatest bowling figures in the history of the game, Jim Laker"s 19-90 against Australia at Old Trafford in 1956.

more...

Bowling: Leg Spin
Chinaman

Leg spin is by far the most exciting and potentially devastating type of spin, and also the hardest to master. It is frequently described as "wrist spin" while off-spin and left-arm spin are labelled as "finger spin". It seems a fairly subtle distinction since all three types use both wrist and fingers to turn the ball, but there we are.

more...

Very occasionally, you"ll hear commentators going on about a chinaman. The origins of the name are obscure, but there might be an indirect connection with Shanghai. A chinaman is actually a ball from a normal left-arm spinner that turns the opposite way to his normal delivery (i.e. from left to right).

more...

Expert view on the art of Leg Spin Bowling

For over-the-wrist spin, grip the ball so that the seam runs across the first joint of the index finger and the first joint of the third finger. For the leg-break, and the over-spinner or top-spinner, the ball is spun off the third finger. The wrist is cocked, but definitely not stiffly cocked which would prevent flexibility.

more...