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Q: I’m 19 and bowl leg spin.
Sometimes I change where my front foot lands on the crease to add variety as the release point of the ball isn’t in the same spot all the time for the batter to get used to.
A bowling coach suggested “if you vary where you start your run up by 40cm and let your front foot land in the same position. That way the batter won’t pick up any subtle differences at the time I release the ball but the different angle in the run up will create the variety you’re looking for.”
He said the batter probably won’t pick up on the different starting point of your run up.
Is this good advice? I’d like to get some other opinions.
A: Hi Anthony
My personal opinion was to keep my run up the same as you have all of the variation in your fingers and wrist which is much harder for batsmen to pick. Let them work out whats coming next and keep your job as simple as possible.
master the leggie, top spinner, googly and flipper as they are your variations.
Good luck with this, hope this helps. you will have good and bad days but it is a lot of fun.
Regdrads
Brett
Anthony Zaptis
6 months ago
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Q: NSW Colts v Queensland in Brisbane – November 1983
Back row – C. Johnston (Manager), Gary Crowfoot, Brett McKirdy, Phil Marks, Warren Searles, David Gilbert, Rod Bower
Front row – Greg Geise, Darren Tucker, Paul Clark (Captain), Brett Patman, Wayne Seabrook, Bronko Djura
https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/1032/brett-patman/blog/1143/nsw-colts-v-queensland-in-brisbane-ndash-november-1983
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Back row – C. Johnston (Manager), Gary Crowfoot, Brett McKirdy, Phil Marks, Warren Searles, David Gilbert, Rod BowerFront row – Greg Geise, Darren Tucker, Paul Clark (Captain), Brett Pat ...
