Sheffield Cricket Lovers Society Xmas Lunch
A lovely comment from a satisfied new listener at the above event which contained the father and grandfather of two England captains – Michael Vaughan and Joe Root. “Today was a super event. The...
A lovely comment from a satisfied new listener at the above event which contained the father and grandfather of two England captains – Michael Vaughan and Joe Root. “Today was a super event. The...
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/sport/cricket/ Jimmy Anderson is the most successful England bowler ever because he is the fittest and the most precise. He has bowled more balls for England than anyone (more than 22,000) yet has only...
Mercurial country Pakistan. Despite the exile from playing tests on their own soil, the match-fixing scandals, the constant upheaval, they keep unearthing match winning bowlers. The latest are Wahab Riaz, whose blistering spell on...
The bouncer was once the most feared thing in cricket. The West Indies fast bowlers of the 1970s and 80s made devastating use of it. Better protection and a more gung-ho attitude amongst batsmen...
‘Watch the ball’ is the first thing they tell you. But is it actually possible to ‘watch’ a 90mph delivery? Is it purely fast reactions that distinguish the best batsmen from the rest? And...
Jimmy Anderson exploits it brilliantly, but it is not only batsmen who are baffled by swing. Many scientists have been bemused by it too. (And why the red ball does and the white one...
At the start of a season (or tour), batsmen spend many waking hours getting their ‘trigger movements’ properly grooved. Most use this trigger to get themselves going, a sort of prelude to hitting the...
They are as baffling to bowl as they are to face but the plain old off-spinner has been rejuvenated by these two deliveries, one rather more legal than the other. The Analyst explains the...
There are several distinct ways of bowling fast. In this BBC video, two are illustrated. Mitchell Johnson’s dramatic slingshot style and Steven Finn’s alternative coil and spring method. Fast bowlers all find their...