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Post by Someblokecalledave on Aug 24, 2012 18:04:51 GMT -5
Everything about the Top-Spinner - Questions, comments, explanations, techniques, issues - post them all here.
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Post by Someblokecalledave on Aug 24, 2012 18:41:31 GMT -5
The Top-Spinner - To start this off, I'll post a link to one of my own blogs written a few years ago with regards to the Top-Spinner legspinbowling.blogspot.co.uk/2009/03/big-leg-break.html For me personally, this has been a very neglected delivery and one that I've not turned to for years. But because of issues relating to a shoulder strain I looked at it again as an option hoping that it may be slightly less stressful to bowl and was pleased with the results. Seemingly it's a ball that is easily bowled with more accuracy and the over-spin has the dip aspect to it that means it definitely has something about it that causes the batsmen real issues. With the little bit of bowling I've done recently (Dislocated thumb and shoulder injury) it has looked real promising so as and when i return to fitness again I'll report back as to how I've got on with it. |
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Post by Someblokecalledave on Aug 25, 2012 4:20:08 GMT -5
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Post by leftie600 on Oct 14, 2012 4:19:02 GMT -5
A throughly underused and misunderstood delivery, to me the topspinner on a good pitch is the delivery that makes the batsman think the pitch has demons that aren't there.
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Post by Someblokecalledave on Oct 26, 2012 11:58:44 GMT -5
Yeah definitely and one that's over-looked it seems by youngsters and coaches that don't have a great deal of experience. A lot of kids and learners of the art seem to look to go from bowling their Leg Break straight to the Wrong Un. I'm a definite advocate of learning the Top-Spinner first as it makes you aware of the subtleties of the Leg Break. A small Leg Break is a massive asset when bowled along side your bigger variations, so then add a ball that only turns a fraction has got to be an asset. By putting in the effort to bowl a Top-Spinner you invariably learn how to produce a small leg-break ball and I reckon you also start to see the ball go the other way to produce the odd Wrong Un. My own Top-Spinner with only a marginal tweak in the action produces a very good wrong un when I'm bowling it hence the reason this coming season I'll be changing my strategies to incoporate a lot more Toppies.
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Post by leftie600 on Oct 27, 2012 17:36:39 GMT -5
I got my protege to take up the topspinner 2 months ago and watched him toy with the opposition using it yesterday, he was getting the ball to drop like stone and they had no idea what was happening.
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Post by sla on Nov 6, 2012 11:56:16 GMT -5
A slightly quicker topspinner is a great ball when the batsman is slogging, almost always induces a catch.
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Post by dainalkhan on Feb 6, 2013 13:26:34 GMT -5
In each over 1 of my ball is not as great it goes a full toss has any body got a solution for this
thank you
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Post by Someblokecalledave on Feb 6, 2013 16:34:56 GMT -5
Usually a full toss comes about through getting a bit stressed by the situation you find yourself in. The situation means you're panicking a bit and you're no longer relaxed and as a result you'll produce the full toss. Practice and belief in your abilities and the support of your team will probably reduce the amount of full tosses.
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Post by billywhizz on Feb 15, 2013 10:53:09 GMT -5
Yeah definitely and one that's over-looked it seems by youngsters and coaches that don't have a great deal of experience. A lot of kids and learners of the art seem to look to go from bowling their Leg Break straight to the Wrong Un. I'm a definite advocate of learning the Top-Spinner first as it makes you aware of the subtleties of the Leg Break. A small Leg Break is a massive asset when bowled along side your bigger variations, so then add a ball that only turns a fraction has got to be an asset. By putting in the effort to bowl a Top-Spinner you invariably learn how to produce a small leg-break ball and I reckon you also start to see the ball go the other way to produce the odd Wrong Un. My own Top-Spinner with only a marginal tweak in the action produces a very good wrong un when I'm bowling it hence the reason this coming season I'll be changing my strategies to incoporate a lot more Toppies. I tended to bowl the topspinner with far greater accuracy than my legbreak and in hindsight realised that my delivery action was very different for the two deliveries. So now I stick to bowling with the topspinner action (very straight - with everything focused towards the stumps) and just turn my hand at the last microsecond to produce the legbreak. It seems to tie in with the advice you received from Stu Magill about keeping the run up, action and delivery consistent and exactly the same each time. I've bowled the toppie at the last two nets about 70% of the time, using the legreak and the occasional googly as a variation. I had a lot of success! especially with the middle and lower order who struggled with reading where the ball would pitch. |
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Post by Someblokecalledave on Feb 16, 2013 10:22:48 GMT -5
Nice one, this is exactly the same approach I'm going to be using this season! I have the addition of a Flipper or two as variations as well.
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Post by Someblokecalledave on Jan 26, 2019 8:20:52 GMT -5
I'm checking in again to see if there's any interest in the forum. If you do come across the forum and realise there's not a lot going on don't despair check out my blogs as they are still very much active and in use and you can contact me and engage in discussion via the blog comments section at the bottom of each post. The blogs that are active that I'm contributing to regularly are... bowlingplans.blogspot.com/theoldwristspinner.blogspot.com/wristspinbowling.blogspot.com/ |
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