(3/6) Science of Sport - Cricket

[saadikins69]

The best players of spin read it when it is released from the hand. If they know what the ball is doing they have more time to play a shot.

[saadikins69]

If you play as a opening batsmen that is one of the things you look for. First thing which you look at when a fast bowler is bowling is the release position, you can tell if it is meant to be an outswinger or inswinger. Not necessarily look at the seam. You are supposed to look at the seam when it is released from the hand not when the ball is mid pitch. Same for a spinner, although due to a spinner being slower you can read him while the ball is in the air or even off the pitch

[f1crazy07]

RIP Terry

[AvmanM]

Kumble doesn't spin.

[imalchanaka]

Murali had a permanent bend of about 10-15 degrees at his elbow. According to the old law he was 100% legal. But suddenly from nowhere ICC put a new law of a tolerance level for elbow flexion, which caused all the controversy about his action.

But Shane Warne used performance enhancing drugs, which ICC took very lightly. In other sports cheaters like Shane Warne are banned from the sport, and their records are erased from record books.

[thatsfantastic09]

how the fuck and a bats man see the seem of the ball at over 90mph ??? i dont know its impossible to see at even spinners pace? how the fuck at express pace? dumb scientist. he also ignores the weight of the ball imbalance by sweet and spit. to make one side heavier like in bowls the old age pensioners play near cricket grounds.

[imrandemaz]

@thatsfantastic09 90mph is understandable but hey 80 - 85 mph is clear to see I don't now why you find it that hard.

[thatsfantastic09]

@imrandemaz , cus the ball moves fast batsmen dont look at the seem at that pace... its impossible. the seem wobbles any way... and how can you tell which way its pointing? only way you can if you use a half red and half white and even then you can only quess cus of the colours helping you out, not cus of the seem. only at spinners pace you can have a chance. not faster then that. + reverse swing is optimum above 90mph so this not true what is being said.

[AvmanM]

Not sure about using Anil Kumble as a good example of a spinner. Also, Muralitharan clearly WAS a chucker until they changed the rule to allow a 15 degree extension of the elbow. Bad choices of players to illustrate the art of spin.

[Moeine93]

im so confused, can nobody simply tell me how to swing the damn ball! science makes it a whole lot complicated. im pretty sure, wasim akram didn't do experiments in science labs.

[thatsfantastic09]

@Moeine93 , wasim just picked the ball and bowled it, it swung like a banana and he got called a cheat. darren gough only swung it a tiny bit and it was then called an art.

[funk192]

Why don't they take into account the magnus effect when testing in that lab. I don't see the ball spinning while it's in that stream of air. This is totally unrealistic, the times that i've seen reverse swing happen is when the ball is spinning furiously in the air.

[noti420]

its cheating when pakis do it and becomes an art when white boss does it...

[klisher]

look how young murali is there, and to think he retired last week.

[aahan1]

I'm so very proud of Pakistani fast bowlers ... :-)

[tctk1]

how boring is this guys voice

[TimHowardII]

Kumble was helped by that really dusty pitch, too.

[TheG0NCH]

fuck u fat lazy spin bowlers. if i ever catch u acting like a crazy fool again, ill kill ya. get some nuts.

[nepal9211]

4:56 u idiot just kill it lOl

[dgbhai]

wasim akram could reverse swing with old and new ball!!!

[destroymatrixraptor]

and ponting could hit a six off it mate

[HomayunShirzadeh]

@dgbhai No match to Wasim!!

[KyokushinStudent]

this doesn't explain reverse swing fully. e.g, why weren't english/aussie/indian/windies bowlers able to do it with an old rough ball? what were pak bowlers doing different? the reason for it not happening in england has to do with the seam of the ball. imran in an interview (here on youtube) said that the ball never reversed in england until the 80s/90s when the ball seam was reduced and then it started reversing only then. the whole theory is more complicated than explained in this video.

[thatseventiesguy]

But why do new balls swing with no rough side? And they talk about reverse swing having both rough sides, but in my experience there is still one shiny side that you have been working on and it swings towards that shiny side due to more weight being on that side.

[PakiRaja]

new balls swing with no rough side because the direction of the seam causes turbulence, causing the rough air to "peal off" one side.

[Englishtamilsays]

They are making it sound like spin is more "mysterious" than swing. The way spin bowling works is the probably the easiest to understand. The ball turns in the direction its spun.

It's certainly hard to achieve accuracy and precision, but once delivered there's no mystery to it.

[funk192]

the idiots didn't even explain how drift works, eg magnus effect. I sorta know how the magnus effect works when the ball is on its side, in sports like football/soccer, or even like top spinner follows the way its spinning, but I don't fully understand how it works when the ball is upright

[AIMANALI]

@Englishtamilsays very true but I think that flight-ling the ball is more of a mystery (if at all), in spin bowling I mean

[brownsnoopdog]

@Englishtamilsays true....but there are more variations in spinning now. It can be a googly, doozra change of line, and many other. Proof of that is that murali, shane, and another west indies spinners are the most wicket takers.

[csbarathi]

@Englishtamilsays I guess they made an attempt to say it is more mysterious to learn

[rahulthannickal]

amazing