 It's a new thing for me, man. September 1st, I don't care. I'm Halloween-starting. I'm already watching scary stuff. Oh, what'd you watch? I'm watching right now with Indrani, that she's already seen it. It's a French series that has one season. It's eight episodes called Marriott. Oh, okay. And it's pretty darn good. And Flanagan's got a new series coming out Oh, really? at the end of September. Yeah, you'll probably see my house transformed here the next week. Yeah, wait, you know, speaking of Halloween, do you know why goblins can't get witches pregnant? Why? They have Halloween-ies. Juice! And you can follow the Instagram. Instagram! Squeeze it, and you suck on the juice. So Rick always asks for an instructional video on how to throw a spin ball. Yes, just anything with cricket like that. This is, I believe it's an Australian cricketer. By the way, Old Monk, right? Yeah, Old Monk's Old Monk. Australian kid Shane Warren. I don't know if he's the guy that we saw in the video. We've seen the guy that we saw in the video about cricket in India. Maybe so. And that we were like, is he just a regular photographer? And he's like, probably, and he's like a legend. I don't know who that was. It might've been this guy. But I know the guy. But he's the king of spin, apparently. The leg spin tutorial. Well, I want to see one with Scott Sterling. He probably doesn't have as good of a spin. But so I'm guessing he's going to go over different ways to throw a spin. Because you've asked for that many times. Yes, thank you, stupid babies. So if you know, we don't know this guy. I'm sure he's like Tom Brady, spinning. He's an Australian. He's the spinmeister. They're good at cricket, as well. So here we go. Leg spin bowling. There's a lot of mysteries and a lot of different things. Yes, they say. Leg spin bowling today. I'm going to show you five different deliveries. The first one being the most important, which is the leg break. His hand was backwards. Dang. The most important thing when you're buying leg spin and the leg break delivery is your grip. The grip must be two fingers down and two fingers up. That's exactly what I was talking about. The ball just slots in there like that. The leg spinner will spin from right to left on the pitch. And you will spin the ball using your third finger, like so. OK. Got it. Nice comfortable grip. But it's to spin the ball. We want to use this third finger that spins the ball. And it's spun from right to left, which is the best delivery to bowl. Right to left. The back of your hand will be facing yourself, which is important, to get the biggest spin on the delivery. So in a couple of years, you have to practice that to release that proper grip. To know where it's going to go. Yeah. Mind boggling. Comparable, as I thought, to the intricacies of pitching in the major leagues. Dang. How you hold it, how you release it, how you twist it. By the way, there's no comparable pitch in the major league baseball. To that? No. Oh, no. Because you have to throw it in a certain window and you can't hit the ground. Yeah. Nothing even really close to that. The second delivery is the top spinner, or sometimes called the over spinner. It's delivered with the same grip, comfortable with the part. Mine's probably a little bit too close, but that's just what works for me. Whatever works for you. Sometimes a wider grip is OK as well. Like a split finger fastball. But what you do instead of spinning the ball with your third finger, spinning it from right to left, the ball will go straight on and bounce. So it's important when you're bowling this delivery. So instead of we say this is the back of your hand facing yourself, the back of the hand now will face the batsman. So the ball will come out of the stride on that. Oh, that's why it goes over. And it's all important. The follow-through, everything is important. That's why it goes over, so they can get the motion. The white spin. Dang, how do you control that? And sometimes the batsman will pick this as a ramen or a leg spinner, and they're not quite sure. And this is when it brings backpads into play. Yeah, so they can't tell, because it looks, the delivery looks comparable to that last one. The delivery looks very similar. And the grip is similar. Rotation's going to look similar. Wrong, the wrong hand, the wrong hand. To the novice, these all look pretty similar. But it's just the wrong hand. This can be a very deceiving delivery. If the batsman's not reading and watching the hand, then he can not be sure which way the ball is going. So this can be a very good delivery. It's delivered with the same grip, two fingers up, two fingers down. It's a little bit wider fingers here, not too much, whatever feels comfortable. As we saw, the top spin goes straight over. The wrong hand, it's released from the back of the hand. Like so. So we said the legs, back of the hand facing me. Top spinner, straight facing the batsman. The wrong hand, it's mostly when you watch the scene. When you bowl a ball, the back of the hand is facing the fine leg. And the seam shows you which way the ball's going to spin. So when it was released, it's released the same, but it's released more at the back of the hand. So it comes out. Wow. Oh wow. So you're still using your third finger, but now it's coming out the back of your hand. So rather than rolling over the tops of the fingers, it's actually coming on the back of the hand. From the batsman, that don't watch the hand, they're not sure where it's going to go. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The other guys play for a leg break and bowls them between the gate, bat and pad. Well, they go back to try and cut you and you can get a big bat pad chance when the ball's spinning back into the batsman, as you can see. I was trying to find my cricket ball so I could face the fine leg and the seam shows you which way the ball's spinning. This is exactly, thank you so much. This is exactly what I wanted to see. That's insane. It's crazy. Back there, you can also get so much power with something like that. And control. Yeah. That you can control that release. The flipper? Stay with the Australian accent. Yeah, I got it. But a flipper? Yeah, the flipper. Crikey. Look at that, flipper. The flipper's been a great delivery of mine over a long period of time. It can be a very rewarding delivery, but it's quite a tough delivery to bowl. It's most important that you get the leg spinner, the top spinner, and the wrong one first and then you can slowly develop the flipper. The flipper is delivered with exactly the same grip, but your thumb comes into play here. You don't use your thumb on any of the other deliveries, but you use your thumb on this one. This one is squeezed out and comes underneath like that. And the best way to practice this delivery is to click your fingers. You put the ball in there and then you just click your fingers. Don't try and do anything else. Bar click the fingers. Wow. Just click your fingers. The ball is released under the hand like that rather than out the back of the hand. And then all you do is click your fingers and you'll see it come out like that. So as we can see it's coming out from underneath rather than out the back like that for a leggy, it comes out the bottom of the hand like that for the flipper. There'll be a lot flatter in trajectory and it will skid off the ball because it's got back spin on it. It'll skid low and hopefully get the batsman ball or LBW. I can see the flatness of the trajectory. Yeah. Yeah, that would have, yeah. Blocking. They have something called slider. Probably a little different. Now the slider is something I've developed over the last 12 or 18 months with a lot of help from China. We used the ball a fair bit. It's delivered like the legs. It develops. The leg spinner is spun like that as we've talked about the seam going from right to left, spinning the ball. Now all we do with the slider is we go a little bit further around and we come right around the ball like that with the palm of our hand facing the batsman and the ball comes out like that. Oh my goodness. It's delivered like that. It'll slide straight on rather than a leg break like that. The slider is delivered like that and it will come down like that. So they come out and literally just straight. It's exactly the same group. It's exactly the same. And we follow a leg break like that. The slider, it's just a bit further wrist position so there's a lot more complexity to a pitch here. Straight through like that. Then there are... This ball will slide on. Well, they're different, but there's so many more elements that they have to incorporate. There are so many different balls. We love using ball. Because they get to use the ground and that's an entirely different element. That obviously you do not have a baseball. A ball which hopefully could confuse batsmen. Come on, come on. The best way to practice is exactly that. It's a bit of Australian accent. It's pretty subtle, actually. But practice properly. As we talked about the grips, you've got to make sure that your ball is nice and high up, not too high. And making sure we fire through and giving all the basics right. Leg spin can be great fun and you can come up with your own history ball if you keep practicing and the net's right. You can change the grips. All these different deliveries can be bowed, wider the crease, in close to the stumps and all different areas on the crease. If you keep doing those sorts of things, you'll find that the ball does different things and your best weapon is natural variation off the wicket. That can be the best mystery ball you've ever had, is natural variation. So keep practicing. Good luck with it all and I'm looking forward to you playing that. Great video. Fantastic. Great video. Also, side note, nothing to do with it, but if you want to learn a subtle Australian accent, you can listen to him. For sure. As opposed to a more thick, like Steve Owen. Yeah. He's a little more... That's an easy one to do for me. Yeah, because it's very stereotypical. It's kind of like, you do New York and, you know, he has much more of a stereotypical Australian. He's more subtle. So if you're looking for a little more subtle, if you're an actor and you like to... He's a great one to listen to. He's pretty good, anyways. Yeah, man, that was great. I learned a lot from that video. One of exactly the kind of video I've been hoping to see about bowling and I wonder, it makes me think... That's just spinning. I know. It makes me think as a hitter. So for example, in baseball, what hitters do a lot of the time is, and it's part of the game, is you, in certain situations, based on the pitch count, a certain pitch is gonna be thrown and it really depends on the kind of pitcher you are and it depends on the kind of hitter you are. But Derek Jeter was asked what his mindset was and what he was doing when he went up to bat. Did it depend on who was pitching? And he said, I always went up to the plate with a pitch in mind based on who was pitching. And I just waited for that pitch. And if I never got it, good on them. But I just waited for a month. So if I was going up looking fastball, I was waiting for the fastball. No matter what they threw, breaking-wise, I wouldn't swing at it. And if you got me looking on breaking balls for about three straight pitches, good for you. You got me. But I didn't gamble. I wasn't waiting to see the spin. I wasn't waiting. I already made a decision when I went up what I'm looking for. Interesting. Isn't that interesting? I mean, you can't argue with it. He did it. He's one of the greatest hitters in baseball history. Yeah, it's hard to argue with a professional. Rod Carew, baseball player, Hall of Hammer with the Angels. It worked for him. Rod Carew, there's a legendary story of him coming up to bat. And he's a switch hitter. So he's hitting right-handed. And the catcher's trying to throw him off. And he was known for being a slap hitter. He could hit it anywhere he wanted at any time. Pitcher's in the middle of the wind-up. Catcher says to Rod, as it's being released, where are you going with this one, Rod? And as Rod swings and hits it, he says, I'm going to take this one to right. And he hits a base hit at the right field. You never know if those stories are true. I believe that one. I believe that one. This was, they're two, they have similarities, but they're completely different animals. Completely different animals. There's, the more I learn about cricket, the more I realize comparing cricket and baseball in terms of the difficulty. It's just because it's an easy comparison of bat and a ball. Bat and a ball and you hit it and you catch it. That's basically where the similarities lie. That's where it ends. Because the pitching's different, the hitting's different, the fields are different. What a batsman does watching the bowler and what you pick up on and where you're going to go with it and how you're going to do it and what you need to get. The points are different. The points are different. It's just, it's a completely, it's like boxing and full-blown MMA. They're both combat sports, but they're completely different. It's just you can compare them because you both hit each other. Right, exactly. But that's basically a comparison, but they're completely different. Right, that's very true. But yeah, that was great. I really enjoyed it. I wish I could have somebody, I think somebody sent us a cricket. Oh no, I found a cricket ball when we went to the cricket field once. And I kept it. And somewhere around here, either Seth takes it or Leo plays with it. And so I don't know where it is right now, but I wanted to try to, I know the mess with it. But anyways, if there's more videos like this, any other cricket videos, let us know which we should react to down below. Juice!