 Hello, oh Hello, that's my oh sound Is that yours? Hey, welcome back to our stupid rex of Corbin. Hello. You can follow some Instagram Twitter for more juicy content Thanks page from also to come to like button We want it. We need it Today we got a video the science of swing bowling explained the silence of swing bowling precious Yes, don't call me precious And so the science of swing bowling this goes into it. There's there's something in America. There's called Pro football science. I don't know if you ever seen anything. No, they break down like the percentage of like what the receiver had to do Mathematical probability is kind of ridiculous shit. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know anything about they could be lying through their teeth I'm guessing this is call it science and we probably won't know what yeah, what science we're from America And fast boolers in cricket know how to make the ball dance and sometimes Wow Not a lot of explanation. Not at all. I don't even make the batsman dance. This dancing Yeah, or swinging nice nightmare for batsman, but what is swing bowling? What is conventional swing? What is reverse swing? Bowlers might know this art quite well, but do you know no lot of hidden science behind it that they're using? Watch this video till the end to know all about it Swing bowling is all about changing the direction of the ball mid-air But what causes the ball to move sideways a NASA scientist and cricket enthusiast Rabindra Mehta Studied cricket ball aerodynamics for nearly three decades. Wow his findings Revealed the science behind swing bowling Let us first understand the design of a cricket ball A cricket ball is made up of a cork and is covered by a leather casing the two halves of the ball are Stitched by a string and this is known as the seam on both sides of the seam The surface of the ball degrades with use the fielding side will usually allow one side to roughen up While keeping the other side shiny Why you will know this in a little while The typical way to create swing is to use the seam and the asymmetry of the ball if the seam of the ball is in the Direction of the throw then the ball will go straight If the seam is at an angle then the ball will go in the seams direction Which basically means that if the seam is pointed outward from the batsman then the ball will go outward and Likewise if the seam is pointed inwards to the batsman the ball will go inwards When the ball is released from the hand it goes through the air the ball diverts the airflow in two directions One towards the smooth side and the other towards the rough side At the smoother area the flow of air is smooth and is called laminar flow Wow on the other hand when the air goes towards the other side the ball seam Disturbs the airflow and makes the flow rough or turbulent This creates an air pressure difference between the two sides The pressure at the turbulent flow side is much lower than the pressure at the smoother side The ball swings in the direction where the air pressure is low and hence it will move with the seam This type of swing is known as conventional swing There is another type of swing bowling which is known as reverse swing To reverse swing the ball the ball's rough side is faced towards the batsman The ball diverts the airflow in two directions One towards the rough side which creates the turbulent flow and another towards the seam side Which disturbs the flow of the air and makes the flow turbulent But the turbulence at the rough side is more than the turbulence at the smooth side and hence The air pressure at the rough side is less than the air pressure At the smooth side this makes the ball swing opposite to the direction of the seam and hence makes the ball reverse swing There is one other type of swing bowling as well It is called contrast swing in this the direction of the seam is in the direction of the throat Both the sides will have the turbulent flow But the turbulence at the rough side will be more and hence the ball will swing towards the rough side So how can you tell what type of swing a particular bowler is producing? Make a note of the seam orientation and swing direction If they are coincident it is conventional swing if opposed it is reverse swing And if the seam is reversed you just witnessed contrast swing You need to see which side is facing which way Would help you with your next cricket match with your friends Try to make the ball dance And you can flaunt this technique If you are batting though, I hope you will keep an eye on the position of the rough side and the seam and then pick your favorite shot Wow Great explanation great. Yeah, because we've seen the movement on balls We just have never been shown how that's done. That was a really informative video especially all the three Different types of swing bowling we actually got taught the swing bowling For the first time when we went here and the guy there said the guy that was just practicing at the At the batting cages for cricket He said he was a swing bowler. Hmm. What's that? Right? He explained it and went over. Yeah But yeah, it makes a lot of sense obviously Well, the other thing is Variations obviously can be done based on how quickly It's thrown because the harder you throw the more wind resistance you're gonna have so You could technically I presume throw a ball Like a conventional swing, but it will behave differently depending upon the velocity So you may pick up immediately. Okay, there's the seam. There's the rough side But it looked like it was coming at you faster than it really was because the bowler did a great job of making you think it Was gonna be coming in at 90 miles an hour, but it really came in at 70 It's probably pretty obvious when people have been watching it their whole lives. Just like yeah, right, right I know you can pick up immediately what it what a pitch is. Yeah upon release almost Both both hitting it and watching it on TV. I take it for granted. I was watching a baseball game with some friends About a month ago, and they they just were marveling not just not just that I was able to pick up on what pitch was what But I was able to based on the count and the playing situation The decode what next pitch was probably coming. Yeah, and I was right most of the time That's just like you said when you're used to it if you've been watching your whole life It's yeah, it's literally second nature, especially if you played it as well Yeah, that's a tight until this very moment Did not know obviously those things but did not know that one of the things a batsman is is eyeing for is the Specificity of the direction of the seam as well as which side is the rough side. Yeah, it makes sense makes a lot of sense anyways Fantastic explanation Thank you so much if there's any more information from this that we need to know or if there's other videos that can explain stuff better Please let us know what those are down below You