How To Bowl Leg Spin

Fahiyan

I will try my best to play in the play?

Mad_Leggy

Guys, I am not sure if this works for you. I have had problem with leg spin for past one year. I could figured out why I can not turn ball consistent at good line and length. I agree with above steps. But I would like to add one more so that it might help many people. Few week before I discovered that my drawback is with my action not with my fingers or how I am holding the ball. Following step will make it easy for many people 1) Hold the ball like traditional way. Meaning two fingers (ring and little) down and two fingers (point and middle) up. 2) This step is important. Keep your hands down.Make sure that you bend your wrist such a way that you palm would be looking upwards (perpendicular to your forearm or as close as possible to your forearm) . 3) While rotating your hand before you bowl, keep your palm position that way as long as you can before rotating your palm, obviously in anti clockwise, and releasing your ball. This most like let you release the ball while your palm facing the batsman. It also help your to flick your finger, allows better flight and pace variations to the ball. After following the above method all of a sudden I am a big spinner of the ball. I was also able to bowl top spinner and goodly. Most importantly disguise them well. Thought these tips might be useful to others.

zain786

hi man legspin is the best so look at this peopel say football is the best but its not crickit is so if some one say football is bettre say look a ball a football its onely 3£ and a bat is 200£ so tell them to shut look at me am playing crickit for 2 years and am playing in lords and am the best in legspin so legspin is the best but dont give up i was not good but i did not give up then i got good and good then my dad took me to lords and i went to school and peopel said look crickit is bad but i did not give up

GaryCarlisle

The fella on the video is bowling a googly, or at best a top spinner. I certainly can't see any leg-to-off deviation in the footage, despite the dodgy perspective trying to fool you otherwise. Legspinners should emerge from the front of the hand I reckon. khurram007 below has it right - my leggies only started to turn when I really tried to bowl a back spinner. You can see the results better by using a two tone ball that makes it easier to see the seam position. I'm still not good enough to get a proper side spinner, but I'll settle for a hard spun 45 degree angle. according to the Bob Woolmer "bible" this angle will produce more in-drift anyway. Or so I convince myself... Happy Ripping

khurram007

For everyone want to learn a few varieties of leg spin in a very very easy way. I learned 4 types of them mysefl while playing and 2 of them were by accident and one by thinking more. The easy way because remember these logics whenever you have problems with any of the following deliveries: Googly: I used to bowl googly only when I started bowling. It will astonished a lot of people (including me later) but I used to bowl leg breaks in standing position without revolving arm (completely illegal) at all when I was 8-9 years old. Then I started trying to get the same leg break after revolving arm (legal) but what I got was a googly! It was because when you revolves your arm, it becomes in the opposite wrist position and came from back of hand, which was how I got the Googly as my first ever spinning delivery. Leg Break: I tried to learn leg break from my fellow and senior leg-spinners a lot but in vain. Then I read an interview of Shane Warne where he said that his dream delivery is the one that will leave his hand, comes near to the batsman and then comes back to his hand. Incidently, I used to do this without revolving arm again in standing position. So I tried if I could do it in a legal action. Results??? I was astonished!!! I got a perfect Leg Break!!! Woohoooo!!! The key to get bigger and bigger leg breaks??? Its the amount of effort to spin the bowl towards you while throwing it at batsman. The more you spin it towards yourself, the bigger the break. Top Spinner: Once I was playing after a long gap of around 6 months and played directly in the match. When I tried to bowl leg spin, the bowl only straigten and zipped after pitching with bounce. The batsman was troubled but I was concerned. I tried again, the same result! I was worried where was my big Leg Break? Have I forgot the art? I played in the nets but in vain. Every time I bowls leg spinner it becomes top spin. Then suddenly I realized how I learnt leg spin - "Pulling the bowl while throwing it at batsman". No Surprises this time - I got the Leggies back in my stock. Result: I found that I was not pulling the ball towards myself. Instead I was pulling it towards my left should rather then right. But all is well that ends well... I got the Top Spin in my stock again by accident. Flipper: This is the only delivery that I learned by thinking and practicing to achieve. Since it was not a natural delivery to me, this one was the delivery which took more energy and practice to bowl correctly. How I learned it? My leg breaks and googlies were naturally big spinning. So I tried to achieve the wrist position perfectly in middle of the front of the hand (leggies) and back of the hand (googlies) deliveries. It took me several months and countless nets to achieve it. Tip: Perfect the leggies and googles first. You will enjoy when you would find that 95% of the batsman can't read your deliveries. Your focus will be automatically shift towards topspin and flipper as they are effective against the good players of spin who used to read the bowl from your wrist. Its not easy for the bowler to bowl, similarly its not easy for most batsmen to read as well. Tip: "When it gets tougher - The TOUGHER gets GOING!!!"

LHughesy

I'm pretty much sure this is wrong, but I dunno, I learnt how to bowl Leg Spin when I was 12, I'm now 18 and I've lost my once handy Leg Break, I was taught to release with my palm facing the batsman as this generates the required Leg Break spin, however I can't get the Leg Break to save my life now days, quite shattered.

ctracey

Im !4 and I can spin the ball quite well i have problems with my top spinners though i can spin it about 15 to 20 degrees to the stumps which isnt to bad i got 5 wickets in 2 overs playing for my school but i really need a worn ball for the ball to really spin.

jamesEMAJ

Since when do we get tips from woman on bowling????? Might get that Shane Warne DVD, tips from the best!!!!!

i use my index, middle and ring finger when doin it i impart the spin with my little finger and gets lots of spin

this is a pile a crap im an unorthodox leg breaker and a pretty good topspinner the palm facing upwards is the wrongun oh by the way im unorthodox cuz u should cock ur wrist when doing it but i dont but get lots of spin im also an excellent offie