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How To Grip The Ball To Bowl Offspin

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How To Grip The Ball To Bowl Offspin

Grip The Ball To Bowl Off spin. A good spinner can be the difference maker in your cricket team, and off spin is the most popular spin type. Here's how to become a better cricket off-spinner. Grip The Ball To Bowl Off spin. A good spinner can be the difference maker in your cricket team, and off spin is the most popular spin type. Here's how to become a better cricket off-spinner.

Step 1: You will need

Step 2: Gripping the ball

The grip for spin bowling is very different from seam bowling.
The seam turns from vertical to horizontal in the grip

Step 3: Finger position

The middle joints of the index, middle finger and third finger are well spread across the seam.
The little finger and thumb are not involved

Step 4: Spinning it

With offspin you are looking to rotate or spin the ball from your forefinger to your third finger

Step 5: Release

The fingers rotate as the ball exits the hand - almost like turning a doorknob as you release it from the front of your hand

Step 6: Aim

You should aim to bowl the ball outside the off stump. If you bowl too close to the stumps the batsman may dispatch your ball to the boundary on the leg side

Step 7: Ready to play

Following the steps above you should now be able to bowl off-spin an hopefully take some wickets

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  1. Shardul_Shah

    And I disagree with asiancricketer! Did you notice ALL the good off spinners are right handed? I am left handed in both batting and bowling, and bowling is very hard to do - some options of spinning, such as off spin are SO MUCH HARDER TO DO WHEN LEFT HANDED RATHER THAN RIGHT HANDED!

  2. Shardul_Shah

    The thing is, the off spin grip they offer is very basic - there is no chance to get flight, but it does offer drift, spin, and disguise. It is kind of basics though, as umeshkelkar said. I am developing onto a spinner who can do all of the spin types except some, being full of variety. I tried this out and it did work, so good video.

  3. umeshkelkar

    that was not too great this is the most basics things they are teaching and somebody having little knowledge of spin bowling knows this!!!

  5. panelpk

    its not that hard mr. asian cricketer.. U just need to follow the basics.. although this video doesnot seem to explain much abt off spin. its of two type the wrist spin which murli bowls and the finger spin which Mendis OR SAQlain Ball. Here they r teaching Finger sPin... They didnot teach gripping the ball that well... n nothing abt loop and flight.. Actually doing off-spin means u r turning the ball not spinning.... There is a lot of difference b/w spin n turn..

  6. asiancricketer

    Its hard to bowl off-spin, espically if ur right-handed although, great video

  7. Anonymous

    how to release the the bowl to bowl a yorker?

  8. Anonymous

    how do you ball the doosra???

  9. Anonymous

    good work!!

  10. Anonymous

    that was great!!! (eeskes Ma Ya)