Beefy's Corner - The Off-Topic Chat Thread

Because it's incredibly unorthodox, and hard to replicate. If any other bowler, even one of the best in the world, ran up and tried to do that he'd bowl wide after wide, but given enough practice you could probably work on it. Bowling actions are incredibly rhythmical and repetitive though, bowlers work for years to get their run-up and bowling action to become muscle memory, so you'd probably have to work at it from a young age or completely change how you bowled during your career. It's also a little bit controversial as some thing it should be illegal. I wouldn't be surprised to see more young bowlers of the next generation trying it, though.

Incredible run-out whilst I'm typing that.

 

Because it's bloody hard to get right.

 

It's unorthodox from a cricket perspective; as someone who played baseball for years and pitched when I was young, it's a much more natural delivery for me. I had assumed that throwing like that was illegal (having watched parts of all of four cricket matches in my life).

 

South Africa's Mike Proctor used to become unplayable, if the batsman got himself slightly screwed up, because Proctor bowled off the wrong foot. It meant that the ball would be released from his hand at what seemed to be the wrong time, which meant the batsman could get decidedly off-balance. Look for Proctor on Youtube. Looks fine until you notice the wrong foot, then it just looks weird.

 

I think it's a lot easier to do it from a standing start to be fair, I remember trying to do it with my mates plenty of times in the nets years ago, we threw it further sideways than we did forwards.

 

Remember Proctor wrecking Hampshire at Bournemouth in a one dayer. Took 4 wickets in 5 balls!

 

Not watching but I take it there is no lower arm snap to this bowler's action, which would account for a throw..?

 

Just shows how long ago that was, Lamb.

Kind of wish Bornemouth was still in Hampshire.

 

NZ need 2 to win with 1 wicket left...

 

Oh and in regards to being illegal, it's mostly about the angle of the bend of your elbow, not about the angle of your actual arm, as long as you're not bowling under-arm you're fine. Your elbow can't bend more than 15 degrees otherwise you're throwing rather than bowling.

What a game that was.

 

You ruined it for me

 

Better match than it looked like it was going to be. Should have been a doddle chasing that score. Going for Sri Lanka in the end...purely because it looked so impossible.

 

And NZ win by 1 wicket!

 

So do I TSS. I was born there and went to school in Christchurch. Was livid when they moved the county boundary!

 

This is the bowler in question, TSS, just in case you were curious.

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Can't believe you ever doubted it ................

 

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Iiiiiinteresting. I ask because, for kicks, I used to pitch from what's called a 'low three-quarters arm slot', which looks like this:

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Sticking with NZ and England to go through now.

 

Pakistan + 1 ( not sure who ) for me .