Beefy's Corner - The Off-Topic Chat Thread

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Schad said:
As someone more used to baseball than cricket, why don't more bowlers favour the nearly sidearm delivery that he uses?
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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.
 
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).
 
Schad said:
As someone more used to baseball than cricket, why don't more bowlers favour the nearly sidearm delivery that he uses?
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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. :)
 
Schad said:
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).
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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. <laugh>
 
Schad said:
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).
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Not watching but I take it there is no lower arm snap to this bowler's action, which would account for a throw..?
 
Schad said:
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).
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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.
 
Mikey said:
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.
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You ruined it for me <laugh>
 
Mikey said:
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.
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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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