Off-spin and Leg-spin are named wrong

[Furball]

Yes but the point is, non-spinning darts are not fun to watch. It just underlines how devalued attacking bowling and wicket-taking is in T20 cricket.

Disagree, Yardy's in the team to compliment Swann.

By bowling accurately and not giving away much in the way of runs, it allows Swann to attack by varying his flight to beat the batsmen who are forced to go after Swann, as happened to Sangakkara in the semi final.

Good bowling is done in partnerships, and this is true even in T20, as Swann and Yardy have proven.

 

[shortpitched713]

It really annoys me what the different kind of spin bowling are called. It does not make any sense that offspin is called offspin and leg spin is called legspin. From a logical point of view what we call offspin should be called legspin since the ball is moving from off to leg and legspin should be called offspin since the ball is moving from leg to off. The current nomenclature of spin bowling is completely upside down and does not make any sense. It would be like if we started calling inswing as outswing and outswing as inswing, the ball comes into the the batsman hence it's called inswing that's logical, therefore incase of spin bowling if the ball move towards the legside it should be called legspin not offspin (and vice-verse)

It's a shame innit but Brits who codified the game just did (still do) everything backwards instead of sensibly or god forbid, logically. It's just in their nature.

 

[the big bambino]

We’d have to call the wrong ‘un the right ‘un.

 

[Coronis]

We’d have to call the wrong ‘un the right ‘un.

tbf it does spin to the right