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  • What ho.

    Soz for the short notice, but have just spotted you've used an ineligible game in the footy LMS.

    Still time to get involved tho; one game you can used tonight.
    On second thoughts, keep me involved, but don't bother waiting for me to pick. I.e. don't give me the 12 hours, I'll just picked when I get round to it. I want to stay involved, but don't want to hold things up through laziness/being disorganised.
    Where you replying to me with the one day thing, I edited, sorry mate if my last post to you was a bit dickish, sometimes I don't know the right way of teasing or being a ****.

    still never praise me again, that still stands.
    Are you necessarily chagrined, no-one gets away with complimenting me without serious grief, don't do it again.
    Part II of II (read the older message first):



    When he bowls around the wicket he automatically has the added benefit of the ball angling in one way and turning the other; this is a massive advantage. But even beyond that, from a technical perspective, when his left shoulder is pointing to the left it forces him to completely rotate around that front leg just to get the ball going in the direction he wants it to go, which means he moves the ball a lot more in the air. Bowling around the wicket prevents him from getting lazy in his action. His shape is just so much better from that angle which allows him to get more purchase and therefore drift on the ball.
    Part I of II:

    When Swann bowls over the wicket, everything is pointing in the same direction - angling in, spinning in further. This means that to actually put the batsman in two minds and challenge both edges of the bat, an off spinner really has to get the ball to drift away from the RHB. When Swann is absolutely at his best he does do this, but the first thing to ever fall away a bit in his action is his pivot. He doesn't get quite as side on as you'd like a traditional off spinner like him to get which means he doesn't pivot or rotate on that front leg enough all the time when his left shoulder is pointing to the right. This means he doesn't quite finish his action, resulting on less work on the ball, less shape and less drift away.
    Well depends on when tonight you might do it as I'm currently watching Dragon's Den now :p
    Can I change my bowling style seeing as Furball already bowls leg spin?
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