Leg Spin: The Future of Cricketers

Leg spin is a difficult art. That is why I chose it. It requires you to hit the pitch in the right areas and spin the ball. The direction the ball should spin is anticlockwise because it is spin from off to leg. Shane Warne is very clever and he gives the ball a rip and his rotation when spinning the ball causes the bowl to spin sharply. Another thing to look at is the flight. There is usually a flat, hard-spun legbreak using more side spin and a flighted, slower overspinning leg break, which goes over the top like a tennis shot. It dips on the batsmen, causing spin and bounce and can easily deceive the batsmen in the air, bounce or turn. Another thing I will teach you are the variations and a video by Terry Jenner. He used to teach Shane Warne as his leg spin coach. These tips will help everyone turn the ball like Shane Warne does.

Let’s look at the basics:

Grip: The grip of the leg-spinner is the first two fingers parallel to the seam and the thumb resting on it. The last two fingers should rest on end of seam which doesn’t do anything with any variation of the ball. Your wrist should be cocked and not straight otherwise you won’t produce much spin.

Run up: Shane Warne talks about ‘explosion’ at the crease when he does his run up. First stand to the left of the pitch and walk in nexts to the stumps. This is a good run up. Same works around the wicket. Except you bowl at the right hand side of the pitch instead.

Bowling action: This is entirely up to you but one thing is that your wrist must be cocked otherwise it won’t spin much.

Roundarm: There is a as theory which makes the cricket ball spin futher! Roundarm is when you bowl like Malinga but with spin! If you release with the seam with a forty-five degree angle to the left hand side, with a round arm action and flighting the ball above the batsmen’s eyeline, you will be a great ’spinner!’

Follow through: This is very important so pay attention.

Side on: Side on is where you body is facing the right side, but you head is facing the batsmen.

Front On: This is when your whole body is facing the batsmen. This is very bad because your follow through is very important.

Rotation: Now that you are side on, make sure that your back foot is parralel so you have a good rotation. Also when you bowl, have a small gap between your front foot and your back foot not too far apart but not too close either. When you are side on bowling with your action with a cocked wrist, rotate you body anticlockwise at the moment you bowl to make the ball spin like your follow through. Also anticlockwise put you backfoot in the front now and wait for a catch as it spins! Amazing!

Now I will be talking to you about the variations:

Leg Break: This is where you spin off to leg, wrist cocked, roundarm and you have the back or the hand facing the off side fielders in a 45 degree angle.

Top Spinner: Your wrist can be cocked if you want to. The seam of the ball must be facing the batsmen and it is to balled straight, spinning on the seam to bounce up. I always fool my clubmates and opponents by balling it like a quick medium pacer, and it still spins and the LBW is plumb!

Googly/Wrong ‘Un: This ball is when the wrist is cocked but you must have a perfect follow through. The back of the hand faces the sky in an anticlockwise direction and spins from leg to off. Warning! If you bowl too many wrong ‘uns, thats all you can bowl and you lose your leg break which is a vital factor of the legspinner.

Slider: Hold it like like a topspinner, but spin it using backspin. This is done by pushing the ball out of your hand with a slow rotation backwards and bowling it. The top sinner is the opposite with the rotation forward.

Flipper: The hardest of all deliveries. If you bowl these well, you should play for the Aussies. They need a specialist spinner! To bowl this Grip the bowl with the thumb under the ball and before release, it should come out of the thumb spinning backwards, causing to skid. It helps if you bowl a fast flipper to deceive the batsmen because you have bowl many slow spinners to him.

Terry Jenner Bowling Lessons

Terry Jenner Variations

Shane Warne bowling lessons

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