Right. Hmmmm

Varying your line & length slightly is a good thing, which also takes you onto the subject of drift and dip. A legspinner will want to 'drift' the ball into the batsmen and an offspinner away. Every spinner wants to dip the ball in the air as this will confuse the batsman on length sometimes leading to a false shot.

Bowling it short is a bad idea (unless you are someone like Shaid Afridi who is a leg spinner that can bowl an 80mph bouncer). Although many village bowlers will tell you that they have got a high percentage of wickets from bowling rubbish short balls.

As a basic rule - to a new batsman or tail-ender - a legspinner will bowl 3 or 4 legspinners and then a Googly. They don't want to over do it though as the batsman will get wise to it - the best batman will watch the ball in the air to see which way it is spinning.

Oh, and leg-spin is really hard to do. It is very difficult to control the length - you have to have lots of different body parts all doing the right thing at the same time. This is why even the best ones are sometimes a liability.

I didn't see AB's theory

Wrong 'Un

Posted By: Huge Small, Aug 19, 16:34:36