r/DeathrattlePorn • u/retsnom99 Custom Flair • 9d ago
Off stump goes for a walk! Bravo to AB Devilliers , offstump cartwheeling.
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u/Sensitive-Pie-2887 9d ago
Champion DJ Bravo!! What a complete cricketer in all 3 formats. It's very disheartening to see people lable him as a long run-up off-spinner coz he mostly played T20s when social media peaked in India.
FC Cricket played a huge role in him becoming a great all rounder and WI will never ever have the All-rounder of his calibre because they don't care about playing test cricket anymore.
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u/Slow-Pool-9274 9d ago
Another random user of the Wobble Ball before The Great James Anderson invented it!
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u/RockyRoady2 9d ago
Yeah I mean the earliest known users were Akram and Walsh. Though the delivery has probably always existed because it's so easy to bowl it accidentally
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u/FondantAggravating68 9d ago
Did Waz bowl it. Thought he was just a swinger. I've heard of Walsh and Pollock doing it. Never Waz.
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u/RockyRoady2 9d ago
On the Wikipedia page for seam bowling:
Another good example of seam bowling technique are the fast bowlers Courtney Walsh and Wasim Akram. Both used a forward wrist flick that imparted back-spin to the ball as it left the hand. However, significantly, their choice of finger position causes the ball to exhibit precession (similar to a gyroscope), with the seam remaining broadly upright but oscillating repeatedly between a 5 o'clock and 7 o'clock position (if viewed from the bottom of the seam). This effectively destroys seam induced swing (as the ball is constantly changing between outswing and inswing seam positions through the air). Thus, the ball travels straight onto the pitch (in theory allowing the bowler to be more accurate). However, when the seam of the ball contacts the pitch at the 5 o'clock position, the result is movement to the left (away to the right-handed batter), when the seam of the ball contacts the pitch at the 7 o'clock position, the result is movement to the right (in to the right-handed batter). It can be seen that only rarely would the ball be at the purely 6 o'clock position to continue completely straight after pitching. This aligns with the unpredictable nature of seam bowling, but appears primarily driven by the technique of the bowler, rather than irregularities in the pitch surface.
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u/prospectiveboi177 9d ago
Bowl embarrassingly slow and then a fireball! What a player ❤️♥️
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u/Marimo_567 8d ago
He didn't just bowl his cutters very slow, he could get the ball to dip so brilliantly that it would put some off spinners to shame
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