Never since the chinaman and the flipper has any new* slow bowling technique emerged. But it seems there is an attempt now to bowl a double-bounce ball.
They’re speculating whether the rules will be rewritten to stop such deliveries; I say let them bowl ‘doubles’.
For one, it is going to be a very difficult ball to bowl. I remember trying to bowl such deliveries in my ‘underarm’ gully cricket days and not being successful more than half the time – and that was underarm. Trying to bowl an accurate overarm ‘doubles’ would be a rare achievement in itself.
Second, if you’ve ever tried it, you would know that the ball turns the ‘other’ way after the 2nd bounce – making it doubly difficult to be accurate (pun intended).
And last, the batsman can always dance down the pitch to make it a ‘non-double’ – remember the bowler will be a ‘slow’ bowler = maybe not even a spinner.
* There was the doosra, but like the Aussies, I think that it is pure chucking. I mean a Pakistani inventing something sportive is like Ferrari making a Hummer.
They’re speculating whether the rules will be rewritten to stop such deliveries; I say let them bowl ‘doubles’.
For one, it is going to be a very difficult ball to bowl. I remember trying to bowl such deliveries in my ‘underarm’ gully cricket days and not being successful more than half the time – and that was underarm. Trying to bowl an accurate overarm ‘doubles’ would be a rare achievement in itself.
Second, if you’ve ever tried it, you would know that the ball turns the ‘other’ way after the 2nd bounce – making it doubly difficult to be accurate (pun intended).
And last, the batsman can always dance down the pitch to make it a ‘non-double’ – remember the bowler will be a ‘slow’ bowler = maybe not even a spinner.
* There was the doosra, but like the Aussies, I think that it is pure chucking. I mean a Pakistani inventing something sportive is like Ferrari making a Hummer.
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