🚀 go-pugleaf

Sorry, but I beleive it is necessary to resubmit this message. I am advised
that I should have made the reference to bowling in "CRICKET". Otherwise,
it could be confused with either lawn bowls or ten pin bowling, especially
for people in the States and Europe, where cricket is not well known.

"Hello, I am rene Ferdinands, a biomechanist from the University of
Waikato. I am studying the biomechanics of spin bowling in CRICKET. Of
particular interest to me is the combination of wrist and finger action to
impart spin on the ball. In the case of the orthodox deliveries this
process is well documented in cricket texts. However, there have been a
number of "mystery" bowlers that have been able to bowl "off-breaks" with a
"leg-break" wrist action, or vice versa, wreaking havoc among batsmen for a
period of time. (Note that these bowlers did not use the googly) It seems
the wrist must impart spin in the opposite sense to the fingers. Past
mystery bowlers have been, Ramadhin, Iverson, Gleeson - does anyone know
how they delivered these mystery balls. I know that the "bent-finger" grip
was used by Gleeson, and Iverson. However, the issue has not been
satisfactorily documented. Ramadhin's ball has never been explained (to my
knowledge). Can anyone give me an account of how these mystery bowlers
achieved their spin? Biomechanics of spin bowling in cricket would not be
complete without a thorough undestanding of these deliveries. Some sort of
out of phase motion between the wrist and fingers may have been used."

Regards

Rene Ferdinands
Department of Physics & Electronics
University of Waikato
Hamilton
New Zealand
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