Terry Jenner introduces logic to the chucking debate

by Zat Sun 03 May 2009, 07:12

And probably speaks the most sense about the whole 'should doosra chuckers be allowed more chucking flexion' debate in this link.

Do you know how many blokes there are out there at the moment [who bowl the doosra]? Very few. What do you want to do, open the floodgates? Why should we change the laws to accommodate just one delivery? Why can't we say it is all right to go 20 degrees to bowl a bouncer?

Here, I would like to draw comparison with the legspinner's flipper. The flipper is such a ball that there have been very few successful exponents of it - Richie Benaud, Bruce Dooland and Shane Warne to name a few [in Australia]. It is a legitimate skill, where the arm is dead straight. It is a skill of the fingers and the wrist: spin bowling has always been the skill of the fingers and the wrist.

Saqlain Mushtaq bowled the doosra cleanly - he never spun it like a legbreak. His doosra deviated off the seam. He delivered it with a side-on action and he released it with his palm upwards, while most now have got their back of the hands towards the batsman.

Of course, someone will probably try to find a way to play the race card about this.

by Bradman Sun 03 May 2009, 08:59

Of course, someone will probably try to find a way to play the race card about this

I'll go first. Only non- Europeans can bowl this cleanly because for a large number of white people it's almost impossible to bowl that delivery cleanly without the backing of a strong national board.