Tips From Cricket is a very lively experience.The writer has taken into account his past childhood memories and told tips of how to gain skill in cricket genre, especially leg-break-googly, inswing and outswing.
1. Tips from Cricket Gurus
I even remember the days in my childhood when I used to play cricket with my brother
and friend Muhammad Arif Anees in Multan.One day bowl was going at a great speed
and I was unable to touch it,it hits on my cheek but then I didn't like a ditherer came out
of the ground.I used to play in Jamia Uloom model school ground.Those were the days
when world was fascinated about WW's Waqar and Waseem,dur to their pace and swing
both used to bowl Yorkers and both had Yorkers which they used to deliver pretty
damned quickly.
In the year presumably 1995 I went to see cricket match in Qala Kuhna Qasim Bagh
stadium,I even remember how beautifully Izamaz used to dive in the field to stop runs of
the opponent.This match was though won by Australia due to magical spell by Shane
Warne he took most wickets and was declared man of the match.
Then afterwards I had developed starnge craze to bowl and bat in the streets with my
neighbour Saqib and my cousins Ghulam Muhammad sometimes.
I even remember how Ashraf a guy sometimes used to behave notoriously when I asked
him to give back my bat.Mostly he used to fly the bat in the air by saying that don't come
near.How remember that what happens if people don't give you in your family ownership
to have something.But I used to wait and let it go by taking my bat from Mr Ashraf to my
home in Multan.
Those were the days when my brother used to copy classic English style of Quade
Azam speeches.In those days my elder brother Muhammad Tariq Anees was doing job
on Dawah academy Islamabad.
But I would say that to make a legend it really takes a long time,it really takes man many
years of labourious workmanship which leads to make a crafmanship,about people say
creme de la creme.
For leg spin you need to grip the ball with first three fingers then twist or swng it from
right to left.This mostly happens in leg-break bowling.In case of off-break bowling you
can either grip the ball with even two fingures and then flight the ball from right to
left.Especially for googly you need to leave the in half-banding position which I learnt
from one video of Abdul Qadir.Needless to say there is always so much variation in
bowling and also in batting which really help you have an edge on the opponent,just like
reverse sweep which Misbahul Haq used to have while batting.
When we talk about inswing and outswing you need to grip the ball in Index fingure and
middle finger and place the thumb behind the seem position,but leave the ball with
index finger for delivery of inswing.On the other hand for outswing you do have to grip th
cricket ball in first two fingers index finger and middle finger but leave the ball while
2. keeping middle finger on the top.
By Former English Teacher Hafiz Muhammad Qasim Pakistan