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- From: andyc@is.morgan.com (Andrew Coad)
- Subject: Re: Chinese bowling
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.085627@is.morgan.com>
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- References: <01GRC3715KYA98558I@ccmail.sunysb.edu> <1992Nov19.193912.22753@walter.bellcore.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 13:56:27 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.193912.22753@walter.bellcore.com>, shamim@bellcore.com (Shamim Naqvi,MRE-2E342,829-4711,,21273) writes:
- [stuff from Tony Begley deleted ....]
- |>
- |> Wrong. Here is the correct interpretation.
- |>
- [definitions deleted ....]
- |>
- |> So in summary a chinaman is bowled exactly like a RH leg break delivery.
- |>
- |> --shamim
- |>
- |> ---
- |> --SAN
- |>
-
- Wrong. Here is the correct interpretation.
-
- First, let's clear up an area of confusion: A RH bowler's style is determined as
- if he was bowling to a RH batsman. a LH bowler's style is determined as if he is
- bowling to a LH batsman. A bowler's style does NOT change when the batsman
- changes. Therefore:
-
- A RH bowler who bowls off-breaks will move the ball from the off to leg if it's a
- RH batsman and from the leg to off if it's a LH batsman. But such a bowler is
- still an "off-break" bowler against a LH batsman. Clearly it is easier to describe
- the various sorts of bowlers by reference to the bowler himself as the off and leg
- side is set by the batsman who has no bearing on the bowler's style. I will use
- left-to-right (LtoR) as meaning that the ball will move from the left to the right
- with respect to the bowler. Therefore:
-
- A RH off-break bowler moves the ball LtoR.
- A LH off-break bowler moves the ball RtoL.
- A RH leg-break bowler moves the ball RtoL.
- A LH leg-break bowler moves the ball LtoR.
- A googly bowler is a RH bowler who bowls off-breaks with a leg-break action which
- means that the ball moves LtoR but the batsman expects it to moves RtoL (w.r.t to
- the bowler!).
- And finally, the bottom line: "A chinaman is a left handed googly" tells us that
- a chinaman is an off-break with a leg-break action which means the ball moves
- RtoL but the batsman expects it to move LtoR (again, w.r.t. the bowler).
-
- All pretty confusing stuff
-
- AC
-