It is quite rare for a bowler to change the type of bowling to spin bowling over fast bowling or vice-versa in a cricket match or in a cricket career. So, the reasons for this are quite limited as well. But there have been instances in the history of cricket that such events have occurred.
An injury to any sportsperson is probably the most unfortunate event that can happen in the career of a player. This is especially true for a bowler in cricket. Unfortunately, however, fast bowlers are most prone to an injury in the game of cricket as it requires great levels of fitness to be able to bowl fast consistently. Unless, you are Mark Waugh — who was selected in the side to play as an allrounder.
Mark Waugh bowled fast balls early in his career. Stricken by injury, he was forced to continue balling off-spin bowling later in his career. Very few rare players have the capability to bowl both as a spin as well as a fast bowler. Even more rare is to be able to take wickets doing so.
However, there have been cases of bowlers capability to bowl both spin and fast bowling due to their sheer ability. Sometimes, players recognise that the best thing to do is to change the type of delivery that needs to be balled. Change the bowling from spin to fast or otherwise.
The desire to do so could be either due to the change in pitch conditions that favour either fast or spin type of bowling. For eg. Sohail Tanveer of Pakistan.
Alternatively, sometimes the match conditions force a bowler to change the type of bowling. Manoj Prabhakar of India in a match against Sri Lanka was forced to bowl spin bowling.
As mentioned above, there have been situations in the past when a bowler in cricket chose to change the type of bowling. The reasons for the players mentioned below mostly fall under one of the three mentioned above.
Please keep in mind that the bowlers may have bowled the two types of deliveries either across their career or even in the same match. Sohail Tanvir was famous for his unorthodox left-arm fast bowling. He bowled with great pace and was a threat in ODIs and especially the T20 format of the game. His hard-hitting quickfire knocks lower down the order were also quite famous. But a little known fact about Sohail Tanvir is that not only was he a good fast bowler, he could also bowl great left-arm orthodox spin bowling.
He took everyone by surprise when he decided to bowl left-arm spin bowling in a test match against India at Eden Gardens, Kolkatta in The name of Manoj Prabhakar has been often linked with cricketing scandals. Those factors apart, Manoj Prabhakar was a great talent and one that any team would choose to keep. But like Rumple said experiment with both and see what you like and Enjoy!
Btw I would recommend using a Leggie over an Offie! Hooker Panel of Selectors. I tried career as a WK a couple of times. It's not really got a feature set properly plugged in yet but I'm deffo hoping they make this more of a thing next iteration. Hooker said:. AnshtheDj Club Cricketer. I've had some memorable dismissals in my short career :P so far and have managed to take 5-fer a few times in first class level as well.
Batsmen keep attacking my spinner and somehow he wilts, even after trying similar variation that fetch me wickets in 3-day games.
Defensive field set stem the run flow, but still I'm not able to beat the batsman in flight or get them holed out in the deep so far. Joined Jul 22, Spin Bowling has more chance of giving you sore thumbs, from working all those extra rotations.
Pacers clearly have more variations in their arsenal. Bowling is not as much polished as batting, so no matter what you choose struggle will be there. I play as all rounder Off Spinner, bowling around the wicket, and get wickets ocassionally. Generally caught around silly mid on area.
Few bowled and few stumpings. If you choose to play a spinner. It will not help you do great, but once a while a delivery beating the batsman and missing legstump will give immense pleasure. What I have noticed that pitch condition also affect Bowling.
On crumbly pitch I never get any wickets. No matter what I do gets hit for a six. Also spin bowling is successful mostly during the mid overs when the ball is Old but not Wear Off. It turns better drifts better.
Or bowl my cutters coming towards the batsman for caught behind. Happy cricketing. Kenway School Cricketer. Joined Nov 29, Rumple43 said:. Ed Smith's Basement Gaffer Moderator. In the late Victorian period, all the most successful bowlers in the game were those who, rather than submit to an illusory need for speed, decided they could have the best of both worlds.
They bowled spin, but at medium pace. Each in turn pre-empted the rise, and extraordinary success, of the most complete bowler that ever lived, that cantankerous English rascal Sydney Barnes.
He too was a medium-paced spinner. All of which rather begs a question. If medium-pace spin was so effective, why on earth did it die out? Before answering that question, it may be worth establishing the credentials of these bowlers, by focusing briefly on Barnes who, understood in the proper context, is really their apogee.
The dashing county player Jack Meyer said Barnes was definitely quicker than Alec Bedser, which seems astonishing. My guess is that, depending on the pitch, Barnes would hit around 70 or even 75 mph. He certainly bowled faster some days than others; and on his fastest day he was distinctly fast. And yet, as he brought his arm over, Barnes gave the ball an almighty rip. Twirlymen constitute a special breed within cricket, a fraternity that bestows special privileges on its members, and through the ages spinners have met with each other to pass on the wisdom they have gleaned.
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