“Rare”......”surprisingly rare”
What’s a “legspinner”?
Another Vax victim.
Totally Greek to me, Mate!
any baseball pitchers ever give it a go?
R.I.P. Warney.
Legspinning must be a matter of quick, simple movements during the game, meant to keep away from your opponent. Not heard of before.
Shane Warne’s story sort of reminds me of another now retired sports star, David Beckman. Both highly capable athletes, well liked as men, who peaked during their sporting years.
Both tended to dabble in numerous ventures afterward, looking for something that would be both lucrative and that would satisfy their ongoing need for attention.
At least he died fully vaxxed...
Rare but effective that is what they say
If he only would have been boosted…
RIP.
Booster shot?
Either Thai hookers or the vaccine shot.
Warne was a magician. He did things with a cricket ball no one had seen before, and aren’t likely to see again. Half Sandy Kaufax, half Phil Niekro.
It’s only been a couple of months since they released a documentary about him. If you’re a sports fan, check your favorite online purveyor of movies for one titled, “Shane.” FF to about 8 minutes and watch his first trip “to the mound” in the 1994 Ashes match, Oz vs England. If the first three minutes don’t hook you, don’t waste your time with the rest.
Warne also was known to pound a few back, and he liked to smoke, so coronapanic or not, dead from a heart attack at 52 doesn’t surprise me.
Oh, cricket has two sorts of “bowlers,” fast bowlers (Nolan Ryan) and spinners (Sandy Kaufax).
A right-handed leg-spin bowler throws with a YUGE amount of counterclockwise spin, so the ball takes a vicious left-hand turn when it bounces. A right-handed off-spin bowler throws with a YUGE amount of clockwise spin, which makes it bounce to the right.
Spin bowlers usually bowl at the start of an innings because the pitch is still smooth, so they can predict how the ball will bounce better. The fast bowlers come up later because by then the pitch will have been roughed up, which makes spin bowling less predictable.
And there is no rule requiring the bowler to bounce the ball in front of the batsman. Throwing straight at the wickets would be called bowling “on the full.” But bowlers almost always elect to bounce the ball because it takes a batsman with an uncommonly skilled eye to detect the spin on the ball before it’s too late.
And unlike baseball, if the batsman get hit by a pitch, it’s HIS fault, not the bowler’s. The reason batsmen wear so much more padding than batters is they get hit pretty commonly. There’s not been an MLB player killed by a pitched ball since 1920. There was a first-class cricketer killed by a bowled ball in 2014. The batsman was struck in the neck, a bit lower than his helmet covered, rupturing his vertebral artery.
Been watching a lot of videos of him since I heard the news.