A curious thing happened during the recent Australia-Pakistan ODI in Brisbane. In the fifth over, Mohammad Amir bowled a peach of a ball to David Warner. With the seam canted towards slip, the ...
It is the delivery that followed, however, that is more interesting, at least for the purposes of this article. This time it was Steven Smith taking strike and facing the first ball. The ball left ...
For conventional swing, the ball moves in the direction in which the seam is positioned. For reverse, it moves in a direction that is opposed to that of the seam ...
"He really didn't know until I told him, 24 years later." Mike Hendrick played the last of his 30 Tests in 1981 - nearly a quarter of a century before he found out why he sometimes, inexplicably, ...