Swing in Cricket does not happen as a result of the bowler spinning the ball. It is slightly more complex and ultimately comes down to the fact that a ball can be smoother, and more aerodynamic on one side than the other, resulting in sideways movement.
Please read Lordlord12 comment this is important the ball doesn’t get changed in test cricket for 80 overs the fielding team will shine one side of the ball and the other side will get rougher that’s about as simple as I can put it there’s lots of factors that come into swing bowling
Conventional swing is initially seam position that causes the ball to swing. As the ball gets older, 35-40 overs, the smooth vs rough takes effect, which is known as reverse swing. But as you said, there are many factors that contribute to swing bowling, including the rotation on the ball.
Listening to TMS during the last test, they had a good discussion on swing bowling. They felt there were many factors that contribute to swing bowling which have already been mentioned but they also felt the right weather conditions were needed. They also said physicists had tried to explain swing bowling but failed. I think they came to the conclusion to just enjoy the swing bowling.
@@anthonypirera7598 The immigration issue in places like Germany has led to locals providing Afghan refugees with cricket equipment by local councils and this in turn has led to interest by the German locals. Wonderful generosity of spirit.
As a teacher of high school physics, and a cricket tragic, the use of the analysis of the behaviour of the cricket ball through the air and off the pitch is an absolute gold mine of source material.
Swing bowling is when the ball curves in the air due to the aerodynamics of the ball. For new balls, the angle of the seam creates a pressure differential across the ball, causing it to curve. On older balls, one side is rougher than the other, and creates more drag, so the ball curves towards the rough side. Sometimes the rough side is so rough that it acts like dimples on a golf ball, and reduces drag. This is called reverse swing, the ball swinging away from the rough side. Seam bowling is when the ball direction changes when the seam hits the ground. A few of those were seam deliveries IMO. The last one was Mitchell Starc bowling against England at the WACA ground in Perth. The pitch at the WACA was notorious for developing cracks during the game. This particular ball was from day 5 of the test, and the ball hit the crack and deviated a susbtantial amount. Often in situations like that the ball will deviate so much that it isn't a problem for the batsman. But occasionally you get ones like that, or ones that barely bounce above ankle height when they should be quote high.
Yes, dry pitch is scary! There are more restrictions on how much rough up you can do to the balls now, and cracks are discouraged! The greatest bowling skill is tricking the batsman by hiding the seam and angle until the last second!
Major cricket fan here! You go ahead and react to as much cricket as you like, I will be here to watch with you!! I would love to see you react to South Africa's AB deVilliers, batsman extraordinaire!
Two physical factors can be in play: You've got the swing deviation through the air as a result of an unevenly-smooth ball generating differing air pressures on either side (and thus - different velocity of each of the ball's sides), and, unlike baseball...because the ball can bounce off the cricket pitch, you can also have another change in direction from the seam of the ball hitting the surface. A great bowler can make the ball swing through the air and change its direction once it has hit the ground, so even if the batsman has judged the line of the ball while it swings, he can still be defeated by the subsequent change in trajectory.
Number 9 was more of a 'seam' ball than a swing ball, it relied on the movement off the ground caused by the seam, there was little or no actual swing on the ball. It is the subtle variations in bowling that is one of the great attractions of cricket, you never know when the bowler is going to toss a great ball up, but then a great batter may defend well and defeat the bowler, a great game. That's why it can command so many viewers worldwide.
Hey Ryan. I don't care if others are watching it or not; I am watching it and I am happy that you are appreciating the sport. I hope you know that there is an MLC going on for past 2 yrs. The American Cricket Association is having some legal and administrative issues, but the franchise tournament is very much here (not covered on TV of course).
During the game the ball gets roughed up and a team tries to keep one side polished up. Aerodynamically it means one side passes more smoothly through the air while the other side drags. It makes it swing
That's actually a reverse swing. Swing happens with the new ball, reverse swing with the old ball when 1 side is rough. With the new ball, swing happens by seam position. Bowlers angle the seam in such a way that air drag on one side is more than the other. The way of releasing the ball also impacts the swing movement.
@@fishtigua I have always loved watching the “Windies”. As an aussie school kid I had to admit to a secret enjoyment watching Ambrose and Walsh rip the Australians to shreds!
When I started following England tests in the 1960s, the big series for me were against the Windies (1963, 1966)! I still say that without a doubt, the greatest cricketer I have seen in my lifetime was Garfield Sobers; the complete genius and glorious to watch as well.
Glad you’re enjoying cricket, it is the best game in the world …..in my opinion! Keep going with your enthusiasm as it is one of the most watched sport in the world, second to football (soccer to you) - the fans will find you!🤣🥰🇬🇧❤️
The first player was the very young James Anderson, who was mentioned in the comment suggesting the might have just been him. Others swing bowlers had their moments but none delivered so consistantly for so long. Indeed he debuted for England way back in 2003 and retired (very reluctantly) this year aged 42. To sustain a 21 year international career for so long as a fast bowler the most physically demanding discipline in the sport is extraordinary. Typically such bowlers are done in their early thirties. He ended up playing more matches for England than any other player, and with over 700 Test wickets had by some way the most for a fast bowler, with just two slow spin bowlers taking more. Here is a compilation of his bowling ruclips.net/video/QWtZHnWnUm0/видео.htmlsi=fJNzNwUHsLotdKF9
You actually hit the nail on the head when you said, "it's almost disguised." You're right. You can't tell how much it's going to swing or seam until it bounces. It's the secret to cricket. The idea is to make the batsman play at the ball. Non-cricket fans often don't understand why so many batsmen nick off and get caught behind. Well, that's why. Most Americans don't get that intuitively, but you did.
Curve ball is a great analogy for a swing ball. Swing is lateral movement of the ball in the air. Seam bowling is the lateral movement of the ball off the ground. Most of those balls were a combination of both. For clarification a ball in cricket describes the act of bowling 1 time. Glad you enjoy our summer game.
1 & 4 is Jimmy Anderson, Lancashire and England. Recently retired, holds the record for the most wickets taken by a fast bowler. His nickname is The Burnley Express !
1:42 "I feel like this was really bouncing to the right and might not have hit the wickets" and "Would that have even hit the wickets?" Congratulations, Ryan, you have officially graduated to the position of 'armchair umpire', just like the rest of us!!
You ask how it gets through them. The bowler will bowl the exact same ball time after time to where the batter gets a muscle reflex for the balls line. Then when they aren't expecting it the bowler will adjust the line just a little wider or less so so the batter misses the ball and it swings around them as though they aren't even there. This is why test cricket is my favourite because it becomes more pronounced but it happens in all forms of the game.
The kick occurs from the ball landing on the edge of the seam, which is the stitched area of the ball. This more evident with a new ball as the seam is more pronounced, which is one reason the fast bowlers are used at the start of the innings. ..and furthermore as test matches can last up to 5 days, the pitches generally deteriorate in quality and sometimes cracks can appear assisting the bowler as the ball deviates off the cracks.
I do say, of all the people I watch from the USA in reaction videos, you are, in a personal sense, the one American I actually enjoy getting to know most and would enjoy having a beer, wine or bourbon with and I'm certain you'd be most welcome down under. Cheers mate.
A cricket ball has a raised seam of extra stitching. To get the ball to swing, the bowling side polish one side and leave the other side rough. The technique is to keep the seam vertical, or slightly angled towards the batsman and the ball moves sideways more on the rough side. Yes there can be an additional kick sideways if the ball lands on the seam, but relying on the seam hitting the ground is called seam bowling. Just to make it more complicated, the ball in Test matches is used for 80 overs and sometimes after 30 or 40 overs it starts “reverse” swinging ie moves sideways to the shiny side. Like baseball there are many layers in cricket…
The balls curves one way through the air (ideally) but usually changes course after the bounce. That's the art of "swing" bowling. Think of "spin" bowling but at a faster pace. Sometimes the swing is barely perceptible and sometimes it's really obvious, that's why it's bamboozling to batsmen at times. The bowler doesn't (necessarily) spin the ball to impart swing but they use aerodynamic principles, it's THE main reason that you see them polishing the ball. They always only polish one side, and always the same side, until one side is shiny and one side is roughed up, this is where the swing comes from.
Love cricket content. This is not a representative list, but did you notice that the England wickets (1&4) were taken by the same bowler, the great James ‘Jimmy’ Anderson. The most successful pace bowler in the history of test cricket, 3rd most successful bowler of all bowlers in test history, retired this summer just shy of his 42nd birthday after an international cricket career lasting 22years. He took 4 wickets in his last game, bringing his lifetime test total to 704. His home club named a stand after him.
Swing is change of ball direction in flight. This needs speed, usually above 140-150 km/hr, also needs one side more smoother than the other. Ball has 2 sides around it's circular seam. Seam is the stich on the ball, seam hits the ground. At this speed, air moves differently on two different surfaces of ball around seam, air movement on shinier side more even than the other side. This is bit similar to air movement on flight wings, which lifts plane off. Batsman takes a guess looking at hand movement, way ball approaching him but in flight it changes course, throwing batsman guess off. As he tries to hit it, he misses it taking wicket off or edges it giving a catch at slip.
With Swing bowling, you basically constantly shine and Polish one side of the ball, while allowing the other side to get more rough edges - that way due to physics, the air passes over the smooth side faster and allows the ball to swing. If I remember correctly (I’ve not played cricket for 20 years!) the ball moves towards the rough side of the ball - so the smooth side of the ball allows air to pass it faster, and the rough side of the ball creates turbulence, that in turn creates an area of high pressure on one side of the ball and low pressure on the opposite side of the ball - and the smoother one side is, and rougher the opposite side is, the lower the critical speed needed to swing the ball if I’m remembering right and is usually at a maximum of around 70mph. However, there’s also Reverse Swing which is predominantly with a new ball for scientific reasons my brain is too smooth to understand and that’s at speeds exceeding 90mph
Swinging the ball is done by polishing one side of the ball and leaving the other side rough creating drag on the rough side causing the ball to curve in mid flight...
Some of those are really seam bowling, where the ball moves off the seam of the ball when it hits the ground. The absolute best bowlers can move it one way in the air and then the other way when it hits the seam.
Not only swing bowlers. What you have to understand that the cricket ball has 3 lines of stitches around the ball. Also on the ground:- you have batsmen either end who make indentations on the ground, plus you have left handed batsman and right handed batsman - obviously facing different directions making divots on the ground. Also you have bowlers bowling from either end and again making marks on the ground where the ball has landed before (at such speed). Taking all that into account when the ball hits the ground, whether it be closer to the batsman or further away you would never know where exactly the ball would be. Only seconds to react. Atmospherics also play a part for a spin bowler making it move in the air.
There are a number of different types of bowling going on here 1. Swing bowling: That's when the ball moves sideways in the air, an in-swinger turning into the batsman and an out-swinger turning away from the batsman. Bowlers try to keep the one side of the ball shiny and a relatively new ball will tend to swing away from the shiny side as the rough side has more drag on it. 2: Reverse swing bowling: As the ball gets older and softer some bowlers can make the ball swing in the opposite direction to where it's supposed to swing, towards the rough side. 3: Seam bowling: With a new ball the seam is hard and prominent and the ball will move off the pitch when it hits the seam. # 1 and #9 are more examples of seam bowling than swing bowling. A seam ball that hits a crack or a rough patch on the pitch can react quite dramatically, as seen in #9 Of course a ball can swing in the air and then move in either direction off the pitch as the seam hits. #10. #11 and #12 are examples of this. Check out Waqar Younis's inswinging yorkers. (A yorker is a ball that pitches virtually in the block hole at the batsman's feet and almost impossible to hit) ruclips.net/video/yLgdfYRQDDA/видео.htmlsi=RBPeELLNbs9P30RB
Ryan you need to get your hands on a cricket ball. Fast bowlers don't spin. It will move sideways of the seam when hitting the pitch and swing from the bowlers hand, the later the swing the better. If you hold a cricket ball it will make a lot more sense. Good luck
Well, he did pick up on the back spin which fast bowlers do use to keep the seam in the right position, a perfect swing ball also hits the seam as we saw in many of these examples.
When the players were wearing white that's Test Cricket. The bowler gets most credit even with a catch, because he helps set the field. Remember that even top bats men can be fooled by clever bowling 🏏
Some of these weren't swing bowling, they were seam bowling, the difference being the ball movement in the air (swing) and movement off the pitch (seam), of course some had both.
A few of them were due to the seam of the ball, if anything. The ones that were definitely swing were from Jimmy Anderson, Mitchell Starc (apart from #12), and Irfan Pathan. Swing and seam bowling are easy to distinguish after a few more watches. Swing bowling is movement through the air before it hits the pitch. It's typically sideways movement. Seam bowling is what the ball does after it hits the pitch.
The first time i bowled with a brand new hard red ball was at a cricket coaching seminar run by some English and South African county cricketers. And i swung the ball away so much and late that i tried bowling inswingers to no avail. I just coildnt hit the stumps..The coach told me try wider on the crease but still the same.Batsmen couldn't hit it and kept playing and missing or edging. I honestly thought i hadn't done well since i couldn't hit the stumps! I wss 14 at the time and Richard Snell and Jonty Rhodes were at the same session.
Swing bowling needs there to be some humidity. So it’s often seen as a specialty for countries that have slightly damp conditions. Somewhere hot and dry like Australia isn’t the best place for it. This is one of the great things about Internet cricket, the variety due to the different conditions for the pitch. So a team might play a five day game tactically to wait for the morning bowling session to deploy their swing bowlers, because a little bit of moisture is often around thanks to the cool of the night. It’s a pity the Internet isn’t older. I can remember one game back in the early 1990s I think, when the conditions for swing were unusually good. Too good in fact, as Ian Botham was getting too much swing. The batsmen didn’t stand a hope of hitting the ball, but the swing was too much and was travelling too far sideways to get the batsmen out! It was one of those unique occasions that the Internet may have preserved (in vids like this), but the official broadcasters like the BBC wouldn’t keep because the game stats don’t indicate that there was something unusual to record.
@@jerry2357 I remember my first fluid dynamics lecture at university. The professor demonstrated the difference between turbulent and laminar flow by lighting a cigarette, taking a few drags then holding it up to demonstrate the difference. He finished his cigarette while he carried on with the lecture (this was the eighties).
@@hesketh1965 I am aware that a lecturer in Chemical Engineering, Mike Biddulph, wrote a book called "The Golf Shot", looking at things such as the aerodynamics of golf balls.
In Baseball, the ball does have a curve but it needs speed to cover up its swing and an experienced batsman can see the pattern. In Cricket, the ball spins like a meter in front of you into any direction, so you need even more reaction to predict spin a ball about to mouse through between your legs. PLUS, 01:30 LBW (Leg-Before Wicket) which means ONLY THE BAT can stop the ball, if the ball spins towards the stumps and the legs block it, the rule counts out the legs blocking the ball's path and that counts as an Out or Leg-Before Wicket!
It does happen fast. The fastest recorded ball is 161.3kph! but that is not common but speeds around 155kph are more common. There is also seam bowling where you aim to have the ball land on the seam and get an less predictable bounce. There are many good youtubes of bowling but one I would suggest is Scott Boland at the MCG.
There are several ways to make the ball move sideways. The same ball is used for 80 overs before its replaced Swing: Mainly one side of the ball is allowed to deteriorate while the other side is polished When the ball is bowled the polished side has less friction and the ball starts to curve
Reverse swing when the ball is old and allowed to deteriorate the ball swings the other way, why is not yet understood at least not by me. Swing and reverse swing are helped by the position of the ball in hand. The movement occurs independent of whether the ball has bounced. Swing tends to occur when the ball is new reverse when the ball is old
Bowlers will also keep repeatedly keep hitting a certain spot in the pitch in order to break that spot up. So when the ball lands on that broken piece of ground, there is an added element of uncertainty for batters as to where that ball will go. They have to figure out whether to hit that ball or let it go.
Fast swing bowlers will bowl up to around 90 mph. A swing ball will often change direction as it bounces, confusing the batsman (batter) even more. There is 'inswing', i.e. inwards towards the batsman, and 'away swing' which leaves the batsman, hopefully catching an edge of the bat thus offering a catch to the fielder. The same balls would be the opposite to a left-handed batsman (I really should say batter, as there are a lot of women's teams these days, but old habits die hard, unfortunately). There is a difference between spin and swing bowling, a swinging ball should not spin, it is the different textures on each side that causes the ball to swing. That is why you will often see fielders and bowlers polishing one side of the ball while leaving the other side rough, the aerodynamics of the ball causes the swing. That is why a swing bowler will start to bowl when the ball is older and the surface roughed up. You will often hear commentators point out when the ball is starting to 'swing'. A spin bowler can cause the ball to spin at any stage of the game. Most of the balls are inswingers, but it became an out swinger to the left-handed batsman at 9:41. Remember the swing ball is not spinning except in the vertical direction, also a cricket ball has a single raised seam and this causes deviation on the bounce as well, so you will see seam bowlers and swing bowlers deliver the ball with the seam vertical.
As has been said swing is derived by having a shiny side and a rough side of the ball and only happens in certain weather conditions. The ball also plays a part, even though they are made the same different brands in different countries swing more or less. In Australia we don’t get a lot of swing but England do. If you haven’t already watch a video of Shane Warne, the greatest leg spin bowler ever. Also don’t forget the AFL videos for your Aussie channel.
There's differences between "swing" and "spin" and "seam". Swing bowling is about the airflow over the ball as it rotates, as bowlers tend to try and keep one side of the ball shiny so that the two sides of the ball have different aerodynamic outcomes. Think of the two sides of an aeroplane wing, with one side creating lift and one side creating drag. Spin, is a completely different thing I will post a link to a good video on spin. All bowlers spin the ball to some degree, but the spin you see off a swing bowler is nothing compared to a "spinner". How much it kicks off the ground is more an aspect of seam. Pace bowlers try to make the ball hit the ground on the seam of the ball where it is stitched together, which is slightly raised. This can make the ball kick at strange angles off the ground. Spin, seam and swing all tend to work best when the ball has differing amounts of wear. The ball is used for around 80 overs before being replaced in a test match, although pace bowlers struggle with an old ball and spin bowlers struggle with a new one.
The edit on the video was so bad - the music, and the length of the time they show the celebrations rather than the slow-mo replay. Thanks for your patience in reacting to it. I think swings in baseball are far more common than in cricket. In cricket it is so much harder to swing a ball, and it only swings in certain conditions. And one side must be roughed up and the other side smooth. And it's harder to play them too coz of the bounce.
Barton King, the King of swing. Toured england with the gentlemen of Philadelphia 3 times in the 1890's and 1900's. He has amazing figures and arguably invented swing bowling. It's true, swing bowling could have been invented by an American.
Check this Cricket video out of West Indies Batsman, Brian Lara. He broke the record for the most runs scored by a batsman, and was 400 runs it was a Test Match against England in 2004. RUclips channel, Windies Cricket Video title, Brian Lara 400 v’s England. His second World Record.
Don't forget to react to Mohammad Asif and Wasim Akram (Sultan of Swing) Besides them you can react to Starc , Anderson , Bhuwneshwar Kumar , Naseem Shah , Bumrah , Mohammad Shami , etc ...
My friend. SPIN and SWING are two separate things. They are very different. - When the ball uses AERODYNAMICS to move in the air before the ball bounces, it is called a SWING. (SWING is in the AIR). - When the bowler rotates the ball in a certain direction while releasing, and the ball bounces, and then TURNS, it is called a SPIN. - SWING is of two types: In-Swing and Out-Swing. - SPIN is of two types: Off-Spin and Leg-Spin. Then there are specific variations applied to dupe the batsmen. SWING is achieved by making one side of the ball more rough than the other shiny side. SPIN requires the bowler to turn the ball using his fingers. How the bowler grips and releases the ball helps. FAST Bowlers SWING. SLOW Bowlers SPIN. They are also called SPIN Bowlers. Finally at number 9, the BOWL that you saw is WRONG, that is not a SWING ball. That is the ball turning off the SEAM after it bounces. This is a technique deployed by world class bowlers and sometimes the uneven-ness in the pitch also assists. (SEAM is where the thread sews the two leather halfs of the ball to make a ball). That lining is called the SEAM.
Yes, the gap between the stumps (upright posts) is slightly too narrow for the ball to pass through. But once in a thousand years it can happen! Here's a link to a video (only 24 seconds) in which the ball went straight through the wicket without breaking it. Since the batter is only out if the bails (the two little crossbars) are dislodged, the batter, a very lucky Pat Symcox, was ruled not out! The link: ruclips.net/video/EiV9SaSzU-s/видео.html
This is a result of cricket using the same ball for an extended period of time. I mentioned this in another reaction you did to cricket that unlike baseball the ball being used is only changed if it radically goes out of shape. As a result the surface of the ball wears unevenly causing on side of the ball to drag through the air and the other (smoother side) to slide through the air which causes the ball to swing. It is not a function of the ball spinning as it is with a curveball. Some of these ball in the video however are not swing but seam. The cricket ball has a pronounced single seam all the way around the ball and it the ball lands on the seam that will cause the ball to deviate in direction because that seam is raised. Not that it matters greatly this is still a good video for fast bowling. You might want to check out a video of Shane Warne explaining leg spin bowling for yet another nuance of cricket. Number 9 specifically is an example of the ball hitting the seam and deviating rather than swing bowling.
Just watch Mitchell Stark's Greatest Hits That will show you everything you need to know about high speed cricket bowling That was him bowling number 12 :)
Swing in Cricket does not happen as a result of the bowler spinning the ball. It is slightly more complex and ultimately comes down to the fact that a ball can be smoother, and more aerodynamic on one side than the other, resulting in sideways movement.
What Lorlord said
Please read Lordlord12 comment this is important the ball doesn’t get changed in test cricket for 80 overs the fielding team will shine one side of the ball and the other side will get rougher that’s about as simple as I can put it there’s lots of factors that come into swing bowling
And then you have reverse swing. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Conventional swing is initially seam position that causes the ball to swing. As the ball gets older, 35-40 overs, the smooth vs rough takes effect, which is known as reverse swing. But as you said, there are many factors that contribute to swing bowling, including the rotation on the ball.
Listening to TMS during the last test, they had a good discussion on swing bowling.
They felt there were many factors that contribute to swing bowling which have already been mentioned but they also felt the right weather conditions were needed.
They also said physicists had tried to explain swing bowling but failed.
I think they came to the conclusion to just enjoy the swing bowling.
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Have you found any place in Italy that plays cricket?
@@anthonypirera7598 The immigration issue in places like Germany has led to locals providing Afghan refugees with cricket equipment by local councils and this in turn has led to interest by the German locals. Wonderful generosity of spirit.
@@RalphBrooker-gn9iv that sounds great besides the UK I think The Netherlands is the only European country playing cricket at a high level
As a teacher of high school physics, and a cricket tragic, the use of the analysis of the behaviour of the cricket ball through the air and off the pitch is an absolute gold mine of source material.
Swing bowling is when the ball curves in the air due to the aerodynamics of the ball.
For new balls, the angle of the seam creates a pressure differential across the ball, causing it to curve.
On older balls, one side is rougher than the other, and creates more drag, so the ball curves towards the rough side.
Sometimes the rough side is so rough that it acts like dimples on a golf ball, and reduces drag. This is called reverse swing, the ball swinging away from the rough side.
Seam bowling is when the ball direction changes when the seam hits the ground.
A few of those were seam deliveries IMO.
The last one was Mitchell Starc bowling against England at the WACA ground in Perth.
The pitch at the WACA was notorious for developing cracks during the game.
This particular ball was from day 5 of the test, and the ball hit the crack and deviated a susbtantial amount.
Often in situations like that the ball will deviate so much that it isn't a problem for the batsman. But occasionally you get ones like that, or ones that barely bounce above ankle height when they should be quote high.
Yes, dry pitch is scary! There are more restrictions on how much rough up you can do to the balls now, and cracks are discouraged! The greatest bowling skill is tricking the batsman by hiding the seam and angle until the last second!
Major cricket fan here! You go ahead and react to as much cricket as you like, I will be here to watch with you!! I would love to see you react to South Africa's AB deVilliers, batsman extraordinaire!
Two physical factors can be in play:
You've got the swing deviation through the air as a result of an unevenly-smooth ball generating differing air pressures on either side (and thus - different velocity of each of the ball's sides), and, unlike baseball...because the ball can bounce off the cricket pitch, you can also have another change in direction from the seam of the ball hitting the surface.
A great bowler can make the ball swing through the air and change its direction once it has hit the ground, so even if the batsman has judged the line of the ball while it swings, he can still be defeated by the subsequent change in trajectory.
Swing bowling is poetry in motion
When your channel grows then watch how many watch these cricket vids! 🏏 Keep em coming matey 👍
Number 9 was more of a 'seam' ball than a swing ball, it relied on the movement off the ground caused by the seam, there was little or no actual swing on the ball. It is the subtle variations in bowling that is one of the great attractions of cricket, you never know when the bowler is going to toss a great ball up, but then a great batter may defend well and defeat the bowler, a great game. That's why it can command so many viewers worldwide.
Hey Ryan. I don't care if others are watching it or not; I am watching it and I am happy that you are appreciating the sport. I hope you know that there is an MLC going on for past 2 yrs. The American Cricket Association is having some legal and administrative issues, but the franchise tournament is very much here (not covered on TV of course).
If you want to see a bowling Magician at work check out Shane Warne.
During the game the ball gets roughed up and a team tries to keep one side polished up. Aerodynamically it means one side passes more smoothly through the air while the other side drags. It makes it swing
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That's actually a reverse swing. Swing happens with the new ball, reverse swing with the old ball when 1 side is rough. With the new ball, swing happens by seam position. Bowlers angle the seam in such a way that air drag on one side is more than the other. The way of releasing the ball also impacts the swing movement.
@@sayven1040 yes it does I wasn’t looking at the seam position my bad
React to spin bowling! Specifically Shane Warne and Murali
Shane Warne was a master at the craft of spin bowling.
I grew-up in Antigua. We had one or two World Champions in our village, family friends to be honest. Cricket is life for us!!!
@@fishtigua I have always loved watching the “Windies”. As an aussie school kid I had to admit to a secret enjoyment watching Ambrose and Walsh rip the Australians to shreds!
@@ticktock7483 lol same tbh chris gayle was my first introduction to cricket xD :D
Viv Richards went to school with Shadow, our groom/mate. Richie Richardson was a mate too.
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When I started following England tests in the 1960s, the big series for me were against the Windies (1963, 1966)! I still say that without a doubt, the greatest cricketer I have seen in my lifetime was Garfield Sobers; the complete genius and glorious to watch as well.
I just love it that you are trying to decipher this wonderous sport.. Jimmy Anderson is (was) the greatest swing bowler.. check him out.
Glad you’re enjoying cricket, it is the best game in the world …..in my opinion! Keep going with your enthusiasm as it is one of the most watched sport in the world, second to football (soccer to you) - the fans will find you!🤣🥰🇬🇧❤️
The first player was the very young James Anderson, who was mentioned in the comment suggesting the might have just been him. Others swing bowlers had their moments but none delivered so consistantly for so long. Indeed he debuted for England way back in 2003 and retired (very reluctantly) this year aged 42. To sustain a 21 year international career for so long as a fast bowler the most physically demanding discipline in the sport is extraordinary. Typically such bowlers are done in their early thirties. He ended up playing more matches for England than any other player, and with over 700 Test wickets had by some way the most for a fast bowler, with just two slow spin bowlers taking more. Here is a compilation of his bowling ruclips.net/video/QWtZHnWnUm0/видео.htmlsi=fJNzNwUHsLotdKF9
This is what all the trouser rubbing with the ball is about . The bowling team will try to make one side smoother as the ball wears .
Really ! I thought it was due to a crab infestation in the change rooms.
Nice to see u enjoying cricket, is a great game 👍
You actually hit the nail on the head when you said, "it's almost disguised." You're right. You can't tell how much it's going to swing or seam until it bounces. It's the secret to cricket. The idea is to make the batsman play at the ball. Non-cricket fans often don't understand why so many batsmen nick off and get caught behind. Well, that's why. Most Americans don't get that intuitively, but you did.
Curve ball is a great analogy for a swing ball. Swing is lateral movement of the ball in the air. Seam bowling is the lateral movement of the ball off the ground. Most of those balls were a combination of both. For clarification a ball in cricket describes the act of bowling 1 time. Glad you enjoy our summer game.
1 & 4 is Jimmy Anderson, Lancashire and England. Recently retired, holds the record for the most wickets taken by a fast bowler. His nickname is The Burnley Express !
1:42 "I feel like this was really bouncing to the right and might not have hit the wickets" and "Would that have even hit the wickets?" Congratulations, Ryan, you have officially graduated to the position of 'armchair umpire', just like the rest of us!!
You ask how it gets through them. The bowler will bowl the exact same ball time after time to where the batter gets a muscle reflex for the balls line. Then when they aren't expecting it the bowler will adjust the line just a little wider or less so so the batter misses the ball and it swings around them as though they aren't even there. This is why test cricket is my favourite because it becomes more pronounced but it happens in all forms of the game.
Watch spin bowling with Shane Warne. Way more interesting.
Was going to say exactly the same thing. You beat me to it 👏👏🤣
Ho hum a typical Skippy boring comment.
@@vtbn53 If you have nothing to contribute, don't even bother, your just wearing out your finger! 🥱
Shane Warne, Brett Lee, Glenn McGrath, Mitchell Starc - Australians have created so many Cricket innovations, excitement!
watch Bob Massey 16 Wickets - 2nd Test, Lord's 1972 for a swing bowler
Yes, but did he ever dominate a game again? He didn't, did he?
Love your cricket videos Ryan
Jimmy Anderson’s, king of swing.
2:22 bro the fact that the speed of the ball came to more than 150+ Kmph
Good on you for watching that and appreciating it, Ryan!
Swing: curving before it bounces on ground, caused by air dynamics
Spin: curves after bouncing on ground, caused by bowler’s hand action
The kick occurs from the ball landing on the edge of the seam, which is the stitched area of the ball. This more evident with a new ball as the seam is more pronounced, which is one reason the fast bowlers are used at the start of the innings. ..and furthermore as test matches can last up to 5 days, the pitches generally deteriorate in quality and sometimes cracks can appear assisting the bowler as the ball deviates off the cracks.
I’m watching Ryan! Love when you react to cricket. Cricket is one of my most favourite things on the planet! More cricket reactions, I say 😂
I do say, of all the people I watch from the USA in reaction videos, you are, in a personal sense, the one American I actually enjoy getting to know most and would enjoy having a beer, wine or bourbon with and I'm certain you'd be most welcome down under. Cheers mate.
A cricket ball has a raised seam of extra stitching. To get the ball to swing, the bowling side polish one side and leave the other side rough. The technique is to keep the seam vertical, or slightly angled towards the batsman and the ball moves sideways more on the rough side. Yes there can be an additional kick sideways if the ball lands on the seam, but relying on the seam hitting the ground is called seam bowling. Just to make it more complicated, the ball in Test matches is used for 80 overs and sometimes after 30 or 40 overs it starts “reverse” swinging ie moves sideways to the shiny side. Like baseball there are many layers in cricket…
The balls curves one way through the air (ideally) but usually changes course after the bounce. That's the art of "swing" bowling. Think of "spin" bowling but at a faster pace. Sometimes the swing is barely perceptible and sometimes it's really obvious, that's why it's bamboozling to batsmen at times. The bowler doesn't (necessarily) spin the ball to impart swing but they use aerodynamic principles, it's THE main reason that you see them polishing the ball. They always only polish one side, and always the same side, until one side is shiny and one side is roughed up, this is where the swing comes from.
Love cricket content. This is not a representative list, but did you notice that the England wickets (1&4) were taken by the same bowler, the great James ‘Jimmy’ Anderson. The most successful pace bowler in the history of test cricket, 3rd most successful bowler of all bowlers in test history, retired this summer just shy of his 42nd birthday after an international cricket career lasting 22years. He took 4 wickets in his last game, bringing his lifetime test total to 704. His home club named a stand after him.
Swing is change of ball direction in flight. This needs speed, usually above 140-150 km/hr, also needs one side more smoother than the other. Ball has 2 sides around it's circular seam. Seam is the stich on the ball, seam hits the ground. At this speed, air moves differently on two different surfaces of ball around seam, air movement on shinier side more even than the other side. This is bit similar to air movement on flight wings, which lifts plane off. Batsman takes a guess looking at hand movement, way ball approaching him but in flight it changes course, throwing batsman guess off. As he tries to hit it, he misses it taking wicket off or edges it giving a catch at slip.
With Swing bowling, you basically constantly shine and Polish one side of the ball, while allowing the other side to get more rough edges - that way due to physics, the air passes over the smooth side faster and allows the ball to swing.
If I remember correctly (I’ve not played cricket for 20 years!) the ball moves towards the rough side of the ball - so the smooth side of the ball allows air to pass it faster, and the rough side of the ball creates turbulence, that in turn creates an area of high pressure on one side of the ball and low pressure on the opposite side of the ball - and the smoother one side is, and rougher the opposite side is, the lower the critical speed needed to swing the ball if I’m remembering right and is usually at a maximum of around 70mph.
However, there’s also Reverse Swing which is predominantly with a new ball for scientific reasons my brain is too smooth to understand and that’s at speeds exceeding 90mph
More Cricket vids Ryan!
Swinging the ball is done by polishing one side of the ball and leaving the other side rough creating drag on the rough side causing the ball to curve in mid flight...
Swing bowl has some variations like outswing, inswing,reverse swing and reversed reverse swing
Some of those are really seam bowling, where the ball moves off the seam of the ball when it hits the ground. The absolute best bowlers can move it one way in the air and then the other way when it hits the seam.
Not only swing bowlers. What you have to understand that the cricket ball has 3 lines of stitches around the ball.
Also on the ground:- you have batsmen either end who make indentations on the ground, plus you have left handed batsman and right handed batsman - obviously facing different directions making divots on the ground. Also you have bowlers bowling from either end and again making marks on the ground where the ball has landed before (at such speed).
Taking all that into account when the ball hits the ground, whether it be closer to the batsman or further away you would never know where exactly the ball would be. Only seconds to react.
Atmospherics also play a part for a spin bowler making it move in the air.
There are a number of different types of bowling going on here
1. Swing bowling: That's when the ball moves sideways in the air, an in-swinger turning into the batsman and an out-swinger turning away from the batsman. Bowlers try to keep the one side of the ball shiny and a relatively new ball will tend to swing away from the shiny side as the rough side has more drag on it.
2: Reverse swing bowling: As the ball gets older and softer some bowlers can make the ball swing in the opposite direction to where it's supposed to swing, towards the rough side.
3: Seam bowling: With a new ball the seam is hard and prominent and the ball will move off the pitch when it hits the seam. # 1 and #9 are more examples of seam bowling than swing bowling. A seam ball that hits a crack or a rough patch on the pitch can react quite dramatically, as seen in #9
Of course a ball can swing in the air and then move in either direction off the pitch as the seam hits. #10. #11 and #12 are examples of this.
Check out Waqar Younis's inswinging yorkers. (A yorker is a ball that pitches virtually in the block hole at the batsman's feet and almost impossible to hit) ruclips.net/video/yLgdfYRQDDA/видео.htmlsi=RBPeELLNbs9P30RB
Ryan you need to get your hands on a cricket ball. Fast bowlers don't spin. It will move sideways of the seam when hitting the pitch and swing from the bowlers hand, the later the swing the better. If you hold a cricket ball it will make a lot more sense. Good luck
Well, he did pick up on the back spin which fast bowlers do use to keep the seam in the right position, a perfect swing ball also hits the seam as we saw in many of these examples.
When the players were wearing white that's Test Cricket. The bowler gets most credit even with a catch, because he helps set the field. Remember that even top bats men can be fooled by clever bowling 🏏
Like Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath, Mitchell Starc! 😁
Some of these weren't swing bowling, they were seam bowling, the difference being the ball movement in the air (swing) and movement off the pitch (seam), of course some had both.
Jimmy looks so young in that first one!
A few of them were due to the seam of the ball, if anything. The ones that were definitely swing were from Jimmy Anderson, Mitchell Starc (apart from #12), and Irfan Pathan.
Swing and seam bowling are easy to distinguish after a few more watches. Swing bowling is movement through the air before it hits the pitch. It's typically sideways movement. Seam bowling is what the ball does after it hits the pitch.
The first time i bowled with a brand new hard red ball was at a cricket coaching seminar run by some English and South African county cricketers. And i swung the ball away so much and late that i tried bowling inswingers to no avail. I just coildnt hit the stumps..The coach told me try wider on the crease but still the same.Batsmen couldn't hit it and kept playing and missing or edging. I honestly thought i hadn't done well since i couldn't hit the stumps! I wss 14 at the time and Richard Snell and Jonty Rhodes were at the same session.
Swing bowling needs there to be some humidity. So it’s often seen as a specialty for countries that have slightly damp conditions. Somewhere hot and dry like Australia isn’t the best place for it. This is one of the great things about Internet cricket, the variety due to the different conditions for the pitch.
So a team might play a five day game tactically to wait for the morning bowling session to deploy their swing bowlers, because a little bit of moisture is often around thanks to the cool of the night.
It’s a pity the Internet isn’t older. I can remember one game back in the early 1990s I think, when the conditions for swing were unusually good. Too good in fact, as Ian Botham was getting too much swing. The batsmen didn’t stand a hope of hitting the ball, but the swing was too much and was travelling too far sideways to get the batsmen out!
It was one of those unique occasions that the Internet may have preserved (in vids like this), but the official broadcasters like the BBC wouldn’t keep because the game stats don’t indicate that there was something unusual to record.
Surprised they didn't show Shane Waugh footage. He was the best I ever watched at it.
Counter-intuitively, the rough side of the ball has less drag due to air resistance than the smooth side.
Yes, that's why golf balls have dimples. Dimpled balls go further than smooth ones.
@@jerry2357 I remember my first fluid dynamics lecture at university. The professor demonstrated the difference between turbulent and laminar flow by lighting a cigarette, taking a few drags then holding it up to demonstrate the difference. He finished his cigarette while he carried on with the lecture (this was the eighties).
@@hesketh1965
I am aware that a lecturer in Chemical Engineering, Mike Biddulph, wrote a book called "The Golf Shot", looking at things such as the aerodynamics of golf balls.
In Baseball, the ball does have a curve but it needs speed to cover up its swing and an experienced batsman can see the pattern.
In Cricket, the ball spins like a meter in front of you into any direction, so you need even more reaction to predict spin a ball about to mouse through between your legs.
PLUS, 01:30 LBW (Leg-Before Wicket) which means ONLY THE BAT can stop the ball, if the ball spins towards the stumps and the legs block it, the rule counts out the legs blocking the ball's path and that counts as an Out or Leg-Before Wicket!
LBW = LEG BEFORE WICKET
@@DeepThought9999 right!
It does happen fast. The fastest recorded ball is 161.3kph! but that is not common but speeds around 155kph are more common.
There is also seam bowling where you aim to have the ball land on the seam and get an less predictable bounce.
There are many good youtubes of bowling but one I would suggest is Scott Boland at the MCG.
Cricket - inida = inida = views ... dude understands this
Greatest game on the planet.
Every cricket montage should be prefaced by "Soul limbo".
I watch them.
Asif bowl to vvs laxman was ball of the century. It should be added
There are several ways to make the ball move sideways. The same ball is used for 80 overs before its replaced
Swing: Mainly one side of the ball is allowed to deteriorate while the other side is polished When the ball is bowled the polished side has less friction and the ball starts to curve
Reverse swing when the ball is old and allowed to deteriorate the ball swings the other way, why is not yet understood at least not by me.
Swing and reverse swing are helped by the position of the ball in hand. The movement occurs independent of whether the ball has bounced. Swing tends to occur when the ball is new reverse when the ball is old
Seam, the ball isn't perfectly round it has a seam, stitching and if it lands on the seam the ball can move to the left or right
Spin, the ball is spinning as bowled and as landed can spin to the left or right and influence the height of the bounce
Spin bowling and Shane Warne (RIP) has to be next!
Nice reaction
Bowlers will also keep repeatedly keep hitting a certain spot in the pitch in order to break that spot up. So when the ball lands on that broken piece of ground, there is an added element of uncertainty for batters as to where that ball will go. They have to figure out whether to hit that ball or let it go.
Number 11 a leg cutter for sure!
Fast swing bowlers will bowl up to around 90 mph. A swing ball will often change direction as it bounces, confusing the batsman (batter) even more. There is 'inswing', i.e. inwards towards the batsman, and 'away swing' which leaves the batsman, hopefully catching an edge of the bat thus offering a catch to the fielder. The same balls would be the opposite to a left-handed batsman (I really should say batter, as there are a lot of women's teams these days, but old habits die hard, unfortunately). There is a difference between spin and swing bowling, a swinging ball should not spin, it is the different textures on each side that causes the ball to swing. That is why you will often see fielders and bowlers polishing one side of the ball while leaving the other side rough, the aerodynamics of the ball causes the swing. That is why a swing bowler will start to bowl when the ball is older and the surface roughed up. You will often hear commentators point out when the ball is starting to 'swing'. A spin bowler can cause the ball to spin at any stage of the game. Most of the balls are inswingers, but it became an out swinger to the left-handed batsman at 9:41. Remember the swing ball is not spinning except in the vertical direction, also a cricket ball has a single raised seam and this causes deviation on the bounce as well, so you will see seam bowlers and swing bowlers deliver the ball with the seam vertical.
Cricket is one of the toughest game but its easy if you watch cricket more than 10 matches
We watch bro bcz we love cricket 🏏
The sticks are called stumps. The Wicket is the grass rectangle that they play on. 👍
But sometimes the wicket is the stumps, e.g. LBW, is it not?
As has been said swing is derived by having a shiny side and a rough side of the ball and only happens in certain weather conditions. The ball also plays a part, even though they are made the same different brands in different countries swing more or less. In Australia we don’t get a lot of swing but England do.
If you haven’t already watch a video of Shane Warne, the greatest leg spin bowler ever.
Also don’t forget the AFL videos for your Aussie channel.
The ball is not spinning it is the swing due to the seam position with the ball staying shiny on one side as it slows it will swing sharply
There's differences between "swing" and "spin" and "seam".
Swing bowling is about the airflow over the ball as it rotates, as bowlers tend to try and keep one side of the ball shiny so that the two sides of the ball have different aerodynamic outcomes. Think of the two sides of an aeroplane wing, with one side creating lift and one side creating drag.
Spin, is a completely different thing I will post a link to a good video on spin. All bowlers spin the ball to some degree, but the spin you see off a swing bowler is nothing compared to a "spinner".
How much it kicks off the ground is more an aspect of seam. Pace bowlers try to make the ball hit the ground on the seam of the ball where it is stitched together, which is slightly raised. This can make the ball kick at strange angles off the ground.
Spin, seam and swing all tend to work best when the ball has differing amounts of wear. The ball is used for around 80 overs before being replaced in a test match, although pace bowlers struggle with an old ball and spin bowlers struggle with a new one.
ruclips.net/video/ZYvgMaH_I-U/видео.html for spin bowlers doing their thing.
The edit on the video was so bad - the music, and the length of the time they show the celebrations rather than the slow-mo replay. Thanks for your patience in reacting to it.
I think swings in baseball are far more common than in cricket.
In cricket it is so much harder to swing a ball, and it only swings in certain conditions. And one side must be roughed up and the other side smooth.
And it's harder to play them too coz of the bounce.
Dude don't worry we are watching you
Barton King, the King of swing. Toured england with the gentlemen of Philadelphia 3 times in the 1890's and 1900's. He has amazing figures and arguably invented swing bowling. It's true, swing bowling could have been invented by an American.
Shane Warne is a MUST! 👍🏴
Hi Ryan, you are getting a pretty good handle on cricket.
I watch each one...😅❤
The first ball by a Jimmy was FULL ON REVERSE SWING! This ball Is in my opinion the greatest RS ball of all time and the pace! A one in Million ball
FYI: swing bowling =/= spin bowling
I watch your cricket videos.
I am gone watch it👍
Check this Cricket video out of West Indies Batsman, Brian Lara.
He broke the record for the most runs scored by a batsman, and was 400 runs it was a Test Match against England in 2004.
RUclips channel, Windies Cricket
Video title, Brian Lara 400 v’s England. His second World Record.
Don't forget to react to Mohammad Asif and Wasim Akram (Sultan of Swing)
Besides them you can react to Starc , Anderson , Bhuwneshwar Kumar , Naseem Shah , Bumrah , Mohammad Shami , etc ...
You are watching swing bowling ❤ now there is Reverse swing bowling also 😂😅
If you want to see ball movement, and haven't already reacted, check out Shane Warner and be mesmerised
Bernauli principal = swing
When a player lifts his bat out of the way, thinking it's going to miss the stumps, it's called "shouldering arms".
Well done Ryan. Now all you have to do is sit through a 5 day Test Match - preferably Australia thrashing the Poms!
oh pleaseeee react to Rahul Dravid, the greatest player of swing. His averages in England, new zealand are stupendous.
Right now they were bowling swing
Dont forget, they are not throwing the ball. The bowlers arm has to be straight when the ball leaves his hand.
My friend. SPIN and SWING are two separate things. They are very different.
- When the ball uses AERODYNAMICS to move in the air before the ball bounces, it is called a SWING. (SWING is in the AIR).
- When the bowler rotates the ball in a certain direction while releasing, and the ball bounces, and then TURNS, it is called a SPIN.
- SWING is of two types: In-Swing and Out-Swing.
- SPIN is of two types: Off-Spin and Leg-Spin.
Then there are specific variations applied to dupe the batsmen.
SWING is achieved by making one side of the ball more rough than the other shiny side.
SPIN requires the bowler to turn the ball using his fingers.
How the bowler grips and releases the ball helps.
FAST Bowlers SWING.
SLOW Bowlers SPIN. They are also called SPIN Bowlers.
Finally at number 9, the BOWL that you saw is WRONG, that is not a SWING ball. That is the ball turning off the SEAM after it bounces. This is a technique deployed by world class bowlers and sometimes the uneven-ness in the pitch also assists. (SEAM is where the thread sews the two leather halfs of the ball to make a ball). That lining is called the SEAM.
Yes, the gap between the stumps (upright posts) is slightly too narrow for the ball to pass through. But once in a thousand years it can happen! Here's a link to a video (only 24 seconds) in which the ball went straight through the wicket without breaking it. Since the batter is only out if the bails (the two little crossbars) are dislodged, the batter, a very lucky Pat Symcox, was ruled not out! The link: ruclips.net/video/EiV9SaSzU-s/видео.html
Bunting the ball in cricket is called "blocking" the ball... FYI. Fun learning the terms isn't it? :-)
This is a result of cricket using the same ball for an extended period of time. I mentioned this in another reaction you did to cricket that unlike baseball the ball being used is only changed if it radically goes out of shape. As a result the surface of the ball wears unevenly causing on side of the ball to drag through the air and the other (smoother side) to slide through the air which causes the ball to swing. It is not a function of the ball spinning as it is with a curveball. Some of these ball in the video however are not swing but seam. The cricket ball has a pronounced single seam all the way around the ball and it the ball lands on the seam that will cause the ball to deviate in direction because that seam is raised. Not that it matters greatly this is still a good video for fast bowling. You might want to check out a video of Shane Warne explaining leg spin bowling for yet another nuance of cricket. Number 9 specifically is an example of the ball hitting the seam and deviating rather than swing bowling.
Yes. LBW - Leg Before Wicket is OUT ... READ IT AND WEEP - OUT
Just watch Mitchell Stark's Greatest Hits
That will show you everything you need to know about high speed cricket bowling
That was him bowling number 12 :)
You were closest to understanding when you said it was disguised. Watch video explaining the smooth side of the ball stitching etc..