IPL shows merits of quality spin
Spin has never been in higher demand and the current IPL season goes to prove that resoundingly. Niranjan Rajadhyaksha writes in the Live Mint about how quality spin and the art of deception can go hand in hand in putting pressure on batsmen
20-May-2013
The ongoing IPL season has highlighted the need for teams to have a quality spinner in their ranks. A majority of teams have gone as far as to play two front line spinners on sub-continental pitches that offer turn and bounce. Slow bowling, which for quite some time was incorrectly viewed as superfluous in T20 cricket, has made a comeback in a big way over the past few years. Writing for Live Mint, Niranjan Rajadhyaksha breakdowns the elements of spin bowling, and how important the art of flight and deception can be in a pressure-packed contest.
What seems to have been lost in terms of flight has perhaps been made up by the sheer variety of display: the traditional spin, the googly, the flipper, the doosra and the carrom ball, for example. Watching Narine mix them up is a delight. During this IPL season, I have even seen spinners bowl a couple of deliveries "seam-up" in the style of a medium-pace bowler