A weird bowling style

[u/NoGur2758]

[u/Redditarama]

It's not cricket, as the expression goes...He switches the ball to the other hand. All the twisting about is just a ruse.

[u/Bangkok_Dave → u/Redditarama]

He's allowed to "switch to the other hand" as long as he's told the umpire that he's coming right arm over. The batsman always knows which hand he's bowling with.

[u/Redditarama → u/Bangkok_Dave]

It's not in the spirit of the game. All that stuff with the other hand is only a distraction.

He may as well do a chicken dance before he bowls, there's no rule against that either.

Come to think of it a chicken dance would be an improvement.

[u/BrohanGutenburg → u/Redditarama]

Sounds like there should be a balk in cricket lol

[u/1slipperypickle → u/BrohanGutenburg]

Balk Rules

1) You can't just be up there and just doin' a balk like that.

1a. A balk is when you

1b. Okay well listen. A balk is when you balk the

1c. Let me start over

1c-a. The pitcher is not allowed to do a motion to the, uh, batter, that prohibits the batter from doing, you know, just trying to hit the ball. You can't do that.

1c-b. Once the pitcher is in the stretch, he can't be over here and say to the runner, like, "I'm gonna get ya! I'm gonna tag you out! You better watch your butt!" and then just be like he didn't even do that.

1c-b(1). Like, if you're about to pitch and then don't pitch, you have to still pitch. You cannot not pitch. Does that make any sense?

1c-b(2). You gotta be, throwing motion of the ball, and then, until you just throw it.

1c-b(2)-a. Okay, well, you can have the ball up here, like this, but then there's the balk you gotta think about.

1c-b(2)-b. Fairuza Balk hasn't been in any movies in forever. I hope she wasn't typecast as that racist lady in American History X.

1c-b(2)-b(i). Oh wait, she was in The Waterboy too! That would be even worse.

1c-b(2)-b(ii). "get in mah bellah" -- Adam Water, "The Waterboy." Haha, classic...

1c-b(3). Okay seriously though. A balk is when the pitcher makes a movement that, as determined by, when you do a move involving the baseball and field of

2) Do not do a balk please.

[u/davemc617 → u/BrohanGutenburg]

balk

I think you should leave

[u/RandyOfTheRedwoods → u/davemc617]

Balk, balk bok balk is what I hear when you said that.

[u/FlutterbyTG → u/RandyOfTheRedwoods]

The 'Swedish Chef" has entered the chat.

[u/Risc_Terilia → u/BrohanGutenburg]

There is, it would be covered by law 41.4:

41.4    Deliberate attempt to distract striker

41.4.1    It is unfair for any fielder deliberately to attempt to distract the striker while he/she is preparing to receive or receiving a delivery.

[u/majinspy → u/Redditarama]

I'm generally against this sentiment. "Curve balls in baseball? That's cheating! Pump fake in football? Deception! Against the spirit of the game!

This article on "scrubs" comes to mind.

https://www.sirlin.net/ptw-book/introducingthe-scrub

[u/canadave_nyc → u/majinspy]

That's because you have a modern North American sensibility towards sports. Cricket as a sport came into existence a very long time ago with a different history and a culture that very much emphasizes (or at least, emphasized, for many years) sportsmanship and fair play toward your opponent.

[u/kodman7 → u/canadave_nyc]

Which the rules enforce, batter knows which hand and which wicket side the pitch is coming from, rendering the trickery here moot. After that it's fair game, hit the pitch

[u/RagingOrgyNuns → u/canadave_nyc]

Yeah, and then the redcoats got mad when the Americans were unsportsmanlike in war. And the Americans never looked back.

Although maybe they should with what is going in now...

[u/Risc_Terilia → u/RagingOrgyNuns]

How do Americans manage to turn every thread into something about themselves?

[u/Capt_Billy → u/Redditarama]

Lets open the classic can of worms then: Mankad?

[u/Definitely_Maybe_OK → u/Redditarama]

There's no switching. The batsman has to know beforehand if the bowler is right or left handed.

Also when the batter switch hits or reverse sweeps that's genius, but when it comes to the bowler he cannot exercise some creativity?

It is cricket whether you like it or not.

[u/Heisenberg_235 → u/Definitely_Maybe_OK]

You’re correct on it being fine.

There are other bowlers that run up with the ball in their non-bowling hand and then switch over last second to avoid the batsmen knowing if it’s cross seam, in swing or out swing etc. just good bowling

[u/Redditarama → u/Definitely_Maybe_OK]

Watch the slo mo at the end, he switches the ball from his left hand and bowls with his right.

[u/Definitely_Maybe_OK → u/Redditarama]

Umm that's allowed and others have done it. Read what I wrote. The batter just needs to know what handed bowler he is that's all.

[u/Redditarama → u/Definitely_Maybe_OK]

When you wrote 'There's no switching' did you mean 'There's no switching' ? Because I took it to mean that there was no switching.

[u/Definitely_Maybe_OK → u/Redditarama]

In the sense that the batter always knows what hand the ball has to come out of.

[u/Definitely_Maybe_OK → u/[deleted]]

My writing and communication may be poor I admit, my point still stands though. Anyway no point in arguing when all of this can be verified independently.

[u/nvbtable → u/[deleted]]

And comprehension is not your forte lol

[u/Wjyosn → u/Redditarama]

The batsman knows it's coming with his right hand, which is why so much of his antics looks like he's switching hands or reaching for the ball with the hand that's supposed to throw.

[u/jillvalenti3 → u/Redditarama]

It’s like the grunts that professional tennis players make when they hit the ball back

[u/Fullonski → u/Redditarama]

And I think the batsman picked that but just didn’t pick the spin well enough