@@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.
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.
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.
So the seam is raised. Well the English Duke ball is very raised and e Aussie Kookaburra ball is less raised. So they shine one side of the ball and this makes the air pass past it quicker and it swings and that’s called normal swing. Now something weird happens when the ball is maybe 100 to 130 balls old and you get something called reverse swing and it starts to swing the other way, sort of opposite the Bernoulli bowlers and then there’s another type of bowler called a seam bowler and he is a guy who tries to learn the ball on the seam and it jags off and swing bowlers gonna do that a bit as well. And then there’s the wobble seam ball where they bowl it pretty straight and then wobble the seam and no one knows who it’s going to land on the seam or land on the flat side. On the flat side it goes straight and on the seam it jags off. There is a lot to it….
@@simoncove1 Yeah, and a lot more. E.g., lamina flow, restitution co-efficient, linear and rotational kinetic energy, pressure differences (you mention Daniel Bernoulli whose works from centuries ago, gave us the understanding of flight).
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!
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!
Really good explanation of swing vs seam bowling too - really difficult to master both... My favourite bowler for both was Simon Jones - such a shame that injuries limited his career, but was definitely the best bowler at the 2005 Ashes!
This is a brilliant description of swing bowling. All I would add, is that here in the UK, well England , overhead conditions help the ball swing, when there is cloud cover the ball swings more.. Don't ask me why, it's atmospheric conditions. The king of swing, Jimmy Anderson was/ is the greatest swing, pace bowler ever. Lancashire and Englands finest..ohhh Jimmy Jimmy.
@@koushikdas1992 I think it is exactly just that, the humidity / moisture and that the ball, obviously has two sides and and one side they shine and polish it so it travels quicker on one side. When Jimmy Anderson bowls, it was like magic.. And Stuart broad too, they were a formidable partnership.
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.
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).
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
I'd disagree. There were many more better than him, from the likes of Was and Waqar who gave the world reverse swing, then there was steyn and Mohammed Asif who made the ball dance
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.
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 th-cam.com/video/QWtZHnWnUm0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=fJNzNwUHsLotdKF9
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) th-cam.com/video/yLgdfYRQDDA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=RBPeELLNbs9P30RB
If you watch a full match (Test for full immersion), you'll see the bowlers and fielders rubbing the ball on their trousers. This is the trick. Keep one side of the ball shiny, the other side becomes dull from use. One side creates drag, the other, less drag, so the ball "swings" as it moves thru the air. As the match goes on and the ball becimes well beaten, reverse swing kicks in, and this is even harder to predict or hit.
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 !
Thanks so much for your enthusiastic cricket videos. There is such a dearth on TH-cam, or, in fact, on terrestrial tv in the UK, home of the game. Shame on us and chapeau to you, Ryan!
Something of note at 03:30 Scoreboard shows 0 runs and 2 wickets and the bowler is "on a "hat-trick" A hat-trick is 3 outs in 3 balls. We saw his 3rd ball and he got him for his hat-trick. Pretty damn rare. Even rarer to get one with zero runs on the board! Great start for India and vs Pakistan is the icing on the cake! (Biggest rivals in cricket)
Love your reactions mate! Also the ones where batter doesnt swing or just leaves is called Well Left. Batters deliberately do that when they are new and trying to settle. They avoid good bowling to not get out
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.
Hey mate. I can see you're really picking up the game now! When you mused about the gap between the stumps being slightly smaller than the ball, I knew you had a real cricket mindset going. Proud of ya, mate. From one Aussie to an adopted Aussie, keep up the good work, soldier. *salutes*
The bowling team shine the ball on one side only letting the other side of the ball get scuffed up. When the ball is bowled it moves in the direction of the shiny side.
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.
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.
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!!
Hello! An important difference to remember between a baseball and a cricket ball: baseballs are replaced regularly - the ball might be hit into the crowd and little Timmy or little Tammy gets to keep it as a souvenir :-) But a Cricket Ball is used for as long as it is still serviceable, the SAME ball! A bowler and his team mates will be seen polishing one side of the ball, so the ball will likely swing more and move in the air. Also, the cricket ball usually bounces when a spin bowler delivers it, so as we see the ball has an opportunity to wildly change direction, not just swing wildly in the first instance!
Im a life long cricket follower & i like the way you call it out, im with you on that first leg before wicket decision by the computer, it had a possibility of missing, so the technology isnt perfect but current rules have somewhat bridged the gap. However i still highly value the technologies because occasionally the umpires would make the most dreadful mistakes.
Swing is from shining one side of the ball and then bowling the ball with an upright seam. The ball shoyld swing towards the non shiny side. But then there's reverse swing where the ball swings the other way. The deviation off the pitch comes from the way the balls seam is oriented plus any imperfections on the ground say from the bowlers footmarks or cracks that appear as the pitch dries out. There's also the concept of a cutter witch is where the bowler does spin the ball by raking across the seam as they let it go, but that doesn't normally produce a lot of swing
Good call on the second one - I wouldn’t have given that out either. I have lived in Japan for 25 years so I’m not really up to date with the latest on cricket so I don’t know how they use that technology, i.e., if there is a degree of error - the benefit of doubt would always be on the side of the batsman before the use of technology. That last one was a leg-cutter - the ball deviates away from a right handed batsman after it pitches (hits the ground) in relation to the line of the ball. A good leg cutter doesn’t deviate too much. Anyway, subscribed 👍🏽 Btw, when you read the comments at the end, one mentioned Wasim Akram - he was number 8 on that list… the guy in green….. someone might have already pointed this out. His bowling partner was also great - Waqar Younis.
There's a degree of error built in, the system is meant to be accurate to 2.7mm, when fully calibrated. In cricket, looking for LBW, hawkeye will not make a "hitting wicket" call if it calculates less than half of the ball is inline with the stumps, and so goes back to the on-field decision. That one flashed umpires call on the review. Personally, I think it deflected too far as well, and the unit should have gave benefit of the doubt too the batter. If I was at bat, I'd have expected that overturned in review, and if I'd bowled that, and was given not out, wouldn't have reviewed it either.
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.
That is called LBW out (Leg Before Wicket). With cricket ball there is a seam in the middle and one side of the ball is kept shiny and smooth by constant rubbing on clothing, etc. while the other side of the ball becomes scratchy which causes the ball to move in the air due to aerodynamics (depending upon where the bowler is trying) in swing is when the ball comes inwards towards wicket and outswing is when ball goes outside away from batsman (in order to induce a catch).
Swing bowling is the ball changing trajectory in the air, seam bowling is the ball changing trajectory off the pitch (the grass), using the seam (stitching) of the cricket ball. Spin bowling is different again to swing and seam bowling, using bowlers fingers or wrist.
Jimmy Anderson, gosh what a bowler! Played into his early 40s! He had 991 wickets across his career. Up their with the great Shane Warne. Gosh he was so good!
swing bowling is when the ball changes direction in the air before it bounces. if it changes direction when it strikes the ground it is due to spin bowling or seam, a seamer is a fast ball that connects with the ground along the seam of the ball (the stitching) that causes a deviation, spin bowling is causing it to deviate by spinning the ball. swing bowling is behind the comprehension of myself to explain physically.
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.
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.
In baseball you have pitches like the fast ball, a slider, curve ball, knuckle ball etc - well in cricket there are also different ways to bowl the ball, including varying pace - slow, medium & fast, there is leg or off spin bowling, swing bowling, knuckle balls, the googly, how the bowler holds the ball (across the seam, in line with the seam, spread our grip), his action of releasing (front of the hand, back of the hand), which direction the seam is facing, how close or far away from the batter you bounce the ball, what happens when the ball hits a crack in the pitch & deviates off at an unusual angle or stays low; and then there is the angle at which the bowler approaches the pitch before releasing the ball. In most games a batsman could face 4-6 different bowlers during his innings - because you continue to bat until you get out or the time expires for the game (not just the 3-6 balls you'd face in baseball).
Sorry about the length of the comment... The physics of the movement of a bowled cricket ball can be broken into two distinct moments and is complex: 1) 'Swing' is the fliight of the ball and happens between the point the ball leaves the bowlers hand and point it hits the wicket (ground). The rotation and the coefficient of friction between the 'polished' (smoth) and the 'unpolished' (rough) side of the ball, somewhat similar to an aircraft wing, creates high and low pressures creating movement through the air. BTW the polishing is done by the fielding team who rub the ball on their thighes [Watch the fielders polishing actions before returning the ball to the bowler], hence the stain left on their trousers. Interestingly air pressure and humidity also play a part! 'Swing bowling' is a key tool of fast bowlers. 2) 'Spin' the second factor happens at the point where a bowled ball hits the ground. Here the friction caused by a combination of (a) the 'speed of ball rotation', (b) the 'state of the ball' and (c) 'state the ground' creates the characteristic and immediate change of direction, with the ball moveing either towards or away the batsman. it may aeven change the balls's acceleration or deceleration and height of the ball. The 'state of the ball' ... determined by the bowlers hand, wrist and finger movement created mainly by the bowlers grip of the ball. The ball's seam is brought into play and adds to grip of the ground surface. Have a good look at Warne's masterclass: th-cam.com/video/Z1qpVTYif3M/w-d-xo.html The 'state of the ground' is determined by the wear of the ground's surface: the grass and substrate where grass alows the ball to slide, and a worn bare patch exposing the substrate adding grip to the ball as well as making the ball's movement unpredictable to the batsman and last but not least increasing wear on the ball to assist following deliveries. Whew!
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.
I know they're not both swing bowlers but, as a young Englishman, nothing says cricket to me more than watching Anderson & Broady steaming in trying to break the openers on a cloudy Trent Bridge morning 😁 Jimmy Anderson (No 1 & 4) was widely considered 'The King of Swing' Swing Bowling, you'll see cricketers rubbing the ball on their trousers from time to time, this is to keep one side of the ball smooth and shiny while the other side is battered and rough, this is what creates the aero of swing bowling
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.
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 🏏
@@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.
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.
Yes if the batter's leg blocks the ball from hitting the wicket, it's a dismissal and the player is out, this is termed as LBW(leg before wicket) in cricket. Time 2:40 - it's still swing, spin is different and it is slower than a swing ball. 6:10 - it's termed as "The ball Pitched-off the ground" ground is termed as "The Pitch" - the length of the Pitch is 22 Yards. 7:16 - it's not back spin rather it is termed as "Reverse-Swing" :)
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…
Dale Steyn and Jimmy Anderson was some of the best proponents of swing bowling. New ball swinging happens with the upright seam, slight crosswind or the right conditions, it also start to happen around halfway down the pitch. As the game progresses, the one side of the ball gets polished, leaving the other side rough, which creates drag on the one side, you will then see the bowler actually hiding the ball, in the run up, so that the batter can not see which side is polished. With reverse swing you also polish the ball on one side, but the spit they use makes the ball heavier on the shiny side, making the ball swing towards the shiny side, which should not happen, the conditions should also be right for that. Reverse swing also happens very near the batter, which makes it harder to pick up. I found, when I was younger, that with a very slight wind, across my left shoulder, that by just shifting the seam, minutely, will give me different degrees if swing, from around 3 inches to more than 2 feet. Once the swing was so bad, that I had to aim 6 inches outside the off stump, so that I don't bowl a leg side wide. Best to see reverse swing is Waqar Younis.
The science of swinging (curving) a Cricket ball in the air and then having it bounce in a completely different direction when it hits the ground is a generally very dark science. The cricket ball does have a very prominent seam where the two leather outers meet and is heavily stitched by several rows of string or cord. One side of the ball is shiny, and the other side is rough, or at least that is what a new ball is before it inevitably gets scuffed with use. Thus the new ball can swing because one side has less air resistance or friction than the other. Bowlers are not allowed to deliberately scuff up the ball but they can work their sweat, spit or hair dressing into the rough side so that the friction on that side increases and that side also becomes heavier, again altering the flight characteristics of the ball as the game goes on. The seam also tends to open up as the ball is used allowing it to grab more as it hits the ground. The opening seam may also affect the flight or behaviour of the ball in the air, depending on the orientation of the ball's seam when leaving the hand of the bowler, and the amount of spin imparted onto the ball. A good fast bowler can bowl a Cricket ball at over 100 km per hour, some bowlers even over 150 km per hour, and a Cricket ball is harder and heavier than a base ball, that also mostly makes contact with a batsman from the ground upwards which is generally the direction from which the most vital and precious parts of the human body are most vulnerable.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Swing and seam are two different things but they are usually clubbed buts swing is in the air seam is when the ball hits the ground on the stiched part (called seam) and then turns.this is for fast ballers. For spinners , it's always spin doesn't matter what, because spin always happens when the ball lands.
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.
Swing is movement in the air, seam is movement off the pitch. Sometimes a ball will do both at once which makes it very hard to hit. Many times you will see a bowler bowl a straight ball that swings a lot after pitchiing once it has past the batsman- they call that one a Wicket keeper killer. lol
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
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...
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.
I've seen far more extreme curves than that. I've seen balls move three feet out of line and I myself have bowled ones that moved at least two feet - and they were all in school matches! Cricket balls have a seam and stitches too. The trick is to get it to curve one way, but bounce the opposite way off the ground.
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!
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.
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.
Swing is deviation of the ball as it travels through the air, which creates an optical illusion for the batsman or batswoman. Certain variables are usually present for swing & reverse-swing to be conducive: - Air-pressure density, particularly cloud-cover playing conditions. - The condition of the ball. Fielding teams will try to shine & preserve one side, allowing the other side to deteriorate naturally. Being hit by the bat, or the impact hitting the concrete stadium staircases/advertising billboards can really rough a ball up, for example. - The position of the seam (the stitching that holds the leather ball together) at roughly 2 O'clock or 10 O'clock upon release. This allows the rougher side to catch the drag of the airflow, while the shiny side has less resistance being more aerodynamic. There is a physical science to this; Similar to airplanes & yaw. -The position of the bowler's wrist & fingers & general bowling action. The skill of keeping a cocked wrist & snapping it at the right time of release. Swing is not to be confused with SEAM movement or "kick" as you said, which occurs after the ball has pitched. The ball has different reactions & trajectories if it impacts the leather part, or the seam part. However many other factors are involved, such as: - The soil used for the pitch. - The length of grass after mowing on the pitch. - The condition of the pitch, which is more noticeable in test match cricket played over 5 days. What may be the best time for batting are days 2 & 3 .. The morning of Day 1 & the entire day 5 are generally considered the worst time to bat. Cool video Liked & subscribed. However there are far better examples out there for swing bowling, especially played in New Zealand. Check Trent Boult & Tim Southee out!
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I love Cricket 🏏 when I lived in Australia it was my favourite sport...love from Italy 🇮🇹
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Compliments for your italian
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
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.
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.
So the seam is raised. Well the English Duke ball is very raised and e Aussie Kookaburra ball is less raised. So they shine one side of the ball and this makes the air pass past it quicker and it swings and that’s called normal swing. Now something weird happens when the ball is maybe 100 to 130 balls old and you get something called reverse swing and it starts to swing the other way, sort of opposite the Bernoulli bowlers and then there’s another type of bowler called a seam bowler and he is a guy who tries to learn the ball on the seam and it jags off and swing bowlers gonna do that a bit as well. And then there’s the wobble seam ball where they bowl it pretty straight and then wobble the seam and no one knows who it’s going to land on the seam or land on the flat side. On the flat side it goes straight and on the seam it jags off. There is a lot to it….
@@simoncove1 Yeah, and a lot more. E.g., lamina flow, restitution co-efficient, linear and rotational kinetic energy, pressure differences (you mention Daniel Bernoulli whose works from centuries ago, gave us the understanding of flight).
Magnus effect
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!
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!
Really good explanation of swing vs seam bowling too - really difficult to master both... My favourite bowler for both was Simon Jones - such a shame that injuries limited his career, but was definitely the best bowler at the 2005 Ashes!
This is a brilliant description of swing bowling.
All I would add, is that here in the UK, well England , overhead conditions help the ball swing, when there is cloud cover the ball swings more..
Don't ask me why, it's atmospheric conditions.
The king of swing, Jimmy Anderson was/ is the greatest swing, pace bowler ever.
Lancashire and Englands finest..ohhh Jimmy Jimmy.
@@antonytheolddog8626Why does ball get more swing in overcast condition? Humidity/moisture?
@@koushikdas1992 I think it is exactly just that, the humidity / moisture and that the ball, obviously has two sides and and one side they shine and polish it so it travels quicker on one side.
When Jimmy Anderson bowls, it was like magic..
And Stuart broad too, they were a formidable partnership.
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.
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).
When your channel grows then watch how many watch these cricket vids! 🏏 Keep em coming matey 👍
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.
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!
Viv Richards went to school with Shadow, our groom/mate. Richie Richardson was a mate too.
Love you bro from 🇨🇮
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.
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.
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.
If you want to see a bowling Magician at work check out Shane Warne.
I just love it that you are trying to decipher this wonderous sport.. Jimmy Anderson is (was) the greatest swing bowler.. check him out.
I'd disagree. There were many more better than him, from the likes of Was and Waqar who gave the world reverse swing, then there was steyn and Mohammed Asif who made the ball dance
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
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!🤣🥰🇬🇧❤️
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 😂
Swing bowling is poetry in motion
React to spin bowling! Specifically Shane Warne and Murali
Shane Warne was a master at the craft of spin bowling.
Nice to see u enjoying cricket, is a great game 👍
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 th-cam.com/video/QWtZHnWnUm0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=fJNzNwUHsLotdKF9
Really enjoying you reacting to cricket, I'll keep watching.
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) th-cam.com/video/yLgdfYRQDDA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=RBPeELLNbs9P30RB
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.
If you watch a full match (Test for full immersion), you'll see the bowlers and fielders rubbing the ball on their trousers. This is the trick. Keep one side of the ball shiny, the other side becomes dull from use. One side creates drag, the other, less drag, so the ball "swings" as it moves thru the air. As the match goes on and the ball becimes well beaten, reverse swing kicks in, and this is even harder to predict or hit.
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 !
Thanks so much for your enthusiastic cricket videos. There is such a dearth on TH-cam, or, in fact, on terrestrial tv in the UK, home of the game. Shame on us and chapeau to you, Ryan!
Something of note at 03:30
Scoreboard shows 0 runs and 2 wickets and the bowler is "on a "hat-trick"
A hat-trick is 3 outs in 3 balls. We saw his 3rd ball and he got him for his hat-trick. Pretty damn rare. Even rarer to get one with zero runs on the board! Great start for India and vs Pakistan is the icing on the cake!
(Biggest rivals in cricket)
Love your reactions mate! Also the ones where batter doesnt swing or just leaves is called Well Left. Batters deliberately do that when they are new and trying to settle. They avoid good bowling to not get out
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.
Swing: curving before it bounces on ground, caused by air dynamics
Spin: curves after bouncing on ground, caused by bowler’s hand action
5:40 this one isn't swing, it's a seamer, this is when the ball moves/deviates off the ball's seam/laces when it bounces.
Hey mate. I can see you're really picking up the game now! When you mused about the gap between the stumps being slightly smaller than the ball, I knew you had a real cricket mindset going. Proud of ya, mate. From one Aussie to an adopted Aussie, keep up the good work, soldier. *salutes*
Beautiful country you have❤
Hopefully some day India will develop to the point Australia has.
God bless you, take care❤
The bowling team shine the ball on one side only letting the other side of the ball get scuffed up. When the ball is bowled it moves in the direction of the shiny side.
I always watch your cricket vids some of the catches are incredibly athletic. Good stuff :)
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.
Love your cricket videos Ryan
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
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.
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!!
Quite impressed with this guy. He picks up the rules of these sports quite quickly
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!
Hello! An important difference to remember between a baseball and a cricket ball: baseballs are replaced regularly - the ball might be hit into the crowd and little Timmy or little Tammy gets to keep it as a souvenir :-) But a Cricket Ball is used for as long as it is still serviceable, the SAME ball! A bowler and his team mates will be seen polishing one side of the ball, so the ball will likely swing more and move in the air. Also, the cricket ball usually bounces when a spin bowler delivers it, so as we see the ball has an opportunity to wildly change direction, not just swing wildly in the first instance!
Im a life long cricket follower & i like the way you call it out, im with you on that first leg before wicket decision by the computer, it had a possibility of missing, so the technology isnt perfect but current rules have somewhat bridged the gap. However i still highly value the technologies because occasionally the umpires would make the most dreadful mistakes.
Swing is from shining one side of the ball and then bowling the ball with an upright seam. The ball shoyld swing towards the non shiny side. But then there's reverse swing where the ball swings the other way. The deviation off the pitch comes from the way the balls seam is oriented plus any imperfections on the ground say from the bowlers footmarks or cracks that appear as the pitch dries out. There's also the concept of a cutter witch is where the bowler does spin the ball by raking across the seam as they let it go, but that doesn't normally produce a lot of swing
Surprised they didn't show Shane Waugh footage. He was the best I ever watched at it.
Good call on the second one - I wouldn’t have given that out either. I have lived in Japan for 25 years so I’m not really up to date with the latest on cricket so I don’t know how they use that technology, i.e., if there is a degree of error - the benefit of doubt would always be on the side of the batsman before the use of technology. That last one was a leg-cutter - the ball deviates away from a right handed batsman after it pitches (hits the ground) in relation to the line of the ball. A good leg cutter doesn’t deviate too much. Anyway, subscribed 👍🏽 Btw, when you read the comments at the end, one mentioned Wasim Akram - he was number 8 on that list… the guy in green….. someone might have already pointed this out. His bowling partner was also great - Waqar Younis.
There's a degree of error built in, the system is meant to be accurate to 2.7mm, when fully calibrated. In cricket, looking for LBW, hawkeye will not make a "hitting wicket" call if it calculates less than half of the ball is inline with the stumps, and so goes back to the on-field decision. That one flashed umpires call on the review.
Personally, I think it deflected too far as well, and the unit should have gave benefit of the doubt too the batter. If I was at bat, I'd have expected that overturned in review, and if I'd bowled that, and was given not out, wouldn't have reviewed it either.
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?
Good on you for watching that and appreciating it, Ryan!
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.
That is called LBW out (Leg Before Wicket). With cricket ball there is a seam in the middle and one side of the ball is kept shiny and smooth by constant rubbing on clothing, etc. while the other side of the ball becomes scratchy which causes the ball to move in the air due to aerodynamics (depending upon where the bowler is trying) in swing is when the ball comes inwards towards wicket and outswing is when ball goes outside away from batsman (in order to induce a catch).
DOnt be sad bro i watched your full video.... good luck from ... INDIA
Swing bowling is the ball changing trajectory in the air, seam bowling is the ball changing trajectory off the pitch (the grass), using the seam (stitching) of the cricket ball. Spin bowling is different again to swing and seam bowling, using bowlers fingers or wrist.
Shane Warne is a MUST! 👍🏴
Jimmy Anderson, gosh what a bowler! Played into his early 40s! He had 991 wickets across his career. Up their with the great Shane Warne. Gosh he was so good!
swing bowling is when the ball changes direction in the air before it bounces. if it changes direction when it strikes the ground it is due to spin bowling or seam, a seamer is a fast ball that connects with the ground along the seam of the ball (the stitching) that causes a deviation, spin bowling is causing it to deviate by spinning the ball. swing bowling is behind the comprehension of myself to explain physically.
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.
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.
In baseball you have pitches like the fast ball, a slider, curve ball, knuckle ball etc - well in cricket there are also different ways to bowl the ball, including varying pace - slow, medium & fast, there is leg or off spin bowling, swing bowling, knuckle balls, the googly, how the bowler holds the ball (across the seam, in line with the seam, spread our grip), his action of releasing (front of the hand, back of the hand), which direction the seam is facing, how close or far away from the batter you bounce the ball, what happens when the ball hits a crack in the pitch & deviates off at an unusual angle or stays low; and then there is the angle at which the bowler approaches the pitch before releasing the ball. In most games a batsman could face 4-6 different bowlers during his innings - because you continue to bat until you get out or the time expires for the game (not just the 3-6 balls you'd face in baseball).
Sorry about the length of the comment...
The physics of the movement of a bowled cricket ball can be broken into two distinct moments and is complex:
1) 'Swing' is the fliight of the ball and happens between the point the ball leaves the bowlers hand and point it hits the wicket (ground). The rotation and the coefficient of friction between the 'polished' (smoth) and the 'unpolished' (rough) side of the ball, somewhat similar to an aircraft wing, creates high and low pressures creating movement through the air. BTW the polishing is done by the fielding team who rub the ball on their thighes [Watch the fielders polishing actions before returning the ball to the bowler], hence the stain left on their trousers. Interestingly air pressure and humidity also play a part! 'Swing bowling' is a key tool of fast bowlers.
2) 'Spin' the second factor happens at the point where a bowled ball hits the ground. Here the friction caused by a combination of (a) the 'speed of ball rotation', (b) the 'state of the ball' and (c) 'state the ground' creates the characteristic and immediate change of direction, with the ball moveing either towards or away the batsman. it may aeven change the balls's acceleration or deceleration and height of the ball. The 'state of the ball' ... determined by the bowlers hand, wrist and finger movement created mainly by the bowlers grip of the ball. The ball's seam is brought into play and adds to grip of the ground surface.
Have a good look at Warne's masterclass: th-cam.com/video/Z1qpVTYif3M/w-d-xo.html
The 'state of the ground' is determined by the wear of the ground's surface: the grass and substrate where grass alows the ball to slide, and a worn bare patch exposing the substrate adding grip to the ball as well as making the ball's movement unpredictable to the batsman and last but not least increasing wear on the ball to assist following deliveries.
Whew!
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.
I know they're not both swing bowlers but, as a young Englishman, nothing says cricket to me more than watching Anderson & Broady steaming in trying to break the openers on a cloudy Trent Bridge morning 😁 Jimmy Anderson (No 1 & 4) was widely considered 'The King of Swing'
Swing Bowling, you'll see cricketers rubbing the ball on their trousers from time to time, this is to keep one side of the ball smooth and shiny while the other side is battered and rough, this is what creates the aero of swing bowling
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.
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! 😁
Swing bowl has some variations like outswing, inswing,reverse swing and reversed reverse swing
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).
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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.
There are also stitches on cricket ball too the swing depends on the air , ballers flick and seam position
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.
Yes if the batter's leg blocks the ball from hitting the wicket, it's a dismissal and the player is out, this is termed as LBW(leg before wicket) in cricket. Time 2:40 - it's still swing, spin is different and it is slower than a swing ball. 6:10 - it's termed as "The ball Pitched-off the ground" ground is termed as "The Pitch" - the length of the Pitch is 22 Yards. 7:16 - it's not back spin rather it is termed as "Reverse-Swing" :)
More Cricket vids Ryan!
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…
you are right , if it hits the batsmen pads before the bat it's called LBW. , LEG BEFORE WICKET
Dale Steyn and Jimmy Anderson was some of the best proponents of swing bowling. New ball swinging happens with the upright seam, slight crosswind or the right conditions, it also start to happen around halfway down the pitch. As the game progresses, the one side of the ball gets polished, leaving the other side rough, which creates drag on the one side, you will then see the bowler actually hiding the ball, in the run up, so that the batter can not see which side is polished. With reverse swing you also polish the ball on one side, but the spit they use makes the ball heavier on the shiny side, making the ball swing towards the shiny side, which should not happen, the conditions should also be right for that. Reverse swing also happens very near the batter, which makes it harder to pick up. I found, when I was younger, that with a very slight wind, across my left shoulder, that by just shifting the seam, minutely, will give me different degrees if swing, from around 3 inches to more than 2 feet. Once the swing was so bad, that I had to aim 6 inches outside the off stump, so that I don't bowl a leg side wide. Best to see reverse swing is Waqar Younis.
the weather affects bowling a huge amount, overc ast conditions are really good for swing bowling
Is the order based on quality?
Asking because it looks like numbers 11 and 12 are actually better than the first 3-5
The science of swinging (curving) a Cricket ball in the air and then having it bounce in a completely different direction when it hits the ground is a generally very dark science. The cricket ball does have a very prominent seam where the two leather outers meet and is heavily stitched by several rows of string or cord. One side of the ball is shiny, and the other side is rough, or at least that is what a new ball is before it inevitably gets scuffed with use. Thus the new ball can swing because one side has less air resistance or friction than the other. Bowlers are not allowed to deliberately scuff up the ball but they can work their sweat, spit or hair dressing into the rough side so that the friction on that side increases and that side also becomes heavier, again altering the flight characteristics of the ball as the game goes on. The seam also tends to open up as the ball is used allowing it to grab more as it hits the ground. The opening seam may also affect the flight or behaviour of the ball in the air, depending on the orientation of the ball's seam when leaving the hand of the bowler, and the amount of spin imparted onto the ball. A good fast bowler can bowl a Cricket ball at over 100 km per hour, some bowlers even over 150 km per hour, and a Cricket ball is harder and heavier than a base ball, that also mostly makes contact with a batsman from the ground upwards which is generally the direction from which the most vital and precious parts of the human body are most vulnerable.
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.
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.
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.
2:22 bro the fact that the speed of the ball came to more than 150+ Kmph
Jimmy Anderson’s, king of swing.
Hi Ryan, you are getting a pretty good handle on cricket.
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
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.
Swing and seam are two different things but they are usually clubbed buts swing is in the air seam is when the ball hits the ground on the stiched part (called seam) and then turns.this is for fast ballers.
For spinners , it's always spin doesn't matter what, because spin always happens when the ball lands.
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.
Swing is movement in the air, seam is movement off the pitch.
Sometimes a ball will do both at once which makes it very hard to hit.
Many times you will see a bowler bowl a straight ball that swings a lot after pitchiing once it has past the batsman- they call that one a Wicket keeper killer. lol
The catcher holds the world record of most catches in test cricket. He is legendary Rahul Dravid, a slip fielding specialist.
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
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...
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.
I've seen far more extreme curves than that. I've seen balls move three feet out of line and I myself have bowled ones that moved at least two feet - and they were all in school matches!
Cricket balls have a seam and stitches too.
The trick is to get it to curve one way, but bounce the opposite way off the ground.
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!
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.
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.
That was a regulation catch... There are many insane incredible catches we have seen and few were more of an off cutter than a swing
Cricket is one of the toughest game but its easy if you watch cricket more than 10 matches
Swing is deviation of the ball as it travels through the air, which creates an optical illusion for the batsman or batswoman.
Certain variables are usually present for swing & reverse-swing to be conducive:
- Air-pressure density, particularly cloud-cover playing conditions.
- The condition of the ball.
Fielding teams will try to shine & preserve one side, allowing the other side to deteriorate naturally.
Being hit by the bat, or the impact hitting the concrete stadium staircases/advertising billboards can really rough a ball up, for example.
- The position of the seam (the stitching that holds the leather ball together) at roughly 2 O'clock or 10 O'clock upon release.
This allows the rougher side to catch the drag of the airflow, while the shiny side has less resistance being more aerodynamic.
There is a physical science to this; Similar to airplanes & yaw.
-The position of the bowler's wrist & fingers & general bowling action. The skill of keeping a cocked wrist & snapping it at the right time of release.
Swing is not to be confused with SEAM movement or "kick" as you said, which occurs after the ball has pitched.
The ball has different reactions & trajectories if it impacts the leather part, or the seam part.
However many other factors are involved, such as:
- The soil used for the pitch.
- The length of grass after mowing on the pitch.
- The condition of the pitch, which is more noticeable in test match cricket played over 5 days.
What may be the best time for batting are days 2 & 3 ..
The morning of Day 1 & the entire day 5 are generally considered the worst time to bat.
Cool video Liked & subscribed.
However there are far better examples out there for swing bowling, especially played in New Zealand.
Check Trent Boult & Tim Southee out!
Ryan Have a look at spin bowling by Shane Warne
Nice reaction