This Carribbean summer might not have been the most fun-filled summer of cricket for them in the recent years, upto this point in the series, and we have had enough of the appreciation of the emergence of young Indian players, series after series, it is now time to talk about a long-lost and rarely possessed art-leg-spin. Shane Warne's "ball of the century" back in the nineties, and other such deliveries back in the nineties might have been milestones in the development of cricket even through the transition period, the rise of the "wrong-un" or the "googly" with help from Mushtaq Ahmed and Anil Kumble, might just have encouraged emerging wrist-spinners to find the easy way out towards picking up wickets. But the success of Devendra Bishoo and Amit Mishra in this series has definitely reminded us of how effective leg-spin can be even in the modern game.
Another important thing I observed in the previous game, when comparison was being drawn between the degree of turn generated in the leg-break delivery bowled by the two of them, was the seam position. It was Mishra's intact seam, running in an anticlockwise direction, parallel to our TV screens, that obviously, turned and bounced much more than most of the deliveries bowled by young Bishoo. He will, however, with the passage of time, learn how to control the seam position to deliver far more ripping leg-breaks!
Another important thing I observed in the previous game, when comparison was being drawn between the degree of turn generated in the leg-break delivery bowled by the two of them, was the seam position. It was Mishra's intact seam, running in an anticlockwise direction, parallel to our TV screens, that obviously, turned and bounced much more than most of the deliveries bowled by young Bishoo. He will, however, with the passage of time, learn how to control the seam position to deliver far more ripping leg-breaks!
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