Learn Types Of Spin Bowling - ස්පින් බොලිං Importnat for All

mr.tikko · Feb 3, 2011

Learn Types Of Spin Bowling - ස්පින් බොලිං Importnat for All

Learn Types Of Spin Bowling - ස්පින් බොලිං Importnat for All

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Webpage dedicated to the varied talents of Pradeep Mathew: Sri Lanka's greatest unsung cricketer.

Pradeep Mathew Pradeep Sivanathan Mathew (born February 4, 1965, Colombo) is a former Sri Lankan cricketer who played in 7 Tests and 27 ODIs from 1985 to 1995. He lives in New Zealand with his wife and two sons, where he now coaches.

Full name
Pradeep Sivanathan Mathew
Born
February 19th 1965, Colombo
School
Thurstan College
Club
Bloomfield CC
Batting Style
Right-hand batsman
Bowling Style Left-arm Chinaman.
Test Debut vs India, Colombo, 1985
ODI Debut vs West Indies, Hobart, 1985

Pradeep Matthew was a spinner of some promise who has excelled for Bloomfield, becoming the 2nd highest wicket-taker in the 1986 Lakspray Trophy. He made his debut in Sri Lanka’s inaugural test victory against India. He played mainly as a test bowler despite good performances in the 1985/86 world series, including 2 five-wicket bags against Australia and the Windies. External Links - Photo Gallery of Pradeep Mathew

The Chinaman

“Fancy being done by a bloody Chinaman,” said 1930s English batsman Walter Robins in a jibe that today would have required a disciplinary hearing. It was Mathew’s bread-and-butter delivery. The stock ball. Pitching outside off and cutting into the batsman. Ellis Achong, a West Indian of Chinese descent, dismissed Robins with one such delivery, and sparked both the outburst and the term.

A ball turning in from a left-arm bowler is not considered as dangerous as one that turns away. The logic being that it is not difficult to combat something that moves towards you. Mathew bowled two variations of the chinaman. One with cocked wrist and one with rolling fingers. He would drift it to wide outside off, giving it the appearance of a wayward delivery, and then rip it in at awkward angles.

The chinaman accounted for most of Mathew’s early wickets. And remained his stock delivery throughout his career. Proving that it can be difficult to combat something that moves towards you, if it arrives unexpectedly.

The Googly

By the time he was selected for the Sri Lanka squad in 1984, Pradeep had perfected the googly. A ball that looks like a chinaman, but turns the other way. To pursue the racial metaphor, beneath the veneer of a benign Chinaman lurks a hungry Turk with a machete.

Invented by English slow bowler Bernard Bosanquet at the turn of the century, the googly was initially seen as a dishonest sleight of hand, as “not quite cricket.” Today it is acknowledged as one of the game’s most brilliant inventions.

Pitch a googly around middle stump after bowling a succession of chinaman deliveries and you can slice a batsman in half, if lucky, clipping his glove or the bails of the wicket. To have a ball do the opposite of what you expect is unnerving.
Mathew delivered the googly from the back of his hand with the seam turning the other way. The googly accounted for all three wickets that he took in his debut against India.
A chinaman spinner can ply a decent trade with a stock ball and a googly. These variations provide enough succour to sustain an average first-class career. Mathew had both mastered by his 20th birthday and, over the next ten years, would develop 12 other deliveries in a career that boasted many highlights, but few accolades.

The Orthodox

Of course, there is nothing legendary about orthodox finger spin. Most slow left-armers adopt it as weapon of choice, the ball that angles in at the batsman’s pads and leaves him.

It is quicker than the chinaman and requires an equal but opposite wrist action. The wrist rolls against the movement of the arm. An orthodox bowler rarely bowls chinaman and vice versa. So how did Mathew do both so proficiently?

In his third year of club cricket, against the touring Englishmen, Mathew would drop dart-like finger spinners amidst clusters of looping chinamen and googlies. Commentator Bob Willis described him as a “bowler suffering from schizophrenia” even though it was the English top order that suffered most. Graham Atherton succumbed to it four times on that tour. As did Robin Hick and Chris Thorpe.
Against the New Zealanders Mathew developed a wrist-spinning version. A ball bowled with a chinaman action, where the wrist is flung at the last minute towards slip. It was perhaps this joint pivot that caused the carpal tunnel syndrome that would later stall Mathew’s career. In the 1988 Asia Cup, 6 of Mathew’s 17 wickets came from this delivery.
Towards the end of his career, when not sulking or fighting with management, Mathew would sit with the juniors and share the wisdom of his years. Did he share his wrist-spinning manoeuvre with the shy dark Tamil off-spinner from Kandy who shared his room during the 1994 New Zealand tour? I would place seven lakhs on the answer being yes.

The Undercutter

My personal favourite. It was used in the ’92 World Cup and the ’93 season with Bloomfield. The ball is rested on the palm and pushed out by the mound of Venus. The result is muffled backspin that causes the ball to stay low. It works particularly well in overcast conditions. The spin is subtle, and not sharp.
Mathew’s most famous dismissal with the undercutter was Javed Miandad, who, so annoyed by the umpiring and the unplayable delivery, jumped into the crowd to hammer a cheeky spectator with his bat.

The Boru Ball (Doosra )

Ari and I are in disagreement over the legitimacy of this ball. And as we lack footage of the ’87 Asgiriya test, a match that history does not recognise, we have no way to settle this score. This is for the aficionados. The ball pitches on off and cuts in. Like Mathew’s bread-and-butter delivery, the chinaman. So, you ask, why don’t we call it a chinaman and save some ink? It’s because it is delivered with an orthodox action. The boru ball only works within a set context.
If you’re bowling a spell of orthodox finger spin, like Mathew did against New Zealand in ’87, a boru ball will serve the function of a googly or a doosra. The term doosra meaning ‘second one’ is currently in vogue thanks to a Pakistani spinner claiming to have invented the off-spinner’s googly. I wrote to Wisden claiming that Mathew’s boru ball and Ramdhin’s googly preceded the Pakistani’s claim, but this is yet to be published.

If you slip a boru ball in during a spell of chinaman, as Mathew would do infrequently, the change of wrist action will alert the batsman to a variation, when in fact the ball will do exactly what it did before. I would describe this ball as a clever double bluff. Ari would describe this whole chapter as a complete and utter bluff.

mr.tikko · Feb 3, 2011

The Carrom Ball

Jack Iverson, the 1950s Aussie spinner, bent his middle finger as if he were flicking a leech off the ball. He held the ball with his elongated index and ring fingers and flicked it at the batsman, the ball spinning in whichever direction his thumb pointed.
GentlemanCricketerofYesteryear, or the GenCY, team manager during Sri Lanka’s ’87 World Cup campaign, shared a photograph of Iverson’s unusual grip with Mathew. Inspired by all the idle games of carrom played with the reserves at Guwahati, Mathew attempted to incorporate a carrom flicking motion, which meant the ball could spin with no discernible change in action. It also meant that the ball’s trajectory would be torpedo-like. In theory anyway.

While Jack Iverson is fondly remembered as a genuine mystery bowler by the likes of Benaud and Bradman, the GenCY failed to tell young Mathew that despite a few 6-wicket hauls in his first few outings, Iverson was soon worked out by batsmen. His fragile temperament kept him out of test cricket and led to his suicide in 1973.

Mathew tried the carrom flick vs England, Pakistan and the West Indies, and while the trajectory was torpedo-like, the bounce low and the turn sharp, Mathew’s directional control was abysmal. Of the nine balls that made it to the pitch, all were adjudged wides. The other seven attempts had the ball squirting out at second slip, short leg and even mid-wicket. Salim, Gatting and Richardson helped themselves to half centuries off the rest of Mathew’s deliveries.

Mathew bowled 17 wides in a 191-run defeat to the West Indies. He was warned by the umpire of turning the game into farce after the mid-wicket ball against Pakistan. And was taken out of the attack against England by the Skipper for using that “bloody carrom bullshit.”

Mathew never used the carrom grip again, though Ari claims to remember him using it thrice in the ’92 World Cup. Ill-gotten ITL footage confirms these claims. Ari shows me the carrom flick darting under the bats of Richardson, Gatting and Salim. It is I who note that these three were the very same men who put Mathew to the sword at the previous World Cup. It is Ari who proffers this to be coincidence.

The Top-Spinner

Ari is a believer in this ball; I am not, or was not until 1986. The top-spinner is a ball that looks and behaves like a chinaman, but goes straight on. In other words, it is a ball that does not spin. This joke was in the Sunday Observer Junior Section. What do you call a boomerang that doesn’t come back? A stick.
In short, a top-spinner is a chinaman or a googly gone wrong, or delivered inefficiently. Must this incompetence be given a name? Then Ari mentions the 1994 Lakspray Trophy between Bloomfield CC and NCC and I am forced to bow my head in deference.

Mathew’s last season with Bloomfield was the season where he truly blossomed. Discarded from the national side following an indifferent patch vs India and Pakistan, he spent that year perfecting his mastery.

In the Saracens game, it was evident from the press box above the sightscreen that Mathew was putting a superhuman amount of spin on each delivery. The seam glistened in the baking sun, the ball was a revolving red transparency, a fan turned on full. Mathew’s wrist flapped about like a severed limb, hurling gyrating grenade into humid air. And guess what? The ball did not turn. It hurried on, bounced awkwardly, but there was no spin.

Each batsman was greeted by a thunderous chinaman or an unnaturally sharp googly. Just to remind them that there was turn in the pitch and in the elongated fingers of the bowler. And then ball after ball that looked like it was going to spin, but didn’t. Nine batsmen were bowled, caught and stumped playing for spin that never came. Ari says I owe him a drink. I remind him that he no longer drinks.

The Armball

Nathu speaks to Brian Gomez, whose LankaTel T-shirt, cap and tie leave little doubt as to how ITL financed his trip.

“To be honest with you mate, I picked up the ole armball in your country.” Dipak looks Punjabi and speaks fluent Kiwi.
“Your spinner took 10 wickets against us, eh? I was reserve. I watched that fella bowl in the nets. Beautiful armballs, eh? I can’t remember his name…”
“Jayantha Amarasinghe?” prompts Brian, confirming beyond doubt that he is an idiot.
“Nah, mate.”
“Sanjeewa Weerasinghe?”
“Don’t think so. Dark bloke, kinda shaggy hair.”
“Ah,” smiles Brian. “Ranjith Madurusinghe.” “Nah, mate. Not him. Listen,
I think we’re expected on the field…”

Brian could have gone on bumbling names. Roger Wijesuriya, Sridharan Jeganathan, Don Anurasiri, Roshan Jurangpathy. Nah mate. Brian you moron. Not them.
The Lissa

The Aussies claim ownership of the flipper, invented by Clarrie Grimmet in the 30s. Ari and I do not dispute this. Grimmet snapped his fingers along the ball’s axis and made it skid off the pitch, keep low and, more often than not, connect with the wicket.
Mathew upped the ante by developing a ball that skidded and changed direction. He used it against tail-enders in the 1989 Australia series and picked up three wickets. Walking back after a skidding googly toppled his bails, pace bowler Merv Rackemann spat in the direction of the bowler. “You been sticking your dick into the seam, mate?”
Sadly, the strain on Mathew’s fingers proved too much. The skidder or lissa as keepers in domestic cricket referred to it, was the first to be discarded after his injury woes of the early 90s. Despite the constant cries of “Lissa daapang! Lissa daapang!” by Bloomfield keeper Uvais Amalean.
Australia claims credit for re-introducing the flipper to the game courtesy of a portly blonde genius. This is where Ari and I part company. Mathew dismissed Rackemann, Alderman and Lawson with googly flippers in Melbourne in 1989. Two years before a great blonde hope rose from that very city.
Ari claims that it is probable that somewhere in the grounds Warne witnessed this feat and spent the next few years attempting to emulate it. That therefore it is correct to say that Pradeep Mathew indirectly revived the flipper.
I reply that if three tail-enders fall in the outback and there in no one to hear them, then no sound is made. And to attempt to convince an audience 10 years later that such a sound existed is an exercise in foolishness.

The Darter

A faster version of the armball, used in one-day cricket to cramp the batsman. The ball back-spins and shoots off the pitch at pace. Strangely, the ball was only employed in 1992. During the World Cup and the Australia test match. It garnered a few LBWs, notably Australian Geoff Boon, Indian Javagal Srikanth and West Indian Carl Arthurton.

As usual, Sri Lanka lost every game.

Floater

A traditional chinaman, but bowled with open chest and a shrug of the shoulders, causing the ball to linger in the air. Ari and Jonny call it the slow-motion delivery. It was the easiest of Mathew’s variations to pick; the change in delivery stride was palpable.

It was as if Mathew sublimated not just the purchase on the ball but the weight of the ball itself. “It is energy extraction at its most primal,” says Ari, showing off yet again. “Mathew momentarily displaces kinetic energy and then guides it towards its trajectory.” Ari scribbles a formula on a napkin and shows it to Jonny. Jonny grabs the napkin, blows his nose on it and hands it back. “Here. Calculate the viscosity of that.” Ah, the good ole days.

What I do know is, the ball stayed in the air slightly longer than appeared physically possible. South African Daryll Kirsten was repeatedly bowled by it in 1993. It resulted in a handled ball and a hit-the-ball-twice dismissal in the same test vs Zimbabwe in 1994.

It was the delivery of a bowler at the zenith of his art. It could only be played if the batsman waited till the last possible micro-second. A feat only one man, Zimbabwean Anton Rose, could manage consistently.

The Speed Ball

100 miles an hour is the holy grail for fast bowlers. The equivalent of the 4-minute mile. Jeff Thompson came close in 1976 with 99.7 mph. There is a young Pakistani tearaway, Akhtar, who I am told is faster than Thommo, but I am sceptical. Most Pakistani prodigies are washed up after two seasons.

Many say that the mythical gini pace bowler from Jaffna cracked the 100 mph mark. But none of this can be verified. Reggie Ranwala even believes that Mathew may have got close to the grail. This I do not believe.

“You should’ve seen in the ’93 Lakspray trophy final. If we had a speed camera, Mathew would have the record. Definitely. Definitely.”

Ari and I had been to most Lakspray trophy finals, enough to know that two years after receiving first-class status, it was renamed the P. Sara trophy, and that the final Reggie refers to, where Mathew sent down thunderbolts at the SSC middle order, took place in 1994.

We both remember the game well. The SSC was a virtual Sri Lankan side. Its mediocre pacemen opened our nation’s bowling and its batsmen had all received call-up for national duty. There was a Gurusinha, an Atapattu, two Gunawardenas and three Ranatungas.

It was a rain-drenched, high-scoring final. Replying to Bloomfield’s 520, SSC were plodding along in the 300s, getting some batting practice. After lunch, some words were exchanged between Mathew and the SSC captain, who was crawling towards a century. In the early 90s, this was not advisable. Being on the good side of the Captain was essential. Many were afraid of taking his wicket during domestic games.

Mathew didn’t seem to care. He bowled a darter, got rid of wicket-keeper Upul Fernando and made a remark to the Captain who then complained to the umpire. After this was smoothed over, Hemantha Wickremaratne joined the Captain at the crease and the pair began stone-walling.

Mathew gradually increased his run-up and began bowling slow orthodox deliveries, interspersed with short flat deliveries, which gradually grew faster and more frequent. There was no discernible change in action.

One broke Wickremaratne’s stump, literally in two. Two hit the Captain in the belly, three whizzed past his nose.

“New batsman Suranjith Silva came with helmets, remember?” says Ari.

Those were brisk deliveries, but none faster than 100 mph. Not the one that took out all three of Silva’s stumps. Nor the one that took the Captain’s off and leg and left the middle one standing.

No one knows for sure what was said or how fast Mathew’s speed ball was. But everyone remembers the Captain’s pointed finger and his parting words to Mathew. “You will never play for Sri Lanka again.”

Double Bounce Ball

I saw it on two occasions. And for that I am grateful. At Asgiriya in 1987 and at Kettarama in 1991. It was undoubtedly the strangest ball ever invented. The mystery of mystery balls. A ball that bounces and changes direction twice.

Gokulanath described a ball that kept low and skidded on matting wickets. Newton claimed to have seen him use it in softball cricket as early as 1985.

Charith remembers facing such a ball when Mathew bowled for Bloomfield. “I managed to glance for a single, but I asked umpire, ‘Ball is dead if bounces twice?’ Fellow didn’t know.”

Against New Zealand at Asgiriya 1987. Ari and I were in the pressbox, Kuga and Minister Tyronne Cooray in the VIP lounge. The Kiwis had hammered our medium pacers to an opening stand of 87. Mathew began bowling aggressively. Flat finger spinners, darters, undercutters, the occasional skidder. It was almost as if he were the fifth seamer. It certainly put the brakes on. Kiwi openers Franklin and Horne played out two maidens, nodding with respect at the accuracy and pace.

And then he bowled it. Short and wide outside Franklin’s off stump, the tall batsman stepping back poised to deliver punishment. But instead of sitting up and offering itself to Franklin’s waiting blade as most short, wide balls are wont to do, this one keeps low, changes direction, pitches again, this time on leg, where it darts in to topple the batsman’s exposed leg stump.

A 5-ounce, spherical, leather-bound object made to behave as a pebble skimming water.

Reggie Ranwala says that he bowled two consecutively against Anton Rose in 1994 and that both were declared no-balls. We have footage of Mercantile Credit vs Sathosa, 1986. Premlal Fernando and Basil Goonatilaka are bowled by double bounce balls.

Newton claims he helped perfect it in 1993 and that there is nothing illegal about a ball that bounces twice. Gokulanath said he knew how to bowl it, though he could not show us.

Jonny remembers it against South Africa. Mathew was no-balled every time. Reggie remembers it against Manawatu in 1995. The ball bounced not twice but thrice and was called dead. The dismissal of Greg Loveridge with a double bounce ball could well have been Mathew’s last international wicket.

I remember it in the Bloomfield vs SSC final 1994. Perhaps Mathew’s second greatest performance. I was with Ari and Renga. Every over Renga reminds us that the young new batsman is his nephew Arnold Russell. Short ball outside leg. Arnold pulls at thin air. Ball cuts to his off, pitches, bounces into the wicket. Renga swears.

“I’ve never seen anything like that,” says Ari.
“That’s the best ball I’ve ever seen,” says I.
We turn to Renga.
He scowls and pretends to write in his notepad.
“I’ve seen better,” he says.

mr.tikko · Feb 3, 2011

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donlahiru · Feb 3, 2011

maxxa machan rep+

mr.tikko · Feb 3, 2011

diazkolla · Feb 3, 2011

maxxaaa...tikak diga wadi sinhalen dammanam hodai...

gayankuwait · Feb 3, 2011

elazzzzzzzzzz
passe balannam machan dan busy

mr.tikko · Feb 3, 2011

Batcha · Feb 3, 2011

This is from shehan karunanayaka's chainaman book. So called Pradeep Mathew doesn't exist

luffy · Feb 3, 2011

elazz..

mr.tikko · Feb 4, 2011

inranasingha · Feb 4, 2011

++++++++++++

Roronoa Zoro · Feb 4, 2011

elaa..

Banned User · Feb 7, 2011

පට්ට

mr.tikko · Feb 7, 2011

thnks

nnjeevana · Feb 10, 2011

එළ එළ

mr.tikko · Feb 10, 2011

luffy said:
elazz..

inranasingha said:
++++++++++++

Roronoa Zoro said:
elaa..

Banned User said:
පට්ට

nnjeevana said:
එළ එළ

thnx rep added +++++++++

ŦĦĔ ƦȆƉǾӾ · Feb 11, 2011

Batcha said:
This is from shehan karunanayaka's chainaman book. So called Pradeep Mathew doesn't exist

10ben · Mar 4, 2019

Meka Chinamam Kiyana Navakathava. Kiyavanna patan gaththoth kiyavala ivara venakan Ivasillak nahe. Mama Bus ekedith kiyava kiyava giya. Mama danna tharamin "Pradeep mathew" kiyala charithayak nahe... Hitiyath dan inne New Zealand wala "Pukekohe" Thamai..

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