what is reverse swing in cricket?

Answer 1

Googly/Doosra for Spin Bowler
Reverse swing for a fast/pace bowler

Answer 2

Once the ball becomes older and more worn, it will begin to move in the opposite direction to where it would usually swing with no great change in the bowling grip.

For example, an outswinger's grip will move towards the batsman in the air while an inswinger will move away from the bat.



All this tends to happen very late on in the delivery, making it difficult for the batsman to pick up the changes in the air.

Not every single bowler can obtain reverse swing - the ball needs to be propelled above 80mph or thereabouts to make it move in the air.

Former Pakistan international Sarfraz Nawaz was the founder of reverse swing during the late 1970s, and he passed his knowledge on to former team-mate Imran Khan.

It was Imran who schooled bowlers Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis, who brought the art to the cricket world's attention during the late 1980s and 1990s.

The dynamic duo managed to make the old ball swing a considerable distance at pace in both directions, a skill few bowlers can master.


HOW DOES IT WORK?
There have been plenty of theories about why, but here's the simplest explanation from former England bowling coach Troy Cooley:


The grip is all important bowling reverse swing

"Reverse swing is all to do with the deterioration of the ball and the seam position in flight.

"As the ball becomes rougher, it will take on a different characteristic as it deteriorates.

"So if you present the ball as an outswinger, the ball has deteriorated so much on the rough side that it takes on the characteristics of the shiny side.

Which means a natural outswinger will become an inswinger and conversely, an inswinger into an outswinger."


WHEN DOES THE BALL START TO REVERSE?
Since reverse swing favours the older ball, it will usually start to move around the 40-over mark.

However, England's pace quartet, with Simon Jones and Andrew Flintoff in particular, have been able to make the ball reverse after just 15 to 20 overs.

This in particular has stumped the Australian batsman. But how have England's bowlers managed to do this so early in the innings?


Flintoff's aggressive bowling helps the ball to deteriorate

One theory could be the ball. In England, Test balls are manufactured by Dukes, while in Australia and the sub-continent the Kookaburra brand is usually used.

Like footballs, each manufacturers' cricket balls are different. Some have more pronounced seams while others deteriorate slower, all of which have an influence on how the ball will move in the air.

Another theory is how England's players are able to rough the ball up faster than other teams.

Harmison and Flintoff both bang the ball hard into the pitch while England's fielders often throw the ball back to wicket-keeper Geraint Jones on the bounce from the outfield, all of which contribute to the deterioration of the ball.

However, nothing has been scientifically proved - but batsman the world over know what to expect when the ball starts to get older.

Answer 3

The cricket ball often moves in the air towards or away from a batsman when a pace bowler is bowling. It is this deviation most fast bowlers strive for because of the problems it causes batsmen.

Swing is all about aerodynamics. Batsmen are used to facing orthodox swing - which happens when the ball is still relatively hard and new in the first 10 to 15 overs.

However, over the past 20 years fast bowlers have developed a new method of making the ball move in the air with the older ball called 'reverse swing'.

Once the ball becomes older and more worn, it will begin to move in the opposite direction to where it would usually swing with no great change in the bowling grip.

For example, an outswinger's grip will move towards the batsman in the air while an inswinger will move away from the bat.

All this tends to happen very late on in the delivery, making it difficult for the batsman to pick up the changes in the air.
Not every single bowler can obtain reverse swing - the ball needs to be propelled above 80mph or thereabouts to make it move in the air.

Former Pakistan international Sarfraz Nawaz was the founder of reverse swing during the late 1970s, and he passed his knowledge on to former team-mate Imran Khan.

It was Imran who schooled bowlers Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis, who brought the art to the cricket world's attention during the late 1980s and 1990s.

The dynamic duo managed to make the old ball swing a considerable distance at pace in both directions, a skill few bowlers can master.

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Answer 4

Once the ball becomes older and more worn, it will begin to move in the opposite direction to where it would usually swing with no great change in the bowling grip.

For example, an outswinger's grip will move towards the batsman in the air while an inswinger will move away from the bat.



All this tends to happen very late on in the delivery, making it difficult for the batsman to pick up the changes in the air.

Not every single bowler can obtain reverse swing - the ball needs to be propelled above 80mph or thereabouts to make it move in the air.

Former Pakistan international Sarfraz Nawaz was the founder of reverse swing during the late 1970s, and he passed his knowledge on to former team-mate Imran Khan.

It was Imran who schooled bowlers Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis, who brought the art to the cricket world's attention during the late 1980s and 1990s.

The dynamic duo managed to make the old ball swing a considerable distance at pace in both directions, a skill few bowlers can master.

Answer 5

You can see bowlers and fielders keep on rubbing the ball. This is to make the ball smooth on one side. They rub only one side. They leave the other side to get rough. It is obvious that smooth side moves faster through the air than the rough side. So the ball tends to move towards the rough side. This is conventional swing.
But after 40 overs, when the ball gets older moist plays an important part in swinging the ball. The balls one side will be damaged so badly that it gets swing towards the smooth side. This is reverse swing. All batsmen play watching the ball and it will deceive the batsman.
Bowlers with a round arm action become experts in reverse swinging.

Answer 6

Technicall it is explained that the reverse swing takes place when shine on the one side of ball goes off . In this respect Pakistan players were famous in their reverse swing bowling. In recent statement by Afridi confirm that Pakistan bowlers indulge ball tampering in order to get reverse swing.

Answer 7

as the name suggest, when the cricket ball swings in the opposite direction that is not intended by the bowler. for example if a bowler bowled the ball for an inswing but instead it moves for an outswing then it is called outswing. the ball tends to do reverse swing when ball aswell pitch are old, rough and soft. the pakisthanis are the king of revrse swing with imran khan as its inventor.

Answer 8

In simple language, if a right hand bowler is swinging or turning the bowl towards his left or a left hand bowler is swinging it to his right than its called as reverse swing.

Answer 9

a reverse swing is a technique used by thre fast bowlers when the ball gets old. the ball will move quite dramatically the other side.

Answer 10

a ball genneraly moves in the direction of its rough side but when it moves the other way its called reverse swing...