What is the difference between doosra and carom ball

Normally people get confused about doosra and carom ball, because both these deliveries are normally used by off-spinner and both of these deliveries looks like leg spin, turning from leg side to offside. Usually a player can spot the carom ball very easily but picking doosra is hard, it requires a lot of experience, I have seen only experienced players like Kumar sangakkara and virender sehwag pick these deliveries.

The players like Ravichandran Ashwin, Sunil narine and Ajanta mendis are bowlers who usually bowl carom ball. Usually the bowlers who bowl carom ball use their fingers to spin the ball. When you see difference in their bowling fingers you can understand that the bowler is trying to bowl carom ball or slower deliveries. To bowl a carom ball the bowlers mostly use their index finger a lot, so picking carom ball is very much easier.

Doosra is a special delivery the word Doosra means another one; this means the off spinner is going to bowl the off spin which is going to turn in opposite direction. The bowlers who bowl Doosra use their wrist effectively to bowl this special delivery. Picking Doosra is very difficult because most of the player see the seam and revolution of the ball to play cricket. When a player bowls Doosra you cannot spot the delivery because the revolution and seem of the ball looks like normal off spin that’s why even great players like Sachin tendulkar and Alistair cook could not spot the Doosra of the Pakistani spin wizard saeed Ajmal. As the bowlers uses their wrist to bowl Doosra normally Doosra looks like a top spin and bowlers normally bowl these deliveries much quicker than normal ones, as these deliver looks like a top spin the ball bounces higher than normal spin deliveries and reaches the batsman much quicker than he expected. Some of the bowler who bowls Doosra is Saeed Ajmal, Harbhajan Singh, saqlain mustaq, muralitharan and Johan bootha.

Mostly the bowler who bowls these special deliveries are from subcontinent, so to survive from these bowling in sub continent pitch , a batsman must use Rahul dravid batting technique to block the delivery. Usually the batsman from England, Australia and New Zealand usually block the deliveries by keeping their bat and leg close in contact. But this technique can help player to survive in Overseas because the pitch makers usually prepare a non spinning fast track, but these players find difficult to block deliveries in subcontinent because in subcontinent they prepare a flat and spinning tracks.

Players playing in spinning track must bring their bat forward and should not block the ball by keeping the bat and leg in contact, because when you bring the bat forward you can manage to control the ball spinning in both directions. When you block the ball using conventional technique you cannot survive for a long period.Hope this info is useful to everyone.

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How to choose the correct bat size and weight

When it comes in choosing the correct bat size and weight,even the international players find difficult to choose the correct bat.While choosing a cricket bat player must know about him perfectly,”which means what kind of player he is whether attacking player or defensive player”when we go through the history we can notice most of the aggressive players use heavy bats in their early career.One of the Indian legendary cricketer Sachin Tendulkar used the most heavy bat in cricket.But some other cricketers like Brian Lara and Rahul Dravid used lighter bat.The cricketer choose their bat based on the way they bat and the playing condition.

During 2011 world cup most of the Indian cricketer used heavier bats because they can deliver maximum power to the ball they hit.As we know the subcontinental pitch does not provide the bounce and fast track like England,Australia,New Zealand and south Africa.So most of the player preferred heavy bat.

So based on the playing condition and nature of cricketer,the player must choose his cricket bat.Usually the openers prefer light weight bat because in early stages of match the bowlers will swing the ball in both direction.So it will be hard for a player to pick the ball.So most of the opener prefer light weight bat.Usually the middle order batsman use the heavier bat because their jobs is to score more runs at last ten overs of an match.

The advent of online shopping has helped people to know the about the various companies that offers bat at different price,size and weight.So user can pick the correct bat that matches his way of batting.Hope this information will help you to choose the correct bat.

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Some interesting facts about cricket

Neil Johnson was one of the finest cricketer in Zimbabwe,who was the opening batsman and opening bowler for his team.There are few all rounders like Shane Watson,Sanath jayasuriya and Jacques kallis who had the ability to open both batting and bowling.But Johnson did the opening batting and bowling for a long time.

Every cricketing fans will know about the legendary pace bowler chaminda vaas,but only few cricketers will know his full name.The full name of Chaminda Vaas is Warnakulasuriya Patabendige Ushantha Joseph Chaminda Vaas.

The cricketing team like England has many players like Kevin Peterson,Jonathan Trot, Eoin Morgan from different countries.Can you guess who is one of the overseas players who played for Indian team.The answer is Robin Singh who was born in Trinidad and Tobago.

One of the worlds finest right hand batsman Sachin Tendulkar was a natural left hand user,but he plays in right hand.

Saqlain Mushtaq was the first bowler to bowl Doosra and thisra,so he was called the pioneer of spin bowling.

Virender Sehwag is one of the most interesting cricketer whose highest scores ends with magical number nineteen.His highest score in test match was 319,his best score in one day international is 219 and his best score in IPL was 119.

Virender Sehwag is one of the most aggressive cricketer who has a massive strike rate of nearly 82.18 in test cricket.

Sachin Tendulkar holds the record of scoring hundred centuries in both one day and test format matches.

The fastest one day international century was achieved by Shahid Afridi.He scored the runs in just 37 balls.

Sachin Tendulkar was the first cricketer to score two hundred runs in one day international matches.

Virender sehwag was the highest scorer in one day international matches.His score was 219 runs.

Brian Lara was the highest run scorer in test format.He scored an unbeaten four hundred runs against England.

Sir Donald George Bradman is one of the legend of Australian cricketer who has the record of highest batting average of 99.94 in test cricket.

The team like India and Sri Lanka have three one day international player who have reached ten thousand runs .They are Rahul Dravid,Sourav Ganguly and Sachin Tendulkar of India,similarly Sanath Jayasuriya,Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar sangakkarra of Sri lankha.

Muttiah Muralitharan holds the record for grabbing more wickets in test and one day internationals matches.Muralitharan has took 800 wickets in test matches and 534 wickets in one day format.

Sachin Tendulkar holds the record of scoring maximum runs in both one day international and test format.He scored 15,387 runs in test and 18,426 runs in test format.

Sanath jayasuriya is considered as one of the all time great player because of his impressive records in bowling ,batting ,fielding and captaincy.He was praised for his exceptional performance in one day format,he scored 13430 runs and took 323 wickets in his 445 one day international matches.He was regarded as the no 1 all rounder in cricket.

Anil kumble of India was the first bowler to grab all ten wicket in an innings of test match between India and Pakistan.

Rahul Dravid was called as the wall of Indian cricket,because of his incredible ability to help India in pressure situation.

Mahendra singh Dhoni is the only Cricketer,who holds the record of attaining all achievement as captain.dhoni has won champions trophy,world cup and twenty twenty world cup for India.During his captaincy India has reached the no 1 spot in test format.

Team India is the only team which has reached 400 hundred runs in four times in one day international matches.The team also holds record of two double hundred in one day format by Sachin Tendulkar and Virendar Sehwag.