Seam bowling ... if the ball lands on the seam, and skid, or lower-than-true bounce off the leather. The off-cutter grip: the ball cuts away from off-stump towards leg-stump ©Cricbuzz The leg ...

A seam bowler's recklessness is epitomized by his audacity to choose a career path that , quite literally, hangs by the thread. ©Getty In this new Cricbuzz series - Name of the Game - we unravel ...

Perhaps more enigmatic than the scrambled-seamer, is the seam-up ball that goes rogue. Here’s Mohammed Shami making Moeen Ali second-guess his visual senses ...

where as the ball is coming down, pitches and seams away, it is much harder to line up as a batsman," Craig Miles, Gloucestershire and Warwickshire seamer, told Cricbuzz. Miles also shared his ...

"We thought it was going to turn and not really nip. But with the new ball there was quite a bit in terms of seam movement. It's turning for the spinners and also seaming for the seamers.

"I taught myself," Mills tells Cricbuzz. "I couldn't swing the ball ... "So I worked in the nets and practice games on the three-quarter seam ball. And after a lot of trial and error, I managed ...

The pink Kookaburra is coated with a type of lacquer that makes its shine last a lot longer than the red Kookaburra, making it swing for much longer ©Getty The exclusive Cricbuzz series - The ...

"In this game the ball was pretty bizarre for us. Because I've never seen an SG ball tear through the seam like that," said Ashwin. "It could well be a combination of how hard the pitch was on the ...

With a slightly pronounced seam and more movement and bounce on offer, it produced the kind of effect that the Dukes ball would. Minhajul Abedin, Bangladesh's chief selector, admitted to Cricbuzz ...