What on earth is it? Seam bowling is the art of beating a batsman through the abrupt, unpredictable movement of the ball after its impact with the pitch, due to the external stitching along its ...

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 ...

To get the best possible chance of any sort of movement in the air or off the pitch, a fast bowler should grip the ball "seam up". Learning this basic ... You may have seen cricket commentators ...

In Australia, though, the current Kookaburra moves extravagantly when it's new, and then settles down considerably once it becomes soft ... the ball more, matched Australia on extracting seam ...