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Spin bowling advice - good length? How to leg spin?

What are your best tips on how to do leg spin bowling?

For instance what is a good length of bowling, and how can I bowl leg spin when under pressure?

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Alex MartinCoach, England

I am not a very experienced Leg spinner but I do have a couple of overs working on it a week,

I would say that if you were able to access some tips by Shane Warne the best leg spinner ever I think that you would be able to learn very beneficial things and I would suggest that it would help.

I dont think that changing anything under pressure would help, you need to be consistant and to try and spin the ball more, bowl faster and just change lines and lengths and bowl a couple of arm-bowls now and again to trick the batters,

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