rich1uk wrote:don't know if this is just completely stupid and i'm too tired to think straight but when they bowl cross seam or bounce it in to the keeper isn't there as much chance they gonna rough up the side they want to keep shiny anyway ?
Arthur Crabtree wrote:I think someone said above that the weight of the ball doesn't change, but with reverse swing, the weight does change. One side is kept very dry, and the other side is made heavier with spit (and here is where the sugary spit comes in). So one side, the dull side is heavy and the other side, the shiny side is a normal weight. Whereas conventionally the ball swings away from the shiny side, towards the rough side, with reverse, it swings towards the shiny side. But this isn't because either side is shiny, but because one side is heavier. So it swings away from the heavier side to the lighter side. The fact that one side is shiny is incidental, the important aspect of the shiny side is that it is lighter.
I can't justify this scientifically, and I'm happy to be told this is rubbish. It's just what i understood happened with reverse swing.
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