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Gibbs not impressed by Caribbean off-spinners

WEST INDIES great Lance Gibbs is not impressed by the current crop of off-spinners in the region, both at domestic and international level.

The 85-year-old Gibbs, who played 79 Test matches for the WI, from 1958-1976, was the first spinner to reach the 300-wicket milestone, and was also the leading wicket-taker in Test cricket (309).

However, he did not speak too highly on the present-day off-break bowlers in the regional game, during an interview on Tuesday on the Mason and Guest radio show.

“They’re not spinning the ball,” was his take on the current bunch of WI off-spinners.

Antiguan Rahkeem Cornwall is the newest off-spinner to play international cricket for the West Indies

In reply to sgtdjones

These are different times, Cornwall has been effective with his style so why complain, if Cornwall take a longer run-up with his weight he might not be able to bowl the amount of overs he does sometimes.

In reply to sgtdjones
I wrote about that in real time, the podcast was posted also.

In reply to dayne
Instead of doing some research on spin bowling, that would enlighten you to the art, you writing about time.
I've been writing about Jomel Warrican being a Robot, for sometime.
After listening to Lance, and reading Dukes post on Ram and Val, I did some research yesterday.
Lance in spot on

In reply to openning

Call me when a West Indian spinner has a sore spinning finger or a sore wrist!!!!!LOL

In reply to Dukes

As a little boy, I was hoping that should happened, when he played against Barbados.
He was the only regional bowler, that I had concerns about
Lance spoke about Viv, he did the same to Colin Blades.

Romel spins the ball but has no guile. In pace or spin our modern bowler no fair well in this department. Put another way he have limited skill.

Cornwall is what he is and I am ok with him not being a big turner of the ball. He uses his bowling resources quite well. He isn't and out and out offie - he comes to the table with his batting skills which he needs to try to develop some consistency in both Tests and ODIs

In reply to Dukes
Ironically, the only two West Indian spinners of recent vintage to suffer finger injuries have been Bishoo and Narine. Neither Warrican or Cornwall turns the ball. Chase turns the ball more than those two frontline spinners

Lance argue you cannot bowl from a few steps and spin the ball.
Watch the energy through the delivery of Shane Warne.
Shane Ware

Bishoo

In present days cricket which spinner on the International teams are big spinners of the ball? It seem like most International spinners these days depend on the deception of which ball goes straight and the one that turns a little.

In reply to openning

Shane Warne has an exceptionally powerful wrist. He uses that to generate incredible revolutions on the ball rather like Rafa does in tennis.

In reply to Dukes
Not only his wrist, every part of his body, is moving towards the batsman on delivery.
I must say, Lance opened my eyes on spin bowling.
I was always worried about Jomel Warrican, he bowl from the same angle, every delivery, and stop.
Very little follow through, and no energy going toward the batsman.