How different is it to bowl with all three balls: Kookaburra, SG and Duke?
They are different and the hardest to bowl with is the SG ball. But you have to adjust. How did the doosra come about? Who did you work with? How long did you work on it? The doosra took about three to four years to develop properly. There was a talented Sri Lanka spinner called Piyal Wijetunge who I played with as a kid, and he used to bowl the delivery. Later I watched Saqlain Mushtaq bowl it. I knew I needed a delivery that went the other way, so I developed it myself. It was very hard to master and I started as early as 1996. Only by 1999 was I able to start bowling in a match. How many times did you change your run-up? I don’t take a run-up. I just bowl. Just see the mark and bowl. Sometimes shorter, sometimes longer, it happens. I never take a run-up. That’s always been that way. However, I used to run in at a greater angle. Gradually, we changed that with help from Bruce Yardley and Dav Whatmore. Running in straighter gave me greater variation and reduced the rotation on my body
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