What is ...""CARROM BALL""...in cricket...?

Question

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Answer 1

Flicking the finger as would a carrom player flick a disc on a carrom board. The Carrom Ball is the latest invention in bowling since the doosra.

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Answer 2

To bowl a "carrom ball" in cricket, the ball is held between the thumb, forefinger and the middle finger, and instead of a regular release, the ball is squeezed out of the fingers. It could result into an off-break, a leg-break, a googly or even a zooter

Answer 3

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Answer 4

I think you are bowled over by Ajantha Medes. This style is his just now. Just try google, all you get is Mendes! It is held with the Thumb and forefinger.. His Captain is at a loss as how to set the fielders. As the ball can be anything but expected. A legspinner, an offie, bowls googlies, toppers, flippers and doosras .......

Answer 5

NOW !! Time to Move over- the doosra and also the flippers and zooters - spin bowling's newest variation happens to be the 'carrom ball'.

WARNING:----Don't try this at home, but here's practically how it's done:; The inventor of this latest"ball' ,is non other than sri lankan spinner,you'd say Muarli;"No'' will be the answer ,first learn how it happens;The ball is held between the thumb, forefinger and the middle finger, and instead of a regular release, the ball is supposed to be squeezed out of the fingers. What follows could be an off-break, a leg-break, a googly, a zooter... ask Ajanta Mendis. Actually, ask batsmen who have faced him in the only 7 one-dayers he's played.