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As for the length you should be bowling, trying to get the batsman to come forwards and play on the front foot is a vital component of effective swing bowling. This means that the ball will be in the air longer and therefore it will have more chance to move around!

A laminar boundary layer can turn into a turbulent boundary layer when it is tripped with a disturbance. That disturbance can be caused by surface roughness or a local protuberance. When this occurs, the laminar layer is forced to become turbulent. Gently bowl to your partner. If you are a right-handed bowler, you will see the ball start to swing from right to left. Research done at the CSIR National Chemical Laboratory at Pune shows that six different factors determine the swing of the ball. As the game progresses, the surface on the sides of the ball begins to degrade. Wear and tear will start to show on one or both sides of the ball. This affects the symmetry of it, which then can allow the ball to swing. Players will often try to smooth one side of the ball so that it has one shiny side and one rough side.

The Australian case

Nobel prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman and his colleague Amos Tversky showed that the way people think about probability and come to judgements based on evidence is subject to biases that make us rather poor intuitive scientists. Examples such as Massie’s test match are vivid and memorable. The grip is immensely important with swing bowling. This will control the ball as it flies through the air with the intention of moving on its way to the batter. Any bowler can impart reverse swing on the ball, but the science suggests that there is an optimum speed. For the professionals, they don’t want it to be too fast or too slow. The turbulent layer contains more energy and activity. That means that it can stay attached to the surface of the ball for a longer distance than a laminar layer. And that causes the ball to swing. What Is the Reynolds Number? Imagine the reaction if Alastair Cook had batted first at the Oval on a cloudy, humid day and England had gone on to lose the match. Motivated cognition would suggest that in such cases where the predicted conditions are not accompanied by curving deliveries, cognitive work in the form of ad hoc explanations will be carried out to preserve the initial belief. Hence we saw commentators during the final Ashes test match suggesting that the bowlers didn’t get it quite right on the first morning or that the Australians batted well enough to neutralise the swing.

It is hard to see how some soil accumulating on a piece of tape and subtly rubbed on the ball would have any significant effect on the behaviour of the ball. I defended the bowlers from any illegal interference - I felt there was no way to be certain that the scratches and striations on the ball were not the natural result of the ball landing on the abrasive Oval surface, and no one had been caught on camera doing anything suspicious. Would Australia's attempts have worked? Another important factor in swing bowling is the seam position. The position of the seam determines the point at which the airflow around the ball turns turbulent. It not only controls where the separation point is but also directly affects the sideways force on the ball.For those expert swing bowlers, it was really all about a subtle change in technique that would give the ball a chance of reversing as it got older.