Does it really matter what you call a particular type of swing? Well, it matters because the science dictates what type of swing it is. Of course, bowlers do not have to know or understand the science ...

Swing bowling has long been a crucial art all fast bowlers have tried to master. Whether utilising conventional movement through the air with a new ball or reverse swing with an older ball, swing ...

Clouds gather over Lord's Ian Kington/AFP via Getty Images It has been cricketing lore ever since an American called Bart King toured England in 1897 and started taking wickets with a delivery known ...

Pat Cummins is steaming in at the SCG to Pakistan's star batter, Babar Azam. He lets a ball rip that out of the hand is heading outside the off-stump, before it swerves dramatically in to trap Azam on ...

For conventional swing, the ball moves in the direction in which the seam is positioned. For reverse, it moves in a direction that is opposed to that of the seam ...

Conventional swing, reverse swing, contrast swing. In the past few years cricketers have been barraged with new and convoluted descriptions of a ball's deviation through the air, but only the select ...