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How to bowl a floater?

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I am a sort of bowler who can bowl everything(Believe Me)....I can swing and seam the bowl at good pace....I can bowl spin as well both leg spin as well as off spin....But I prefer bowling off spin bowling....I can bowl off spin(both at pace which turns a little bit and a slower one which turn a mile),the bowl which goes the other way (not a doosra) but turning my fingers other way,quicker one and a straighter one with my index finger and with good accuracy......

But I have a real problem with floater.....So can anybody help me out how to bowl a floater ....Will be greatly appreciated....
 
Floater is the delivery where you hold the ball and deliver in a way where you don't try to put any revolution on the ball. Obviously it is really difficult to not put any revs on the ball, the ball will definitely have revs no matter what, but instead of lets say 1200 revs/minute you'll have 70 to 150 revs/min. How it works is kinda simple nut sometimes kinda difficult for some people to understand. Basically, when the ball is a bit spanked around, both sides of the ball won't have the same weight and smoothness so its aerodynamics get disturbed when it going towards the batsmen in the air. Since there aren't lot of revs, greater impact is felt on the ball. How shiny the ball doesn't matter, but the unevenness of the ball's surface/weight matters. So you are kinda pushing the ball rather than bowling. If you don't bowl at quicker pace, the batsmen will pick it up quickly and whack you out of the park. I've tried it floater in my room but not in the nets lol.
 
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