Team India's veteran batsman Sachin Tendulkar believes that James Anderson is the only bowler who can bowl a 'reverse outswinger' in which his wrist position is like a 'conventional inswinger'. Sachin Tendulkar named it 'reverse' reverse swing. On 100 MB app with West Indies legend Brian Lara, Tendulkar explained why Anderson was important to England in the first Test cricket match against the West Indies at the Aegis Bowl.
Tendulkar told Lara, "In the case of reverse swing, Jimmy Anderson is probably the first bowler, who has the ability to reverse the 'reverse swing'." In simple terms, for a right-handed batsman, in the conventional inswing, the bright part of the ball is outward and the rough side is inward.
In the case of a reverse outswinger, the movement of the ball is changed that it is outward for the right-handed batsman but the shiny part remains outward but the wrist position is different in both cases. According to Tendulkar, when he looked at Anderson's wrist position, he saw him doing a reverse outswinger, which had the same wrist position as the conventional inswinger.
Tendulkar said, 'What I experienced, over a period of time, that he would hold the ball as if he was bowling outswinger, but the release point, he would try and bring the ball back.' Most batsmen look at the position of his wrist and what he has actually done. He will show you that he is doing an inswinger but the imbalance between the two halves would take the ball away from you.
Tendulkar said that by rapidly changing his wrist position, Anderson forces the batsman to hit the shot. He said, 'What he has done is, he's got you to commit to playing, for an inswinger and the ball, after covering almost three-fourths of the length of the pitch, starts leaving you. But you had already committed, because you've seen that inswing position, and that is something which was new to me. Nobody had done that. '
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