Sri Lanka’s Lasith Malinga bowled with a distinctive horizontal slinging action PATRICK HAMILTON/AFP /AFP via Getty Images
The secrets of a devastatingly effective horizontal bowling technique have been revealed by a team of physicists.
When bowling a cricket ball, most people tend to rotate the arm vertically about the shoulder joint. But an alternative method is to use a roundarm motion, in which a bowler extends their arm at about 90 degrees from their body, so it is almost horizontal to the ground when they release the ball.
