Assalamu alaikum, welcome to Reverse Swing Diaries. I am Saad Farooqi, I bowled fast-medium for Karachi for eight seasons, and this is the show where we talk cricket the way players talk it in the dressing room, with the arguments left in. Today, the thing this show is named after. Reverse swing. Most people think it is magic, some people think it is cheating, and the truth is a mix of physics, patience and a fielding side that treats one half of the ball like a newborn. I will explain what the ball is actually doing in the air, how you get it there legally, and why it was Pakistani bowlers who turned it into an art. Later in the week I have a groundsman from Rawalpindi with forty years of stories. You are listening on Witspeak Podcasts. Let us get the old ball out.