Talk:Lord's slope

Joke article treated as a "serious" conspiracy theory
I've just removed a claim that there's a rather outlandish-sounding conspiracy theory concerning this slope. The reference given to support this is obviously a humour article, with none of its content being intended to be taken seriously. Nick-D (talk) 21:24, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

Title
None of the sources, including the Lord's website, refer to the subject using a proper noun. Therefore, I think it should be moved to Lord's slope.--ukexpat (talk) 02:13, 14 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Hearing nothing I went ahead and moved it.--ukexpat (talk) 20:55, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

Left/right-handers
"The gradient of the slope is noted to affect right-handed batsmen more than left-handed batsmen as the ball naturally moves towards left-handed batsmen."

The only thing that you need to know about cricket to appreciate quite how iffy this assertion is, is that the direction of play is reversed at the end of each 'over' of six balls. So when the bowling is from the Nursery End, the slope tends to deflect the ball from right to left (from the bowler's POV – left to right from the batsman's). But when the bowling is from the Pavilion End (as it is for half of the day's play), the opposite is true. In other words, the ball "naturally moves towards left-handed batsmen" only when the bowling is from the Nursery End. For the other 50% of the time, it moves naturally away from left-handed batsmen. And the same is true for right-handers, but vice-versa. Grubstreet (talk) 19:43, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

Lord's slope
The idea that the minuscule "slope" at Lord's cricket ground can affect the direction of a bowled ball is complete rubbish. The amount of contact between the ball and the ground is tiny and a slope  that cannot be more than about 2% cannot afect the ball's trajectory. Barretter (talk) 15:52, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Tell that to Nathan Lyon!  The C of E God Save the King!  ( talk ) 19:57, 8 August 2023 (UTC)