About Spin Wizard
#spinwizard
Eranga Mendis is a specialist cricket and spin bowling coach. He’s a former Sri Lankan first-class cricket player with a wealth of experience playing in both Sri Lanka and England. Eranga has coached for over fifteen years. His focus is not just on the technical aspects of cricket, but on the whole player, unlocking the potential for success at the highest level.
He is an ECB Level 4 Coach with deep, extensive knowledge and experience – one of the best of an unsung elite group of specialist spin bowling coaches on the current circuit.
Eranga is the “go to man” for many professional players and cricketing organisations around the world. His expertise has led him to work with over 1000 players and coaches. He is a regular member of the coaching team at Surrey county cricket club for their Elite and Performance Programmes.
Key Elements of Coaching
Mind power techniques
Technique optimisation
spin bowler as tactician
spin bowler as strategist
Communication psychology
Team decision making support
Create Individual wisdoms
Upcoming courses
Pre-Season Spin Bowling Academy
£540
- Saturday 2pm-4pm
6th Jan 2024 – 23rd Mar 2024
12 Weeks ProgrammeRichard Challoner School
Manor Drive North
New Malden
KT3 5PA
Real-Time Online Coaching Worldwide
Online Spin Lab Video Analysis Worldwide
£25 - £75
- The session will be conducted in the GMT time zone
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Online Coaching
Many players don’t have access to specialised coaches, players from anywhere in the world can now get the coaching they want, no matter where the coach or mentor is based.
Both cutting-edge coaching programmes are comprehensive and are designed to help you fine-tune technique and raise your game. Embrace the opportunity to excel with comprehensive programs accessible worldwide.
Real-Time Video Coaching
Welcome to the Worldwide Spin Bowling Community! Your time has come to connect with the best in the business for winning spin bowling solutions through One-to-One Real-Time Video Coaching.
View courseSpin Analysis Lab
Send in a short clip of your spin bowling via WhatsApp to the legendary Eranga Mendis. He will carefully review your clip and provide personalized 1:1 feedback
View courseRecommendations
"I am very proud to be working alongside Eranga. He has shown a real passion & enthusiasm for coaching & in particular spin bowling. He has demonstrated a real depth of knowledge working with youngsters learning the game to professional first-class cricketers. If you work with Eranga you are in good hands"
Mark Ramprakash England l Former England Batting Coach
"Eranga has provided spin bowling support to our elite player programme and age group squads for a number of years. He was instrumental in helping Amar Virdi as a teenager. Very supportive and talented coach"
Gareth Townsend Academy Director l Surrey County Cricket Club
"Throughout my CAG years Eranga played a big role in my development and continues to do so. He's a fantastic coach with his unique ideas on how to improve as a young spinner. He has lots to offer especially when it comes to variations and tactical nouse. Any young spinners to cross his path is very lucky as he's one of the best coaches out there"
Amar Virdi Surrey l England Lions
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Eranga’s Spin Quotes
#Thinkspinbesmart
Coaches need to understand that spinners come in different shapes and sizes. All bowl at varying paces, trajectories and angles of spin, so there is no right or wrong. Think Warne and Kumble. They both bowl with relentless accuracy. Ones spins big and other barely spins the stock ball.
No matter what spin the ball as hard as you can.
Blisters and cuts in your fingers remind you who you are.
Thinking outside the box with unassailable courage -the way to bowl in T20 cricket.
In test cricket bowling to a plan means each ball is part of the plot for a dismissal.
In ODI cricket, bowl to a situation and create pressure. Then you’re in business!
The indomitable character of a spinner comes within the power of the mind.
Unfold the spin myth? NO - Line & length YES - Control line & length
When you’ve felt you’re in the zone, there’s no better feeling at all when bowling spin.
Confuse the batter, not you.
Over decades of my experience coaching spinners, it’s always a game of patience developing spin bowlers. It is so important that we are patient in helping them, understanding their needs and observing deeply more often when we say something to them.
Practice doesn’t depend on just bowling, rather it requires a continuous awareness of the flow of consciousness and feeling and sensing whatever is happening – composing yourself and always being aware of that flow.
Unfortunately, there is an expectation amongst some coaches and some captains I witnessed that all wrist spinners should bowl like Shane Warne, when in fact it is likely no one ever will.
Players must focus on developing the fundamental skills of bowling, for these are what exposed at the higher levels.
Encourage a rhythmical approach to the crease, with a gradual build up in momentum allowing the spinner to explode through the crease.
World best spinners not only practise but they make sure the practice takes them all the way to the middle, so they deliver the performance they have practised.