Snow started his First Class Cricket and Test Match career as a fast-medium seam bowler. He tended to bowl chest-on, which enabled inswing but limited chances of lbw decisions and restricted his pace. It took him three years to control this habit, and he "finally began to sort it out" when he played club cricket, as well as coached, in South Africa (after he was not chosen for the 1965–66 Ashes tour of Australia). The process was helped by the less intense schedule in South Africa and the hard, fast and bouncy wickets.