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Left-arm unorthodox spin bowlers use wrist spin to spin the ball, and make it deviate, or 'turn' from left to right after pitching. [1] The direction of turn is the same as that of a traditional right-handed off spin bowler, although the ball will usually turn more sharply due to the spin being imparted predominantly by the wrist.
Left-handed wrist spinners, who are much rarer than right-handed wrist-spinners, are called Left-arm unorthodox spin bowlers. This form of delivery was often termed a chinaman after an early left-arm finger spinner of Chinese descent, Ellis Achong , who sometimes bowled wrist spinners as a variation while playing for the West Indies .
Left-arm orthodox spin bowlers generally attempt to drift the ball in the air into a right-handed batsman, and then turn it away from the batsman (towards off-stump) upon landing on the pitch. The drift and turn in the air are attacking techniques. The normal delivery of a left-arm orthodox spin bowler is the left-arm orthodox spinner. [2]
The googly is a major weapon in the arsenal of a leg spin bowler, and can be one of the bowler's most effective most important wicket-taking balls. It is used infrequently, because its effectiveness comes mostly from its surprise value. Left-arm unorthodox spinners can bowl with the googly action
Left-arm unorthodox spin the style of spin bowling produced by left-arm wrist spin; the left-arm equivalent of leg spin. Formerly called Chinaman bowling, after Ellis Achong, a West Indian of Chinese descent, but that term is now considered derogatory. [64] Left hand A batter who bats left-handed is said to be a 'left-hand' bat. (Contrast "left ...
Paul Regan Adams (born 20 January 1977) is a former South African cricketer.A left-arm unorthodox spin bowler with a unique bowling action, Adams played for the Test and ODI teams for national team sporadically since the 1990s.
Raghav Goyal (born 26 January 2001) is an Indian cricketer, who bats left-handed and bowls left-arm unorthodox spin. [1] He started learning to play cricket at the age of 11. [2] He hails from Panipat, a city in Haryana, although he received training from Vijay Yadav Cricket Academy in Faridabad. [3]
He is a left-handed batsman and a left-arm unorthodox spin bowler. Patel made his debut first-class appearance for Derbyshire in April 2007 at the age of just 16, making a sturdy innings of 31 against Cambridge University UCCE, assisting the county's new Danish star Frederik Klokker on the latter's way to a century in just his second first ...