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Abdul Qadir Khan SI (Urdu: عبد القادر خان, 15 September 1955 – 6 September 2019) [2] was an international cricketer who bowled leg spin for Pakistan. [3] Abdul Qadir is widely regarded as a legendary leg spinner from the 1970s and 1980s and was a role model for up and coming leg spinners.
Gupte's brother Baloo was also a leg spinner who played for India. Gupte met Carol at an official function during his successful 1952–53 tour of the Caribbean with India, which he finished claiming 50 first-class wickets. [12] They married in the late 1950s he moved to Trinidad where his finished his career as a cricketer in 1964.
Don Bradman said he was the best leg-spinner to tour Australia since Sydney Barnes, [2] and Keith Miller thought he was the best leg-spinner he had seen apart from Bill O'Reilly. [3] He toured Australia in 1946–47 and 1950–51 , but was dogged by ill-luck and was considered to be the "unluckiest bowler in the world".
Bhagwat Subramanya Chandrasekhar (informally Chandra; born 17 May 1945) is an Indian former cricketer who played as a leg spinner.Considered among the top echelon of leg spinners, Chandrasekhar along with E.A.S. Prasanna, Bishen Singh Bedi and Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan constituted the Indian spin quartet that dominated spin bowling during the 1960s and 1970s. [1]
Arthur George Barrett (4 April 1944 – 6 March 2018) [1] was a West Indian international cricketer who played in six Test matches from 1971 to 1975.. A leg-spinner, Barrett played for Jamaica from 1966–67 to 1975–76, and then returned for another season in 1980–81.
Leg spin is a type of spin bowling in cricket. A bowler who uses this technique is called a leg spinner. Leg spinners bowl with their right-arm and a wrist spin action. The leg spinner's normal delivery is called a leg break, [1] which spins from right to left (from the bowler's perspective) when the ball bounces on the pitch.
The Caribbeans were skittled for 134 in reply and went on to lose the match, although they attacked the young leg-spinner, who took 1/130 in total from 36 overs. [7] Benaud scored his maiden first-class century, 117 against South Australia, in the next match, two years after falling short of the milestone by seven runs.
His bowling action was far from the classic leg spin bowler's run-up and delivery, indeed, according to Wisden, "he was asked to make up the numbers in a Sydney junior match and, with a method that at first made everyone giggle, whipped out the opposition". [1] [8] From a young age, O'Reilly was a tall and gangly player. [11]