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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]
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.
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
A right-handed batsman and left-arm unorthodox spin bowler, Compton is regularly credited as one of England's most remarkable batsmen. [2] Indeed, Sir Don Bradman said he was one of the greatest cricket players he'd ever seen. [3] He is one of only twenty-five players to have scored over one hundred centuries in first-class cricket. [4]
He was a left-arm spin bowler, bowling left-arm unorthodox spin. Kline is probably best remembered for his involvement in the outcome of two Test matches of the 1960/61 West Indies tour of Australia. He was the batsman who faced the seventh ball of the last over off Wes Hall in the famous Tied Test between Australia and West Indies at the Gabba ...
Johnny Wardle (8 January 1923 – 23 July 1985) [1] was an English spin bowling cricketer whose Test Match career lasted between 1948 and 1957. [2] His Test bowling average of 20.39 is the lowest in Test cricket by any recognised spin bowler since the First World War.