Wrist spin

A leg spin (right or left arm wrist spin) delivery.

Wrist spin is a type of bowling in the sport of cricket. It refers to the cricket technique and specific hand movements associated with imparting a particular direction of spin to the cricket ball. The other spinning technique, usually used to spin the ball in the opposite direction, is finger spin.

Wrist spin is bowled by releasing the ball from the back of the hand, so that it passes over the little finger. Done by a right-handed bowler, this imparts an anticlockwise rotation to the ball, as seen from the bowler's perspective; a left-handed wrist spinner rotates the ball clockwise.

Although the biomechanical details of wrist spin are the same for right and left handed bowlers, such bowlers are often discussed separately, as the direction in which the ball deviates as it bounces on the cricket pitch is different:

• Right-handed wrist spin is more commonly known as leg spin.
• Left-handed wrist spin is more commonly known as left-arm unorthodox spin or left-arm chinaman.

Types of Delivery

Piyush Chawla of India, bowling a leg break.

• Leg break - Spins from leg to off, left to right as the batsman sees it. The leg break is the leg-spinner's attacking delivery.
• Googly - Bowled with a leg break action, but the wrist faces down on delivery, meaning the ball moves from off stumps to leg stumps.
• Topspinner - the topspinner bounces higher than usual and does not spin, it hits the seam and bounces off the pitch.
• Slider - a bowling delievery that goes straight on.
• Flipper - a backspinner, which doesn't bounce as much and often traps batsmen in L.B.W. or Leg Before Wicket decision.

Notable wrist spinners

This is a list of notable wrist spinners in alphabetical order:

• Richie Benaud
• Bhagwat Chandrasekhar
• Clarrie Grimmett
• Danish Kaneria
• Anil Kumble
• Bill O'Reilly
• Abdul Qadir
• Shane Warne

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