well i bowl left arm off break as my main bowling action,
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In cricket, left-arm unorthodox spin ? often known as slow left-arm chinaman and abbreviated to SLC ? is a style of bowling. The bowler uses his wrist to spin the ball so that when it pitches it turns from off to leg for a right-handed batsman, i.e. from left to right from the bowler's perspective. The action and direction of turn exactly mirror those of a conventional right-handed leg spin bowler. Charlie 'Buck' Llewellyn, a South African all-rounder who played at the end of the 19th century, laid claim to inventing the delivery. Some chinaman bowlers occasionally bowl the mirror image of a leg-spinner's "googly" (or "wrong'un" in Australia), which turns in the opposite way in order to trick the batsman. In this instance the ball turns away from the batsman, as if the bowler were an orthodox left-arm spinner.
The chinaman style of bowling is very rare, as not only is it difficult to bowl accurately (in common with leg spin), but the turn into the right-handed batsman is seen as less dangerous than the turn away from the batsman generated by an orthodox left-arm spin bowler; so virtually all left-armers choose to bowl orthodox. Very few specialist chinaman bowlers have played at Test level. The South African Paul Adams is perhaps the best known recent practitioner, although his technique is highly unorthodox in every sense of the word, and he is no longer in the South African team. The Australian Brad Hogg is the most successful current international chinaman bowler, with over 100 ODI wickets, although he does not regularly play in Tests. Dave Mohammed of the West Indies has also bowled this style in matches for his country since 2004. In recent times, Simon Katich and before him Michael Bevan have also bowled chinamen for Australia, although this role was secondary to their batting.
Historically the most famous practitioner of the art was the West Indian all-rounder Garfield Sobers, although he performed it as a third bowling style. Previously, Johnny Wardle bowled both chinamen and orthodox left-arm spinners for England in the 1940s and 50s, and "Chuck" Fleetwood-Smith bowled chinamen for Australia in the 1930s.
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In cricket, left-arm unorthodox spin ? often known as slow left-arm chinaman and abbreviated to SLC ? is a style of bowling. The bowler uses his wrist to spin the ball so that when it pitches it turns from off to leg for a right-handed batsman, i.e. from left to right from the bowler's perspective. The action and direction of turn exactly mirror those of a conventional right-handed leg spin bowler. Charlie 'Buck' Llewellyn, a South African all-rounder who played at the end of the 19th century, laid claim to inventing the delivery. Some chinaman bowlers occasionally bowl the mirror image of a leg-spinner's "googly" (or "wrong'un" in Australia), which turns in the opposite way in order to trick the batsman. In this instance the ball turns away from the batsman, as if the bowler were an orthodox left-arm spinner.
The chinaman style of bowling is very rare, as not only is it difficult to bowl accurately (in common with leg spin), but the turn into the right-handed batsman is seen as less dangerous than the turn away from the batsman generated by an orthodox left-arm spin bowler; so virtually all left-armers choose to bowl orthodox. Very few specialist chinaman bowlers have played at Test level. The South African Paul Adams is perhaps the best known recent practitioner, although his technique is highly unorthodox in every sense of the word, and he is no longer in the South African team. The Australian Brad Hogg is the most successful current international chinaman bowler, with over 100 ODI wickets, although he does not regularly play in Tests. Dave Mohammed of the West Indies has also bowled this style in matches for his country since 2004. In recent times, Simon Katich and before him Michael Bevan have also bowled chinamen for Australia, although this role was secondary to their batting.
Historically the most famous practitioner of the art was the West Indian all-rounder Garfield Sobers, although he performed it as a third bowling style. Previously, Johnny Wardle bowled both chinamen and orthodox left-arm spinners for England in the 1940s and 50s, and "Chuck" Fleetwood-Smith bowled chinamen for Australia in the 1930s.
great findings man!
. I tried that and now I am becoming A LOT more accurate.
