A left-arm orthodox spin delivery.
Left-arm orthodox spin is a type of bowling in the sport of cricket. Left-arm orthodox spin is bowled by a left-arm bowler using the fingers to spin the ball from right to left of the cricket pitch, and generally attempt to drift the ball in the air into a right-handed batter, making it drift on the air and spinning away from the batter upon landing on the pitch. The drift and turn in the air are attacking techniques. The major variations of a left-arm spinner are the topspinner (which turns less and bounces higher or lower in the cricket pitch), the arm ball (which doesn't turn at all, drifts into a right handed batsman in the direction of the bowlers arm movement, called a 'floater'.) and the left-arm spinner's version of a doosra (which turns the other way). The left-arm unorthodox spin like a leg break or Leg spin is also a bowling action.
Notable left-arm orthodox spinners[]
Australia[]
Bangladesh[]
England[]
- Johnny Briggs
- Phil Edmonds
- Ashley Giles
- Richard Illingworth
- Tony Lock
- Monty Panesar
- Wilfred Rhodes
- Phil Tufnell
- Derek Underwood
- Hedley Verity
- Johnny Wardle
India[]
- Palwankar Baloo
- Bishen Bedi
- Dilip Doshi
- Murali Kartik
- Bapu Nadkarni
- Venkatapathy Raju
- Ravi Shastri
- Maninder Singh
- Sunil Joshi