1) What Is Leg Spin ?
Leg spin is a type of spin bowling in cricket. A leg spinner bowls right-arm with a wrist spin action. The leg spinner’s normal delivery causes the ball to spin from right to left (from the bowler’s perspective) in the cricket pitch when the ball bounces.
2) Comparison With Other Types Of Bowling ?
A left-handed bowler who bowls with the same (wrist spin) action as a leg spinner is known as a left-arm unorthodox spin bowler. The ball itself spins in the opposite direction.
The same kind of trajectory, which spins from right to left on pitching, when performed by a left-arm bowler is known as left-arm orthodox spin bowling.
3) Technique Of Bowl Leg Spin ?
A leg break is bowled by holding the cricket ball in the palm of the hand with the seam running across under all the fingers. As the ball is released, the wrist is rotated to the left and the ball flicked by the ring finger, giving the ball an anti-clockwise spin as seen from behind.
To grip the ball for a leg-spinning delivery, the ball is placed into the palm with the seam parallel to the palm. The first two fingers then spread and grip the ball, and the third and fourth fingers close together and rest against the side of the ball. The first bend of the third finger should grasp the seam. The thumb resting against the side is up to the bowler but should impart no pressure. When the ball is bowled, the third finger will apply most of the spin. The wrist is cocked as it comes down by the hip, and the wrist moves sharply from right to left as the ball is released, adding more spin. The ball is tossed up to provide flight. The batsman will see the hand with the palm facing towards them when the ball is released.
4) Some Records Of GreatLeg Spinner In Cricket History ?
- Shane Warne – 708 Test wickets (second all-time), one of five Wisden Cricketers of the Century[30]
- Bernard Bosanquet – credited with inventing the googly
- B. S. Chandrasekhar – took 16 five-wicket hauls
- Clarrie Grimmett – 216 Test wickets
- Anil Kumble – 619 Test wickets (third all-time), best bowling in an innings of 10/74
- Abdul Qadir – took 10 wickets in a match on five occasions
5) Other Delivery Bowl By Leg Spinner (GOOGLY , TOP SPIN ) ?
Highly skilled leg spin bowlers are also able to bowl deliveries that behave unexpectedly, including the googly, which turns the opposite way to a normal leg break and the topspinner, which does not turn but dips sharply and bounces higher than other deliveries. A few leg spinners such as Abdul Qadir, Anil Kumble, Shane Warne and Mushtaq Ahmed have also mastered the flipper, a delivery that like a topspinner goes straight on landing, but floats through the air before skidding and keeping low, often dismissing batsmen leg before wicket or bowled. Another variation in the arsenal of some leg spinners is the slider, a leg break pushed out of the hand somewhat faster, so that it does not spin as much, but travels more straight on
LEG SPIN & GOOGLY
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