Left-arm orthodox spin
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Left-arm orthodox spin, also known as slow left-arm, is a type of spin bowling in cricket.[1] Bowlers using this technique bowl with their left-arm and a finger spin action. Their normal delivery spins from right to left (from the bowler's perspective) when it bounces on the pitch.
The normal delivery of a left-arm orthodox spin bowler attempts to drift the ball in the air into a right-handed batsman and then turn it away from him (from leg to off) upon landing on the pitch.[2]
The major variations of a left-arm orthodox spin bowler are: the topspinner, which turns less and bounces higher; the arm ball, which does not turn at all and drifts into a right-handed batsman; the left-arm spinner's version of a doosra, which turns the other way.
Notable slow left-arm orthodox spin bowlers
[edit]Players listed below are included as they meet specific criteria which are generally recognized as having achieved significant success in the art of left-arm orthodox spin bowling. For example, leading wicket-takers, and inventors of new deliveries.
- Rangana Herath – 433 Test wickets (highest by a left-arm spinner in all men's Tests), 74 ODI wickets and 18 T20I wickets
- Sanath Jayasuriya – 98 Test wickets, 323 ODI wickets (highest by a left-arm spinner in all men's ODIs)
- Daniel Vettori – 362 Test wickets and 305 ODI wickets
- Derek Underwood – 297 Test wickets
- Ravindra Jadeja – 309 Test wickets and 220 ODI wickets
- Saad Bin Zafar - 72 T20I wickets, 31 ODI wickets, and the first bowler to bowl 4 maiden overs in a T20I match
- Bishan Singh Bedi – 266 Test wickets
- Shakib Al Hasan – 246 Test wickets, 317 ODI wickets, 140 T20I wickets (the 2nd highest in men's T20Is),[3] and 317 ODI wickets
- Ravi Shastri – 151 Test wickets
- Keshav Maharaj – 177 Test wickets
- Ashley Giles – 143 Test wickets
- Taijul Islam – 204 Test wickets
- Jess Jonassen – 141 ODI wickets and 96 T20I wickets
- Sophie Ecclestone – 109 T20I wickets
- Hedley Verity – 10-10, best bowling figures in a first class inning[4]
- Ajaz Patel – Only left-arm spinner to take 10 wickets in an innings of a Test Match
- Monty Panesar – 167 Test wickets
- Gudakesh Motie – 35 Test wickets (11 matches)
- Imad Wasim - Over 300 T20 wickets and 73 T20i wickets
- Yuvraj Singh – 150 wickets in career. One of the most notable all rounder in Indian cricket.
References
[edit]- ↑ "How to bowl left-arm spin". BBC News. 30 October 2003. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
- ↑ "MasterClass: Left arm spin bowling with Nadeem". 17 October 2013. Archived from the original on 17 November 2021. Retrieved 21 June 2019 – via YouTube.
- ↑ "Records / Twenty20 Internationals / Bowling records / Most wickets in career". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
- ↑ "FC matches | Bowling records | Best figures in an innings | ESPNcricinfo".