In the 1970s and 1980s, it was thought that leg spin would disappear from the game due to the success of West Indian, and later Australian teams, exclusively using fast bowlers. During … See more

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 … See more

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 See more

• About Leg Spin – talkCricket Archived 6 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine
• Leg Spin Definition – Oxford Dictionaries
• Leg Spin Basics video – wisdomtalkies
• How to bowl leg spin – BBC Sport See more

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 … See more

Players listed below have been included as they meet specific criteria which the general cricketing public would recognise as having achieved … See more

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