Talk:Wrist spin

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How should this page be integrated or harmonized with the leg spin page? There is a lot of overlap between the terms leg spin and wrist spin. But they are not the same. Wrist spin encompasses both conventional leg spin and the left handed equivalent - the chinaman. Moreover wrist spin is not the only way to bowl leg spin. Leg breaks can be bowled with finger spin - the middle and index fingers doing most of the work in imparting spin.

This page refers to finger spin turning the ball in the opposite direction to wrist spin. Whilst this is true for the stock deliveries of wrist and finger spin bowlers it is not true for their variations. It also refers to wrist spin releasing the ball from the back of the hand. This is true for the googly, but not for a leg break, which comes out of the front of the hand.