Talk:Left-arm unorthodox spin

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I'm a fan of cricket, especially spin bowling. I wondered how the likes of Shane Warne can give such a delivery, to Andrew Strauss as we saw in the second test 1st innings at Edgbaston (Ashes series 2005). I would like some enlightenment on spin bowling, I will welcome any answers, views and opinions. Shane Warne is right arm unorthodox, not left. He bowled Strauss by putting an absurd amount of sidespin on the ball. The ball travels forwards relatively slowly, but is spinning counter-clockwise at a high rate. The ball hits the surface, the seam grips the surface and because of the direction of the spin, its movement after pitching makes it travel from right to left (the direction of the balls sidespin) and took it from the legside to the offside where it beat the bat and hit the off stump. The trick is the generate a huge amount of sidespin and to get the seam position right so that it grips the ground on impact, and changes the direction of travel.

[edit] Maurice Leyland/ Chinaman

I addded the bit about Maurice Leylands naming as I am a relation and this story has long been in the family. Thought I would add it. (RuSTy1989 22:51, 6 August 2006 (UTC))

We need a authentic source, but I think the Leyland entry in Who's who of first class cricketers by Bailey, Thorn and Wynne-Thomas (1985 & 1995) mentions this. Someone will need to look it up. Tintin (talk) 06:35, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Chinaman - a style or type of delivery

I may well be wrong but I had always understood 'a chinaman' to refer specifically to the left arm wrist spin delivery bowled with a 'googly' action causing the ball to spin from leg to off to the right handed batsman. It appears that the common usage of the term has changed to become descriptive of the entire style of left arm wrist spin regardless of the type of delivery. Whilst this is clearly a fairly obscure point, I feel that any clarification would be welcome.

Colin Rickard172.188.130.230 10:55, 30 June 2007 (UTC)