Left-arm orthodox spin

Bowling techniques
Types
Fast	Seam Swing
Medium pace
Spin	Finger off break left-arm orthodox Wrist leg break left-arm unorthodox
Throwing (illegal)
Deliveries
Fast	Bouncer Inswinger Leg cutter Off cutter Outswinger Reverse swing Slower ball Yorker
Spin	Arm ball Doosra Teesra Flipper Googly Carrom ball Leg spin Off spin Slider Topspinner
Other	Full toss Beamer (illegal)
Actions
Usual	Overarm
Other	Underarm Roundarm Lob

A left-arm orthodox spin delivery

Lancashire players Gary Keedy and Stephen Parry bowling left-arm orthodox spin in the 2012 Friends Life t20

Left-arm orthodox spin also known as Slow Left Arm Orthodox is a type of Left Arm Finger Leg spin bowling in the sport of cricket. Left-arm orthodox spin is bowled by a left-arm bowler using the fingers to spin the ball from right to left of the cricket pitch (from the bowler's perspective).

Left arm orthodox spin bowlers generally attempt to drift the ball in the air into a right-handed batsman, and then turn it away from the batsman (towards off-stump) upon landing on the pitch. The drift and turn in the air are attacking techniques. The left-arm orthodox spin like an off break or off spin is also a bowling action.

The major variations of a left-arm spinner are the topspinner (which turns less and bounces higher in the cricket pitch), the arm ball (which does not turn at all, drifts into a right-handed batsman in the direction of the bowler's arm movement; also called a 'floater') and the left-arm spinner's version of a doosra (which turns the other way). The left-arm unorthodox spin like a leg break or leg spin is also a bowling action.

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