Left-arm orthodox spin
Type of left arm bowling in cricket
Left-arm orthodox spin, also known as slow left-arm, is a type of spin bowling in cricket. 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.
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.
01Notable slow left-arm orthodox spin bowlers
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), 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
- 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.
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