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Left-arm orthodox spin

Type of left arm bowling in cricket

Left-arm orthodox spin or left-arm off spin, also known as slow left-arm orthodox spin bowling, 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.

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 normal delivery of a left-arm orthodox spin bowler is the left-arm orthodox spinner.

The major variations of a left-arm orthodox spin bowler are the topspinner (which turns less and bounces higher in the cricket pitch), the arm ball (which does not turn at all and 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).

Notable 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)

References

(30 October 2003). "How to bowl left-arm spin".
(17 October 2013). "MasterClass: Left arm spin bowling with Nadeem". [[YouTube]].
"Records / Twenty20 Internationals / Bowling records / Most wickets in career". ESPNcricinfo.
"FC matches | Bowling records | Best figures in an innings | ESPNcricinfo".

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