Types of bowlers in cricket Pakistan and Anil Kumble of India rank amongst the most successful bowlers in Test cricket history. Left-handed wrist spinners, who are much rarer than right-handed wrist-spinners, are called chinaman bowlers, after an early left-arm finger spinner of Chinese descent, Ellis Achong, who sometimes bowled wrist spinners as a variation while playing for the West Indies. A ball delivered in this way will spin from the off-side to the leg-side for a right-handed batsman. Paul Adams of South Africa is the best-known recent chinaman bowler. Australian one-day all-rounder Brad Hogg is another current exponent of left-arm wrist-spin, as is his teammate,
Finger spin between the thumb and a bent middle finger to impart spin. Though the delivery is known to date from at least the 1940s, it was re-introduced into mainstream international cricket in the late 2000s by Ajantha Mendis of Sri lanka, Ravichandran Ashwin of India further popularised the carrom ball. A top-spinner is a type of delivery bowled by a cricketer bowling either wrist spin or finger spin. In either case, the bowler imparts the ball with top spin by twisting it with his or her fingers prior to delivery. In both cases, the topspinner is the halfway house between the