Left-arm unorthodox spin international cricket. Paul Adams was a noted South African chinaman bowler who played 45 Test matches between 1995-2004. In 2018, Wisden decided to discontinue the use of the term "chinaman", after a cricket writer of Chinese descent, Andrew Wu, complained that it is racist. Left-arm unorthodox spin Left-arm unorthodox spin, also known as slow left arm chinaman, is a type of left arm wrist leg spin bowling in the sport of cricket. Left-arm unorthodox spin bowlers use wrist spin to spin the ball, and make it deviate, or "turn" from left to right after pitching. The direction of turn is
Arm ball Arm ball An arm ball is a type of delivery in cricket. It is a variation delivery bowled by an off spin bowler or slow left-arm orthodox bowler. It is the finger spin equivalent of a wrist spinner's "slider" or "zooter". In contrast to the stock delivery, an arm ball is delivered with rolling the fingers down the back of the ball on release. This means the ball has backspin on it, and it does not turn appreciably off the pitch. Instead, it travels straight on in the direction of the arm, from which it derives its name. However, by