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
Leg spin Leg spin Leg spin is a type of spin bowling in the sport of cricket. A leg spinner bowls right-arm with a wrist spin action, causing the ball to spin from left to right in the cricket pitch, at the point of delivery. When the ball bounces, the spin causes the ball to deviate sharply from left to right , that is, away from the leg side of a right-handed batsman. The same kind of trajectory, which spins from right to left on pitching, when performed by a left-arm bowler is known as left-arm orthodox spin bowling. As with all