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
Wrist wrist. The hand may be deviated at the wrist in some conditions, such as rheumatoid arthritis. Ossification of the bones around the wrist is one indicator used in taking a bone age. The term 'wrist fracture' may be used to refer to fractures of the distal radius. The English word "wrist" is etymologically derived from the ancient German word "wristiz" from which are derived modern German "" ("instep", "wrist") and modern Swedish "vrist" ("instep", "ankle"). The base "writh-" and its variants are associated with Old English words "wreath", "wrest", and "writhe". The "wr-" sound of this base seems originally to