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,
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