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
Indian spin quartet Indian spin quartet The Indian spin quartet is the collective name given to the Indian spin bowlers of the 1960s and 1970s: Erapalli Prasanna and Srinivas Venkataraghavan (both off spinners), Bhagwat Chandrasekhar (a leg spinner), and Bishen Singh Bedi (a left-arm spinner). Between them, they played 231 Test matches, taking 853 wickets. They were one of the most deadly combinations in world cricket, especially on the dusty subcontinental pitches. The spin quartet was instrumental in producing many Indian Test victories. There was only one match in which all four of them were in the starting XI: usually one of the