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,
Bert Achong Bert Achong Bert Geoffrey Achong (6 December 1928 - 20 November 1996) was a Trinidadian pathologist. He is best known for co-discovering the Epstein-Barr virus through use of electron microscopy. Achong was born in Trinidad of Chinese descent. After excelling in school in Trinidad, he was awarded the Jerningham Gold Medal and the Colonial Scholarship to study in Europe. He enrolled at University College Dublin, where he received his medical degree in 1953. In 1955 he moved to London, and worked at Lambeth Hospital in London in Clinical Pathology. In 1963, he joined Michael Anthony Epstein's research group at Middlesex