In the Loop small roles, Samantha Harrington, Eve Matheson, and Will Smith. The only characters from the show, however, are Malcolm Tucker (Capaldi) and Jamie McDonald (Higgins), with brief appearances by Tucker's secretary Sam Cassidy (Harrington) and journalist Angela Heaney (Lucinda Raikes). The other "Thick of It" actors who appear play new characters, albeit very similar to the ones they portrayed in the series. Likewise, Anna Chlumsky went on to portray a similar but nominally different character in the subsequent American series, "Veep". The writing of "In The Loop" followed the methods developed during "The Thick of It" television series. Co-writer Jesse Armstrong
Off spin Indian spin quartet - E. A. S. Prasanna and Srinivas Venkataraghavan, also Harbhajan Singh and Ravichandran Ashwin of India, Saqlain Mushtaq and Saeed Ajmal of Pakistan, Jim Laker and Graeme Swann of England. Saqlain Mushtaq was credited with the invention of the "doosra", which is bowled with a similar-looking action to the off break but spins the opposite way, just as the leg spinner's googly turns the opposite way from his stock ball. Off spin Off spin is a type of finger spin bowling in the sport of cricket. A bowler who uses this technique is called an off spinner.