Top Spin: Again,  this action for an untrained eye will have no significant change in the bowler’s action but the ball will be delivered with an extra loop to be able to extract extra bounce

Left arm orthodox

It is the mirror image of the right arm offspinners bowling action delivered by a left arm bowler. The ball with the left hander’s natural grip will move away from the right-hand batsman after pitching.

Left arm orthodox also will have similar variations of the Arm bowl and Top spin as mentioned above

Both Right Arm Off spin and Left arm Orthodox are finger spin

Leg Spin

Leg Spin is probably the more difficult of the skill as compared to off spin as this requires involvement of wrist and difficult to control.

Here the ball moves away from the right-hand batsman after pitching.

The wrist bowler is able to extract more turn from the surface of the pitch due to the bowling action and hence a popular style of bowling made famous by the GOAT Shane Warne.

Traditionally the wrist bowlers are considered wicket takers and not necessarily used to contain runs.

Due to the unique bowling action and use of wrist, leg spinners tend to have more variations which also lead to losing of control. The bowlers rely heavily on the flight, loop, drift and pace of the delivery to deceive the batsman apart from the length of the delivery. This leads to the bowler beating the batsman in the air and of the surface

Some of the variations include

Googly: With wrist work, the bowler is able to move the ball into the right-handed batsman after pitching.

Flipper: Similar to the arm bowl but bowled with a slightly faster speed , the bowl tends to skid through and maintain the direction of the delivery after pitching

Pace variation in spin bowling plays a vital role and bowlers need to adjust their delivery speed according to surface to become more potent

The degree of turn depends on bowler to bowler according to bowling action and style.

Great Spinners had a natural loop and drift in the air before the ball pitched which became a variation by itself to deceive batsmen.

Left Arm unorthodox (Chinaman)

A left arm bowler using a wrist spinners action and mirroring a right arm leg spinner is a rare and unique sight. Here the ball moves into the right-hand batsman after the pitching in the conventional wrist spin action and moves away from a right-handed batsman if a googly is bowled.

Leg-spinners usually have more variations than the off-spinners, who usually depend on the flight and trajectory to pick up wickets.

Famous Spin Bowlers:

Spinners are the masters of deception in cricket. They are an asset for whichever team they play. While fast bowling relies on strength and speed, spinners have to be more technical and clever in tactics.

Supersports360 team lists the top spinners of the modern era after an extensive research for their top spinners of all time.

Shane Warne

After Don Bradman, the cricketer who came near to have a similar celebrity status was the legendary Shane Warne. A master of his skill, a true trend setter and solely responsible to revive the art of Leg spin.

Shane Warne is Australia’s leading wicket taker with 708 wickets and the second highest in the world.

History will remember Shane Warne as the greatest spinner of all time purely because he dominated his skill in batting friendly conditions too. He delivered the “Ball of the century” dismissing Mike Gatting in the ashes series.

Shane Warne had more variety than any of his contemporaries during his playing days and ended up his International career with more than 1000 wickets.

Warne’s leg-spin and flipper were particularly lethal, and he ended up taking more than 1000 wickets in his international career.

Warner has 708 wickets in 145 Tests and 293 ODI wickets in 194 matches.