what is the difference between leg spin bowle and off spin bowler?

Answer 1

Off spin is a type of bowling in the sport of cricket which is bowled by an off spinner, a right-handed spin bowler who uses his fingers to spin the ball from a right-handed batsman's off side to the leg side (that is, towards the right-handed batsman, or away from a left-handed batsman). This contrasts with leg spin, in which the ball spins from leg to off and which is bowled with a very different action.
A left-handed bowler who bowls with the same action as an off spinner is known as a left-arm orthodox spinner.

Off spin is generally considered less difficult to play than leg spin, as off breaks typically spin less than leg breaks, and do not generally possess the same loopy, potentially deceptive flight. In addition, off spinners tend to have a smaller repertoire of deliveries to choose from. However, the off spinner often bowls faster and more accurately than a leg spinner, and can therefore deceive the batsman with changes in the pace of the ball. In addition, modern off spinners such as Sri Lanka's Muttiah Muralitharan have demonstrated that they can spin the ball as prodigiously as most leg spin bowlers.

Notable contemporary off spinners include, in addition to Muralitharan, Harbhajan Singh of India and Saqlain Mushtaq of Pakistan. Saqlain has been 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. Another common weapon of the off spinner is the arm ball, which doesn't spin but goes straight on "with the arm". More skilled offspinners also have the topspinner. Aside from these variations in spin, varying the speed, length and flight of the ball are also important for the off spinner.

Although rare now, in the past there were bowlers who used the off-break action who deliberately did not impart any considerable spin on the ball but relied on line and length to frustrate batsmen. They endeavoured to pitch the ball in an area that the batsman was unable to play a scoring shot, even making last moment adjustments to "follow" a batsman should they move within the crease to negate the bowlers tactics. Whilst this is primarily a defensive style, wickets were achieved by forcing a batsman to make a rash stroke or even bowling at the stumps instead of the retreating batsman. Another wicket taking method was to impart more spin on the ball than usual, and surprise the batsman! An exponent of this style of bowling was "Flat" Jack Simmons who played for Lancashire in the 1970's and 80's. With the advent of limited overs cricket promoting more adventurous batting styles and the use of ever heavier bats this style of bowling has declined, although some off-spinners will still use this tactic when the pitch is offering very little or no turn.

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Some notable off spinners
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Arshad Khan (Pakistan)
Johan Botha (South Africa)
Robert Croft (England)
Kumar Dharmasena (Sri Lanka)
Chris Gayle (West Indies)
Lance Gibbs (West Indies)
Harbhajan Singh (India)
Ramesh Powar (India)
Nathan Hauritz (Australia)
Jim Laker (England)
Shoaib Malik (Pakistan)
Muttiah Muralitharan (Sri Lanka)
Erapalli Prasanna (India)
Saqlain Mushtaq (Pakistan)
Andrew Symonds (Australia)
Tauseef Ahmed (Pakistan)
Shaun Udal (England)
Srinivas Venkataraghavan (India)
Mark Waugh (Australia)
Paul Wiseman (New Zealand)
Jeetan Patel (New Zealand)
Tillakaratne Dilshan (Sri Lanka)
Dan Cullen (Australia)

Leg spin is one of the two basic types of spin bowling in cricket, using wrist spin to move the ball away from the leg side of the batsman. The stock delivery of a leg spinner is the leg break, which is bowled by using the wrist and the fingers to spin the ball anti-clockwise at the point of delivery. When the ball bounces, the spin causes the ball to deviate sharply from right to left (as seen by the bowler) — i.e. away from the leg side of a right-handed batsman, which is the origin of the name "leg spin". The description applies exclusively to right-arm bowlers spinning the ball in this manner - the same action when performed with the left arm is known as left-arm unorthodox spin or "chinaman" bowling.

As with all spinners, leg spinners bowl the ball far slower than fast bowlers (45-55 miles per hour, whereas fast bowlers can top 90 mph), and typically use variations of flight by sometimes looping the ball in the air, allowing any cross-breeze and the aerodynamic effects of the spinning ball to cause the ball to dip and drift before bouncing and spinning (usually called "turning") sharply. While very difficult to bowl accurately, good leg spin is generally seen as the most threatening type of bowling to bat against, since the flight and sharp turn make the ball's movement extremely hard to read, and the turn away from the batsman (assuming he is right-handed) is more dangerous than the turn into the batsman generated by an off spinner.

Good leg spin bowlers are also able to bowl deliveries that behave unexpectedly, including the googly, which turns the opposite way to a normal leg break, and the topspinner, which doesn't deviate significantly. A few exceptional leg spinners (notably Shane Warne) have also mastered the flipper, a delivery that like a topspinner goes straight on landing but travels quickly and barely bounces, often dismissing batsmen leg before wicket or bowled. Another variation in the arsenal of some leg spinners is the slider, a leg break pushed out of the hand somewhat faster, so that it doesn't spin as much, but travels more straight on.

In the 1970s and 1980s it was feared that leg spin would disappear from the game with the success of Australian and later West Indian teams exclusively using fast bowlers. However, leg spin has again become popular with cricket fans and a successful part of cricket teams, driven largely by the success of Shane Warne, beginning with his spectacular Ball of the Century to Mike Gatting in 1993. Modern audiences now appreciate that the contest between batsman and leg spin bowler is more cerebral than the physical contest between batsmen and faster bowlers.

Notably, England has never produced a great orthodox leg spinner, although Doug Wright had occasional success, and Sydney Barnes took lots of wickets with a style combining elements of pace and leg spin bowling. This has usually been ascribed to the slow pitches in England, which allow batsmen time to read the spin. It is also significant that English batsmen tend to treat wrist spin very aggressively, which hampers the development of what is considered one of the hardest skills to master in cricket. Unsuccessful leg spinners are rarely given the time to develop that is often afforded to promising young batsmen or fast bowlers, as Chris Schofield and Ian Salisbury discovered in the 1990s.

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List of current or notable leg spinners
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Shahid Afridi (Pakistan)
Malinga Bandara (Sri Lanka)
Sydney Barnes (England)
Richie Benaud (Australia)
Bernard Bosanquet (England)
Upul Chandana (Sri Lanka)
Bhagwat Chandrasekhar (India)
Piyush Chawla (India)
Tich Freeman (England)
Clarrie Grimmett (Australia)
J.W. Hearne (England)
Narendra Hirwani (India)
Eric Hollies (England)
Danish Kaneria (Pakistan)
Alok Kapali (Bangladesh)
Anil Kumble (India)
Terry Jenner (Australia)
Stuart MacGill (Australia)
Mushtaq Ahmed (Pakistan)
Bill "Tiger" O'Reilly (Australia)
Abdul Qadir (Pakistan)
Laxman Sivaramakrishnan (India)
Shane Warne (Australia)
Cameron White (Australia)
Doug Wright (England)

Answer 2

Leg Spin

Answer 3

Leg spin is one of the two basic types of spin bowling in cricket, using wrist spin to move the ball away from the leg side of the batsman. The stock delivery of a leg spinner is the leg break, which is bowled by using the wrist and the fingers to spin the ball anti-clockwise at the point of delivery. When the ball bounces, the spin causes the ball to deviate sharply from right to left (as seen by the bowler) — i.e. away from the leg side of a right-handed batsman, which is the origin of the name "leg spin". The description applies exclusively to right-arm bowlers spinning the ball in this manner - the same action when performed with the left arm is known as left-arm unorthodox spin or "chinaman" bowling.

Basically in simple words:

Off spin - Right-handed with finger spin technique.
Leg spin - Right-handed with wrist spin technique.

Answer 4

Leg Spin bowler means that he turns the ball away from the right handed batsman and Off Spin bowler means he turns the ball in to the right batsman. And same is applicable to left handed batsman also.

Answer 5

Ouch! I played Cricket and I don't remember, so long ago...But I think the leg bowler means the ball lands on the leg side and spins towards the bat, while the off spin lands on the bat side and spins towards the legs of the batsman, or is it the other way around? Thanks for the question, though. It brought back memories.

Answer 6

a leg spin bowler bowls deliveries that after pitching(hitting the ground) turns away from the batsmen's leg or batsmen's off stump....while in case of a off-spin delivery by a bowler the ball after pitching moves in line of the legs or into the legs of the batsmen exactly opposite of a leg spin ball!

Answer 7

Easy terms.

Think of right hand bowlers bowling to right hand batsmen.

A right hand leg spinner bowls the ball from the outside of his hand which pitches on the leg side spinning towards the stumps.

A right hand off spinner bowls it from the inside of the hand which pitches on the "off side" or the bat side spinning towards the stumps.

Answer 8

In Leg Spin bowling bowl is coming to the Right handed batsman from his leg stump to his off stump
Where is in Off Spin bowling bowl is coming to the Right handed batsman from his off stump to his leg stump.
I hope you are clear about leg stump and off stump. so that you get better idea of this Leg Spin and Off Spin Bowling.
Thanx

Answer 9

a leg spin bowler is he who spins the ball away from right handed batsman and into left handed batsman.an off spiner is he who spins the ball into right handed batsman and away 4rm left handed batsman

Answer 10

leg spin is when the ball after pitching, moves away from the batsman;s legs and offspin is when the ball after pitching turns towards the legs of the batsman. read more, or ask in egroup http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/streetcricket/ to clarify all doubts (solve others' doubts too!)

Answer 11

LEG SPIN :- ball should be pitched outside the leg stump and turn into the stump

OFFSPIN:-ball should be pitched outside the off stump and turn into the stump.