What is meant by 'Chinaman' in cricket?

Answer 1

In cricket, left-arm unorthodox spin – often known as slow left-arm chinaman and abbreviated to SLC – is a style of bowling. The bowler uses his wrist to spin the ball so that when it pitches it turns from off to leg for a right-handed batsman, i.e. from left to right from the bowler's perspective. The action and direction of turn exactly mirror those of a conventional right-handed leg spin bowler. Charlie 'Buck' Llewellyn, a South African all-rounder who played at the end of the 19th century, laid claim to inventing the delivery. A slow left-arm chinaman bowler may occasionally be able to produce the mirror image of a leg-spinner's "googly" ("wrong'un" in Australia), which turns in the opposite way in order to trick the batsman. In this instance the ball would turn away from the batsman, as if the bowler was an orthodox left-arm spinner.

The chinaman style of bowling is very rare, as not only is it difficult to bowl accurately, but the turn into the right-handed batsman is seen as less dangerous than the turn away from the batsman generated by an orthodox left-arm spin bowler; so virtually all left-armers choose to bowl orthodox. Very few specialist chinaman bowlers have played at Test level: the South African Paul Adams is perhaps the best known recent practitioner, although his technique is highly unorthodox in every sense of the word, and he is no longer in the South African team. The Australian Brad Hogg is the most successful current chinaman bowler, with over 100 ODI wickets, although he does not regularly play in Tests. In 2004, Dave Mohammed of the West Indies bowled this style in two Tests, and has more recently appeared in ODIs. In recent times, Michael Bevan and Simon Katich have also bowled chinamen for Australia, although they are better known for their batting. Historically the most famous practitioner of the art was the West Indian all-rounder Garfield Sobers, although he performed it as a third bowling style. Previously, "Chuck" Fleetwood-Smith bowled in this fashion for Australia in the 1930s.

The term "chinaman" to describe this particular style of bowling is believed to relate to former West Indian spin bowler Ellis "Puss" Achong. Achong, a left-arm orthodox spinner and the first Test cricketer of Chinese ancestry, bowled a delivery turning from off to leg and had the English batsman Walter Robins stumped as a result. Legend has it that Robins, as he walked back to the pavilion remarked, "Fancy being done by a bloody Chinaman".

Answer 2

A chinaman is a left-arm leg spinner

The term comes from the former West Indian player EE Achong, a left-arm spinner of Chinese origin, who bowled wrist spin as well as left-arm orthodox

South Africa's Paul Adams and Australia's Brad Hogg have recently revived the art of the Chinaman

Answer 3

Chinaman is a type of delivery.. like Medium fast, offspin, orthodox...!!!
Itz a delivery released from d tip of the thumb & the first two fingers... The ball is thrown in such a way dat it becums difficult for the batsmen to judge dat wud it be a an offspin or legspin...
South Africa's Paul Adams bowled chinman... & wid his complicated action it made guessing the ball more difficult for batsmen.
He has been the only bowler bowling chinaman...in d last 2 decades!

Answer 4

The meaning of Chinaman is a Left Arm Bowler who bowls legspin. The best orthodox example is Brad Hogg of Australia.

Answer 5

chinaman was used in late 19th century when a chinese guy was playing in county at england
he was the first to bowl in that style
it is the action/release bowled by a left arm wrist spinner

Answer 6

chinaman is a leftarm leg spinner like dave mohammed of west indies, brad hogg of australia

Answer 7

A ball bowled by a left-handed bowler to a right-handed batsman that spins from off to leg

Answer 8

Left arm leg spin bowler.
Rarest in cricket.

Answer 9

A type of bowling

Answer 10

a sort of spinner