What is a flipper?

Question

in cricket

Answer 1

The Flipper

The grip - The fingers are brought further forward on the ball and the thumb plays a part...grip is not too tight as this can stop the ball fizzing out of his hand.

The delivery - The trick is to not bowl it too fast. When he stays relaxed and squeezes the ball out through fingers and thumb (an instant after the centre picture), the underspin makes the ball slice through the air more quickly."

[from http://www.liveindia.com... ]

"The flipper is the name of a particular bowling delivery used in cricket, generally by a leg spin bowler. Squeezed out of the front of the hand with the thumb and first and second fingers, it keeps deceptively low after pitching and can accordingly be very difficult to play.

The flipper comes out underneath the hand at delivery. There must be sufficient tension in the wrist and fingers to impart a good helping of backspin or underspin. In doing so the flipper will float on towards the batsman and land ona fuller length than he anticipated, often leaving him caught on the back foot when he wrongly assumes it to be a pullable or a cuttable ball. The back spin or underspin will cause the ball to hurry on at great pace with very little bounce, though this may be harder to achieve on softer wickets. A series of normal leg spinners or topspinners, with their dropping looping flight, will have the batsman used to the ball pitching on a shorter length. The batsman may wrongly assume that the flipper will drop and loop like a normal overspinning delivery. "

Answer 2

Flipper
a leg spin delivery with under-spin, so it bounces lower than normal, invented by Clarrie Grimmett.

Answer 3

A flipper is a leg spin delivery with under-spin, so it bounces lower than normal, which was invented by Clarrie Grimmett.

Answer 4

flipper is a straight relatively fast bowl that that a spinner bowls