Leg spin is a type of spin bowling in cricket. A leg spinner bowls right-arm with a wrist spin action. The leg spinner's normal delivery causes the ball to spin from right to left when the ball bounces on the pitch. For a right-handed batter,that is away from the leg side,and this is where it gets the name leg break.
Off spin is a type of finger spin bowling in cricket. A bowler who uses this technique is called an off spinner. Off spinners are right-handed spin bowlers who use their fingers to spin the ball. Their normal delivery is an off break,which spins from left to right when the ball bounces on the pitch. For a right-handed batsman,this is from his off side to the leg side. The ball breaks away from the off side,hence the name 'off break'.
William Eric Hollies was an English cricketer,who is mainly remembered for dismissing Donald Bradman for a duck in Bradman's final Test match innings,in which he needed only four runs for a Test average of 100. Hollies played all his first-class cricket career for Warwickshire,taking 2,323 wickets at less than 21 apiece.
John Brian Statham,was an English professional cricketer from Gorton,in Manchester,who played for Lancashire County Cricket Club from 1950 to 1968 and for England from 1951 to 1965. As an England player,he took part in nine overseas tours from 1950–51 to 1962–63. He was a right arm fast bowler and was noted for the consistent accuracy of his length and direction.
Norman Gifford is a retired English cricketer,who played primarily as a left-arm spinner. Gifford played county cricket for Worcestershire,and Warwickshire County Cricket Clubs,and represented England in fifteen Test matches and two One Day International between 1964 and 1985.
Colin Leslie McCool was an Australian cricketer who played in 14 Test matches between 1946 and 1950. McCool,born in Paddington,New South Wales,was an all-rounder who bowled leg spin and googlies with a round arm action and as a lower order batsman was regarded as effective square of the wicket and against spin bowling. He made his Test début against New Zealand in 1946,taking a wicket with his second delivery. He was part of Donald Bradman's Invincibles team that toured England in 1948 but injury saw him miss selection in any of the Test matches.
Johnny Wardle was an English spin bowling cricketer whose Test Match career lasted between 1948 and 1957. His Test bowling average of 20.39 is the lowest in Test cricket by any recognised spin bowler since the First World War.
Malcolm Jameson Hilton was an English left-arm spin bowler,who played for Lancashire and in four Test matches for England.
Cecil"Sam" Cook was an English first-class cricketer who played for Gloucestershire County Cricket Club and in one Test match for the England cricket team.
Roy Tattersall was an English cricketer who played for Lancashire and played sixteen Tests for England as a specialist off spin bowler. He was born at Tonge Moor,Bolton,Lancashire,England.
Thomas Bignall Mitchell was an English first-class cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1928 and 1939.
Leonard Litton Wilkinson was an English cricketer who played in 3 Tests from 1938 to 1939. He was a leg spin bowler and played first-class cricket for Lancashire County Cricket Club between 1937 and 1947,although his career was interrupted by the Second World War.
Roly Jenkins was an English cricketer from the period immediately after World War II,almost exclusively for Worcestershire County Cricket Club as a leg spinner. Along with Doug Wright and Eric Hollies,Jenkins was a star of the last generation of English leg-spinners before a more defensive mindset,followed by failed rule changes like a standard 75 yards (68.6 m) boundary and then the advent of one-day cricket,all but killed off home grown wrist spinners.
Robert Berry was an English cricketer. He played in two Test matches in 1950. He played county cricket for Lancashire from 1948 to 1954,for Worcestershire from 1955 to 1958,and for Derbyshire from 1959 to 1962. He was the first cricketer to be capped by three different counties.
Jack Flavell was an English cricketer who played in four Tests for England from 1961 to 1964. His county cricket career was spent with Worcestershire,with whom Flavell won two County Championship titles. His new ball bowling partnership with Len Coldwell was one of the most feared and respected in the 1960s.
Sonny Ramadhin,CM was a West Indian cricketer,and was a dominant bowler of the 1950s. He was the first of many West Indian cricketers of Indian origin,and was one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1951. He is most famous for his performance in the West Indies' 1950 tour of England,which was immortalised in the song "Victory Calypso". He was also well known for his ability to turn the ball both ways and he was also largely known for using three short-legs along with close in fielders on the off-side during his playing days in order to exert more pressure on the batsmen. He was referred to as "a small neat man whose shirt-sleeves were always buttoned at the wrist". He was the last surviving member of the 1950 West Indies team that secured the West Indies' first-ever Test series win in England.
Stephen David Parry is an English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a slow left-arm bowler who played for Lancashire County Cricket Club. Parry made his senior debut for Lancashire in 2007 and in 2009 was named Lancashire's Young Player of the Year.
Simon Christopher Kerrigan is a retired English cricketer who last played for Northamptonshire. He bowled slow left arm orthodox spin. Kerrigan signed for Lancashire in September 2008,and made his debut for the first team in 2010,filling in for Gary Keedy,Lancashire's senior spinner. In August 2011,Kerrigan was selected for the England Lions for the first time. The following month he took the best first-class bowling figures for Lancashire since 1953 and that year Lancashire won the County Championship for the first time since 1950.
Peter David Watts was an English cricketer who played first-class and List A cricket for Northamptonshire and Nottinghamshire between 1958 and 1967. He also played Minor counties cricket for Bedfordshire and Shropshire. He was born at Henlow,Bedfordshire and educated at Bedford Modern School.
Brian Joseph Booth was an English cricketer who played in 350 first-class matches and 64 List A games,nearly all of them for Lancashire and Leicestershire,in a career that stretched between 1956 and 1973. He was born in Billinge End,Blackburn,Lancashire.
