Leg cutter

What differentiates a genuine leg cutter from a seam-up delivery that simply moves away off the seam is that it is deliberately bowled.

A fast bowler will typically use the leg cutter as a variation ball as it is most effective when it surprises the batsman.

The leg cutter action can also produce a significantly slower ball with little obvious change in the bowler's arm speed, making the delivery doubly deceptive.

"[citation needed] The most prominent users of leg cutter include Alec Bedser, Fazal Mahmood[2] and of late Terry Alderman, Carl Rackemann and Venkatesh Prasad.

Leg cutters are much more frequently seen in indoor cricket as the physical arena in which the game is played limits the pace at which bowlers can bowl, and hence they must use other techniques to prevent the batsmen from scoring.