Left-arm unorthodox spin

Some left-arm unorthodox bowlers also bowl what has historically been referred to as a chinaman, the equivalent of a googly, or 'wrong'un', which turns from right to left on the pitch.

[1] In cricket's modern era, Australian Brad Hogg brought the delivery to wider notice[1] and had one of the most well-disguised wrong'uns.

[7] Kuldeep Yadav, who debuted for India in March 2017, bowls left-arm wrist spin,[8][9] and Paul Adams played 45 Test matches and 24 One-day internationals for South Africa between 1995 and 2004 using the delivery.

[11] In the women's game, Kary Chan of Hong Kong uses left-arm wrist spin deliveries.

Examples include Chuck Fleetwood-Smith against England in 1936–37,[13] Michael Bevan against the West Indies in 1996–97,[14] and Paul Adams against Bangladesh in 2002–03.

In 2024 Cameron Ponsonby reiterated this view on The Final Word podcast, stating in jest of the success of Kuldeep Yadav, "The hardest thing in the world, in this sport, is to bowl wrist spin.

[b][23] It is first known to have been used in print in The Guardian in 1926 in reference to the possibility of Yorkshire bowler George Macaulay bowling a googly,[c] but the term became more widely used after a Test match between England and West Indies at Old Trafford in 1933.

[24] Wisden formally changed their wording of the term to slow left-arm wrist-spin in the 2018 edition of the Almanack, describing chinaman as "no longer appropriate".