Variations
There is a large range of variations used by fingerspinners, with a brief description of the most common given below.
- Arm ball - a delivery with an upright seam faced towards the batsmen, which swings in and follows the direction of the arm. Generally bowled with a lot of backspin.
- Topspinner - a delivery with an upright seam rotating towards the batsmen, which generally tends to dip and bounce more than other deliveries
- Undercutter - a delivery with the seam horizontal, that skids on towards the batsmen. Seldom used in recent times.
- Doosra - a ball that turns from leg to off (a legbreak), but that is delivered in a similar manner to the traditional offbreak, such that it can be extremely difficult to differentiate between the two.
- Teesra - otherwise known as a backspinner, this delivery rotates backwards from the view of the batsmen, with the seam scrambled (thus differentiating it from the arm ball).
- Carrom ball - a surprise variation, flicked off the middle finger (in a similar fashion to a disk in the Asian game of Carrom) that turns from leg to off (a legbreak).
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