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What is wrong if I try to bowl a legspin, but it always turns in the offspin direction?

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Simple! You're rotating your wrist in the wrong direction! Practice by doing slow wrist flicks in the right direction until you have found the right momentum.

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How do I drift while bowling a leg break?

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Drift depends on 4 (maybe 5) factors. The ball will drift to the right from a right handed bowler. The more spin you get the far more lightly you are to get drift, so get working on those revolutions. The ball is more lightly to drift on a clear, non-humid day. When trying to drift you have the get the seam as horizontal and upright to the pitch as possible. Make sure the ball gets lots of flight -- the longer the ball is in the air, the more time it will have to drift.

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Is a leg spin or off spin better?

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It depends on how much experience a bowler has had bowling the spin technique. Leg spin looks amazing if you can bowl around the legs of a right hand batsman/woman, but takes some skill. On the contrary, off spin when bowled well can keep the run total low as you'll keep on forcing the batsman/woman to block or face Lbw or to be bowled.

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Do I hold the ball on the seam or do I bowl cross-seam when trying to bowl a cutter?

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You hold the ball on the seam, although only your middle finger touches the seam.

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From which angle should the ball be released, according to left arm chinaman?

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The left arm chinaman is equal to the right arm off spin. For angle, you should follow the angle of right leg spinner.

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Do I bowl it slow or fast?

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Definitely about the middle, but mostly fast. If there is any slopes on the alley, it's best if you speed up the way you bowl so you don't hit them as much as you probably would if you bowled slowly.

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If I bowl leg spin, will the ball will turn 45 degrees?

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It depends on your action. It may spin more than 45 degrees, or maybe less. It is also possible that it does not turn.

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Is it important to do the bowl towards the left?

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No, you can go towards the right if that's better for you.

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Do I do a finger or wrist spin when bowling a leg break?

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Wrist, because leg spinner is a type of wrist spinner, not finger spinner.

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What do I do if I bowl a leg break and it goes wide?

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If it goes wide, the best thing to do is to practice trying to line your arm motion up with the wickets.

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What is the maximum speed allowed to a spin bowler?

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There is no such speed limit but the majority of spin bowls speed the bowl at around 80-90kmph.

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If my grip is leg break and my wrist position is leg break but my ball turns into off stump, what am I doing wrong?

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If you are a right-arm bowler, then the leg break would bounce near the leg stump and turn toward the off stump. So you are doing nothing wrong.

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What do I do if it falls full toss when I try to bowl leg spin?

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Only the batsman can do anything if it's a full toss. But you can practice how to bowl a leg spin the correct distance.

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Is a leg break a leg-spin variation or an off-spin variation? What are the different types of off spins?

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There are leg-spin variations like googly, top spinner and flipper, but I do not know any off-spin variation.

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