Hi Phantom Ram, I'm no expert either but can give you a little insight.
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Originally Posted by The Phantom Ram What is the difference between finger and wrist spin? |
Finger spin is so called as it involves simply 'rolling' the ball off a finger (usually the forefinger), often with only a small amount of wrist movement on release. Giles is a good example of a finger spinner. Right arm finger spin usually provides an off-break.
Wrist spin uses pretty much the whole rotation of wrist to impart the spin. The wrist will sort of start bent and will flick hard upon the release of the ball, differing angles of release and differing finger movements can provide different directions of sometimes
big spin. Warne is the best wrist-spinner in the world. Right arm wrist spin usually results in leg-break.
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Originally Posted by The Phantom Ram Does anyone do both? |
I bet Warne could turn a few off-breaks square, but to my knowledge no top players change their style. Some player, e.g. Warne and Murali, can mix up their deliveries and make the ball spin both ways off a similar action.
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Originally Posted by The Phantom Ram Is one better than the other? |
On the whole, leg-spinners can spin the ball more because of the wrist action providing more rotation power, but leg-spin is more difficult to provide accuracy. Warne can be very accurate and so he is a major threat, Murali can spin the ball more than a usual off-break bowler and so can be deadly also. so it's difficult to say which is better, off-break often provides less spin but leg-break maybe gives away more bad balls.
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Originally Posted by The Phantom Ram Is one harder than the other? |
Leg-spinnning (or wrist-spinning) is more difficult due to more moving parts I suppose. Have a look at the channel four website for the picture of actions and have a go in your garden or local park, see which you can bowl more accurately.
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Originally Posted by The Phantom Ram What is a leg break? |
Consider bowling leg-break to a right-hand batsmen, the leg-breaking ball will spin towards the off-side after pitching (from leg to off), an off-breaking ball will spin from off to leg.
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Originally Posted by The Phantom Ram What types of spin are there? |
Mainly off-break (Murali, Saqlain Mustaq, Harbajhan Singh), leg-break (Warne, Kumble, Mustaq Ahmed), left-arm othodox, finger spinning with the ball going from right to left or leg-to-off for a right hand batsman (Giles, Vettori, Ray Price) and left-arm china man which is a mirror image of right-arm leg-break (Paul Adams, I think Bevan used to bowl a bit, but chinaman spinners are few and far between).
As I said, I'm not an expert but hopefully this will be a little use to you.