Chinaman
Time to demystify another term. What exactly is a chinaman? I’m not quite sure, but my guess would a left-arm off-spinner’s doosra? Any of you know?
Time to demystify another term. What exactly is a chinaman? I’m not quite sure, but my guess would a left-arm off-spinner’s doosra? Any of you know?
June 22, 2006 at 6:45 pm
Chinaman is a left-arm spinner turning the ball from off to leg. Brad Hogg of Australia is a chinaman bowler. See wikipedia for more : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-arm_unorthodox_spin
June 22, 2006 at 8:00 pm
In simple terms, it’s a left-arm leg spinner.
June 23, 2006 at 4:19 am
I think its a left-arm leg spinner too. Heard it first when Paul Adams came onto the scene.
June 23, 2006 at 6:45 am
Sobers bowled left arm unorthodox too!
June 23, 2006 at 9:02 pm
So did Michael Bevan…
June 23, 2006 at 11:23 pm
A recent chinaman bowler cited: Dave Mohammad of West Indies
June 24, 2006 at 4:56 am
nice to know more abt chinaman!
June 25, 2006 at 5:47 pm
Aah, that raises an important point. So, the chinaman is really bowling off-spin, but he’s considered a leg-spinner? If Harbhajan bowls to a left-hander, he’s not considered a leg-spinner, so why is this? Perhaps the term chinaman was introduced to avoid all this confusion.
Thanks for the info, everybody.
August 28, 2006 at 1:10 pm
THe Chinaman isn’t considered a leg-spinner, he just uses the same bowling action as a leg-spinner would, ie. using his wrist to turn the ball. Harbhajan is an off spinner because he turns the ball from a right hander’s off to their leg
December 14, 2006 at 11:40 am
A Chinaman is and always has been a left arm wrist spinner’s googly (i.e his wrong ‘un). Finger spinners (left or right) don’t bowl googlies, they may bowl a doorsa or other finger spin variants.
Hence to a right handed batter the Chinaman will move (after piching) from leg to off.
December 26, 2006 at 9:24 am
Chinaman is the mirror version of leg-spin - its basically a left-handed bowler version. If you’re a left-handed batsman and a Chinaman bowler comes on, you’d be facing exactly what a right-handed batsman faces against a leg spinner - a ball that starts at your leg stump and moves to off. A Chinaman’s “wrong’un” has the same movement as a Leg Spinner’s leg break, on a right-handed batsman it moves from the leg stump to the off stump.
January 27, 2007 at 2:06 pm
left arm chinaman is not an easy but michael bevan made it look easy and brad hogg does that now
January 27, 2007 at 2:08 pm
slow left arm bowling is very common but i can bowl both haha
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November 2, 2007 at 7:37 am
well dunno what thats got to do with cricket
anyway, i bowl left arm chinaman, but i bowl it with just my thumb and index finger. so you dont need the wrist action of a leggie to bowl it. and when i use a wrist action, its spins the opposite way, so basically i bowl googlies the whole time lol.