Fast Seam
Swing | Usual Overarm | |
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Spin Finger
off spin
left-arm orthodox
Wrist
leg spin
left-arm unorthodox Fast Bouncer
Inswinger
Leg cutter
Off cutter
Outswinger
Reverse
swing
Slower ball
Yorker Spin Arm ball
Doosra
Teesra
Flipper
Googly
Carrom ball
Leg break
Off break
Slider
Topspinner Other Full toss
Lob
Beamer (illegal) | ||
One of the key factors in cricket bowling is the grip. Variation in grip has a major influence on the outcome of a delivery. Below is the grip for an inswing delivery. To produce the grip for an outswinging delivery, you simply have place your fingers on the other side of the seam. For a right hander you would slightly angle the seam so that it faced towards first slip.
For a pace bowler there are many variations of grip that can be adopted to produce different results. A cross-seam delivery for example is one that is used commonly in all formats of the game. when bowled a cross-seam delivery can either land on the smooth leather side of the ball and skid on possibly keeping low or zipping off the pitch. It could also land in the seam making the ball bounce up sharply and unexpectedly surprising the batsman. Overall this is a very useful grip to use, once mastered it has a place in any fast bowlers arsenal.
See Delivery (cricket) for a description of different types of delivery and their associated grip.