Editing Left-arm orthodox spin (section)

{{Short description|Type of left arm bowling in cricket}}
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[[Image:Slow left arm small.gif|thumb|right|A left-arm orthodox spin delivery]]
[[File:Slow left arm bowling Keedy and Parry, 2012).ogv|thumb|right|[[Lancashire County Cricket Club|Lancashire]] players [[Gary Keedy]] and [[Stephen Parry (cricketer)|Stephen Parry]] bowling left-arm orthodox spin in the [[2012 Friends Life t20]]]]
'''Left-arm orthodox spin''' or '''left-arm off spin''', also known as '''slow left-arm orthodox spin bowling''', is a type of [[spin bowling]] in [[cricket]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sportacademy/hi/sa/cricket/skills/newsid_3207000/3207491.stm|title=How to bowl left-arm spin|date=30 October 2003|access-date=21 June 2019|website=BBC News}}</ref>
Bowlers using this technique bowl with their left-arm and a [[finger spin]] action. Their normal [[Delivery (cricket)|delivery]] spins from right to left (from the bowler's perspective) when it bounces on the pitch.

Left-arm orthodox spin bowlers generally attempt to drift the ball in the air into a right-handed batsman, and then turn it away from the batsman (towards off-stump) upon landing on the pitch. The drift and turn in the air are attacking techniques. The normal delivery of a left-arm orthodox spin bowler is the left-arm orthodox spinner.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O-Nlc7pRXo| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211117/2O-Nlc7pRXo| archive-date=2021-11-17 | url-status=live|title=MasterClass: Left arm spin bowling with Nadeem|date=17 October 2013|access-date=21 June 2019|publisher=[[YouTube]]}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

The major variations of a left-arm orthodox spin bowler are the [[topspinner]] (which turns less and bounces higher in the cricket pitch), the [[arm ball]] (which does not turn at all and drifts into a right-handed batsman in the direction of the bowler's arm movement; also called a 'floater') and the left-arm spinner's version of a [[doosra]] (which turns the other way).