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==Notable leg spin bowlers== [[File:Shane Warne bowling 2009.jpg|thumb|269x269px|Shane Warne bowling a leg spin delivery]] Players listed below have been included as they meet specific criteria which the general cricketing public would recognise as having achieved significant success in the art of leg spin bowling. For example: leading wicket-takers, and inventors of new deliveries. * [[Shane Warne]] β 708 Test wickets (second all-time), one of five Wisden Cricketers of the Century<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/page2/content/story/153387.html|title=Wisden β Five cricketers of the century|work=Cricinfo|date=23 October 2008}}</ref> * [[Bernard Bosanquet (cricketer)|Bernard Bosanquet]] β credited with inventing the [[googly]] (also known as the "Bosie" in Australia) * [[Robin Hobbs]] β the last English leg spin bowler to take 1,000 first-class wickets in his career. In all he took 1,099 with a best of 8 for 63 at an average of 27.09. * [[B. S. Chandrasekhar]] β took 16 [[five-wicket haul]]s * [[Clarrie Grimmett]] β 216 Test wickets * [[Anil Kumble]] β 619 Test wickets (currently 4th on the list of all-time Test cricket wicket takers), best bowling in an innings of 10/74 * [[Abdul Qadir (cricketer)|Abdul Qadir]] β took [[10 wickets in a match|10 wickets in a Test match]] on five occasions * [[Tich Freeman]] - 3776 [[First class cricket|first-class]] wickets, the second of all time and the most of any leg spin bowler. He played his last Test match from August 17-20, 1929, against [[South Africa]] at [[The Oval|The Oval'''.''']]'''<ref>{{cite web |title=Tich Freeman profile and biography |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/tich-freeman-12918 |access-date=23 October 2021 |work=Cricinfo}}</ref>'''
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