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Off-cutter grip

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A bowler releases a normal slow delivery with the wrist locked in position and the first two fingers positioned on top of the cricket ball, giving it spin about a horizontal axis perpendicular to the length of the pitch. For an off cutter, a right-handed bowler pulls his fingers down the right side of the ball (from his viewpoint), in an action similar to bowling an off break, only at higher speed. This changes the axis of spin to make it more like an off break, which makes the ball deviate to the right when it bounces on the pitch. From a right-handed batsman's point of view, this deviation is to the left, or from the off side towards the leg side. This deviation is known as cut, and the delivery is called an off cutter because it moves away from the off side. What differentiates a genuine off cutter from a delivery that simply nips back off the seam is that it is deliberately bowled. Cricket ball A cricket ball is a hard, solid ball used to play cricket. ... Cricket pitch (not to scale) A wicket consists of three stumps that are placed into the ground, and topped with two bails. ... An off break is a type of delivery in the sport of cricket. ... Warwickshire batsman Mike Powell A batsman in the sport of cricket is, depending on context: Any player in the act of batting. ... For usage in other sports, see offside rule. ... The leg side, or on side, is defined to be a particular half of the field used to play the sport of cricket. ...

Off cutters do not turn as sharply as off breaks bowled by an off spin bowler, but at the speed of a fast bowler even a tiny deviation can cause difficulties for the batsman. If he is not quick enough to react to the movement, the batsman can miss the ball with his bat and be bowled between bat and pad or out leg before wicket if struck on the pads. Off spin is a type of bowling in the sport of cricket which is bowled by an off spinner, a right-handed spin bowler who uses his or her fingers to spin the ball from a right-handed batsmans off side to the leg side (that is, towards the... In the sport of cricket, leg before wicket (LBW) is one of the ways in which a batsman can be dismissed. ...

A fast bowler will typically use the off cutter as a variation ball, as it is most effective when it surprises the batsman. Contemporary bowlers Waqar Younis, Glenn McGrath or former greats like the late Fred Trueman managed a bagful of wickets with this delivery because of the accurate lengths at which they operated, between fullish and good lengths (ball landing 2 to 3 steps in front of the batsman) at close to the off stump line. The calling card of this delivery, for the batsman to read it in advance, is the typical wobble in the seam after ball release with the seam slanting predominantly towards the batsman. A simple way for a beginner to learn to bowl cutters is to try imparting strong back-spin to the ball by pulling down on the seam at the time of release while keeping the seam vertical. Cutters work especially well on pitches that are rough (or when the ball lands on cracks on the surface). Such surfaces grip the seam and stop the reverse rotation, leading to considerable deviation as well as the effect of ball keeping low after pitching. In the latter case, the balls are also called 'shooters'. In test matches, bowlers tend to 'work the cracks' using cutters, meaning that they try pitching the ball on cracks repeatedly with the result that few of the balls that do pitch on cracks unsettles even a well set batsman. Waqar Younis (Urdu: ÙˆÙ‚Ø§Ø± ÛŒÙˆÙ†Ø³) (born November 16, 1971 as Waqar Younis Maitla) is a Pakistani cricketer, a fast bowler, from Burewala, Punjab. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Frederick Sewards Trueman OBE (February 6, 1931 â€“ July 1, 2006) was a Yorkshire and England cricketer, regarded as one of the greatest fast bowlers in history. ...

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