How to Bowl an Off Spin Delivery in Cricket

Video Transcript

"Hi this is Ash on behalf of Expert Village. In this clip I'm going to tell you how to bowl an off-spin delivery. An off-spin is a delivery which is a tool for the slow bowlers. It's a delivery which, once bowled, comes on the off, and then turns towards the batsman. So it's a ball which would turn inside the batsman. So it landed the offside and come in. Let me show you how it happens. To take this stance, how to hold the ball here, you can actually hold the ball in various ways. Various slower bowlers, spinners, have different ways of holding the ball. It could be held like this, it could be held like this, or it could be held like this. So depending upon which one is more effective for you, you can hold the ball. Let me show you how this ball actually lands up. Since this is spin bowling, the run up would not be too long. It's going to be a shorter run up. And you bowl the ball which after being bowled, let me show you how, and so it comes toward the off side. It lets it lands up here, and then after that, it comes into the batsman. For the left- hander, it's the other way around. For the left- hander, this would be the delivery which would be leaving the left-hander like this and going out. Now again, this is with the assumption that the bowler is a right-hand bowler. This is how the ball looks like in real time. As you notice, after taking that bounce, the ball came inside."