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Summary: The leg spin delivery is a type of cricket delivery used by the spin bowler. Learn how to bowl a leg spin delivery in this free educational sports video on how to play cricket.
"Hi this is Ash on behalf of Expert Village. In this clip I'm going to tell you how to bowl a leg-spin delivery. A leg-spin delivery is part of the armor of a slower spin bowler. A leg-spin delivery is the one which is bowled towards the leg side on the legs of the batsman, and this one leaves the batsman. To hold this ball, there are various ways and various ways a person might hold the ball for spin. You might want to hold it like this. Or your hands coming on the seam like this, so depending upon how effective you are when you bowl this ball, you can hold this ball. Let me show you how this ball is bowled. Now this is a typical bowling action wherein there is a lot of wrist of movement, so you would see here there is a lot of wrist movement. So this is, bowl like this, this is how to wrist moves here, and once the ball is bowled, typically you would see the ball would comes toward the legs on the leg side. And after taking a bounce it comes on the bat or leaves the batsman. Let's see this action in real time. This is how it looks. As you notice a spin, wonderful spin here."
eHow Article: How to Bowl a Leg Spin Delivery in Cricket