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In Cricket , left-arm unorthodox spin – often known as '''slow left-arm chinaman''' and abbreviated to '''SLC''' – is a style of Bowling . The bowler Uses His Wrist to spin the ball so that when it pitches it turns from Off to Leg for a right-handed Batsman , i.e. from left to right from the bowler's perspective. The action and direction of turn exactly mirror those of a Leg Spin bowler (who bowls right-handed). Charlie Llewellyn , a South African All-rounder who played at the end of the 19th Century , laid claim to inventing the delivery. A slow left-arm chinaman bowler may also have a " Googly " ("wrong'un" in Australia ) which turns in the opposite way in order to trick the batsman. This style of bowling is very rare, as not only is it difficult to bowl accurately, but the turn ''into'' the right-handed batsman is seen as less dangerous than the turn ''away'' from the batsman generated by a Paul Adams is perhaps the best known recent practitioner, although his technique is highly unorthodox in every sense of the word and he is no longer in the South African team. The Australian Brad Hogg is the most successful current chinaman bowler, with over 100 ODI wickets, although he does not regularly play in Tests. In 2004, Dave Mohammed of the West Indies bowled this style in Tests against England , but like Adams he has been dropped from international cricket. In recent times, Michael Bevan and Simon Katich have also bowled chinamen for Australia, although they are better known for their batting. Historically the most famous practitioner of the art was the West Indian all-rounder Garfield Sobers , although he performed it as a third bowling style. Previously, "Chuck" Fleetwood-Smith bowled in this fashion for Australia in the 1930s. The term "chinaman" to describe this particular style of bowling is believed to relate to former West Indian spin bowler Ellis "Puss" Achong . Achong, a left-arm orthodox spinner and the first Test cricketer of Chinese ancestry, bowled a delivery turning from off to leg and had the English batsman Walter Robins stumped as a result. Legend has it that Robins, as he walked back to the pavilion, remarked to the umpire, "Fancy being done by a bloody Chinaman". REFERENCE
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