Left-arm unorthodox Spin is called ‘Chinaman’ in Cricket

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Left-arm unorthodox Spin is called ‘Chinaman’ in Cricket. Why ?

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In cricketing parlance, the word "chinaman" is used to describe the stock delivery of a left-arm "unorthodox" spin bowler (though some reserve it for the googly delivery). The name has its origins in a Test match played between the West Indies and England at Old Trafford, Manchester, in the year 1933. Ellis Achong (full name Ellis Edgar "Puss" Achong) a player of Chinese origin, was a left-arm orthodox spinner, playing for the West Indies at the time. He played cricket for the West Indies and was the first person of Chinese descent to play in a Test match.

He was from Trinidad & Tobago His main stock ball was left-arm orthodox spin (left-arm finger spin), but one of his variations was unorthodox left-arm spin. Left-arm unorthodox spin (left-arm wrist spin) is sometimes known as "slow left-arm chinaman" (SLC)After bowling this variation to have Walter Robins stumped at Old Trafford in 1933, it is reputed that Robins said to the umpire "fancy being done by a bloody Chinaman". Leare Constantine , West Indian cricketer on ground is said to have replied: "Do you mean the bowler or the ball?".

An unorthodox left-arm spin delivery (spinning from the off side to the leg side for a right-handed batsman) is known as a "chinaman" as a result leading to the popularity of the term in England, and subsequently, in the rest of the world.