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[[Image:Off break small.gif|thumb|right|Animation of a typical off spin delivery, bowled from [[wikt:over the wicket|over the wicket]].]]
'''Off spin''' is a type of [[fingerspin spinbowling]] bowling in [[cricket]]. A bowler who uses this technique is called an '''off spinner'''. Off spinners arebowl [[rightwith their arm|right-handed]]arm and a [[spinfinger bowling|spin bowlers]] who use their fingers to spin the ballaction. Their normal [[Delivery (cricket)|delivery]] is an '''off break''',<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.differencebetween.info/difference-between-off-break-and-off-spin| title = Difference between Off Break and Off Spin| date = 15 July 2013}}</ref> which spins from left to right (from the bowler's perspective) when the ball bounces on the [[cricket pitch|pitch]]. For a right-handed [[batsman]], this is from his [[off side]] to the [[legball side]] (that is,breaks towards the right-handed batsman, or away from a left-handed batsman). The ball breaks ''away''them from the [[Fielding (cricket)#Off- and leg-side fields|off side]],<ref name=wikihow /> hence the name 'off break'.
 
Off spinners bowl mostly off breaks, varying them by adjusting the [[line and length]] of the deliveries. Off spinners also bowl other types of delivery, which spin differently. Aside from these variations in spin, varying the speed, [[line and length|length]] and flight of the ball are also important for the off spinner.
 
The bowler with the most [[Dismissal (cricket)|wickets]] in the history of both [[Test cricket|Test matches]] and [[One Day International|ODIs]], [[Muttiah Muralitharan]], was an off spinner.<ref>{{cite web |title=Muttiah Muralitharan's rise to the top of the world |url=https://www.icc-cricket.com/news/1656490 |website=ICC |access-date=28 July 2020 |date=17 April 2020 |quote=On the occasion of the legendary Sri Lankan off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan's 48th birthday, we revisit his rise to the top of the international wicket-takers' charts through an animated graph.}}</ref>
 
==History==
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*[[Muttiah Muralitharan]] of [[Sri Lanka]], who has the most wickets in both ODIs and Test matches,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/records/93276.html|title=Records / Test matches / Bowling records / Most wickets in career|publisher=ESPNcricinfo|access-date=16 December 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/records/283193.html|title=Records / One-Day Internationals / Bowling records / Most wickets in career|publisher=ESPNcricinfo|access-date=16 December 2012}}</ref>
*[[E. A. S. Prasanna]] and [[Srinivas Venkataraghavan]], two of the legendary [[Indian spin quartet]]
*[[Harbhajan Singh]] and [[Ravichandran Ashwin]] of [[India]]
*[[Saqlain Mushtaq]] and [[Saeed Ajmal]] of Pakistan. [[Saqlain Mushtaq]] was credited with the invention of the "[[doosra]]", which is bowled with a similar-looking action to the off break but spins the opposite way, just as the leg spinner's [[googly]] turns the opposite way from his stock ball.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/pakvaus2009/content/story/401970.html|title=I can teach Australians the doosra - Saqlain|date=29 April 2009|publisher=ESPNcricinfo|author=Cricinfo staff|access-date=16 December 2012}}</ref>
*[[Jim Laker]] and [[Graeme Swann]] of England
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*[[Ajantha Mendis]]: inventor of the carrom ball
*[[Lance Gibbs]]: first spinner to pass 300 wickets
*[[Ravichandran Ashwin]]: Indianof India. Fastest Bowler to reach 250, 300 and 350 wickets in test cricket.
and more...
 
==Other deliveries bowled by off spin bowlers==
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