For a spinner to excel in his craft, the grip along with the follow through plays a vital role. After reading this post, you will be equipped with everything that is required to bowl the perfect leg break delivery. Let’s begin.

Compared to the off spinner, perfecting the leg spin is tricky because your fingers and wrists play an important part. Generally, bowling a flighted leg spinner is intended to lure the batter to come down the pitch and for the most part, get stumped or caught behind. Even the grip is tricky when you try to perfect the leg spinner. Place your index finger, ring finger and middle finger on the seam with your thumb resting under the ball.

As for the action, right before the release of the ball, ensure that the outside of your palm is facing you instead of the batter. The idea here is to roll your fingers. Now, with the power of your wrists, it becomes easy to control the movement of your fingers for the best leg spinner. Furthermore, if you reduce the pace and flight the ball, there is a high change that the batter can commit himself early into the shot, eventually leading to a wicket.

Continuing the action for the leg break, ensure your backfoot stays parallel to the wickets, while your front foot is firmly planted near or on the front bowling crease, however, in the diagonal direction, preferably pointed towards the mid-wicket region. As for the follow through, lift your left hand, roll your fingers using the power of your wrists.

To bowl the perfect leg spinner, complete your follow through by moving towards the batting crease and not by stopping abruptly. For the next blog post, we learn the arm ball. Stay tuned!