off-spinnern.
/ˈɒfˌspɪnə/, U.S. /ˈɔfˈˌspɪnər/, /ˈɑfˈˌspɪnər/ Cricket.
A bowler who bowls off-spin. Also: a ball bowled with this spin.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > bowling > [noun] > a ball bowled > types of delivery or ball
full toss1826
long hop1830
twister1832
bail ball1833
bailer1833
grubber1837
slow ball1838
wide1838
ground ball1839
shooter1843
slower ball1846
twiddler1847
creeper1848
lob1851
sneak1851
sneaker1851
slow1854
bumper1855
teaser1856
daisy-cutter1857
popper1857
yorker1861
sharpshooter1863
headball1866
screwball1866
underhand1866
skimmerc1868
grub1870
ramrod1870
raymonder1870
round-armer1871
grass cutter1876
short pitch1877
leg break1878
lob ball1880
off-break1883
donkey-drop1888
tice1888
fast break1889
leg-breaker1892
kicker1894
spinner1895
wrong 'un1897
googly1903
fizzer1904
dolly1906
short ball1911
wrong 'un1911
bosie1912
bouncer1913
flyer1913
percher1913
finger-spinner1920
inswinger1920
outswinger1920
swinger1920
off-spinner1924
away swinger1925
Chinaman1929
overspinner1930
tweaker1938
riser1944
leg-cutter1949
seamer1952
leggy1954
off-cutter1955
squatter1955
flipper1959
lifter1959
cutter1960
beamer1961
loosener1962
doosra1999
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricketer > [noun] > bowler > types of bowler
slow bowler1823
fast bowler1828
bias bowler1854
round-arm1858
demon bowler1861
left-hander1864
chucker1882
lobster1889
slow1895
leg-breaker1904
speed merchant1913
leg-spinner1920
spin bowler1920
off-spinner1924
quickie1934
tweaker1935
swerve-bowler1944
pace bowler1947
seam bowler1948
spinner1951
seamer1952
wrist-spinner1957
outswinger1958
swing bowler1958
quick1960
stock bowler1968
paceman1972
leggy1979
1924 N. Cardus Days in Sun 52 It is not that bowling is deadlier nowadays than it was, say, in the days of conventional off-spinners like Hearne and Wainwright.
1956 A. R. Alston Test Comm. vi. 43 He set about Johnson as no self-respecting off-spinner ought to behave to another of his kind.
1983 B. Willis & A. Lee Captain's Diary ii. 34 He is a confident bloke and maintains that he should be able to bowl his off-spinners just the same way he does in England.
2001 Sun 27 Jan. 67/1 The odd thing about Murali is that he's an off spinner with a lot of wrist in his action.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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