This quiz will test your knowledge of left-arm spinners.

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Every team at every level wants to have a left-arm orthodox spinner. Being a finger-spinner, they are usually more accuracy than their wrist-spinning counterparts, while moving the ball away from the right-handed batter makes them invaluable.

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Not as common are left-arm wrist-spinners. Not only do they belong to the intersection of two small groups (left-armers and wrist-spinners) but their stock ball also comes into the right-hander. That makes the ascent to the top levels difficult for left-arm wrist spinners.

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Take our quiz to test your knowledge of both left-arm finger-spinners and left-arm wrist-spinners.

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