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    An off cutter is a type of delivery bowled in cricket by fast bowlers. For a right-handed bowler, it involves pulling the fingers down the right side of the ball to impart spin that causes the ball to deviate from off to leg when it bounces, surprising the batsman. Mustafizur Rahman is one of the most successful bowlers of the off cutter, using subtle wrist action to generate deviation. The off cutter is often used as a variation ball and works well on rough pitches that grip the seam.

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    An off cutter is a type of delivery bowled in cricket by fast bowlers. For a right-handed bowler, it involves pulling the fingers down the right side of the ball to impart spin that causes the ball to deviate from off to leg when it bounces, surprising the batsman. Mustafizur Rahman is one of the most successful bowlers of the off cutter, using subtle wrist action to generate deviation. The off cutter is often used as a variation ball and works well on rough pitches that grip the seam.

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    An off cutter is a type of delivery bowled in cricket by fast bowlers. For a right-handed bowler, it involves pulling the fingers down the right side of the ball to impart spin that causes the ball to deviate from off to leg when it bounces, surprising the batsman. Mustafizur Rahman is one of the most successful bowlers of the off cutter, using subtle wrist action to generate deviation. The off cutter is often used as a variation ball and works well on rough pitches that grip the seam.

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    An off cutter is a type of delivery bowled in cricket by fast bowlers. For a right-handed bowler, it involves pulling the fingers down the right side of the ball to impart spin that causes the ball to deviate from off to leg when it bounces, surprising the batsman. Mustafizur Rahman is one of the most successful bowlers of the off cutter, using subtle wrist action to generate deviation. The off cutter is often used as a variation ball and works well on rough pitches that grip the seam.

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    Off-cutter grip for a left handed bowler

    An off cutter is a type of delivery in the


    game of cricket. It is bowled by fast
    bowlers.
    Bowling techniques
    Types

    Fast Seam Swing

    Medium pace

    Spin Finger (off spin left-arm orthodox)

    Wrist (leg spin


    left-arm unorthodox)

    Deliveries

    Fast Bouncer Inswinger Leg cutter


    Reverse
    Off cutter Outswinger swing
    Slower ball Yorker knuckle ball
    palmbowl split finger

    Spin Arm ball Doosra Teesra Flipper


    Googly Carrom ball Leg break
    Off break Slider Topspinner

    Other Full toss

    Actions

    Usual Overarm

    Other Underarm Roundarm

    Illegal techniques

    Throwing Emery ball Beamer

    v t e

    A bowler releases a normal fast delivery


    with the wrist locked in position and the
    first two fingers positioned on top of the
    cricket ball, giving it spin about a
    horizontal axis perpendicular to the length
    of the pitch. For an off cutter, a right-
    handed bowler pulls his fingers down the
    right side of the ball (from his viewpoint),
    in an action similar to bowling an off
    break, only at higher speed. This changes
    the axis of spin to make it more like an off
    break, which makes the ball deviate to the
    right when it bounces on the pitch. From a
    right-handed batsman's point of view, this
    deviation is to the left, or from the off side
    towards the leg side. This deviation is
    known as cut, and the delivery is called an
    off cutter because it moves away from the
    off side. What differentiates a genuine off
    cutter from a delivery that simply nips
    back off the seam is that it is deliberately
    bowled. A fast off cutter can also be
    bowled by placing the index and middle
    fingers on one side of the vertical seam,
    with the remaining fingers spread and
    tensed on the opposite side of the ball, as
    used by Brian Statham [1] and Ray
    Lindwall.[2]

    Off cutters do not turn as sharply as off


    breaks bowled by an off spin bowler, but at
    the speed of a fast bowler even a tiny
    deviation can cause difficulties for the
    batsman. If he is not quick enough to react
    to the movement, the batsman can miss
    the ball with his bat and be bowled
    between bat and pad or out leg before
    wicket if struck on the pads.

    A fast bowler will typically use the off


    cutter as a variation ball, as it is most
    effective when it surprises the batsman.
    Waqar Younis, Mustafizur Rahman, Glenn
    McGrath, Richard Hadlee, and Fred
    Trueman managed a bagful of wickets
    with this delivery because of the accurate
    lengths at which they operated, between
    fullish and good lengths (ball landing 2 to
    3 steps in front of the batsman) at close to
    the off stump line. The surprise comes
    because, when facing rigorously accurate
    off-side bowlers, like those mentioned
    above, batters usually incorporate plans to
    leave the ball, or exaggerate foot
    movements to the pitch of the ball in
    anticipation.

    The calling card of this delivery, for the


    batsman to read it in advance, is the
    typical wobble in the seam after ball
    release with the seam slanting
    predominantly towards the batsman. A
    simple way for a beginner to learn to bowl
    cutters is to try imparting strong back-spin
    to the ball by pulling down on the seam at
    the time of release while keeping the seam
    vertical.
    Cutters work especially well on pitches
    that are rough, or when the ball lands on
    cracks on the surface. Such surfaces grip
    the seam and stop the reverse rotation,
    leading to considerable deviation as well
    as causing the ball to keep low after
    pitching. In the latter case, the balls are
    also called 'shooters'. Lance Klusener used
    this tactic in matches in the West Indies
    and the Indian subcontinent, particularly in
    one match in Calcutta towards the end of
    his career when he had lost some of his
    speed.

    Mustafizur Rahman is probably the most


    successful bowler of the off cutter. Instead
    of rolling the fingers over the seam of
    sliding it back he flicks his wrists at the
    very last moment with very less change to
    his action. Thus the 'Fizz' grips the surface
    and deviates the ball from its line and gets
    a sudden jump like bounce with slower
    pace. He even bowls a fast off cutter. Thus
    Nasser Hossain rightly described him as a
    'fast off spinner'. A good example would
    be Andre Russels dismissal by Mustafizur
    in the Vivo IPL 2016.

    In test matches, bowlers tend to 'work the


    cracks' using cutters, meaning that they try
    pitching the ball on cracks repeatedly with
    the result that few of the balls that do
    pitch on cracks unsettles even a well-set
    batsman.

    In contemporary cricket, the off-cutter is


    primarily used as a slower ball in limited
    over cricket.

    See also
    Leg cutter

    See also
    Glenn McGrath bowling a devastating
    spell of off cutters down the slope at
    Lords, 2005.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?
    v=5wsTcONIJ6w
    Mitchell Starc's off cutter from around
    the wicket to dismiss James Vince,
    WACA, 2017

    References
    1. "Brian Statham: A great fast bowler who
    was once the highest wicket-taker in
    Tests" . Retrieved 21 May 2016.
    2. "Australian Bowling Greats: A Bat, A Ball
    and A Boy - Part 3 - Cricket History" .
    Retrieved 21 May 2016.

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