An arm ball is a type of delivery in cricket.It is a variation delivery bowled by an off spinner or left arm Orthodox bowler.It is equivalent to wrist spinner’s slider or zooter.
The trajectory of the ball will be along the direction of the arm during delivering the ball which means there will be only little spin or no spin on the ball.Sometimes the slow bowlers bowls the ball with the seam upright which sometimes produce inswing or outswing on the delivery.
Sanath Jayasuriya, Saqlain Mushtaq, Daniel Vettori, Mohammad Rafique and Maninder Singh use the arm ball to good effect.Suleimann Benn of West Indies is also a very good arm bowler.
