8 Greatest leg spinners of all time

3. Bill O’reilly, Australia:

Also known as the Tiger, Bill O’reilly had a bowling average that might make any of the modern day leg-spinners flip and say, “Oh really?!” His average of 22.59 came against batting experts like Herbert Sutcliffe and Wally Hammond. O’reilly held the ball in a weird fashion – the index finger and middle finger would clasp the ball from one of it’s sides while his thumb would rest on the seam. At the same time, the rest of the fingers would stay crouched under the ball. If you try and hold the ball like that you’d see – spinning it that way would give you a leg-break and if you just open your crouched fingers at the final moment of delivering the ball, you’d get a topspin! This unconventional method made Tiger O’reilly a great threat and in just 27 Tests matches, he had shown a whooping 144 batsmen the way to the pavilion!