I'm a leg-spinner, and I tend to get more overspin than sidespin - for this reason I always have a short extra cover and a short fine leg, for the miscued cover drive and sweep respectively. In these positions you can both save runs and get catches. They're great for overspun balls that pitch shorter than expected and consequently bounce higher; less useful for the big lateral turners though...

Great tip Jim. Do many batsmen try to go over the top with that field? That would be my temptation.

I'm a leg-spinner put i can only get Top-Spin on the ball it's annoying me

I'm sorry to hear you are annoyed Chris. Are you asking for some advice or just venting your spleen?

I'm a legspinner and can vary my legspins woth more sidespin or overspin the only advice I can say chris is that try and position your wrist in a cocked position (you wrist bent inwards) and as you bring your arm up "flick" your wrist from right to left this may be uncomfortable at first but hopefully you'll be able to do it with practise.

Practice is the keyword. And good quality practice too.

I am a leg spin bowler and I always have a "45" to protect the singles behind square on the leg side. Also, I wouldn't have mid wicket and deep mid wicket.

What position would you give up for the protection from the sweep Ben?

iam a leg spiner: what is a flipper? what is a top spin?

Take a look here Jagen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puDkf9uNXPQ

thanks....i am my schools cricekt captain and off spinner. my main concern is that when i bowl to a batman, he either slog sweeps me even if i bowl outside the off stump. but if i pitch it short, he goes on the backfoot and drivesme....i have tried many times to bowl faster ones to him but he is quick....wat should i do? and can u also tell me where i should bowl on the pitch basically? 1m away from the batsman or 2m?
thanks once again

Ideally I would say 2m away from the batsman and make it turn to hit the top of off stump. Flight the ball well and vary your pace. Bowl a faster ball if the batsman is looking to step out. Have a deep square leg fielder to take any edges for the batsman who tries to sweep you and also to just give singles rather than boundaries.

I bowl Chinaman's but there doesn't seem to be any feild set above except for the first under 'slow left arm', but that seems to be for left arm orthodox, anyone care to help.

It's the same principle chinaman, you are moving the ball away from the right handed batsman so use a leg spinner's field. For left handers use an off spinner's field.

David thanks but I think you may be confused i spin the ball into the right-hander...

My apologies for that. You should follow a similar field to an off spinner with perhaps more defence on the leg side. Or perhaps I should ask you. What field do you like and why?

I honestly donn't have a great feild, infact I'd say it's pretty poor. I find it fairly easy to bowl to lefty's, just pitching it outside off spinning away seems to annoy them, but for right-handers I have no clue.

OK so lets start with the basics. Where does the ball go most often?

Everywhere... I don't know there doesn't seem to be an exact area. It depends how I'm bowling, but it usually goes around covers/point, or if I'm not bowling on line anywhere on the boundary on leg :).

That's a start. So let's pin it down even more.

We have to set a field to where you want the ball to land and not to your mistakes. So assuming a right handed bat the ball will pitch on off stump or middle and off and straighten towards the batsman. Mainly then he will play it fairly straight on the off or leg side. I would say in the region between midwicket and extra cover.

If you are turning it into the right hander, it's hard to hit square on the off side unless it's an edge.

So we have a basic field of mid on, mid off, midwicket, extra cover. Short third man could cover the sweep shot, slip could be in for the edge. The three other fielders could then be manipulated as you like.

What do you think?

Sounds good, but by sweep shot do you mean reverse? and what type of slip? backwards of the keeper, how far? or a wider gullyish slip?
also, I usually have to bowl outside off as i get a fair bit of bounce and even a good length ball will pop up and anything not on off stump our outside will get hit onto the leg.

Also I've been thinking of a field with a short cover, cover (different angle), extra cover, forward point and mid off. On the on side, short backward square (for the small shots they usually play around the corner), mid wicket and mid on.
This leaves me with two fielders, one I would most likey put deep at square and the other as another cover (possibly deep, sweeping) or as a slip.

Sounds like you have a good field there. Try it, see if the ball is going to where the men are. Have some attacking option sin mind too, like putting in a backward short leg.

i am a good spinner, but i can get so much spin it goes outside the square sometimes what do i do.

i am a leg spinner the ball sometimes goes to slip but not very often is there any point putting a slip in?

If the ball goes there then you would be a fool not to.

hey great advice for the others by the way.
im a leggie and can get the slider coming out, but is their other "backspin" delivers?
cheers

I would suggest posing a question like that on the forum Luke.