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Lindsay Kline averaged 22.82 with ball in Test cricket, doing particularly well overseas. Alas, he played only 13 Tests.
Johnny Wardle, a left-arm finger-spinner, took to bowling Chinaman and found reasonable success on Australian pitches.
Garry Sobers bowled outswing, inswing, and finger-spin. He also bowled wrist-spin...
“If ever the result of a Test match can be said to have been decided by a single ball, this was the occasion,” wrote Don
Part 1 of the series on Chinaman bowlers deals with Ellis Achong, often wrongly credited with the first popular exponent of the genre of delivery.
The guise of decoding the cause of failure of the English batsmen, the article just quotes a few known facts, ignores some very relevant ones,
Neville Cardus, often absent at the match, used to retrofit events based on the same entity he had proudly dismissed as an ass.
For Cardus T20s would have been no different. He would have parallels with the British Army in the colourful attire and the march of the
"His work in cricket was painstaking — but alas almost unrecognised now, in this frantic age."
A ready reckoner of Sachin Tendulkar's hundred hundreds as they were scored.
At his peak, Colin Bland was acknowledged as the greatest ever fielder. He was perhaps the greatest before Jonty Rhodes.
The very first paragraph reads: “It was in Buxton, after all, that snow once stopped play in a county cricket match in June.” Can a
As Pat Cummins ran in to bowl in the second innings, the television commentator on air tried a gut-based breakup of his scalps into top-order
Who can resist a man who pens a love letter detailing Jim Laker’s 19 for 90?
A cricketer’s greatness cannot be a function of the impression he made on one eyewitness. What if a contemporary eyewitness has some other favourite? It
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