Ellis Achong

Left-arm wrist spinners in cricket, part 1: Ellis Achong
Arunabha Sengupta July 27, 2018 4:45 PM IST
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.
Chinaman bowling, Kuldeep Yadav and half-baked articles
Arunabha Sengupta July 17, 2018 12:04 PM IST
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,
Let’s do away with the ‘racist’ term Chinaman… and why stop there?
S Chuzzlewit April 3, 2017 9:26 PM IST
There are some who have pointed out that the type of delivery and the word associated with it predates Achong, and specifically that the word
Ellis Achong: 9 facts about the Chinaman who became a part of cricket lexicon
Abhishek Mukherjee February 15, 2017 11:33 PM IST
Ellis Achong was not the inventor of the Chinaman. It wasn't even named after him. But he somehow made it to the lexicon of cricket,
Achong — Probably responsible for ‘chinaman’
Arunabha Sengupta February 9, 2016 9:19 PM IST
Ellis Achong was also the first known person of Chinese origin to play Test cricket.
Cricketers who made it to the cricket lexicon
Abhishek Mukherjee September 18, 2015 10:39 PM IST
A list of how Don Bradman, Tony Grieg, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Vinno Mankad and co. entered the cricketing vocabulary.
Kuldeep Yadav and other Chinaman bowlers
Abhishek Mukherjee November 2, 2014 5:18 AM IST
If Kuldeep Yadav plays he will become first Chinaman bowler to play for India.
Four mystery spinners before Sunil Narine’s arrival
Arunabha Sengupta August 8, 2014 6:38 PM IST
Sunil Narine’s mystery still remains unravelled in Twenty20, although he has not really managed to spin such tales of intrigue in Test matches. Arunabha Sengupta
Is the Chinaman bowler on the rise?
Vineet Varma February 28, 2014 3:50 PM IST
Indian colt Kuldeep Yadav is the torchbearer of the dying art which has a decorated history.