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- From: penglish@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au (Paul English)
- Subject: Re: Flogging dead chinamen (sic)
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 06:55:30 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov23.012114.3472@fs7.ece.cmu.edu> sutton@dart.ece.cmu.edu (Peter Sutton) writes:
- >
- >In article <1992Nov20.234456.26616@walter.bellcore.com>, shamim@bellcore.com (Shamim Naqvi,MRE-2E342,829-4711,,21273) writes:
- >>In article 01GRDOTDJYHU9859BS@ccmail.sunysb.edu, ABEGLEY@ccmail.sunysb.edu (Anthony M. Begley) writes:
- >>>
- >>>PS Still noone can name just one LH WRIST spinner !! Surely there must have been
- >>>one somewhere, even if not in test cricket. If so did he have a chinaman?
- >>>
- >>
- >>I must have missed your question. In test cricket, the best example is
- >>Garfield Sobers who not only bowled LH finger spin but also LH wrist spin.
- >>He took many many wickets with wrist spin including 4 or 5 in a ROW vs
- >>England at Lords. The Chinaman is named after a Chinese player Ellis
- >>Achong who played for the WI before the second world war. For Pakistan,
- >>Miran Bux, a test cricketer was also a LH wrist spinner. For India, none
- >>other than the great Vinoo Mankad was a prime exponent of this art (he also
- >>bowled LH finger spin). In fact after Sobers I believe Mankad was the most
- >>complete all rounder.
- >
- >I'm sure I can remember Australian David Hookes bowling them too. Perhaps
- >someone with a memory less hazier than mine can confirm this.
- >
-
- He did indeed. Another current example is David Freedman of N.S.W. Two of
- his three wickets against the W.I. yesterday were with the chinaman
- delivery.
-
- P.S. I stand corrected on my earlier post, the chinaman is indeed the
- wrong un, not the stock ball of a left arm wrist spinner.
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