Description:"Where have all the spinners gone?" ask Trevor Bailey and Fred Trueman as they lament the gradual decline in influence of the slow bowler since their own playing days. The great seasons of the 1950s when the spinners took 100 wickets are contrasted with the current averages where only a handful of spinners are likely to feature in the top thirty bowlers in the country let alone reach the magic target of 100 wickets in a season.The careers of 28 spin bowlers bowlers are considered, those who in the authors' opinion were the finest exponents of their art - the wrist spinners, finger spinners and illusionists who have tortured and tormented batsmen since the days of "Titch" Freeman. All of them have been witnessed at first hand by the authors, either at the crease or from the boundary. There are two chapters reserved for those who bowled in pairs and for that famous Indian trio, Bedi, Chandrasekhar and Prasanna. Thus individual match winners such as Wright, Benaud, Verity, Underwood and Qadir are pitted alongside celebrated attacking combination like Grimmett and O'Reilly, Ramadin and Valentine and Laker and Lock. Portrait and action photographs of each bowler are featured together with a detailed analysis and appreciation of their bowling skills.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with THE SPINNERS' WEB.. To get started finding THE SPINNERS' WEB., you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Description: "Where have all the spinners gone?" ask Trevor Bailey and Fred Trueman as they lament the gradual decline in influence of the slow bowler since their own playing days. The great seasons of the 1950s when the spinners took 100 wickets are contrasted with the current averages where only a handful of spinners are likely to feature in the top thirty bowlers in the country let alone reach the magic target of 100 wickets in a season.The careers of 28 spin bowlers bowlers are considered, those who in the authors' opinion were the finest exponents of their art - the wrist spinners, finger spinners and illusionists who have tortured and tormented batsmen since the days of "Titch" Freeman. All of them have been witnessed at first hand by the authors, either at the crease or from the boundary. There are two chapters reserved for those who bowled in pairs and for that famous Indian trio, Bedi, Chandrasekhar and Prasanna. Thus individual match winners such as Wright, Benaud, Verity, Underwood and Qadir are pitted alongside celebrated attacking combination like Grimmett and O'Reilly, Ramadin and Valentine and Laker and Lock. Portrait and action photographs of each bowler are featured together with a detailed analysis and appreciation of their bowling skills.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with THE SPINNERS' WEB.. To get started finding THE SPINNERS' WEB., you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.