Twirlymen: The unlikely history of Cricket’s greatest spin bowlers

Fast bowlers are cricket’s showmen, eliciting gasps as they hurl down deliveries capable of snapping batsmen’s ribs. But the game’s most successful bowlers are its spinners. Appreciation of the spin bowler’s art separates the cerebral fan from the bloodthirsty. Where fast bowlers are described as fearsome and snarling, spin bowlers attract adjectives such as wily or mysterious.

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