Buy this book on-line RAJAN, AMOL: : TWIRLYMEN: The Unlikely History of Cricket's Greatest Spin BowlersLONDON.YELLOW JERSEY PRESS,2011. ISBN 9780224083232.
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They are the masters of deception,the jolers in the pack; illusionists conjuring wickets out of thin air with nothing more than an ambled approach and a wonky grip.Not for them the brutish physicality of the pace bowler nor the reactive slogging of the batsman.Their's is a more cerebral art.They stand alone in a team sport.They are Twirlymen.
Having himself failed through a combination of injury and indolence to become a leg-spinner of renown,Amol Rajan pays homage to that most eccentric of all sporting heroes - the spin bowler.On a journey through cricket history Rajan introduces us to the greatest purveyors of that craft,from W. G. Grace to Graeme Swann via Clarrie Grimmett's flipper,Muttiah Muralitharan's helicopter wrist,Shane Warne's ball-of-the-century and all the rest.
With illustrations that lift the lid on even the most mysterious deliveries,'Twirlymen' is full of remarkable matches,incredible stories, and characters with more twists than a googly.
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