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The velocities of cricket bowlers vary between 40 and 100 mph (64 and 161 km/h). In professional cricket, a bowler in the 40–60 mph range would be said to be a slow bowler, in the 60–80 mph range a medium pace bowler, and a bowler 80 mph+ a fast bowler. In the amateur game, these distinctions would be approximately 10 mph slower.
A bowler equally skilled in both types of bowling is known as a mixed bag or an all round bowler. Such bowlers are rare. Such bowlers are rare. The great West Indian all rounder Sir Garfield Sobers bowled effectively in the left-arm fast-medium, left-arm orthodox, and left-arm unorthodox styles.
William Charles "Razor" Smith (4 October 1877 – 15 July 1946) was a Surrey slow bowler.Nicknamed "Razor" because of his extreme thinness, Smith was a frail man and prone to serious injury; he could rarely get through a full season's cricket, but when fit and healthy, could command the sharpest off-break among bowlers of his day.
A poor bowler, usually of slow to medium pace whose deliveries are flighted so much as to appear similar to a pie in the air. Considered easy to score off by batters – see Buffet Bowling. [3] Pinch hitter/Slogger a lower order batter promoted up the batting order to increase the run rate. The term, if not the precise sense, is borrowed from ...
Spin bowler Muttiah Muralitharan bowling to the batsman, Adam Gilchrist. Spin bowling is a bowling technique in cricket, in which the ball is delivered relatively slowly but with rapid rotation, giving it the potential to deviate sharply after bouncing. A bowler who uses this technique is called a spinner, [1] [2] a spin bowler, [1] or a slow ...
William Ashby (12 January 1786 – 10 April 1847) was an English cricketer who played mainly for Kent teams. [3] [4] He was considered one of the best slow bowlers of his era and one of the pioneers of roundarm bowling.
Blagrave was born at Charlton Kings near Cheltenham, son of John Gratwicke Blagrave (1853-1926), of Hambrook House, Charlton Kings, Captain (and hon.Major) in the North Somerset Imperial Yeomanry, and his wife, Fanny Julia (d. 1939), daughter of Sir Alexander Beaumont Churchill Dixie, 10th Baronet, and widow of Lord Henry Somerset, son of Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort.
Thomas Bignall Mitchell (4 September 1902 – 27 January 1996) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1928 and 1939.. A leg spin bowler, he was the most successful slow bowler in the history of a county better known for its pace bowling strength.