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He was nicknamed after the West Indian leg spinner Wilfred Ferguson. Gupte took 27 wickets in West Indies in 1952–53. Gupte took 27 wickets in West Indies in 1952–53. At Kanpur in 1958–59, he took nine West Indian wickets in an innings for 102 runs, and had Lance Gibbs – the only batsman he missed – dropped by wicket keeper Naren ...
Don Bradman said he was the best leg-spinner to tour Australia since Sydney Barnes, [2] and Keith Miller thought he was the best leg-spinner he had seen apart from Bill O'Reilly. [3] He toured Australia in 1946–47 and 1950–51 , but was dogged by ill-luck and was considered to be the "unluckiest bowler in the world".
Bhagwat Subramanya Chandrasekhar (informally Chandra; born 17 May 1945) is an Indian former cricketer who played as a leg spinner.Considered among the top echelon of leg spinners, Chandrasekhar along with E.A.S. Prasanna, Bishen Singh Bedi and Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan constituted the Indian spin quartet that dominated spin bowling during the 1960s and 1970s. [1]
Kumble was a right-arm leg spin bowler (legbreak googly) with an unorthodox style, most famous for his flipper. [86] [87] He started his career as a fast bowler, [88] which gave him a useful faster delivery. His unique bowling style can be attributed to matting pitches in Bangalore which assist top-spin and over-spin. [89]
Abdul Qadir Khan SI (Urdu: عبد القادر خان, 15 September 1955 – 6 September 2019) [2] was an international cricketer who bowled leg spin for Pakistan. [3] Abdul Qadir is widely regarded as a legendary leg spinner from the 1970s and 1980s and was a role model for up and coming leg spinners.
Will Shortz, the longtime crossword puzzle editor of the New York Times and NPR’s “puzzlemaster” for more than three decades, had a stroke last month and has spent the last several weeks in ...
Leg-spinner Abrar Ahmed and batter Kamran Ghulam have been recalled by Pakistan for the second test against Bangladesh, the national cricket board said on Wednesday. Team management released the ...
Wrist spinners are bowlers who use their wrists to spin the ball. A right-handed wrist spinner is known as a leg spinner and his or her mode of bowling is known as leg break. A leg break will move from right to left from the bowler's point of view, or from the leg-side to the off-side for a right-handed batsman.