India injects venom into spin
12 November 2015 - 02:09
John Fowles, in trying to explain cricket to Americans, wanted to address the apparently innocuous "pitching" of one Bishen Bedi, the wonderful Indian spin bowler who played between 1966 and 1979. Writing in 1973 for Sports Illustrated, the English novelist's explanation ran to more than 5000 words and, judging by the appeal of cricket to Americans in 2015, had virtually no impact in the US.
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