GETTING WICKETS
GRIMMETT’S BOOK
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(Received this day at 11 a.m.) LONDON, May 26
Grimmett’s book “Getting Wickets” dedicated “To .bowlers and the Cinderellas of ' Cricket” is published. Grimmett mentions taking 8 wickets for 1 for schools versus Wairarapa. ’ ’ The master had forbidden him to 1 bowl fast, but in another jmateh he disregarded the injunction 'arnd took sqycn wickets for three. One , opponent thinking the ball would kick i tied to duck it and was hit on the Ik \r«l and collapsed. Grimmett succesWully appealed for a leg before.
J Vti&r Grimmett joined the Y.M.C.A. Clu b piffl'd won, batting trophies including the first,, bat be ever possessed. Wlum playing for Wellington East, Grii.nrm'tt learned to bowl googlies getting the i’dea from ,n magazine article. He relates , how before leaving Wellington he xjcci,d ( ’d to abandon cricket, but was persuaded to continue. He Was been no-balled pnly once, namely i’.i New Zealand in 19.1.8, After a discussion on bowling methods and fielding he ends .with a chapter of advice to ambitious cricketers.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 May 1930, Page 5
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