Super-Bowler
Spofforth’s Versatility
MASTER OF PACE
WHEN BLACKHAM GOT ANGRY In the whole history of Australian cricket there has never been a more versatile bowler than Spofforth, says a writer in “The Australasian.” It may be a gift, of course, that a man should be able to send along the whole gamut of deliveries in one’s box, from express speed to slow, with the same run and action. And being able to perform the whole box of tricks was “old Spoff’s” masterpiece. To such a state of perfection had the old “demon” produced the art of deceiving the batsman that even Jack Blackham, “the noblest Roman of them all” in a wicket-keeping sense, had to be given a sign by the great bowler when a fast and vicious one was to be sent along. Playing one day at Lord’s | two men became set. Trusting to memI orv, I believe the match was against I Middlesex, and the batsman, Alfred I Lyttelton. one of the world’s best. | Spoff. had been bowling with a man
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 193, 4 November 1927, Page 10
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173Super-Bowler Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 193, 4 November 1927, Page 10
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