导出博客文章From S.Giridhar and V.J. Raghunath, IndiaWe set off to do a story on offspinners
and left-arm spinners - similar to what we had done some months back on
legspinners. We had hoped that our favourite mystery and left-arm chinaman
bowlers will find adequate space. To our dismay we found that many of the names
that rolled deliciously off our tongues just did not have enough wickets to
qualify under stodgy criteria such as minimum number of wickets, etc. So we
said, to hell with all that - let us just enjoy ourselves writing about our
favourite chinaman and mystery bowlers - the non-conformists, conjurors and
sleight-of-hand purveyors.The left-arm chinaman is a mirror image of the
right-arm leg break - bowled by turning the wrist so that the ball turns the
opposite way to left-arm finger spin. When bowled back of the hand, it becomes
the googly, it turns the other way. We identified 10 chinaman bowlers as we
trawled through the history of the game. Even if you were to add up all the
wickets taken by the chinaman bowlers it would be less than a combined tally of
Bedi and Underwood. There are 45 left-arm spinners who have more than 40 wickets
each but just four chinaman bowlers who meet this criterion. The strike-rate of
the chinaman bowler is superior (a wicket every 70 balls as compared to 79 for
the orthodox left-arm); the bowling average is similar, 31.6 as compared to
31.2. The difference is that while the 45 left-arm spinners have taken over 4800
wickets in 1605 matches, the 10 chinaman bowlers have played only 184 matches to
take 427 wickets.Old timers had the great fortune to see the peerless Garry
Sobers bowl a lot of this stuff. In fact they were so fortunate that they saw
that genius bowl left-arm fast, slow orthodox and chinaman all on the same
afternoon. His 235 test wickets are a wonderful mix of all three. In the
fifties, Johnny Wardle played for England. A maverick - and that sat badly in
England - he bowled orthodox finger spin in England, but served up chinaman and
googlies abroad. He bowled the way his heart dictated and he bowled really well
- 28 Tests, 102 wickets at a strike rate of 65 balls per wicket. His average of
20.39 is the best for any post-war spinner who has over 100 wickets. In our
statistical analysis, he is second-best among left-arm spinners since 1900 (min.
50 wickets) which is awesome. But he rubbed the administrators and his captain
Peter May the wrong way. He would have played a lot more games for England but
for Mays preference for his Surrey team-mate Tony Lock.Time for a lovely story:
Johnny Martin who played for Australia in the sixties bowled his chinaman very
slowly through the air. In a Sheffield Shield match, Martin beat a batsmen all
ends up and struck him on the back foot in front of the stumps. To his utter
disgust, the Umpire turned down his appeal. Martin asks the umpire: Whats wrong,
ump, isnt he in front? Umpire: Yes son, he is. Martin: Then why isnt he out?
Umpire: Because the ball wouldnt have reached the stumps, Johnny!Why is it that
most of the chinaman bowlers are from Australia? Is there something in the
Australian air that makes spinners bowl back-of-the-hand wrist spin rather than
finger spin? Just as they have given cricket so many famous legspinners from
Mailey to Warne and MacGill, so too have they provided us a line of chinaman
bowlers, from Fleetwood-Smith to Hogg. Strangely, Australia hardly has a worthy
presence among orthodox left-arm spinners.Fleetwood-Smith (10 Tests, 42 wickets)
in spite of some sterling performances in the 1930s is unfortunately best
remembered as the bowler who conceded the highest number of runs in an innings -
one for 298 out of an England score of 903 for 7. This was The Oval test where
Hutton made 364.Much later, Lindsay Kline (13 Tests, 34 wickets) and Martin
(eight Tests, 17 wickets) had their unforgettable moments too: Kline took a
hat-trick against South Africa in 1957 but his moment of glory was as a No. 11
bat for Australia in the famous 1960-61 series against West Indies. Coming in as
the last batsman he stayed for more than 100 minutes with Slasher Mackay to earn
Australia a draw in Adelaide. More than the fact that he lasted against Hall,
Sobers, Worrell and Gibbs for that long, what was amazing was that he was
practicing at the nets in the afternoon against similar bowling for more than an
hour as if anticipating what he would be called upon to do later that day!
Immediately after, he was dropped for the final Test - typical of Australian
cricket, no sentiment at all.Martins moment came in the same series. After the
famous Tie in Brisbane, Australia won the second Test comfortably in Melbourne,
thanks to Davidson and Martins bowling. In a golden spell, Martin removed
Kanhai, Sobers and Worrell in four balls. Had he done it in three, it would
surely have ranked as the grandest hat-trick ever!Time once more to pull the leg
of the chinaman bowler: This story was told with great relish by Dileep
Sardesai. In the fourth Test in Barbados of Indias landmark tour of West Indies
in 1971 - the series belonged as much to Sardesai as it did to Gavaskar - India
were 70 for 6 and Sardesai was left with Solkar to repair the damage. Sobers,
the West Indies captain, had Inshan Ali their chinaman bowler on at one end.
Now, for the Indians this slow bowler was a far happier proposition and not
wanting Sobers to change him, Sardesai and Solkar decided that in every Inshan
Ali over they would deliberately appear to be beaten by the odd delivery, as
though they had failed to pick him. Sardesai chortled that the extended spell to
Inshan Ali actually helped the Indian cause. Knowing Sardesai, this could well
be a true story!Not much need be said about the chinaman bowlers of the last 25
years. We have watched them in close detail on TV. None more so than Paul Adams
of South Africa, perhaps the only bowler to have ever had his face towards the
umpire while delivering! His action - called frog in the blender - caused great
consternation to the English batsmen when he was first unleashed. But batsmen
sorted him out in time, because although Adams bowled good length and line he
became too predictable. Nevertheless, by the time he finished he had 134 wickets
in 45 matches. More recently, we have seen Hogg - tongue hanging out - bowl for
Australia. Katich bowls too but we think that he should be bowled a lot more by
Ponting.It is surprising that the sub continent that produced left-arm orthodox
spinners (Vinoo Mankad, Bishan Bedi, Dilip Doshi and Iqbal Qasim come to mind),
does not have a single chinaman bowler in its Test history. The one chinaman
bowler who could have played for India was a wonderfully gifted bowler from
Hyderabad - Mumtaz Hussain. A contemporary of Gavaskar, Mumtaz promised a lot
when he made his name in university and Ranji Trophy cricket with a mesmerizing
mix of orthodox left-arm, chinaman and the googly. He was so difficult to read
that the keeper had to devise a set of hand signals to read him. Sadly within a
couple of seasons Mumtaz had greatly reduced his chinaman and bowled mainly
orthodox finger spin. Soon - for it was the time when Bedi ruled - Mumtaz faded
away into the anonymity of first-class cricket. It is probably the closest that
India came to having an international chinaman bowler.
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