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A slow left-arm orthodox spin bowler, played 42 Tests and 20 One Day International matches for England, as well as playing for Middlesex from 1986 to 2002.
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But heavy rain fell overnight and next morning the two slow left-arm bowlers, Peel and Johnny Briggs, were all but unplayable.
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As a slow left-arm orthodox spin bowler he played 42 Test matches and 20 One Day Internationals for England between 1990 and 2001, and 316 first-class matches, mainly for Middlesex.
As an all-rounder Compton was a right-hand bat and a slow left-arm Chinaman bowler.
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It is a variation delivery bowled by an off spin bowler or slow left-arm orthodox bowler.
Giles started his career as a fast bowler before an early injury forced him to become a slow left-arm spinner.
Bishan Singh Bedi ( sometimes spelt as Bishen Singh Bedi ) ( born 25 September 1946 ) is a former Indian cricketer who was primarily a slow left-arm orthodox bowler.
As a result this style has no fixed name and the bowling mode is simply known as ( slow ) left-arm orthodox.
But heavy rain fell overnight ( in this era, pitches were not covered between days of play ), and next morning England's slow left-arm bowlers, Bobby Peel and Johnny Briggs, were all but unplayable.
He was a left-arm slow orthodox bowler and took 2 wickets at an average of 23. 00 and a best performance of 2 for 39.
A slow left-arm orthodox bowler, he took 1, 956 wickets in first-class cricket at an average of 14. 90 and 144 wickets in 40 Tests at an average of 24. 37.
Named as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1932, he is regarded as one of the most effective slow left-arm bowlers to have played cricket.
Jardine considered Verity to be the best slow left-arm bowler of all time, writing: " I venture to doubt whether any other bowler of his type has proved such a master on all kinds of wickets ... No captain could have a greater asset on his side than Verity.
Although he batted right-handed he took 57 wickets, with a bowling average of 32. 73, with slow left-arm deliveries.
As a result, Hawke was MCC president for five years from 1914 to 1918 inclusive and was succeeded in 1919 by the former Hampshire slow left-arm bowler Henry Forster, who shortly afterwards succeeded to the title of Lord Forster of Lepe.
He is a slow left-arm orthodox bowler and a left handed batsman.
Bastard was a slow left-arm orthodox bowler, described in his Wisden obituary as Somerset's best bowler during his time with the club.
The team came to rely upon the bowling of Bastard and Alfred Cochrane, both slow left-arm bowlers.
Consequently, in his second season at Galashiels, now bowling slow left-arm, he took fewer wickets but at a better average.
His skill at slow left-arm bowling was enough to encourage other members to bat against him for practice, in particular the fine batsman Captain J. G. Greig.
" Despite Ponting's comments, he used White as the fourth-change bowler in the first ODI, bringing the slow left-arm spin of Michael Clarke on first.
He also took 219 wickets at 28. 05 but in his five years with the county he was never the first-choice spin bowler: in his first two seasons, Somerset used Australian-born slow left-arm orthodox bowler John McMahon as the main spin bowler, with young off-spin bowler Brian Langford also bowling more than McCool.
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slow and orthodox
His hymn book effected a great change in Danish church services, substituting the hymns of the national poets for the slow measures of the orthodox Lutherans.
He was a specialist middle-order left-handed batsman and an occasional slow left arm orthodox bowler.
Born in Khulna, Rana was a slow left arm orthodox bowler.
His bowling style is slow left arm orthodox.
He is a specialist slow left arm orthodox bowler known for his loopy trajectory and ability to spin and bounce, but has found international selection blocked during his prime years by the presence of Anil Kumble and Harbhajan Singh.
An opening batsman and slow left arm orthodox bowler, he played in 44 Tests for India, and made 2109 runs at an average of 31. 47 including five Test centuries with a top score of 231.
With his slow left-arm orthodox spin, Maninder was considered as an heir to Bishan Singh Bedi, who then held the record as India's leading spinner in terms of wickets.
An all-rounder, he bowled slow left-arm orthodox and chinaman and batted doggedly as a left-hander, mostly at number six or seven, compiling 7 centuries in his first class career.
His batting style was " rather scientific, in the more orthodox manner of the professionals ", while his under-arm bowling was very slow, but extremely accurate and he could get the ball to rise abruptly off a length.
slow and spin
The use of speed glue increased the spin and speed even further, resulting in changes to the equipment to " slow the game down ".
There are different types of bowlers ranging from fast bowlers, whose primary weapon is pace, through swing and seam bowlers who try to make the ball deviate in its course through the air or when it bounces, to slow bowlers, who will attempt to deceive the batsmen with a variety of flight and spin.
The weights would slow the spacecraft spin from 400 rpm to 6 rpm and then weights and wires would be released.
The weights were designed to slow the spacecraft spin from 400 rpm to 6 rpm and then weights and wires were released.
This slow decay is particular to spin glasses.
It corresponds to a mean field approximation of spin glasses describing the slow dynamics of the magnetization and the complex non-ergodic equilibrium state.
Also if the bowler is bowling spin or slow bowls then the automatic wickie can stump the batsman, the batsman will usually get one warning however.
While slow, this method has the advantage of working irrespective of the asteroid composition or spin rate – rubble pile asteroids would be difficult or impossible to deflect by means of nuclear detonations while a pushing device would be hard or inefficient to mount on a fast rotating asteroid.
It was originally created to deal with the slow dynamics of disordered spin systems.
When the twist in one direction gets tight enough, the blade spin will slow and then it will reverse its spin and unwind rapidly, and will continue that direction of spin until the cord twist tightens again.
In this case, energy flows fairly rapidly among the spin states of interacting atoms, but energy transfer between the nuclear spins and other modes is relatively slow.
This was successful, and the Solar Max went into a slow, regular spin.
This keeper is " standing up " close to the wicket, for a slow pace bowler or spin bowling | spin bowler
If a team is proceeding slowly, some captains will choose to use slow / spin bowlers.
The general idea of STUN is to circumvent the slow dynamics of ill-shaped energy functions that one encounters for example in spin glasses by tunneling through such barriers.
The slow wobble of the earth's spin axis on the celestial sphere is independent of the diurnal rotation of the Earth on its own axis and the annual revolution of the earth around the sun.
He struggled to cope with spin bowling due to slow footwork and passed fifty only once in the first four Tests.
The larger turbines needed to spin the large fan slow the jet exhaust, which also reduces noise.
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