The Gentle Executioners: Story of Indian Spinners
The history of cricket is replete with outstanding spin bowlers. Whether orthodox or unusual, left arm or right arm, off spin or leg spin, the cricketing world has seen them all. The list of great spin bowlers from various countries over the last century and a quarter of Test cricket makes for fascinating reading. From England’s Verity, Laker and Lock and Australia’s Grimmett, Benaud and Warne to West Indies’s Ramadhin, Valentine and Gibbs, Pakistan’s Abdul Qadir, Mushtaq and Sri Lanka’s Muralidharan it is a stunning line-up. Over the last century, Indian cricket also has produced an infinite variety of spin bowlers. From the pioneeringBaloo Palwankar in the early years of the 20th century to Harbhajan Singh today it has been an array of stars that dazzled the cricketing world. The feats of Vinoo Mankad, Ghulam Ahmed, Subash Gupte Bapu Nadkarni, Salim Durrani, Bishen Bedi, S. Venkatraghavan, E.A.S. Prasanna, B.S. Chandrasekhar, Dilip Doshi, Maninder Singh, Anil Kumble and Harbhajan Singh have held people spellbound. The Gentre Executioners besides detailing the exploits of the great spinners captures the ethos of the rich Indian spin bowling tradition.
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