Quote:
Originally Posted by Chubb
I can't really add to SJS, but David Frith wrote that when he asked Barnes if he cut the ball, as Derek Underwood did, Barnes shook his head and said "I SPUN the ball!". He also complained that spinners didn't open the bowling anymore, as he had done.
|
In Barnes' day, the fact that new balls swung more than older ones yet not yet been discovered.
In fact, the bowler who is widely thought to have been the first to deliberately use the seam (Maurice Tate) was still years away from debuting, never mind becoming a seamer (he was originally a batsman, then a spinner), in Barnes' day.