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Old 10-03-2009, 02:01 PM   #61 (permalink)
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With the old ball Larwood could move it late in the air from the leg ..... he brought back a foot to knock over the stumps...
This is extremely interesting, and perhaps shows how silly the idea that Sarfaraz Nawaz and Imran Khan invented reverse-swing was.

Fact was, they were just the first to popularise it and make it known to a wide audience.
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