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Ellis Achong
Fri, July 27 2018
Left-arm wrist spinners in cricket, part 1: Ellis Achong
Part 1 of the series on Chinaman bowlers deals with Ellis Achong, often wrongly credited with the first popular exponent of the genre of delivery.
Tue, July 17 2018
Chinaman bowling, Kuldeep Yadav and half-baked articles
The guise of decoding the cause of failure of the English batsmen, the article just quotes a few known facts, ignores some very relevant ones, and claims that the cause-effect relationship is irrevocably established. This is a major problem with analysis carried out by time-constrained journalists.
Mon, April 03 2017
Let’s do away with the ‘racist’ term Chinaman… and why stop there?
There are some who have pointed out that the type of delivery and the word associated with it predates Achong, and specifically that the word was used in the English grounds in the 1920s, a good part of a decade before Achong plied his stuff.
Wed, February 15 2017
Ellis Achong: 9 facts about the Chinaman who supposedly became part of cricket lexicon
Ellis Achong was not the inventor of the Chinaman. It wasn't even named after him. But he somehow made it to the lexicon of cricket, thanks to a conversation between Walter Robins and Learie Constantine.
Sun, November 02 2014
Kuldeep Yadav and other Chinaman bowlers in international cricket
If Kuldeep Yadav plays he will become first Chinaman bowler to play for India.
Fri, September 18 2015
Tillakaratne Dilshan, Tony Greig, Vinoo Mankad and other cricketers who made it to the cricket lexicon
A list of how Don Bradman, Tony Grieg, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Vinno Mankad and co. entered the cricketing vocabulary.
Fri, February 28 2014
Is the Chinaman bowler on the rise?
Indian colt Kuldeep Yadav is the torchbearer of the dying art which has a decorated history.
Tue, February 09 2016
Ellis ‘Puss’ Achong — The man who was probably responsible for the term ‘chinaman’
Ellis Achong was also the first known person of Chinese origin to play Test cricket.
Fri, August 08 2014
Four mystery spinners before Sunil Narine’s arrival
Sunil Narine’s mystery still remains unravelled in Twenty20, although he has not really managed to spin such tales of intrigue in Test matches. Arunabha Sengupta looks at the careers of different mystery spinners across cricketing history.