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Lobsters in Cricket, Part 20: A Survey Down Under

IST 06 April 2017 •8:00 AM IST

Lobsters in Cricket, Part 19: Digby Jephson

14 March 2017 •9:05 AM IST

Lobsters in Cricket, Part 18: WW Read’s hat-trick and hilarious interludes

06 March 2017 •8:19 AM IST

Lobsters in Cricket, Part 16: Walter Humphreys — the great lob bowler who bloomed late

21 February 2017 •1:18 AM IST

Lobsters in Cricket, Part 15: The Lyttelton Levity

17 February 2017 •10:52 PM IST

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Lobsters in Cricket, Part 14: Tom Armitage takes lobs into Test cricket

Tom Armitage has also gone down as the first man to bowl lobs in a Test match.

16 February 2017 •7:54 PM IST

Lobsters in Cricket, Part 13: The eccentricities of EM Grace

Edward Mills Grace is too versatile, successful and kaleidoscopic a personality to have his biography written as a part of a series on lob bowlers.

15 February 2017 •7:51 PM IST

Lobsters in Cricket, Part 11: A clutch of minor bowlers — Drake, Money and others

After the exploits of Vyell Walker and Cris Tinley, there followed a lull in the history of lob bowling. However, there were a few notable, albeit minor, lobsters.

10 February 2017 •9:19 PM IST

Lobsters in Cricket, Part 10: Robert Crispin Tinley

Nicknamed ‘Cris’ and ‘Spider’, Tinley was considered by Alfred Shaw to be the greatest lobster he had seen.

09 February 2017 •6:35 PM IST

Lobsters in Cricket, Part 9: Vyell Edward Walker

VE Walker was the greatest lob bowler of his day, a fine batsman and a fantastic fielder. He was also a path-breaking captain.

09 February 2017 •9:48 AM IST

Lobsters in Cricket, Part 8: William Clarke

William Clarke was the greatest of the lob bowlers. But, that was just a fraction of his contribution to the cause of cricket.

07 February 2017 •9:17 AM IST

Lobsters in Cricket, part 7: William Lambert

A champion batsman, a near-unplayable lob bowler and one of the first authors of technical manuals of the game, this fascinating pioneer was also one of the first cricketers to be banned for match-fixing.

02 February 2017 •6:51 PM IST

Lobsters in Cricket: Part 6 George ‘The Squire’ Osbaldeston

A versatile all-round sportsman, compulsive gambler and life-long philanderer, he was one of the most colourful characters of early cricket.

01 February 2017 •4:59 PM IST

Lobsters in Cricket, Part 5: George Brown

CricketCountry historian Arunabha Sengupta recounts the life and career of this colourful bowler of tremendous pace whose delivery once supposedly killed a stray dog loitering on the boundary line.

31 January 2017 •2:32 PM IST

Lobsters in Cricket, Part 4: Edward Hayward ‘EH’ Budd

CricketCountry's Historian Arunabha Sengupta recounts the life and career of the man who once hit a ball clean out of Lord’s.

30 January 2017 •7:04 PM IST

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Underarm

Lobsters in Cricket, Part 20: A Survey Down Under

Lobsters in Cricket, Part 19: Digby Jephson

Lobsters in Cricket, Part 18: WW Read’s hat-trick and hilarious interludes

Lobsters in Cricket, Part 16: Walter Humphreys — the great lob bowler who bloomed late

Lobsters in Cricket, Part 15: The Lyttelton Levity

Underarm News

Lobsters in Cricket, Part 14: Tom Armitage takes lobs into Test cricket

Lobsters in Cricket, Part 13: The eccentricities of EM Grace

Lobsters in Cricket, Part 11: A clutch of minor bowlers — Drake, Money and others

Lobsters in Cricket, Part 10: Robert Crispin Tinley

Lobsters in Cricket, Part 9: Vyell Edward Walker

Lobsters in Cricket, Part 8: William Clarke

Lobsters in Cricket, part 7: William Lambert

Lobsters in Cricket: Part 6 George ‘The Squire’ Osbaldeston

Lobsters in Cricket, Part 5: George Brown

Lobsters in Cricket, Part 4: Edward Hayward ‘EH’ Budd

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