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How To Play Fast Bowling - anandgb - 09-01-2015
Re: How To Play Fast Bowling - bala24 - 09-01-2015
Wow..!! Bemused..!! How did this guy play without a helmet against the likes of Lille,Walker and Thompson.
Real guts and pretty much awed with the talent and in specific the guts..
Cricketers these days scamper for helmets even against medium pacers.
Re: How To Play Fast Bowling - dillinger10 - 09-01-2015
[quote author=bala24 link=topic=99941.msg653437#msg653437 date=1441093015]
Wow..!! Bemused..!! How did this guy play without a helmet against the likes of Lille,Walker and Thompson.
Real guts and pretty much awed with the talent and in specific the guts..
Cricketers these days scamper for helmets even against medium pacers.
[/quote]
Helmets weren't introduced until World Series Cricket in 1977 and then first used in Test matches the following year.
Re: How To Play Fast Bowling - ketchim - 09-01-2015
Fine Batsmanship : at the odda end is the great Roy Fredericks !
R.I.P.
Re: How To Play Fast Bowling - anandgb - 09-01-2015
[quote author=ketchim link=topic=99941.msg653453#msg653453 date=1441110977]
Fine Batsmanship : at the odda end is the great Roy Fredericks !
R.I.P.
[/quote]
Classy Strokeplay
Re: How To Play Fast Bowling - ketchim - 09-01-2015
Guyana produced the Finest Batsmen :
Freddo taking bouncers to head without a Helmet !
no wundah his nickname was concrete head ! :-[
Re: How To Play Fast Bowling - anandgb - 09-01-2015
[quote author=ketchim link=topic=99941.msg653561#msg653561 date=1441128507]
Guyana produced the Finest Batsmen :
Freddo taking bouncers to head without a Helmet !
no wundah his nickname was concrete head ! :-[
[/quote] ::LOL:: ::LOL:: ::LOL::
Re: How To Play Fast Bowling - ketchim - 09-01-2015
http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/602611.html
Roy Fredericks: ball murderer
![[Image: 153925.2.jpg]](http://www.espncricinfo.com/db/PICTURES/CMS/153900/153925.2.jpg)
Re: How To Play Fast Bowling - ketchim - 09-01-2015
Later Kallicharran was stuck a fearful blow from Lillee and suffered a broken nose :
spending that night in a Perth hospital before returning the following day to finish with 57
Re: How To Play Fast Bowling - Googley - 09-01-2015
An aging Rohan Kanhai with no helmet smashes Jeff Thomson like a spinner
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