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Friday, March 7, 2008

What is a Chinaman?


What is a Chinaman?

A Chinaman is not a person, but rather a ball bowled by a left-arm wrist spin bowler that breaks from leg to off when bowled to a right-handed batsman.
The term is supposed to have been named after Ellis Achong, a Trinidadian left-arm bowler of Chinese descent who played six tests for the West Indies between 1929 and 1933. The story goes that Walter Robins, when stumped off Achong’s bowling, turned to Learie Constantine and thundered ‘Fancy getting out to a chinaman!’

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