It's Not Cricket by Simon Rae

Author:Simon Rae [Simon Rae]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780571298457
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2012-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

As we have seen, the later 1950s and early 1960s were dominated by the problem of throwing, but for all the attention focused on Ian Meckiff, Geoff Griffin and Charlie Griffith, there was a great deal of brutish bowling by those with straight arms. Wesley Hall, hailed for the near-perfection of his run-up and delivery, was widely regarded as relying too heavily on the short-pitched ball. Cricket writers like Ian Wooldridge made no distinctions between Hall and Griffith, whom he described at the start of the 1963 series as ‘two huge hired assassins’. It was Hall, not Griffith, who broke Colin Cowdrey’s arm in the second Test at Lord’s.

Cowdrey was batting on the fifth day when the light, in his words, ‘had diminished to a heavy grey gloom’. He had reached 19 when

Hall switched round to bowl from the pavilion end where, in those days, there was no sight screen. He let loose two very nasty ones and then, by chance, pitched one only just short of a length. It reared straight up and would have struck me under the chin at full speed had I not flung up my left arm in an instinctive parry.

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