Bowling is the heartbeat of cricket—where skill, strategy, and technique come together. Produce pace that overwhelms batsmen, astute seam action that tears defenses apart, or cunning spin that ...

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Cricket's earliest style of bowling was underarm - don't let the sound of that word delude you, though. It wasn't always so slow and weary. John Nyren, one of the early historians of the game, once ...

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