The earliest bowling was underarm, although that wasn't always quite as genteel as it might sound. The early cricket historian John Nyren wrote of David Harris, who propelled fast underarms from ...

Underarm bowling was finished (Trevor Chappell aside) shortly after World War I. By then, overarm bowling had turned a novelty game into one of the greatest sports ever invented. You can thank English ...

But from a health perspective, he was probably right, because the human body just isn’t made for overarm fast bowling. A quarter of the nation’s quicks are injured at any one time because of the huge ...

Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis achieved two things in the English summer of 1992. They perfected the first genuine fast bowling innovation since overarm bowling was legalised in 1864. They also provoked ...

A woman invented overarm bowling in cricket and the first ever world cup was played by women. Ironically though, cricket was ...

Australia and New Zealand made history when they took to the field for the final Test of their three-match series in Adelaide. The match was the first ever day-night Test, and the first to use a pink ...

The earliest bowling was underarm, although that wasn't always quite as genteel as it might sound. The early cricket historian John Nyren wrote of David Harris, who propelled fast underarms from ...

This website would not exist without overarm bowling. It is the single most important thing that has ever happened to cricket, and it is not overly surprising that the cricket officials tried to stop ...