Johnny Wardle

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Johnny Wardle was an English spin bowler of post-war cricket. His Test bowling average of 20.39, is the lowest in Test cricket by any recognised spin bowler, since World War I. Wardle played for Yorkshire, England, and later for Cambridgeshire. John Henry Wardle was born in Ardsley, Barnsley, Yorkshire. Wardle, though mainly a classical orthodox left-arm finger-spinner, was probably the most versatile of all the great spin bowlers, and he was capable both of originality and accuracy. His ability to bowl left-arm wrist spinners that turned and bounced much more sharply, made him preferred over Tony Lock in his heyday. Wardle is the only English bowler to master this unusual style, and it gave him many of his greatest successes, notably in South Africa in 1956/1957, where he achieved the feat of taking 100 wickets in a season outside England... Mehr