The Great British Spin Off

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Pegleg

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Jim Laker surely has a claim to that title.
 
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From the BBC in 2012:
Swann Laker
47 Tests 46
196 Wickets 193
29.41 Average 21.24
2.93 Economy rate 2.04
6-65 Best inns figures 10-53
10-181 Best match figures 19-90
88 Caught 99
43 Bowled 52
55 Lbw 32
10 Stumped 10
 
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underwood wasn't really a spinner -he was unique. As a a man of kent myself he was bloody fantastic.

Greater spinners than Swannie... tich freeman - last man to take 300 wickets in a season? Though his international career was very short in reality?

verity, rhodes, laker, lock.... colin blythe whose brilliance was curtailed by WW1

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if I'd been copywriting this I'd have gone with "one of the greatest ... ", "living legend ..." or similar
 
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didds said:
underwood wasn't really a spinner -he was unique. As a a man of kent myself he was bloody fantastic.

Greater spinners than Swannie... tich freeman - last man to take 300 wickets in a season? Though his international career was very short in reality?

verity, rhodes, laker, lock.... colin blythe whose brilliance was curtailed by WW1

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I thought Colin Blythe's career was cut short by going blind and getting killed escaping from Stalag Luft III in a plane flown by James Garner.
 
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