From W. G. Grace to Shane Warne, Twirlymen is an essential look at that most eccentric of cricketers - the spin bowler
Amol Rajan is Comment Editor at the Independent, having previously
been a news reporter and Sports News Correspondent for the
newspaper. He is also a columnist for the Independent and Evening
Standard, and a restaurant critic for the Independent on Sunday. He
grew up in Tooting, south London, and from the age of 11 played for
Sinjuns Cricket Club (now Sinjuns & Grammarians) in Wandsworth,
becoming the youngest captain of a men's team when leading the
Sunday First XI in 2002, aged eighteen.
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Enchanting. Twirlymen is packed with anecdotes that fizz like a
Murali doosra
*Spectator*
Wonderful
*The Economist*
Erudite... Charming and insightful... Knowledgeable, obsessed and
astute
*New Statesman*
Rajan captures the distinctiveness of spin bowlers, a tribe within
the wider nation of cricketers
*Literary Review*
I could not stop picking it up... A history of spin bowling,
diligently researched but written with wit and, most tellingly, an
obsessive's eye for detail
*Guardian*
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