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The Spin | Aiming for the moon: the rise of the slower ball, from Stephenson to Curran

The advent of short-form cricket has pushed bowlers to use new weapons, among them deceptive slower deliveries Franklyn Stephenson’s throaty chuckle rolls down the phone line. “You know the hardest thing about bowling that ball? I couldn’t stop laughing when I saw how the batsmen were trying to play it! They’d be jabbing here or

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