#spin bowling

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India's First Test Victory — Madras, February 1952

India vs England

1952-02-10

On 10 February 1952, in their 25th Test match, India recorded their first Test victory by beating England by an innings and 8 runs at Madras. Vinoo Mankad took 12 for 108 in the match — including 8 for 55 in the first innings — and Pankaj Roy and Polly Umrigar made centuries. The win came twenty years after India had been admitted to Test cricket and signalled the start of India's gradual climb into the top tier of the international game.

#india#england#mankad

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James Southerton — Surrey's Elderly Spin Bowling Discovery, 1860s

Surrey and England representative sides

1861-06-01

James Southerton of Surrey was a right-arm off-break bowler who played first-class cricket from 1854 to 1879 and made history in 1877 when, aged 49 years and 119 days, he became the oldest man ever to play Test cricket on debut — representing England in the very first Test match at Melbourne. His long career and late-blooming international recognition made him one of Victorian cricket's most unusual figures.

#overarm-era#early-county-cricket#1860s