In When We Were Kings Spike Lee talks about how kids these days don’t know anything about recent history.
I think he is right.
Paul Adams was the frog in a blender, or a midget, wearing a bunny suit, trying to fling its head at you with a shoulder jerk so savage that it could kill the average ostrich.
Everyone remembers that.
Not everyone remembers that batsman had all sorts of problems playing him when he first came on the scene.
At first it was just the action, batsman couldn’t work out where the hell the ball was coming from.
Then when they worked that out, they still had to deal with his wrong un, which no one could pick.
The Australians picked up that when he bowled his wrong un, he flighted it, and when he bowled his stock leggie, he darted it.
From there, almost everyone in world cricket worked him out.
In his first year of One day cricket he took 12 wickets @ 19 from 7 matches.
For the rest of his career he took 17 wickets @ 34 from 17 matches.
I personally believe Paul Adams was a good bowler, but once he was no longer a mystery South Africa got rid of him.
Oh and Paul Adams played 5 tests against India.
5 matches, 23 wickets @ 23 with a best of 6/55.
This record was in 96/97, before he was understood, which explains why he is the only wrist spinner of recent times with a really great record against India.www.cricketwithballs.com
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