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Admittedly, few who speak of them know what right-arm spin, leg-breaks or googlies are, but that's irrelevant.
Ireland expected England to hurl abuse in defeat, not throw flowers | Barry Glendenning 2011
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It proved to be a Newfoundland dog, and I don't know which of us was the more frightened, for I hit that Newfoundland a full right-arm swing to the jaw.
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So, the author concludes, the painter ended up with a fussy baby when it was posed in the right-arm position.
Do Southpaws Rule the World? Daniel T. Willingham 2011
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It proved to be a Newfoundland dog, and I don't know which of us was the more frightened, for I hit that Newfoundland a full right-arm swing to the jaw.
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It is true that the angle fed to them by right-arm over the wicket bowlers arcing deliveries outside off-stump gives them more opportunity to showcase imperious cover drives but their advantage here is also their weakness, as Gower demonstrated when Mudassar Nazar's dobbers lured him into Pakistan's trap in 1982 and 1987.
VVS Laxman is the latest standard bearer for the Golden Age 2011
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Where until recently the Emerald Isle's saloons echoed to vociferous debate about economic downturns, the recent general election and mass emigration, the talk now is almost exclusively of right-arm spin, leg-breaks and googlies.
Ireland expected England to hurl abuse in defeat, not throw flowers | Barry Glendenning 2011
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Butt has played in 33 Tests, scoring 1,889 runs at an average of 30.46, with a top score of 122. 27-year-old Mohammad Asif is a right-arm medium fast bowler.
Pakistani Cricketers in Scandal Are Two Vets and a Rookie 2010
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By the time the gloom returned, followed by persistent and ultimately terminal drizzle, England had reached 39 for the loss of Andrew Strauss, bowled through the gate for 13, but by the right-arm metronome Mohammad Asif rather than the left-arm teenager Mohammad Amir, hitherto his tormentor-in-chief.
Pakistan plan of attack frustrated as rain ruins day against England 2010
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Then: Former right-arm fast bowler Javagal Srinath in action during the second one day international between England and India at Headingley, Leeds, June 25, 1996.
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Butt has played in 33 Tests, scoring 1,889 runs at an average of 30.46, with a top score of 122. 27-year-old Mohammad Asif is a right-arm medium fast bowler.
Pakistani Cricketers in Scandal Are Two Vets and a Rookie 2010
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