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MAGICIANS OF THE SHIRES

TWO CRICKET men, with bowling at their core, sadly passed away last week. One was Henry Pryor, the inventor of the incredible Merlyn bowling machine. The other was Steve Barwick, Glamorgan’s master of cut and swing, whose gaunt, pale looks made him a shoo-in for being a long-lost member of the Addams Family.
The two men are linked albeit tenuously. Not many bowlers in the modern era did what ‘Baz’ Barwick did, which was to deliberately bowl cutters. They were medium pace and for someone 6ft 3in tall, physically unthreatening. But in the right conditions he was a p...

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