What type of bowler was W.G Grace

[prarara]

What is 'round arm'?

 

[James219]

Well, instead of the tradtional overarm as we know it today, round arm was the main style (infact the legalised one if I remember correctly)- kinda from a lower trajectory and it looks like a sling, though would have been in a pretty slow motion back then. I know that's not a great explanation, but I suppose Malinga of SL is the best current example of it, although the actions adopted 150 years ago would have been very different from that even....
Never heard of a round arm lob?
Anyway, from everything I've read, Grace was referred to as a round arm/slow bowler.

 

[andrew_nixon]

Well, instead of the tradtional overarm as we know it today, round arm was the main style (infact the legalised one if I remember correctly)- kinda from a lower trajectory and it looks like a sling, though would have been in a pretty slow motion back then. I know that's not a great explanation, but I suppose Malinga of SL is the best current example of it, although the actions adopted 150 years ago would have been very different from that even....
Never heard of a round arm lob?
Anyway, from everything I've read, Grace was referred to as a round arm/slow bowler.

Pretty much right, it's somewhere inbetween underarm and overarm, the hand never rises above the level of the shoulder. Grace was a slow bowler towards the end of his career, but it was slow seam bowling, not spin bowling.

 

[prarara]

Pretty much right, it's somewhere inbetween underarm and overarm, the hand never rises above the level of the shoulder. Grace was a slow bowler towards the end of his career, but it was slow seam bowling, not spin bowling.

Oh I see, like a sling...interesting.

 

[a massive zebra]

Pretty much right, it's somewhere inbetween underarm and overarm, the hand never rises above the level of the shoulder. Grace was a slow bowler towards the end of his career, but it was slow seam bowling, not spin bowling.

This is not true.

Grace did indeed begin as a brisk round-arm medium pace bowler, but changed, round about 1880, to a cunning purveyor of spin, who often got his man with a ball that looked as if it would turn but did not.

 

[RoboRocks]

I have found another passage from someone who played with him and he says that he tricked the batsmen with lack of turn.