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A Year with Swollen Appendices

It details four different musical projects he was involved in, the album Spinner with Jah Wobble, the Passengers album Original Soundtracks 1 with U2, David Bowie's Outside and the War Child charity album The Help Album as well as exploratory sessions with the band James.

Aaron Heal

He established himself in Western Australia's first-class (Sheffield Shield) and limited-overs (Ford Ranger Cup) sides during the 2006–07 season, taking over from Brad Hogg as the team's primary spinner, but was selected less regularly over the following seasons.

Andrew Van Buren

Van Buren appeared as the plate spinner, illusionist and guest on many television programmes, shows and specials, including the opening scene of the music video of Charlotte Church's song "Call My Name".

Asia Cup

Sri Lanka's new mystery spinner, Ajantha Mendis, grabbed figures of 6/13 that left India in tatters.

Bradford system

To measure the fineness of sheep wool fiber before microscopes and lasers were so used, English wool handlers in the city of Bradford described wool by estimating (with experienced eyes) how many 560-yard hanks of single strand yarn could be made by a good spinner from a pound of "top." (Top is cleaned combed wool with the fibers all parallel) The finer the average diameter of a single wool fiber, the more hanks could be spun.

Bristol S.S.A.

The sole prototype, given the serial 'No.219', was first flown at Larkhill on 8 May 1914 with a temporary aluminium spinner due to vibration with the steel assembly.

Bryson Spinner

In 2000, starter Dan Ellis missed some time due to injury and Spinner started over fellow redshirt freshman quarterback Matt Schaub, receiving the bulk of playing time in relief.

Calum Price

Price belongs to a sporting family; his cousin Ryan Higgins, regarded as the best leg spinner Zimbabwe has produced before taking an early retirement, played ODIs for Zimbabwe and his cousin Dylon captained the Under-19 side at the 2010 World Cup in New Zealand.

Carl Feilberg

Other chairmen over time was noted Queenslander's such as Samuel Griffith, John Douglas (Queensland politician) and James Brunton Stephens, William Senior (journalist) the Principal Short Hand Writer also known as 'Red Spinner' (the latter three, in particular, were known to be close friends of Feilberg).

CKPG-TV

On December 12, 1970, Brian "Spinner" Spencer, a rookie hockey player for the Toronto Maple Leafs from Fort St. James, was called up to play with the Leafs in what would be his first NHL game on television.

Cullen Bailey

Bailey has been coached by Terry Jenner, the man who advised Shane Warne, and was thought to be a prospect to be the leg-spinner to follow the likes of Warne and Stuart MacGill into the Australian cricket team.

Duncan Fletcher

Fletcher received heavy criticism from all quarters after preferring Ashley Giles to Monty Panesar as England's main spinner in the first two Tests of the 2006-07 Ashes series; Giles took three wickets in two Tests, while Panesar, when given the chance in the third Test, took five wickets in the first innings and three wickets in the second innings.

English cricket team in Australia in 1946–47

Their second leg-spinner was Peter Smith, who was preferred to Eric Hollies because of his batting, but he injured a finger on the journey to Australia and had an appendix removed once there.

English cricket team in Australia in 2002–03

The second Test at Adelaide started much more positively for England, who had made several changes to their side, bringing in spinner Richard Dawson, Steve Harmison and Robert Key for the injured Ashley Giles, Simon Jones and John Crawley.

English cricket team in West Indies in 1993–94

The England eleven contained four seamers and no specialist spinner, with Alan Igglesden getting the nod for the fourth spot ahead of the injured Angus Fraser (fractured finger) and Steve Watkin (back trouble).

Fire sprinkler

The first of these was Major Hesketh, who, in addition to being a cotton spinner in a large business in Bolton, was Chairman of the Bolton Cotton Trades Mutual Insurance Company.

Fort St. James, British Columbia

Brian Spencer "Spinner", former player in the National Hockey League and the subject of the film, 'Gross Misconduct'.

Frigga Peak

The FIDS named it after the Norse goddess Frigga, the "cloud spinner," because clouds were observed to form on the summit of this peak earlier than on any other feature in this vicinity.

Gareth Batty

The off-spinner has been largely backup to Ashley Giles throughout his career, though he did play four Tests in the English tour of the subcontinent in 2003, as conditions favoured the inclusion of a second spinner in a team.

Georgina Battiscombe

She was born Esther Georgina Harwood, the elder daughter of George Harwood, a former clergyman, Liberal Member of Parliament for his home town of Bolton, Lancashire, master cotton spinner, and an author and barrister.

Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes

In April 2008, Ness told Spinner that Social Distortion was planning an acoustic album to be released in 2009, stating "I think it could be really, really neat. It's almost like a Bob Dylan/Bruce Springsteen/Johnny Cash kind of feel with a punk edge ... but acoustic. Sometimes the songs are more powerful stripped down than with full volume."

Jay Hogart

And again in Degrassi Takes Manhattan, his uncle Larry is the divorce lawyer Spinner and Emma spoke to but decided not to use.

Keraniganj Upazila

Mohammad Rafique, Left Arm Spinner for Bangladesh National Cricket Team

Max Sorensen

In a match dominated by spin bowlers, Sorensen was twice dismissed for a duck, once by spinner Hiren Varaiya in Ireland's first-innings and by Nehemiah Odhiambo in Ireland's second-innings.

Michel Tcherevkoff

Working as the creative eye for important clients, Tcherevkoff has created a couture dress made from toothbrushes for Johnson & Johnson, a massive “sensorium” where visitors could experience fragrance visually for Firmenich, morphed a salad spinner into an amusement park ride for Bed Bath and Beyond.

Moeen Ali

Pakistan off-spinner Saeed Ajmal was Worcestershire's overseas player for a short time in 2011 and while at the club encouraged Moeen to try bowling the doosra.

Mohawk, Herkimer County, New York

Among famous Mohawk natives are Francis E. Spinner, who served as Treasurer of the United States during and after the Civil War and was celebrated for his distinctive signature as well as the first federal official to employ women, and Gregory Jarvis, who died in the Challenger space shuttle disaster.

Monty Cranfield

As a spin bowler, he coincided for much of his career with off-spinner Tom Goddard and then later with the slow left-arm spin bowler Sam Cook, both Test players and inevitable first-choice bowlers.

Peter Petherick

Peter James Petherick (born 25 September 1942 in Ranfurly) is a former off-spinner who represented New Zealand in six Test cricket matches between October 1976 and March 1977.

Pundits from Pakistan

It includes a conversation with Intikhab Alam, the former Pakistani cricket captain, and interviews with Danish Kaneria, the Pakistani leg spinner, Sabih Azhar, Shoaib Akhtar’s first coach, Aaqib Javed, the former Pakistani fast bowler, Andy Atkinson, the English pitch consultant who had been hired by the Pakistan Cricket Board, Abdul Qadir, the former Pakistani leg spinner, and Sourav Ganguly, the Indian captain on the tour.

Rawalpindi Rams

The 2009 edition of the domestic tournament was nothing spectacular for the Rams as they faltered again at the group stages like the other nine knocked out teams but then again they showed some fight throughout the tournament largely because of the bolstering effect of Mohammad Aamer in the bowling along with tidy contributions from Hammad Azam, Tahir Mughal, Yasim Murtaza, Umar Amin and the left arm spinner Raza Hasan.

Raza Hasan

He was selected to play for the Pakistani national team in replacement of Danish Kaneria for the tour of England in 2010, along with another spinner, Saeed Ajmal.

S. J. Surya

Surya followed that with the multi-lingual Kushi, which was a huge money-spinner in Tamil and Telugu but did not fare too well in Hindi.

Sulieman Benn

He beat off competition from Amit Jaggernauth for the spinner's spot and on 22 March 2008 he made his debut for the West Indies in the first Test against Sri Lanka at Providence Stadium, Guyana.

Sussex County Cricket Club in 2005

Batting first, the hosts made 139 for 6 in 17 overs, spinner Nayan Doshi taking three wickets despite being the most expensive of the bowlers, while Matthew Prior top-scored with 51.

The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena

On their ship together in a cryogenic sleep, they are dragged unwillingly into the Dark Athena, a gigantic mercenary vessel run by Gale Revas (voiced by Michelle Forbes) and her second in command, Spinner.

Troon, Cornwall

Former Pakistan and ICL spinner Arshad Khan also represented the club in the late 1990s and early 2000s

Yakovlev Yak-3

Like the early Yak-1, it had a 20 mm ShVAK cannon firing through the nose spinner and twin 7.62 mm ShKAS machine guns on the fuselage(firing through the propeller), but was also fitted with a ShVAK cannon in each wing.

Zulqarnain Haider

Initially given out to spinner Graeme Swann, Haider reviewed the decision and was reprieved.


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