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Alauddin Babu

In 2013, Elton Chigumbura hammered the 39 from the last over of the innings bowled Alauddin.

Allan Hayzelden

Hayzelden's cricketing debut came during the 1929 season in which he played in an Essex tailend against Worcestershire, though he only made one run before being bowled by Indian-born Humphrey Gilbert.

Amit Uniyal

He bowled 4 overs for 41 runs, taking two wickets including that of Sanath Jayasuriya.

Arm ball

Hedley Verity in particular was well known for his fast inswinging arm-ball, often bowled at yorker length.

Ashok Menaria

In 2012, Menaria along with Mandeep Singh scored marathon 318-run stand came to an end when Menaria was bowled by Sam Wells for 173 against New Zealand "A" in 2nd unofficial Test in Lincoln.

Aub Carrigan

Carrigan had come to the crease at 2-184 and went on to score 169 of the remaining 271 runs, before being bowled by Gerry Gomez, with a new highest first-class score.

Bob Simunsen

Simunsen, batting in the same side as the Chappell brothers and Pakistani Test cricketer Younis Ahmed, made 58 in his second innings before being bowled by Kerry O'Keeffe.

Brian Bolus

He hit the first ball he faced in Test cricket, bowled by Wes Hall, back over the bowler's head for four.

Calum Price

Price took his first first-class wicket with the dismissal of Simon Mugava who nicked the ball to the keeper, and then also clean-bowled Justin Lewis.

Carry the bat

The first to do so was South African Bernard Tancred in March 1889, against England at Newlands in Cape Town, hitting 26 not out (off 91 balls) as his team were bowled out for 47 in their first innings.

Cec Parkin

He took 14 wickets in the 1919 Roses Match at Old Trafford at just 10 apiece and, in the first innings of the Gentlemen v Players match of 1920 dismissed 9 Gentlemen at the Oval, six clean bowled, for 85.

Charles Fiddian-Green

He was bowled for 23 by Thomas Raikes by a ball which was said to have pitched so wide as to be almost off the mown area of the pitch.

Chris Loschetter

He currently resides in Avon, Ohio with his wife Erin, who bowled collegiately at Central Missouri State.

Dan Piachaud

In a first-class match for Oxford University against Hampshire in 1960, Piachaud was hit for 28 off an over bowled by Butch White: after bowling a dot ball, Piachaud was hit for four sixes and then a four.

Edgar Backhouse

He was bowled by Bill Voce for two runs, batting at number 10 in his only innings, and was not asked to bowl again when the Rest compiled 290 second time around in a drawn game.

Frederick Asquith

A specialist wicket-keeper, he took two catches in the match but in his only innings failed to score, being bowled for a duck by Gilbert Jessop after coming in at number six in the order.

George Camplin

Camplin bowled 24 overs in his List A career, taking four wickets, including that of Butch White on his debut.

Gloucestershire County Cricket Club in 2005

Jon Lewis broke through their defences, however, shattering Ealham's stumps as he was bowled, and when Anurag Singh departed for 41, Nottinghamshire's task looked steep.

Grenville Wilson

Worcestershire won the game by three wickets thanks largely to the efforts of Reg Perks (10–135 in the match) and George Dews (100 in the first innings), but Wilson himself was a bit-part player: he bowled 17 overs, but took only the single wicket of David Evans.

Harry Frei

His 57 runs, which came off just 36 deliveries and included five sixes, ended when he was bowled by Norman Cowans.

Hit the ball twice

An example of the dismissal occurred in 1906 when John King, playing for Leicestershire against Surrey at The Oval tried to score a run after playing the ball twice to avoid getting bowled.

Hopper Read

Despite the fact that Farnes could not help him owing to injury, Read and Stan Nichols stood alone as a pace-bowling duo and in a sensational match at Huddersfield, their sheer pace off the pitch bowled out the otherwise unbeaten Yorkshire eleven for 31 and 99, giving Essex a win by an innings and 204 runs.

Indian cricket team in Pakistan in 2005–06

Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif each took wickets in their first over, and when Sachin Tendulkar was bowled by a low ball from Asif, India were 74 for 4.

James Airey

Airey bowled 10 overs in the match, taking figures of 1-60, his only wicket being that of Dean Hodgson.

James Fewings

Fewings' second and final first-class appearance came the following week, against Sussex - being bowled out by future Test cricketers James Southerton and Fred Grace for a duck in each innings.

Jennifer Gove

Her bowling was also used in the match, and she claimed two wickets in the second innings, dismissing Katherine Smith caught and bowled, and trapping Ruth Westbrook leg before wicket.

John Inchmore

He continued to play cricket for charity, and in one such game bowled a delivery which was hit by the batsman with such force that it broke the hand of the fielder, one Eric Clapton, who was lucky not to miss a tour of Japan as a result.

Kenneth Dobson

In the first game against Yorkshire, he was stumped for a duck in his first innings and bowled by two-time Test cricketer Abe Waddington in the second.

Leg theory

In 1930, England captain Douglas Jardine, together with Nottinghamshire's captain Arthur Carr and his bowlers Harold Larwood and Bill Voce, developed a variant of leg theory in which the bowlers bowled fast, short-pitched balls that would rise into the batsman's body, together with a heavily stacked ring of close fielders on the leg side.

Leslie Bradbury

His only first-class appearance came in the 1971 season in May against Yorkshire when taking the position of number 11 batsman from team-mate Mike Hendrick, he bowled safely, but did not bat during the match.

Lob bowling

The last regular bowler of lobs in international cricket was George Simpson-Hayward in the period before the First World War and he bowled under arm bowling with a lower trajectory than most earlier lob bowlers, imparting great spin to the ball with constant variation of pace as well.

Malcolm Hilton

He scored 22 and 2, but was heavily punished by Ray Hitchcock during the first innings when he bowled four overs for 26 runs.

Mark Ealham

Although no result was possible due to rain, Ealham impressed as he reached 40 runs before being bowled by Anil Kumble.

Matt Machan

In this match Machan scored his maiden half century in that format, making 56 runs before being caught and bowled by Suresh Raina.

Nadhula de Silva

He bowled 17 overs in the match, taking a single wicket, that of Prasanna Jayawardene.

Oswald Samson

In-between his university appearances, Samson had hit the only century of his first-class cricket career for Somerset in the match against Gloucestershire at Gloucester; the century, 105, came after Gloucestershire had been dismissed for just 61, and Beaumont Cranfield and Len Braund bowled unchanged through the two Gloucestershire innings.

Paul Jarvis

He bowled with good pace, and took four wickets in two Tests in a losing cause, as well as securing the man of the match award for taking 5 for 35 against India in Bangalore.

Peter Wales

He opened the batting in Sussex's first-innings, scoring 29 runs before being bowled by Charles Knott.

Rachael Haynes

Upon the fall of opener Leah Poulton, Haynes came in at No. 3 to join Shelley Nitschke and scored 26 from 45 balls, hitting four fours before being bowled by Holly Colvin.

Rajinder Goel

Thereafter, the presence of the "Indian spin quartet", especially Bishen Bedi who bowled in a similar style, restricted his appearances for India.

Rex Townley

His claim to fame as a cricketer was dismissing Donald Bradman, caught and bowled for 369, in a first-class match against South Australia, the legendary batsman's second highest ever score at that level.

Sam Loxton with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948

He then opened the bowling and castled home captain Les Berry for one to leave the hosts at 1/1 and take his first wicket on English soil.

South African cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2006

However, the sixth wicket stand between Chamara Kapugedera and Prasanna Jayawardene yielded 105 runs before both were bowled in successive over, and Farveez Maharoof and Chaminda Vaas then batted out 37 overs to add 117.

Thalassery Stadium

On this ground, the first ball was bowled in the early 19th century, thanks to Colonel Arthur Wellesley, who brought the game to this Malabar town.

Trevor Ford

In 1968, Ford briefly acted as a substitute fielder for Glamorgan in their County Championship match against Nottinghamshire at St. Helen's, Swansea in the match during which Sir Garfield Sobers hit his world record six sixes from an over bowled by Malcolm Nash.

Wallace Bower

He bowled 13 overs in the match, taking a single wicket, that of Johnny Douglas.

William Deedes junior

Deedes playing as a lower-order batsman, scored three runs in each of the two innings in which he batted, both times being caught by William Nicholson and bowled by Edward Drake.

Younus Khan

On his County Championship debut for Yorkshire, he made a disappointing 4 runs from 4 balls in his first innings, being bowled by Rikki Clarke of Surrey, and just 12 in his second innings.


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