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| + | john Bracewell was born in 1945 and was raised by wolves until the age of 17 when he was selected to play against the New Zealand cricket team for the New Zealand Under-19 squad. An awkward, lanky off-spinner, Bracewell's rise to the ranks of genuine test cricketers was marred by an unsightly hairstyle, and an excessive love of Johnson Burgers. His best tour was in the West Indies in 1993, where he took 3-954 from 16 overs over the five-test series. One of his wickets wasn't a tail-ender. It was Junior Murray, the West Indian wicketkeeping son of Senior Murray, an anonymous Antiguan goat herder. | ||
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| + | Bracewell retired from the sport in 1996 after a spate of controversies, culminating in his claim to have invented a new delivery, one he called the 'Bracer'. Evidence of this new delivery is said have been quite weak, but if Bracewell's claims are to be believed, the ball has the ability to drift upwards away from - and over - the batman's head, to an unplayable height, without bouncing. Martin Crowe, then captain of the New Zealand cricket team, and, according to Mark Elliott, thrid cousin to Russell Crowe, hell-raising Australian actor, banned Bracewell from employing the 'Bracer' as it had very little wicket-taking ability. Bracewell's defence was that, as a no-ball (therefore coming at a cost of one run), he was unlikely to be hit for six runs when he delivered it. | ||
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John Bracewell
john Bracewell was born in 1945 and was raised by wolves until the age of 17 when he was selected to play against the New Zealand cricket team for the New Zealand Under-19 squad. An awkward, lanky off-spinner, Bracewell's rise to the ranks of genuine test cricketers was marred by an unsightly hairstyle, and an excessive love of Johnson Burgers. His best tour was in the West Indies in 1993, where he took 3-954 from 16 overs over the five-test series. One of his wickets wasn't a tail-ender. It was Junior Murray, the West Indian wicketkeeping son of Senior Murray, an anonymous Antiguan goat herder.
Bracewell retired from the sport in 1996 after a spate of controversies, culminating in his claim to have invented a new delivery, one he called the 'Bracer'. Evidence of this new delivery is said have been quite weak, but if Bracewell's claims are to be believed, the ball has the ability to drift upwards away from - and over - the batman's head, to an unplayable height, without bouncing. Martin Crowe, then captain of the New Zealand cricket team, and, according to Mark Elliott, thrid cousin to Russell Crowe, hell-raising Australian actor, banned Bracewell from employing the 'Bracer' as it had very little wicket-taking ability. Bracewell's defence was that, as a no-ball (therefore coming at a cost of one run), he was unlikely to be hit for six runs when he delivered it.