Starfighter
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Now, those of you who follow my (irregular and often pointless) posting on here would know that I post a lot in the historic footage thread, and am a bit of an afficiando of pace bowlers from the newsreel era. Now, I once read someone (not very bright and perhaps not representative of the board's views) make a claim about about bowling that meant that batting was supposedly easier before, say, 1970 than nowadays, a claim which was rather at odds with what I was observing about that era's bowlers.
So I made this collage here. It's a collection of stock photos (some with watermarks) and crappy screenshots from old newsreels, but I feel it does convey a feature (depending strongly on definition of course) about pace bowling in that era that is treated as strange and exotic now but, from my observation, was perfectly normal then.
So, can anyone name all these bowlers (good luck with some of the screenshots) and what feature is it that links them?
So I made this collage here. It's a collection of stock photos (some with watermarks) and crappy screenshots from old newsreels, but I feel it does convey a feature (depending strongly on definition of course) about pace bowling in that era that is treated as strange and exotic now but, from my observation, was perfectly normal then.
So, can anyone name all these bowlers (good luck with some of the screenshots) and what feature is it that links them?