Amol Rajan

Enchanting. Twirlymen is packed with anecdotes that fizz like a Murali doosra

Erudite... Charming and insightful... Knowledgeable, obsessed and astute

Rajan captures the distinctiveness of spin bowlers, a tribe within the wider nation of cricketers

I could not stop picking it up... A history of spin bowling, diligently researched but written with wit and, most tellingly, an obsessive's eye for detail

Full of compelling anecdotes and perceptive analysis, and I would heartily recommend it even if it didn't also include a few excerpts from my own encounters with notable characters from the world of spin.

Get hold of a copy of Amol Rajan's Twirlymen...This is a forensic and often lyrical examination of the history of spin

In Amol Rajan the twirlers have found a historian worthy of their deceptive art...a brilliant, revisionist book...which should be compulsory reading for anyone who claims to love the game even half as much as the author evidently does.

An eloquent, page-turning series of biographies about cricket's finest spin bowlers.'

Amol Rajan provides a natty introduction to the spin bowler.

Twirlymen is a splendid romp through the history of spin bowling. A delight from start to finish, it's a book I dearly wish I'd written myself.

This seductive book will engage those who don’t know a googly from a doosra and enlighten those who do

The Unlikely History of Cricket's Greatest Spin Bowlers

They are the masters of deception, the jokers in the pack; illusionists conjuring wickets out of thin air with nothing more than an ambled approach and a wonky grip. Not for them the brutish physicality of the pace bowler nor the reactive slogging of the batsman. Theirs is a more cerebral art. They stand alone in a team sport. They are Twirlymen. 
 
Having himself failed through a combination of injury and indolence to become a leg-spinner of renown, Amol Rajan pays homage to that most eccentric of all sporting heroes - the spin bowler. On a journey through cricket history Rajan introduces us to the greatest purveyors of that craft, from W. G. Grace to Graeme Swann via Clarrie Grimmet's flipper, Muttiah Muralitharan's helicopter wrist, Shane Warne's ball-of-the-century and all the rest.

Amol Rajan

Praise for Twirlymen

Enchanting. Twirlymen is packed with anecdotes that fizz like a Murali doosra

Wonderful

Erudite... Charming and insightful... Knowledgeable, obsessed and astute

Enchanting. Twirlymen is packed with anecdotes that fizz like a Murali doosra

Wonderful

Erudite... Charming and insightful... Knowledgeable, obsessed and astute

Enchanting. Twirlymen is packed with anecdotes that fizz like a Murali doosra

Wonderful

Erudite... Charming and insightful... Knowledgeable, obsessed and astute

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