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2 unusual facts about John Atkinson Pendlington


John Atkinson Pendlington

Until recently, the system was believed to have been developed by Bill Ferguson but Pendlington's grandson sent a 1914 newspaper cutting to Richie Benaud in 1994, and Benaud published this in his book My Spin on Cricket (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 2005, page 278).

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Bill Frindall in his book Bearders (Orion, London, 2006, page 70-71) also acknowledges Pendlington as the inventor and mentions other evidence of it pre-dating Ferguson.



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