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The Last Underarm Bowlers — Lillywhite's Legacy and the End of the Old Style, 1840s
English professional bowlers generally
1844-07-01
By the 1840s, underarm bowling — the style that had dominated cricket for its first century — had all but vanished from first-class cricket, replaced by the roundarm action legalised in 1835. A handful of veteran players, most notably William Lillywhite the Nonpareil, continued to bowl underarm with great effect, but their era was visibly passing. The 1840s were the decade in which the game completed its transition from one bowling epoch to another.
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