Various
2019-04-01
Cricket has a rich history of bowlers celebrating wickets before the batsman is actually out, leading to hilarious moments of premature jubilation.
Various / ICC Rules
1 October 2012
Frequent changes to PowerPlay and fielding restriction rules in ODIs have been controversial, with critics arguing constant tinkering has made the format confusing and excessively batting-friendly.
Australia vs England
2010-12-26
England's Barmy Army mercilessly mocked Mitchell Johnson's moustache and bowling with a song that became one of cricket's most famous terrace chants.
Somerset vs Leicestershire
2001-09-01
Leicestershire's Scott Boswell delivered one of cricket's worst bowling performances in a Lord's final, spraying the ball everywhere in a performance that became legendary for all the wrong reasons.
India, West Indies
1983-06-25
Madan Lal's 3 for 31 — including the wicket of Viv Richards — and Mohinder Amarnath's 3 for 12 in seven overs ripped through the West Indies in the 1983 World Cup final and made an unlikely 183 enough to win the trophy.
Middlesex vs Lancashire
1865-07-26
Vyell Edward Walker of Middlesex took all ten wickets in a Lancashire innings at Lord's on 26 July 1865 — one of the earliest documented instances of a bowler taking all ten in a first-class match. Walker, a medium-pace round-arm bowler who also captained Middlesex, achieved the feat without assistance from any other bowler, delivering one of the most complete individual bowling performances of the Victorian era.
Sussex and All-England
1854-08-21
William Lillywhite, nicknamed 'The Nonpareil' and 'Old Lilly', the Sussex professional roundarm bowler who had been instrumental in the 1820s campaign to legalise roundarm bowling and had dominated English bowling through the late 1820s and 1830s, died at Hove on 21 August 1854, aged 63. His death closed the first chapter of the roundarm era he had helped create.
Sussex, MCC, England
1834-07-01
Through the 1830s William Lillywhite of Sussex — universally known as 'the Nonpareil' for his accuracy — was the most successful bowler in England. He had been one of the two Sussex bowlers (with Jem Broadbridge) who forced the legalisation of roundarm in 1828; through the 1830s he refined the new style into an instrument of unprecedented control, taking hundreds of wickets a season at a length other bowlers could not match.
Sussex
1829-07-15
By the close of the 1829 season William Lillywhite and Jem Broadbridge — both Sussex roundarm bowlers — had established themselves as the leading bowling pair in England. Together they took 134 wickets in major matches that summer. Their dominance, on the back of the 1828 legalisation of roundarm to the elbow, was the moment roundarm definitively replaced underarm at the top of English cricket.
MCC vs Hampshire
1814-07-21
On 21 July 1814 Lord Frederick Beauclerk took 7 wickets in an innings against Hampshire at the new Lord's — bowling his slow underarm lobs. It was his career-best return at Lord's and one of the finest individual bowling performances in the early St John's Wood years. MCC won the match by an innings.
Surrey
1804-06-04
Through the 1804 season John and Joseph 'Joey' Wells of Farnham — brothers and Surrey professionals — formed the most successful underarm fast-bowling pair in the country. Together they took 79 wickets in major matches that summer, drove Surrey to a string of victories, and effectively replaced the late David Harris as the dominant pace attack of the post-Hambledon era.