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England vs Australia 1909
Sat, August 13 2016
Ashes 1909: Warwick Armstrong keeps debutant Frank Woolley waiting by bowling trial balls for 19 minutes!
August 10, 1909. As Frank Woolley waited to face his first ball in Test cricket at The Oval, Warwick Armstrong kept bowling trial deliveries for 19 minutes. Arunabha Sengupta relives the tactics that kept the young Kent batsman on tenterhooks leading to his cheap dismissal and prompted a change in the laws.