Leftist Leanings

Sometimes in life there are few things for which we seem to have no explanation at all. Like this:

Why has there never been a left handed dibbly dobbler? A dibbly dobbler according to Geoff Boycott is one who trundles to the pitch and bowls an assortment of cutters, slower ones and anything which can be classified as 120- km/hr. I have watched cricket quite a lot and still I am racking my brains to find one bowler who belongs to the ilk of Gavin Larsen, Sourav Ganguly, Chris Harris, Ian Harvey, Hansie Cronje etc.. Heck, I dont think there is even a spinner/dibbly dobbler like Sachin.

There is one guy , Sohail Tanvir who bowls left arm fast medium/spin. The only kind of left arm bowlers I have seen are those who bowl left arm fast/fast medium/orthodox. A left arm leg spinner i.e., a Chinaman itself is a rarity, those on the top of my mind being Michael Bevan,Simon Katich and the frog-in-a-blender Paul Adams. This though is a well publicised fact and most us are aware that Chinaman bowlers are as rare as winter in Chennai.

There is only one guy I think who bowled left arm military medium, Ijaz Ahmed, the destroyer of an Indian bowling combination comprising Abey Kuruvilla,Venkatesh Prasad,Rajesh Chauhan,Harvinder Singh (Excuse me for the digression, the thought of this Indian bowling "Attack??" sends me on a nostalgia trip). Still, wouldn't there be one captain who would love to have a bowler of this variety? I mean, it is something that has never been seen by the cricket playing community and would certainly be a welcome novelty in addition to the Switch Hit and the Carrom Ball.

May the left hander survive. May he flower(like Andy, the great Zimbabwean maybe?) , may he prosper. And no, this is not a left handed compliment :)

PS: I am a left hander.

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