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Know about ambidextrous cricketers, a rare breed

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New Delhi: Ambidextrous cricketers are cricketers who can use both arms in bowling. An ambidextrous cricketer may be bowling with right hand in one over and with left hand in the other. It is a

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It's somewhat a surprising incident, but Sir Gary Sobers scored his world record breaking 365th run off the great Hanif Mohammad's left-arm bowling way back in 1958.



The astonishing part is that Hanif was a right-arm spinner who resolved to bowl a few left-arm deliveries to bring change to the game.

Indeed, Hanif picked up his maiden first-class wicket while bowling left-arm spin, when he bowled right-hand Somerset batsman Roy Smith in 1954.
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