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I think it’s the dismissive ‘....and as for Barnes...’ that had me muttering ‘What? Then ‘What? again. Then again…..I then regained composure and thought you might have something, but I doubted it. I wondered where to turn for an authoritative view; inevitably it had to be from someone unable to assess Barnes in a present-day context; the closest I could get was Arlott in 1963:<br /><br />‘ The living legend that is Sydney Francis Barnes became ninety years old on 19 April 1963. Those who played with or against him, over a period of almost three normal cricketing lifetimes, had no doubt that he stood alone - the greatest bowler that ever lived.<br /><br />More than six feet tall - he is still dominatingly erect at ninety - with high, wide, rugged shoulders, deep chest, long arms and strong legs, he was perfectly built to be a bowler. He made himself into a right-arm fast medium bowler with the accuracy, spin and resource of a slow bowler whose high delivery gave him a lift off the pitch that rapped the knuckles of the unwary and forced even the best batsmen to play him at an awkward height. He had a faster ball and a slower one, in a well concealed reserve, and the ability to bowl a yorker. He himself is content that he was essentially a spin bowler, that his movement through the air was, in modern technical language, swerve - obtained by spin - rather than swing, which derives from the ‘seam-up’ method. Certainly he made the ball move both ways through the air, and - with a first - and second finger application - he bowled the off-break and the leg-break. Indeed, he could bowl the googly at about slow-medium pace and where, in exceptional conditions, the pitch dictated it, he could be a fine slow bowler.<br /><br />(One of Barnes’ finest bowling spells came in the 1911/12 series) On a perfect, hard Melbourne wicket, he produced his epic opening spell against a strong Australian batting side. Starting the bowling with F R Foster, he put out the first four Australian batsmen - Bardsley, Kellaway, Hill and Armstrong - for one run. He had Minnet’s wicket, too, and after eighty minutes, his figures were 11 overs, 7 maidens, 6 runs, 5 wickets. <br /><br />Simply to see him bowl - and he was over sixty on the only occasion I ever watched him in action - was to make an instant impression of majesty, hostility and control. This was, without doubt, a born bowler, who lived to bowl. No batsman ever dared to to claim he was Barnes’s master. Asked which of them he found most difficult he answers ‘Victor Trumper’. Who next? ‘No one else ever troubled me.’<br /><br />No cricketer who played with or against him has any doubt that Sydney Barnes was the greatest bowler the world has ever seen.’<br /><br />(John Arlott covers much more than the extracts I’ve included)<br /><br />So, OB, I don’t know where the truth lies, but I suspect Barnes’ dibbly dobblers were a class apart from any others.John Halliwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12901514854360709519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6193495965695124697.post-50441873844501890132013-10-27T22:19:59.104-07:002013-10-27T22:19:59.104-07:00Nicely summed up. I think it is a futile exercise ...Nicely summed up. I think it is a futile exercise to select an all-time XI. And Wisden made it worse by selecting Grace! Really?? What did they have before selecting this team??Sumeet Guptahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14710589724526140833noreply@blogger.com