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Biography Of Lance Gibbs- The Greatest Spinner Of West Indies
With his lissom figure and unusually long fingers, Lance Gibbs allied pronounced spin and bounce to a fierce accuracy, and all from an unusual chest-on action. In his later years he added the arm-ball to his repertoire, and add into the equation almost unlimited stamina and determination (he had a permanently sore and often split spinning-finger), and his feat of being only the second bowler - and first spinner - to pass 300 wickets is understandable. He ended with 309 wickets in 79 Tests - including 18 five-fors - all the while conceding his runs at a staggering 1.99 per over.
Lancelot Richard Gibbs was born in Georgetown, Guyana, on September 29, 1934. He made his first-class debut at the age of 19 in February, 1954, against M. C. C. for British Guiana, as it was then. He took two wickets which cost him 126 runs. The only special significance of that far distant occasion was that those two victims had already made a distinguished mark in the game. They were Tom Graveney, caught in the deep for 231, and Denis Compton, bowled for a more modest 18. No one knew it then, but Gibbs had arrived.Yet strangely enough the bowler who was to reach the greatest heights as a master of off-spin began bowling leg-breaks.
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