Till now, the only real Chinese connection with cricket has been the term used to describe left-arm wrist spinners commonly referred to as ‘chinamen’. Legend has it that the expression was coined in 1933, when the Englishman Walter Robbins, after being dismissed by the former West Indian spinner Ellis Chong, a cricketer of Chinese origin, is said to have exclaimed, “Imagine being bowled by a … Chinaman!”
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