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Talking with a mate over lunch about bowling with your non-preferred arm.
The original question was: how many top-flight (first class) players have bowled both right and left-handed?
This moved onto test players that batted and bowled using different hands- I thought perhaps one B Julian may have, and Imran Khan as well?

Anyone have any others?

― Poseiden (Poseiden), Monday, 24 November 2003 08:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Can't think of any offhand....apart from myself. Bowled left hand & batted righthand.

― Big Dog (Big Dog), Monday, 24 November 2003 08:07 (twenty-two years ago)

"Funky" Miller could bowl with both hands. (both 'pace' and spin)

― Cleavy, Monday, 24 November 2003 08:12 (twenty-two years ago)

The question is BD, do you think you could have bowled decently with your right hand? I think it would be pretty difficult to have that degree of control from both hands.

Miller? I remember he bowled both pace and spin- but he bowled each with a different hand? Wow.
BTW, Says on cricinfo (http://statserver.cricket.org/link_to_database/PLAYERS/AUS/M/MILLER_CR_02002640/) that both his off-breaks and medium pacers were bowled with the right hand. What did he bowl with his left?

― Poseiden (Poseiden), Monday, 24 November 2003 08:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Imran Kahn both batted and bowled right handed

― , Tuesday, 25 November 2003 01:16 (twenty-two years ago)

He bowled left arm orthodox spin, and slow left arm 'pacers'.

― Cleavy, Tuesday, 25 November 2003 08:56 (twenty-two years ago)

There have been a number of natural right (or left) handers who deliberately learned to bat (or bowl) with the other hand - including at Test level.

The bloody memorie's gone walkabout, so I can't drag up the names, but I'll get there.

― tailender (tailender), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 10:29 (twenty-two years ago)

well one of them was Sadiq Mohammed ...

― pieman (pieman), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 10:38 (twenty-two years ago)

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