![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The first man to use the carrom ball – before it was given this name – was Jack Iverson and his story is arguably the most remarkable of any of the 450 players to play Tests for Australia. He played for the ball spinning into him and looked like a man who had seen a ghost when it spun the other way away. It can make an off-spinner like Ashwin turn the ball in the other direction and become so confusing that English batsman Jonny Bairstow once missed an Ashwin carrom ball by about 10 centimetres. The simple explanation is that it is flicked as if it was a cigarette with the middle finger tucked behind it. The carrom ball is a potent weapon of Indian spinner Ravi Ashwin, who has just reached 250 Test wickets quicker than any bowler in the history of the game. It’s the mysterious carrom ball, named after the board game where players use their middle finger to flick tiny discs. IT started with a World War II digger flicking a ping pong ball in New Guinea and it has become the landmine waiting for Steve Smith’s Australians in India. ![]()
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