Overarm bowling:
There was a time when ICC didn’t need to exist and subcontinent was unwilling to play the game, there was no rivalry between England and Australia, Pakistan was even not born. It wasn’t until 1835 that roundarm bowling became legal in cricket, and overarm bowling was born in 1864, only 13 years before the first-ever Test.
But what if they hadn’t allowed roundarm or overarm bowling?
Without this innovation cricket may lose its charm. Possibly the world could have been cricket less.
It is the single most important thing that has ever happened to cricket, and it is not overly surprising that the cricket officials tried to stop it.
Digby Jephson, who was known as the lobster got more flight than any other spinner of modern they cricket. He could out a batsman with his over the head delivery.
The lobster had the first class average of 25. He took a hat-trick against Middlesex, once took 77 wickets in a season, and his best figures were 7 for 51 against Gloucestershire.
The lobster retired in 1904. Underarm bowling was finished (Trevor Chappell aside) shortly after World War I. By then, overarm bowling had turned a novelty game into one of the greatest sports ever invented. You can thank English dressmakers, frustrated bowlers, and those who believed the game they loved could get better.