Abdul Qadir obituary

Pakistani cricketer who turned the unfashionable leg break into a powerful new weaponUntil the arrival in the late 1970s of Abdul Qadir, cricket’s most arcane discipline – leg break bowling – appeared to be in terminal decline. In the first-class game no one had much bothered with its difficult subtleties for more than a decade, and there were no players at international level who could hold a candle to former exponents of the art such as Clarrie Grimmett and Richie Benaud. Man