The Spin | Cricketer, comic, artist, innovator: 'Felix', the ultimate all-rounder

Under a pseudonym, Nicholas Wanostrocht made his mark by inventing bowling machines, protective gloves and moreIn late 1860 there was a bit of a squabble in the English clergy provoked by the Bishop of Rochester’s condemnation of some of the unbecoming habits that some clergymen had unfortunately taken up. He took particular umbrage at those guilty of “too great developments of beard and whisker”, and added the desire to “blot out the names of [cricket clubs] as fit for t