Answer:
(i)
Innovations in cricket techniques in recent years have mainly come from the
practice of sub continental teams in countries like India, Pakistan and Sri
Lanka. Pakistan has pioneered two great advances in bowling? 'doosra' and the 'reverse
swing'.
(ii) Both skills were developed in response to the subcontinental
conditions- die doosra to counter aggressive batsmen with heavy modern bats who
were threatening to make finger-spin obsolete and 'reverse swing' to move the
ball in on dusty, unresponsive wickets under the clear skies.
(iii) Initially, both innovations were greeted with great
suspicion by countries like Britain and Australia, which saw them as an
underhanded, illegal bending of the laws of cricket.
(iv) Later, it was accepted that the laws of cricket could
not continue to be framed for British or Australian conditions of play and they
became part of the technique of all bowlers, everywhere in the world.
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