🏏 Cricket News · The Guardian · Aug 6, 2026
My father, Henry Pryor, who has died aged 92, devoted much of his life to grassroots cricket coaching and the invention of the bowling machine Merlyn. Merlyn proved revolutionary, both in how it made the ball torque and in playing a part in England winning the Ashes in 2005, for the first time in 18 years. Always inter
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