Bowling Style
He bowled mostly in-swingers, with the occasional out-swinger, both moving late, with a classical high and smooth sideways-on action. He could also move the ball off the seam, with a leg cutter, a yorker, and off-spinning slower ball. All were metronomically accurate - if the batsman missed, Shackleton would hit the stumps. Indeed, nearly half of wickets were bowled or LBW. And he could bowl all day, off a 12-pace run.
He was described by John Arlott as "shrewd, varied, and utterly accurate, beating down as unremittingly as February rain", and "the modern master of bowling in English conditions".
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