Engineers recreate 1900s cricket bowling machine PA Media The engineers had no drawings to use from when the contraption was made, only a black and white photograph and a patent application ...

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The recreation of the bowling machine, designed by Dr John Venn in the early 1900s, was set as a challenge by Hugh Hunt, professor of engineering dynamics and vibration at Cambridge University.

Opening batswoman for the university's women's cricket team, Alice Bebb, 23, tested the machine. She said: "It's like no bowler I've ever faced before. "It was like a very tall bowler bowling very ...