Patrick Ryan (author and journalist) then transferred to The Fourth Regiment of the Reconnaissance Corps of the Royal Armoured Corps. He served in North Africa, Italy, and Greece. He moved to Leeds in the 1950s as Assistant Head Postmaster, and his "apprenticeship" in adapting to Yorkshire life is related in his humorous memoir "How I Became A Yorkshireman", published in the late 1960s. He later became Head Postmaster at Harrogate and was a regular contributor for "Punch" and The New Scientist in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as writing several television plays and some episodes of "The Army Game" and "Bootsie and Snudge" both
Off spin Indian spin quartet - E. A. S. Prasanna and Srinivas Venkataraghavan, also Harbhajan Singh and Ravichandran Ashwin of India, Saqlain Mushtaq and Saeed Ajmal of Pakistan, Jim Laker and Graeme Swann of England. Saqlain Mushtaq was credited with the invention of the "doosra", which is bowled with a similar-looking action to the off break but spins the opposite way, just as the leg spinner's googly turns the opposite way from his stock ball. Off spin Off spin is a type of finger spin bowling in the sport of cricket. A bowler who uses this technique is called an off spinner.