Ellis Achong as a "chinaman" as a result. However, Achong was not the earliest recorded Test match player to bowl unorthodox left-arm spin – that is believed to be Charles Llewellyn of South Africa. Achong played in six Test matches for the West Indies against the English cricket team from 1930 to 1935, three in the West Indies and three in the 1933 tour of England. In all, Achong took eight Test wickets at a bowling average of 47.25, but his Test figures belie his much greater success at regional level in the West Indies between 1929–30 and 1934–35. In the final
Bert Achong Hospital. He moved with Epstein to the Department of Pathology at University of Bristol in 1968, where he was a popular lecturer on cellular pathology until his retirement in 1985. He died of a brain tumour in 1996. Achong, Michael Anthony Epstein and Yvonne Barr discovered the first example of a human cancer-causing virus. They published the discovery of the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) in The Lancet on 28 March 1984. Achong's role in the discovery of EBV was to prepare and examine cultured cells prepared from Burkitt's lymphoma samples by electron microscopy. In 1971 Achong made another major discovery, the