Career
Mailey used leg-break and googly bowling, taking 99 Test wickets, including 36 in the 1920-1921 Ashes series. In the second innings of the fourth Test at Melbourne, he took nine wickets for 121 runs, which is still the Test record for an Australian bowler. "Someone dubbed him the man who bowled like a millionaire, and how true it was! Arthur"s objective was to take wickets, and the spending of runs in the process bothered him little.
Foreign a relatively small man Arthur had abnormally large hands, soft as silk to the touch, and he once told me he didn"t know what it was to have tired or sore fingers".
Don Bradman.