Over the years Australian cricket has produced a succession of top class fast bowlers – there aren’t so many left now who saw Ray Lindwall in his pomp, but most of those still believe him to be the best of the lot
The records Frank Woolley set are from another time and cannot be judged by the standards of today, but despite that the way he played would have been entirely suited to the 21st century – in this feature Martin tells his story
After World War Two a number of Commonwealth cricketers gave up the possibility of long term Test careers in order to earn a living with English counties – one of the very best of them was Roy Marshall of Hampshire and West Indies
That got your attention. Read on for the story of Peter Burge, who we believe was unrelated to CW’s finest, but as the quote from Mike Atherton demonstrates their personalities are not dissimilar, so perhaps there is a common heritage