West Indies crop of pace bowlers

[Jumno]

Hall
----
Marshall
Holding
Roberts
Garner

Croft
Davis
Patterson
Clarke
Daniel
Gray
Walsh

Ambrose
Benjamin
Bishop

-----
Dillon
McLean
Rose
Cuffy
Perry
Collymore
Best
P Collins
Taylor
Edwards
Bravo
-----
Russell
Gabriel
Joseph
Cotterel
Roach
Holder
Thomas


Hopefully this new team creates a resurgence for West Indies cricket.

 

[Kenneth Viljoen]

You forgot Ian Bishop and Sylvester Clarke .

 

[Jumno]

Mid 70s to late 80s, the WI were really blessed with great fast bowlers.

 

[Aidan11]

You forgot Ian Bishop and Sylvester Clarke .

Clarke would have been an automatic pick in any other test team. He was just unlucky to have been born at at the same time as some of the greatest ever WI bowlers.

 

[Jumno]

Croft and Patterson were also fighting it out.

 

[howitzer]

You forgot Ian Bishop and Sylvester Clarke .

Obviously not as good as those two but could have put Benjamin twice.

 

[Immenso]

Perry was an offspinner ...

 

[Qlder]

Wes Hall is missing. And Ambrose in 3rd tier is ridiculously wrong.

 

[Immenso]

You forgot Ian Bishop and Sylvester Clarke .

and Tony Gray

 

[Jumno]

Wes Hall is missing. And Ambrose in 3rd tier is ridiculously wrong.

It's not a tier, from old borders to new

 

[Qlder]

It's not a tier, from old borders to new

Then Croft should be with Roberts, Holding and Garner as that's the original pace foursome. Marshall only locked in a spot in 1984 after Roberts and Croft stopped playing

 

[Immenso]

I remember being down on Anderson Cummins at the time, because he wasn't 6 foot 8 like I thought all Windies bowlers should be.

But looking back at some youtube cricket, he looked pretty good.

 

[Prince EWS]

I remember being down on Anderson Cummins at the time, because he wasn't 6 foot 8 like I thought all Windies bowlers should be.

But looking back at some youtube cricket, he looked pretty good.

Canada comeback as a old man was pretty cool too.

 

[Starfighter]

But looking back at some youtube cricket, he looked pretty good.

Nah, he was as crap as his figures suggest.

 

[Line and Length]

Wes Hall needs Charlie Griffith alongside his name

 

[Immenso]

Nah, he was as crap as his figures suggest.

Yeah, maybe in test cricket.

It was WSC that I was watching from 92/93. His record on ODIs was good.

 

[Slifer]

Herman Griffith
L Constantine
M Martindale

Hall
Griffith
Gilchrist (nutjob)

Roberts
Holding
Garner
Croft
Daniels
Davis

Marshall
Clarke
Walsh
Gray
Moseley
Ambrose
Bishop
Pattinson
The Benjamin's

King
Dillon
Rose
Collins
McClean
Collymore
Taylor


The rest don't matter

But

Roach
Gabriel
Holder
A Joseph

Seales
S Joseph (fingers crossed)

The period with Collins, McClean etc was our lowest ebb ever.

 

[Starfighter]

Hall
----
Marshall
Holding
Roberts
Garner

Croft
Davis
Patterson
Clarke
Daniel
Gray
Walsh

Ambrose
Benjamin
Bishop

Dillon
McLean
Rose
Cuffy
Perry
Collymore
Best
P Collins
Taylor
Bravo
-----
Russell
Gabriel
Joseph
Cotterel
Roach
Holder
Thomas


Hopefully this new team creates a resurgence for West Indies cricket.

Russell, Cottrell and Roach are not really of the same generation as the two Josephs and Seales, with Holder a touch younger. Same with Croft and Walsh etc. Also omitting Edwards while including Taylor is odd - the former played more tests. Not entirely sure what this is doing aside from being a trip down memory lane. There's some mediocre to poor players in the post-00s section. And whether the West Indies have any kind of resurgence is more dependent on whether they can find some good batsmen and somewhat stem the bleeding to T20 leagues.

 

[Starfighter]

Yeah, maybe in test cricket.

It was WSC that I was watching from 92/93. His record on ODIs was good.

CricketWeb rule: if format is not specified, it's tests. He had a decent one day record but was still an ordinary fast-medium who was probably inferior to Simon Davis. If you list him you need to include the likes of Vanburn Holder, Bernard Julien and Eldine Baptiste.

Also, no list of West Indian fast bowlers is complete without HHH Johnson.

 

[Jumno]

Hall
----
Marshall
Holding
Roberts
Garner

Croft
Davis
Patterson
Clarke
Daniel
Gray
Walsh

Ambrose
Benjamin
Bishop

-----
Dillon
McLean
Rose
Cuffy
Perry
Collymore
Best
P Collins
Taylor
Edwards
Bravo
-----
Russell
Gabriel
Joseph
Cotterel
Roach
Holder
Thomas


Hopefully this new team creates a resurgence for West Indies cricket.

I forgot King (1999)