*Official* West Indies Tour of England, JULY 9th to 25th, 2024-- 3 TEST MATCHES

[The Brian Hardie Stance]

He was nasty but look at the zip on those Windies wickets of old.

Yep. And England would usually play batsmen who were considered the best against pace bowling to counter act such as Wayne Larkins, David Smith etc. None of them particularly worked.

Not that it was particular successful here either. Paul Terry clocked, Andy Lloyd clocked.

 

[CartyDurham]

Anyone got that picture of Mike Gatting having a nose job, can’t remember off which bowler. Could be Patterson

I did like the story of a tv interviewer asking where he’d been hit as he sat there with a plaster and two black eyes

 

[wpdavid]

Yep. And England would usually play batsmen who were considered the best against pace bowling to counter act such as Wayne Larkins, David Smith etc. None of them particularly worked.

Not that it was particular successful here either. Paul Terry clocked, Andy Lloyd clocked.

Peter Willey is another who springs to mind.

 

[King Kane]

Duckett has really kicked on from his Brisbane Heat days in the Big Bash, I wouldn't have picked him to be a test opener for England back then.

McCullum also played for the Brisbane Heat so that might have helped.

 

[wpdavid]

Anyone got that picture of Mike Gatting having a nose job, can’t remember off which bowler. Could be Patterson

I did like the story of a tv interviewer asking where he’d been hit as he sat there with a plaster and two black eyes

I think it was Garner during one of the ODIs that preceded the tests. Or maybe it was Marshall and Garner removed a piece of Gatt's nose-bone from the ball.

EDIT
Yup, it was Marshall.

 

[CartyDurham]

Peter Willey is another who springs to mind.

His wide open stance , I think he used to wind up bowlers

 

[CartyDurham]

I think it was Garner during one of the ODIs that preceded the tests. Or maybe it was Marshall and Garner removed a piece of Gatt's nose-bone from the ball.

Those were the days

 

[Arachnodouche]

Anyone got that picture of Mike Gatting having a nose job, can’t remember off which bowler. Could be Patterson

I did like the story of a tv interviewer asking where he’d been hit as he sat there with a plaster and two black eyes

Maco, no?

 

[The Brian Hardie Stance]

Peter Willey is another who springs to mind.

Of course, Popeye arms himself. Forgot him, I think I was stuck thinking of the lamb to the slaughter openers we kept picking.

 

[CartyDurham]

Maco, no?

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Cheers. I can’t remember who it was

 

[The Brian Hardie Stance]

Maco, no?

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Marshall wasn't it?

Patterson was considered quicker though from memory.

Of the fab 4 (or 5) in that 80-84 period, what is the order of quickness do we think?

 

[ashley bach]

Peter Willey is another who springs to mind.

Most famous for catching Lillee off Dilley.

 

[The Brian Hardie Stance]

Most famous for catching Lillee off Dilley.

*goes off to cricket archive to see if he ever took the wicket of Essex's Alan Lilley.

 

[ashley bach]

Marshall wasn't it?

Patterson was considered quicker though from memory.

Of the fab 4 (or 5) in that 80-84 period, what is the order of quickness do we think?

Think Patterson got the nod just ahead of Marshall and Holding.

 

[wpdavid]

Most famous for catching Lillee off Dilley.

Also for 'the bowler's Holding, the batsman's Willey'.

 

[wpdavid]

Think Patterson got the nod just ahead of Marshall and Holding.

Certainly by the mid 1980s.

Late 1970s/very early 1980s Holding was considered very fast indeed.

 

[CartyDurham]

I think they are setting up hooper lbw of Nasser from a trickler

 

[CartyDurham]

I think it was Garner during one of the ODIs that preceded the tests. Or maybe it was Marshall and Garner removed a piece of Gatt's nose-bone from the ball.

EDIT
Yup, it was Marshall.

Cheers. Old Malcom rip

his batting one handed was a memory from around 84 I think

 

[wpdavid]

Cheers. Old Malcom rip

his batting one handed was a memory from around 84 I think

Yes it was. A quick google tells me that he took 7 wickets later in the same match.

 

[ashley bach]

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