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Maco
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kyear2
International Coach
Between his or Worrell's. Hare to judge. Worrell would have probably gone into administration, Marshall coaching.
fredfertang
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Good question - I'd suggest Collie Smith
Furball
Evil Scotsman
I think this is rubbish, frankly.
Bear in mind that the Caribbean isn't a hugely populated region. I reckon there's plenty of interest in a West Indies side that's actually half decent at worst; and unfortunately there's a generation of West Indian fast bowlers that have grown up and been deprived of the opportunity of being mentored and guided by one of the greatest bowlers of them all.
Marshall would be 55 if he was still with us and would have plenty still to offer the game, he'd be absolutely nowhere near the '**** this, I'm too old for this ****' stage.
kyear2
International Coach
Great to see Fred rate Marshall the best ahead of Sylvers and Larwood while leaving open the possibility that one day Steyn will be up there as well.
No shock to anyone, but Maco for me is not only the greatest fast bolwer of them all, but the greatest bolwer period and one of my top three test cricketers to play the game.
RIP Maco
No shock to anyone, but Maco for me is not only the greatest fast bolwer of them all, but the greatest bolwer period and one of my top three test cricketers to play the game.
RIP Maco
Flem274*
123/5
well how do you learn to be good if you can't surround yourself with the best people?You would have to be really stupid to believe that the decline of WI cricket has to do mostly with a lack of qualified bowling support staff
Hooksey
Banned
What a classic sledge it was. I laugh every time I hear that one.
Hooksey
Banned
From what I've read Worrell's was perhaps the bigger loss to WI cricket. But tragically neither Worrell nor Marshall got to see their mid 40s.
smash84
The Tiger King
You become really good by picking up stuff and then practicing yourself. Not by having bowling support staff around. How many super bowling support staff did Dennis Lillee, Richard Hadlee, Imran Khan, Shane Warne, Murali etc have? These guys were talented and they worked really hard themselves to become really good. Not because they had an army of support staff.
Flem274*
123/5
yeah no, that's not what i said. becoming the best is definitely the players responsibility and it is all on them to get out there and learn and improve, but part of doing that is finding someone who knows a lot more than you and becoming their annoying second shadow.
it's really hard to learn anything without someone watching you looking for things to improve on and telling you how to improve on them. all those guys you name would have had people watching them and helping them.
it's really hard to learn anything without someone watching you looking for things to improve on and telling you how to improve on them. all those guys you name would have had people watching them and helping them.
Hooksey
Banned
During Dennis Lillie's time at the top the Australian team didn't even have a coach. Let alone specialist bowling coaches.
LongHopCassidy
International Captain
Lillee and Warnie owed a great deal of their careers to modern surgery and physiotherapy tbf.