Saturday, July 31, 2004

Bowlers - Second class citizens?

West Indies are celebrating their 75th year anniversary of entering the test cricket. They picked the top 5 players to have represented them.
Frank Worrell, Viv Richards, Garfield Sobers, Brian Lara, and George Headley.
All of them are unquestionably legendary batsmen but not a single bowler in top 5? Atleast Malcolm Marshall deserves to be in.

Mike Selvey argues for the bowlers in this article. Selvey was a good county level seamer who also played a few tests at the highest level. One of those tests was unfortunately at The Oval when Sir Viv played a truly majestic innings which I think finished his career.

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