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Old 09-01-2013, 06:49 AM   #1186 (permalink)
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Actually Graveney did pick Hall (but at the expense of Roberts, not Garner), I just forgot and got it wrong when I first put it up as I'm doing all this from memory. Have now edited.

Graveney actually rated Hall the greatest of all West Indian fast bowlers, and second only to Ray Lindwall in the post-1945 era from all countries.
Ah. That makes sense. It would be awful to have someone like Graveney, who has played Hall, even though the man was thirty then, to prefer Garner over him. :o)
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