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Maco

fredfertang

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Maco

When the great fast bowlers are discussed the name of Malcolm Marshall always crops up. In this feature Martin looks back at his life and times
 

Burgey

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Lovely work, mate. He was a wonderful bowler. Hard to believe he's no longer with us. He died way too young.
 

kyear2

Cricketer Of The Year
Great article, exceptional bowler and cricketer.

Everyone will never agree on where he stands among the great bowlers of the game, one thing though that is undisputed is that he left us too soon and that he was and is sorely missed.
 

Burgey

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"Well batted Boonie. Now, are you going to get out, or do I have to come around the wicket and kill you?"

- Gabba, 1984-85.
 

Furball

Evil Scotsman
Does anyone else reckon Marshall's death represents the greatest loss to West Indian cricket?
 

Furball

Evil Scotsman
I'd suggest overall lack of interest for the game as the greatest loss to WI cricket
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.
 

smash84

The Tiger King
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 :wacko:
 

kyear2

Cricketer Of The Year
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
 

Hooksey

Banned
Between his or Worrell's. Hare to judge. Worrell would have probably gone into administration, Marshall coaching.
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
well how do you learn to be good if you can't surround yourself with the best people?
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*

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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.
 

Hooksey

Banned
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.
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
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.
Lillee and Warnie owed a great deal of their careers to modern surgery and physiotherapy tbf.
 

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