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.
Peter Willey is another who springs to mind.
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.
His wide open stance , I think he used to wind up bowlers
Those were the days
Of course, Popeye arms himself. Forgot him, I think I was stuck thinking of the lamb to the slaughter openers we kept picking.
Cheers. I can’t remember who it was
Marshall wasn't it?
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.
Think Patterson got the nod just ahead of Marshall and Holding.
Also for 'the bowler's Holding, the batsman's Willey'.
Certainly by the mid 1980s.
Yes it was. A quick google tells me that he took 7 wickets later in the same match.
