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(Part 18.) Silent assassin. Andy Roberts was a ground-breaker—the first from Antigua and Barbuda to play senior international cricket for the West Indies. He was also a jaw-breaker. Many an unsuspecting batsman fell victim, painfully, to his clever variations of pace and the other impressive tools which made him the …

(Part eleven.) Angry ‘outsider’. In any discussion about an all-time West Indies Test XI, the name Gordon Greenidge is almost always included as one of the openers. This has as much to do with Greenidge’s technical correctness and fiercely combative attitude to the new ball as it does with his …