
Curtly Ambrose on the wristband wrath, World Cup regret and his magical 7-1
"A spell of 7-1 is unheard of really, but I believe I’ve bowled better in other games"
"A spell of 7-1 is unheard of really, but I believe I’ve bowled better in other games"
"Sport is most fun when the underdog rises"
“Honestly, on that particular moment, I really wanted to knock him out”
"He single-handedly almost stilled the nascent Test career of Graeme Hick"
"From Caddick's Lordly magic to Sydney 2008"
"Balls were rearing from good lengths and passing the batsman’s throat"
“In that heat of the moment I really wanted to physically beat him”
From Larwood and Voce to Lillee and Thomson
When it all went horribly, horribly wrong ...
<p class="intro-p">In the mid-to-late Eighties, before his West Indies Test debut and with one first-class appearance to his name, Curtly…
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