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FAST BOWLERS DID HUNT IN PAIRS BUT OVERWORK IS TAKING A TOLL

Garfield Robinson looks back at the sustained reigns of terror by the fast men of yesteryear and wonders whether we will see them as often again

In the days of the great West Indies four-pronged pace attacks, crowds would turn up for Test matches in the Caribbean humming with anticipation.
There’d always be a noisy throng and, if you didn’t get there early enough, you knew there’d be a long lines and therefore a long wait.
Arriving on the first morning of an England/West Indies Test at Sabina Park in 1986, shortly before the scheduled start, a friend recalled that he did n...

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