Even the fast men should lose fear of getting carted

Garfield Robinson detects a necessary change of strategy that would have shocked the great West Indies quicks of the past

If you want to drive buy a cart,” was a popular saying amongst the West Indies’ great fourpronged attacks. The batsman who dared to step out and drive Holding or Garner or Croft or Ambrose was very brave indeed; or very foolhardy. These Caribbean giants were likely to take it as a mark of disrespect – as a sign that they needed to increase the pace and reduce the length, lest the bloke at the other end ever think of doing it again.
In 1988 ...

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