The Definitive Devon Malcolm

The former England fast bowler looks back on his most hair-raising spells

The Boycott scalp
Yorkshire XI v Yorkshire Select XI, 1984
I wasn’t your typical academy cricketer – Iwas 19 and hadn’t played cricket for a while after moving to England from Jamaica at the age of 17. I was playing sporadically in the Sheffield Leagues and attending college when I was selected to play against a Yorkshire XI. I took the Friday off school and played against the likes of Martyn Moxon and Geoff Boycott. In my first over I clean bowled Moxon and then did exactly the same to Boycott, both with inswinging...

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