Scott Oliver on perhaps the greatest fast bowler who ever lived, Malcolm Marshall, playing in the leagues

Tasty signing: Malcolm Marshall joins his Leyland teammates for a barbecue

If things were wobbling on the field for Leyland in that summer of 1994, then cracks were appearing off it – specifically, over some of the off-book money that Malcolm Marshall had been promised by sports entrepreneur and wicket-keeper John Farrar, whose mouth regularly wrote cheques that his chequebook couldn’t cash.
Perhaps it was this growing irritation that fuelled Marshall’s next two performances, when h...