I saw him play quite a few times in England. He really was a vicious bowler. He was dropped after the tour of Pakistan although he bowled exceptionally well. He was disappointed by this and wasn't too impressed with the lack of support from the West Indian management after the episode with a spectator.

He quickly put his name to the Rebel tours to South Africa (with another player to suffer huge drinking problems, Collis King) and was clearly the best bowler to ever perform in the rebel tours. In the 82-83 season he took 12-100 to win one game and took a shed load of wickets in the series of 83-84 with 10-68 in the last 'test' and five wickets in an innings of another couple of occasions. This was a really strong South African side, and he showed there (and at Surrey where he regular finished in the top ten of the averages) that the test arena lost quite a few other players because of South Africa's ban.

He died a couple of weeks after Malcolm Marshall and his passing was almost unnoticed. He particularly mentioned that he outbowled Marshall on the Indian tour and couldn't understand why he was then subsequently dropped for Marshall on the tour of australia and New Zealand in 80.