Originally Posted by Dujon on WI seamers

Each was unique in his own right. Someone like Michael Holding - apart from his sheer pace, one of his attributes was that he didn't pound the ball into the wicket and it tended to gather pace once it pitched. That was something that the batsman, and sometimes I, didn't expect. Towards the end of his career, when he dropped a bit in pace, he tended to use the seam a lot better and get a lot of movement off the wicket and through the air, which prolonged his career.

Andy Roberts was more crafty, a very good assessor of batsmen. He had a good change of pace and could set batsmen up. By just looking at them, he knew how he could get them out. He was very deceptive and you never knew what he was thinking.

Joel Garner - tall man, got the ball to bounce closer to the batsman, which is very awkward, and had a very good yorker. He didn't swing the ball much but he got the ball to move off the seam. At that pace and that bounce, it could be very awkward.

Curtly Ambrose was probably the epitome of accuracy. He would just put the ball down in front of you and get it to do something off the seam. But he was very steady. He didn't go for many runs and was very patient and had a very good yorker - tall man, coming from that height it isn't easy to play.

Courtney Walsh was a workhorse. He put in the overs, he could bowl all day. But in my mind, the best of the lot was Malcolm Marshall. He was the embodiment of them all, he had the full package. And he was an excellent assessor of situations and batsmen, and would bowl appropriately. A look at the number of wickets he took in India is an indication of how capable a fast bowler he was.