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Sir Curtly Elconn Lynwall Ambrose KCN (born 21 September 1963) is an Antiguan former cricketer who played 98 Test matches for the West Indies. Widely acknowledged as one of the greatest fast bowlers of all time, he took 405 Test wickets at an average of 20.99 and topped the ICC Player Rankings for much of his career to be rated the best bowler in the world. His great height—he is 6 feet 7 inches (2.01 m) tall—allowed him to make the ball bounce unusually high after he delivered it ...
Wisden overview Fee fi fo fum. A giant of the game in every sense, Curtly Ambrose was the most lethal pace bowler of his generation. Like his predecessor Andy Roberts, Ambrose didn't say much ...
Curtly Ambrose, the giant who spoke very rarely, is another product of the long assembly line of West Indies bowlers. At a height of six feet seven inches, armed with a high arm action, Ambrose ...
Fastest to 100 wickets (61) 29th. Fastest to 150 wickets (103) 21st. Fastest to 200 wickets (146) Combined Test, ODI and T20I records.
Find out the complete career history of Curtly Ambrose including highest scores, centuries, half centuries, wickets and more
Dec 18, 2023 · Sir Curtly Ambrose remembers his team-mates’ icy stares. On the fourth afternoon of England’s Test in Trinidad & Tobago in 1994, Ambrose was clean bowled playing a wild swipe. “I say: ‘Boy ...
Sir Curtly Ambrose Profile: Read about Sir Curtly Ambrose Career details, ICC Ranking, batting score in T20, ODI and Test Matches and personal info of Sir Curtly Ambrose at Crickit by HT.
Ambrose. West Indies. Devastating bowling in tandem with Courtney Walsh, Curtly Ambrose is considered one of the game's greatest fastest bowlers. In Tests, he took 405 wickets at an average of 20.99, while in ODIs, he collected 225 wickets. Player Bio. One of the greatest fast bowlers of all time, he averaged an impressive rate of 20.99 for his 405 Test wickets, with an economy rate of 2.30. He is best remembered for his devastating spell of 7/1 against Australia in Perth, although ...
Sep 21, 2023 · Curtly Ambrose is travelling. The bowling coach for Jamaica in the Caribbean Premier League alongside his former West Indies teammate and head coach Shivnarine Chanderpaul, he is still the most ...
May 6, 2015 · CURTLY Ambrose has detailed how close his famous mid-pitch stoush with Steve Waugh came to breaking into a physical fight, with the West Indies legend revealing he told the Australian batsman he ...
