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Glenn McGrath's focus on precision over pace

Life in the fast lane

Nov 28, 2006: McGrath's practice of focusing on precision over pace means he has more fuel in his tank today than faster bowlers

Courtney Walsh interview

'Taylor and Edwards could be the pair for the future'

Nov 12, 2006: While in India to promote tourism, Courtney Walsh took out some time to speak to Cricinfo

India v West Indies, 2nd Test, St Lucia, 3rd day

It ain't the milestone that matters

Jun 13, 2006: Anil Kumble and Daren Ganga speak to the press

India tour of West Indies 2005-06

That 'maan' Courtney - the pride of Jamaica

May 16, 2006: Siddhartha Vaidyanathan learns more about Courtney Walsh, one of Jamaica's most famous sons

West Indies in Australia 2005-06

Walsh banks on Windies to spring a surprise

Nov 1, 2005: Courtney Walsh and Michael Holding, bowling greats, differ on the chances of the West Indies making a fist of their three-Test cricket series against Australia, set to begin at Brisbane on Thursday

West Indies prepare for 2007 World Cup

Walsh approached to help arrest Windies slide

Sep 21, 2005: Courtney Walsh has finally been approached by the West Indies board to help reverse the continuing decline in fortunes of the team

The Friday column

Happy hookers, and Bangladesh's struggle

Jun 3, 2005: The batsmen who get the most of the hook and pull shots, and what the stats say about Bangladesh

The Friday column

The fall of the Caribbean quicks

May 27, 2005: A statistical study of the decline of the West Indian fast bowlers over the last two-and-a-half decades

Pigeon receives support from West Indian great

Walsh supports McGrath's aim for the World Cup

Feb 9, 2005: Courtney Walsh has backed Glenn McGrath to make it for the 2007 World Cup in the Caribbean

February 2005

The XI over-achievers

Feb 4, 2005: Daniel Brigham hails those who have made it to the top against odds of ability or fate

The Wasim, Courtney and Henry show

Lashings stars play Saltires

Jun 23, 2004: Wasim Akram, Courtney Walsh and Henry Olonga are among an astonishing array of past and present Test stars to play for Lashings against the Scottish Saltires in a special Twenty20-format evening game on Friday, 25 June

The chucking controversy

Degrees of guilt

Jun 20, 2004: Mukul Kesavan looks at why the ICC's present system of variable tolerance limits based on bowlers' speeds is untenable and unenforceable and suggests an alternative

Sri Lanka in Australia 2004

Warne confident of playing Sri Lanka

Jun 17, 2004: Shane Warne is confident of playing some part in the two-Test series against Sri Lanka, after earlier fears that a broken left hand would force him out of the entire Top End tour

Jamaica's top five cricketers of all time

Walsh and Holding named among Jamaica's best

May 13, 2004: George Headley and Michael Holding have been named among Jamaica's five greatest cricketers of all time

March 2004

The XI meanest bowlers

Mar 17, 2004: John Stern infiltrates the bowling terrorists

Sri Lanka v Australia, 2nd Test, Kandy, 1st day

Muralitharan slots into 500-wicket club

Mar 16, 2004: Muttiah Muralitharan recovered from a stomach upset to become the thirdbowler in history to take 500 Test wickets, during the first day's play in the second Test against Australia

England in West Indies 2003-04

Windies ask Walsh to help out

Feb 25, 2004: Courtney Walsh, the former West Indies fast bowler and the leading Test wicket taker in the world, has been asked by the West Indian board to help prepare their fast bowlers for the forthcoming Test series against England

Where have all the bowlers gone?

Walsh in the cold and fearing for the future

Feb 3, 2004: Courtney Walsh tells Angus Fraser that West Indies bowling is a real concern ..

All Today's Yesterdays

Happy birthday, Courtney

Oct 30, 2003: 1962 Birth of the most prolific and durable bowler of all

Dashing Denis

Sep 4, 2003: 1947 Playing for Middlesex at Lord's, Denis Compton took yet another century off the touring South Africans in his golden summer