Ian Bishop

Ian Bishop bowled like the wind when he made it to Test cricket at 21, producing gasp-inducing speeds from a long, straight, hustling run and orthodox side-on action. But his was ultimately an injury-riddled career, remembered mostly for its unfulfilled potential.

Bishop hit his stride straightaway, taking 6 for 87 in Bridgetown in his second Test, against India in 1989, outshining his more famous co-horsemen of the apocalypse, Marshall, Ambrose and Walsh. He then went up a gear with 21 wickets - the most by any bowler on either side - in his next series, against England. Eight of those came in the last match on a flat St John's wicket known for favouring batters, where England were blown away by an innings and more. Another 16 followed in his next series, a drawn one in Pakistan, at a time when their rivalry with West Indies was probably cricket's premier contest.

In Perth early in 1993, when Curtly Ambrose famously flattened the hapless Australians in the first innings, Bishop took the baton in the second, felling them for 178 with 6 for 40. But by then, he was again suffering from the serious back problems that had already brought a halt to his career once. After stress fractures of the vertebrae were diagnosed early in 1991, he underwent intensive rehabilitation, prayed a lot, and modified his action, becoming front-on without losing his awayswing.

It was short-lived relief; he broke down again in 1993 and was out for two years. He came back strong with 27 wickets in the 1995 series against England, another table-topping effort, but it was mostly diminishing returns after the next Frank Worrell Trophy in Australia in 1996, where he finished with 20 wickets in the five Tests, and he played his last Test in 1998.

Bishop has been arguably better known in his second career - as a top-drawer commentator who has his finger on the pulse of the game around the world. To many, he will forever be legendary as the voice that excitedly exhorted us to "remember the name" of Carlos Brathwaite when he won West Indies the T20 World Cup in 2016 with four sixes in the last over.