West Indies fast bowlers will test England

The quality of West Indies’ fast bowlers in the 1980’s was a cut above the rest, with Malcolm Marshall, Michael Holding and Joel Garner testing batsmen around the world. Derek Pringle, writing in the Daily Telegraph, says that as West Indies tour England later this month, their fast bowlers can still hurry England’s batsmen.

Those anxiety levels, along with the pace battery that caused them, are long gone, but a new clutch of quicks has the speed to discomfit Andrew Strauss and his batsmen, especially if they fail to find form ahead of the first Test on May 17.