Most Dangerous Bowler  In The History Of Cricket: In the 1970s and 1980s, West Indies players used to speak in Tutti World Cup. More than one, one veteran was in that team. Players like Clive Lloyd, Vivian Richards, Malcolm Marshall, Andy Roberts and Joel Garner made the Windies team invincible. Even in the 1975 and 1979 ODIs, this team won. Test or ODI, West Indies had a deadly player for every format at that time. Among them, Sir Andy Roberts had a different status.

Members of the most dreaded quartet

Andy Roberts was an important member of the famous fast bowling quartet of West Indies. He was accompanied by stormy bowlers Malcolm Marsh, Joel Garner and Colin Croft. This quartet caused havoc all over the world. They did not spare any team. Wounded dozens of batsmen and terrorized them with their bowling. Andy Roberts is called ‘Modern Fast Ka Father’ and ‘The Grandfather of West Indies Pace Bowling’.

The batsman goes to life

India’s great batsman Sunil Gavaskar also considers him the best fast bowler. Roberts has removed the blood of many batsmen from his dangerous bouncers. He almost killed Australia batsman Peter Tohi in 1977-78. Tohi wanted to hook his bouncer. The ball started going to his forehead. He could not play the shot. He fell on the field due to the ball just above the nose. The Australian team became desperate. Fear was absorbed inside the batsmen. Fans sitting in the audience gallery were asking them to return to the pavilion. During this time, from the fans to the kangaroo batsman, Andy Roberts did not mind. He looked more dreaded than before.

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Bouncer is the deadliest weapon

Roberts’s bouncer was his deadliest Hathia. He could do it in two ways. A bouncer was very slow. It used to play batsmen easily, but another bouncer was fatal. He used to throw the batsmen in his trap by throwing slow bouncers first and scared it on the next ball. In this way Roberts used to cheat the opposition team and dismiss their players quickly.

Roberts played in 47 Tests and 56 ODIs

Born on 29 January 1951 in Antigua, Roberts – Cricket Player West Indies played three consecutive ODI Cups. In 1975 and 1979, his team became the champion, but in 1983, West Indies were defeated by India. Arriving in England in 1972, he played first class cricket for the Hampshire County Cricket Club and then Lessestersire County Cricket Club. In 2009, Roberts was included in the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame. He took 202 wickets in 47 Tests and 87 wickets in 56 ODIs.

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Imran Khan told the most terrible

According to Roberts, he threw the best spell ever during the Headingley Test in the England tour in 1976. He told in an interview. “I got only three wickets, but a decision in my mind was against me. This was LBW’s decision against Peter Willy. If the umpire had given me the decision, I would have dismissed England that afternoon. ”His international career was relatively small despite a great record in the Test. It started in 1974 and ended in 1983. Former Pakistan captain Imran Khan once described the ball thrown by Andy Roberts as the fastest and most terrible, which he ever faced.