7. Malcolm Marshall – West Indies
While he might have measured under 6ft tall, Malcolm Marshall’s standing in the game of cricket is massive.
Despite his diminutive size, the pocket-rocket from Barbados was one of the fastest bowlers ever to hit the international scene in the past 40 years.
Able to generate searing pace, Marshall became almost unplayable when he was able to swing the ball both ways, and learned to bowl a leg-cutter as well, bringing the slip-cordon into play.
But his pace was his biggest weapon and scared even the best batsmen in the world, with a ball to Mike Gatting in 1986 in a one-day game underlying how fast he was, with the sharp rising ball hitting the Englishman in the nose, shattering it, with Marshall later finding bone fragments in the leather of the ball.
But his 376 wickets from 81 matches at an average of just 20.94 will always be his biggest legacy left to the game of cricket.
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