Rabish Binney
Left out overnight
Yes, he was a nasty person off the field. Once held a hot iron to the face of his wife severely burning her. Was sentenced to 3 months probation which raised some eyebrows as to the leniency of the sentence.Yep I read some stories about Gilchrist as well, Manny Martindale was another very early one with a reputation for being a bit of a batsman hater. I think Gilchrist might have been a bit of a bastard in general???
Patterson was frighteningly fast and with more discipline and less injuries to bishop they could have forced a real quartet out of those two and Walsh and Ambrose longer into the 90s: Bishop was a beautiful bowler and he himself was regarded as being the quickest in the world for a while, along with Donald, Patterson and Waqar at around the same time but yeah back injuries got him at his peak.
They are still trotting them out in terms of the specimens: they are never short of guys who can bowl at 140+, realistically in the last 5 years they should have almost always been fielding a pace attack or Gabriel, Joseph and Roach, two of whom can bowl at or close to 150, and the other of whom used to before his car accident.
It’s just the quality of them which has dropped off
Gilchrist grew up in a very poor area of Jamaica and had a very hard life as a child. As it follows, he took an attitude to life and to the cricket field and basically just wanted to kill any batmen he was bowling to.
Dennis Atkinson was his captain on an Indian tour and had warned Gilchrist many times to stop bowling beamers for fear of severely hurting an Indian batsman (they weren't great players of pace bowling in the 50's and 60's). This only served to make him bowl more intimidatory deliveries. At the end of an over, Atkinson told him that it was all over and Gilchrist was ordered to get on the fist plane home, effectively ending his test career then and there.