Personal Information

Full Name Malcolm Denzil Marshall
Born April 18, 1958 Bridgetown, Barbados
Age 66 Years, 7 Months, 26 Days
National Side West Indies
Batting Style Right Handed
Bowling Right-arm fast
Sport Cricket

Ranking

Test ODI T20
Batting - - -
Bowling - - -

Man of the Match

Test ODI T20 World Cup CL
10 4 - 0 -

Career Information

Teams Played West Indies
Career Span

Malcolm Denzil Marshall Overall Stats

Batting & Fielding Performance

M I N/O R HS 100s 50s 4s 6s AVG S/R CT ST Ducks R/O
Test
81 107 11 1810 92 v IND 0 10 187 18 18.85 - 25 0
ODI
136 83 19 955 66 v PAK 0 2 63 14 14.92 76.64 15 0
World Cup
11 7 0 40 18 v IND 0 0 1 0 5.71 38.09 - -

Bowling Performance

I O M R W Best 3s 5s AVG E/R S/R Mtc
Test
151 2930.4 614 7876 376 7/22 v ENG 23 22 20.94 2.68 46.76
ODI
134 1195.5 122 4233 157 4/18 v AUS 10 0 26.96 3.53 45.70
World Cup
11 113 13 349 14 3/28 v PAK 1 0 24.92 3.08 48.42

Malcolm Denzil Marshall Profile

A bowling average of less than 21 and a strike rate of a wicket every seven overs, in Tests is one of the best around, especially for bowlers who have taken more than 200 wickets. Malcolm Marshall achieved the same while picking up 376 Test wickets, with a combination of pace, swing, seam and a very deceptive bouncer that very few batsmen could read.

He made his debut in the late 1970s when many of the regular West Indian stars joined the Kerry Packer sponsored WSC, but he peaked in the early 1980s, mesmerizing the English batsmen on a regular basis in English conditions that suited his style of bowling. As a lower order batsman, he hit 10 half centuries in Tests, and once batted with one hand, after fracturing the other hand. With a plaster on his left hand, he bowled like a man processed and took seven wickets to sink an already demoralized English team.

Post retirement, Malcolm Marshall took up coaching, he coached both Hampshire – where he had plied his trade for many years as a bowler – and West Indies, but was diagnosed with colon cancer in 1999. He could not recover and died of the same in November 1999. The world cricket had lost a cricketing great.