Malcolm Marshall Records, Biography, Achievements
Malcolm Marshall
Malcolm Denzil Marshall was a West Indian ineternational cricketer. Marshall is regarded as one of the finest and fastest pacemen ever to have played Test cricket. Malcolm Marshall, conclusively, was one of those - one of those special people. Not so much because he was so extraordinarily good at cricket, but because of the way in which he applied the various gifts, cricket amongst them, which were given to him. Malcolm was no waster - not of time, not of talent - nor a shirker of any situation or challenge which confronted him. He maintained excellence without arrogance, earned respect without ever assuming it, and displayed confidence and self-assurance within his immense humility.
For as long as perhaps the last two months, maybe more maybe less, he knew, deep down I think, that the game was up. But he was damned if he would let us know. He was such a stubborn fellow. It was as if he was more concerned about the suffering of those around him, those few intensely close friends kept by this very private man, than about the suffering he was going through himself. The qualities of thoughtfulness and caring, of courage and bravery - and didn't he so often show that in his play - were among his finest. For all the flamboyance and bravado as a sportsman, Malcolm was not one to over-dramatize off the field. He said things as they were and he resolved that his dreadful illness would be his own problem and as it escalated he would not panic others with its potential end.
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