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Biography Of West Indian Joel Garner- The Big Bird Of Cricket World
One of the several splendid cricketers who had played his part in lifting Somerset to the pinnacle of cricket in England, and West Indies to holders of the World Cup, Joel Garner, at 6ft 8 is the tallest man to have played Test cricket. Nicknamed “Big Bird” or “Big Joel”, Garner in conjunction with fellow fast bowlers Michael Holding, Andy Roberts, Colin Croft, and later Malcolm Marshall and Courtney Walsh, took West Indies to unprecedented heights in the Test and one-day cricket arenas, not losing a Test series for 15 years.
Joel Garner was born in December 16, 1952, bred and raised on the island of Barbados, in the eastern Caribbean, famous for its beaches, its rum and its cricketers. Garner and other young Barbadians grew up in a strong cricketing environment and by the time he entered Foundation School, one of the island's leading grammar schools, at the age of twelve, Garner already knew what cricket was all about. He had natural ability, and this needed only to be polished by the former Barbados Test players, employed as coaches by the government.
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