The President of the West Indies 4 prong fast bowling attack of the 1970's and 1980's, Anderson Montgomery Everton Roberts will be in Berbice,Guyana next week to work with some young fast bowlers there.
Andy who played some 47 test matches and took 202 test wickets is widely regarded as one of the West Indies premier fast bowlers and his expertise and knowledge will be a huge boon to Berbice as that county continues to pull out all the stops to improve their cricket.Roberts will spend 5 days in Guyana.
This visit by Roberts also coincides with a visit by former England batsman Roland Butcher to the Ancient County and comes just 2 months after the historic fast bowling camp conducted by Sir Curtly Ambrose.
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Sir Andy Roberts
2022-04-13 22:28:06
2022-04-13 23:18:05
In reply to Dukes
Any intention of getting Alvin Kallicharan there too?
2022-04-13 23:31:37
In reply to Dukes
Nice
2022-04-14 03:43:11
In reply to Dukes
"Andy who played some 47 test matches and took 202 test wickets is widely regarded as one of the West Indies premier fast bowlers"
He surely was. Didn't he get to his 100 test wickets in his 19th test match? Maan! What wouldn't our current test bowlers do to get Robert's record.
2022-04-14 11:23:12
In reply to tops
Did he play some 47 Test matches, or
Did he play 47 Test matches?
Sorry
2022-04-14 11:48:54
In reply to Halliwell
Why are you sorry?
2022-04-14 11:51:04
Here's to hoping Berbice becomes the Fast Bowling capital of the Caribbean.
Georgetown men would be wise to make the trip east and to put on a lil Berbice accent to get some tips.
2022-04-14 11:59:40
In reply to tops
Didn't he get to his 100 test wickets in his 19th test match?
Absolutely correct!!!
David Steele c Murray b Roberts 00
Headingley 1976
I remember my first year in England 1974 how Andy terrorized all the English batsmen while he was playing for Hampshire.He took about 135 wickets at 12 runs apiece.
2022-04-14 17:26:42
In reply to Dukes
I think many people forget how quick Roberts was… I remember that first full county season when he cut through virtually every side he came up against like a hot knife through butter. He got tongues wagging and was was feared & revered in equal measure.
2022-04-14 18:09:06
In reply to robbo
Lloyd told me an anecdote about that 1974 season.Lancashire vs Hampshire and Andy had a couple of quick wickets and Lloyd joined Frank Hayes at the crease. First ball was a screaming bouncer which he avoided.Second ball he turned down to fine leg and as he is ambling a single,Hayes is screaming TWO.Lloyd immediately responded with a loud NO.
2022-04-14 18:13:02
Andy Roberts broke into the West Indies side by playing against them
I do not remember the specifics of that match, but I do remember hitting Steve Camacho, the West Indies opener, on the head. There were a lot of catches dropped between the wicketkeeper and slips. I also remember Roy Fredericks playing aggressively in both innings, but I fought aggression with aggression. In that innings Fredericks played the full range of his shots. Later in my career he refused to play the hook, because by then I had more pace and I had become a lot cleverer
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That ended Camacho's career
The incident meant that Camacho took no further part in the tour, and though he continued playing for Guyana for a few years he never regained the confidence he had prior to the blow
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2022-04-14 18:16:41
Those were the days when a youthful, quick and mean Andy Roberts roamed the shires under the banner of the Hampshire County Cricket Club, doling out discomfort and pain to helmetless batsmen.
On this day he was sending them down like rockets. “Did you see that!” bellowed Kitchen, “it’s the quickest ball I have ever seen in my life. I am not going to get these smashed,” as he removed his false teeth and placed them in his pocket, “I paid too much for them.”
On this day he was sending them down like rockets. “Did you see that!” bellowed Kitchen, “it’s the quickest ball I have ever seen in my life. I am not going to get these smashed,” as he removed his false teeth and placed them in his pocket, “I paid too much for them.”
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2022-04-14 18:20:39
In his autobiography, Viv goes through a list of batsmen who were hurt from deliveries propelled by his countryman’s right arm:
The first time I saw it was when he hit David Hookes in a World Series cricket match and broke his jaw. The Australian Golden Boy was wired up for weeks and couldn’t eat anything solid for a while. I also saw him hit Peter Toohey in Trinidad and broke his nose, and then later he smashed his thumb in the same game; he broke Sadiq Mohammad’s jaw in a Test match in Georgetown and Majid Khan’s cheekbone in county cricket.
The first time I saw it was when he hit David Hookes in a World Series cricket match and broke his jaw. The Australian Golden Boy was wired up for weeks and couldn’t eat anything solid for a while. I also saw him hit Peter Toohey in Trinidad and broke his nose, and then later he smashed his thumb in the same game; he broke Sadiq Mohammad’s jaw in a Test match in Georgetown and Majid Khan’s cheekbone in county cricket.
2022-04-14 18:33:15
In reply to Narper
"he broke Sadiq Mohammad’s jaw in a Test match in Georgetown"
On that Borda pitch? How Roberts managed to do that?
2022-04-14 18:35:43
In reply to Dukes
"I remember my first year in England 1974 how Andy terrorized all the English batsmen while he was playing for Hampshire.He took about 135 wickets at 12 runs apiece."
WOW! '135 wickets at 12 runs apiece'? That's bowling!
2022-04-14 19:07:28
In reply to Narper
In Viv' original autobio he said he knew Botham would play for England. Why?
He watched Andy smack him in the face and after spitting out two teeth and retired hurt
he returned and stood up to him. I think Beefy was only then 19!
2022-04-14 19:13:35
In reply to tops
He won us a series with one single delivery.
At Sabina Pakistan was well in the match at the beginning
of their 2nd innings. I think Andy got only 1 wkt. but early
on he struck Moin a most fearful blow under the heart and
except for Raja the rest sitting back in the crease were
easy pickings for Garner n Croft. It was 1-1 going into that test.
2022-04-14 19:17:40
In reply to Brerzerk
Was that the 1977 series ?
2022-04-14 19:33:05
In reply to robbo
Yes, 5th Test. Croft, Garner n Holford bowled them down.
2022-04-14 19:57:06
In reply to Brerzerk
From memory that was the series in which Andy Roberts took something like 20 wickets at 40 apiece. Apparently those figures in no way reflect the way he bowled during the series.
In one of many books that Imran Khan wrote he said that during that series Roberts effectively terrorised the Pakistani batsmen.
There was one spell towards the end of a particular day in which he really steamed in apparently bowled at the speed of light. The Pakistani dressing room were awestruck and he said that they never really recovered any confidence.
Imran also said that the fastest delivery he ever faced was bowled by Roberts during that series and believe it or not he hit it for six.
He didn’t see the ball, he just swung wildly but somehow managed to middle it sending it over the boundary.
It does go to show how misleading statistics can sometimes be.
2022-04-14 20:46:46
Bajan batsmen in the mid 70s loved pace but I remember Roberts was the one bowler that terrorised Bajan batsmen in the Shell Shield....men were scared although I remember Collis King counteracting aggressively against him and in latter years Carlisle Best.
Folklore said Collis King scored a running 75!
2022-04-14 20:49:34
Do you know Roberts made his debut in that famous match in 1973 where Lawrence Rowe made 302 at Kensington?
It was also Sobers last match at Kensington.
Roberts debut and Sobers last match home where he made duck
2022-04-14 21:04:41
In reply to Dukes
Continue to walk that walk Dukes. Great job!!!
2022-04-15 02:30:33
In reply to Brerzerk
At Sabina Pakistan was well in the match at the beginning
of their 2nd innings. I think Andy got only 1 wkt. but early
on he struck Moin
No, not Moin, I believe Moin wasn't born yet in 77. It was Sadiq, Majid and Zaheer who got hit. The Pak keeper back then was Wasim Bari. The 77 series was a fascinating one indeed!
2022-04-17 23:03:00
In addition to Sir Andy Roberts and Roland Butcher,Desmond Haynes and Jimmy Adams will be in Guyana later this week.
2022-04-21 13:15:29
Sir Andy arrived in Guyana last night.
2022-04-21 20:12:49
In reply to analyst-kid
Let's be accurate. Robert's terrorized us in 1975. We murdered him in 1977 1980 and 1981.
Watching him in 1975 I made up my mind that I would never be good enough to play at that level.
2022-04-21 20:14:50
In reply to Baje
Ih by the way Collis did not run or flinch during that 80
2022-04-22 21:22:03
In reply to Baje Floppy hat and all
2022-04-24 11:29:36
Meanwhile the fast bowling and batting camp in Berbice, Guyana conducted by Andy Roberts and Roland Butcher had two former West Indian captains in attendance. Jimmy Adams, Director of Cricket and Desmond Haynes, Chairman of Selectors , joined the camp and both gave inspirational speeches to the players, coaches and parents in a well attended and organized session yesterday..
2022-04-24 12:34:11
It’s great that the former int’l players are trying to impart a bit of know how to the youths ...
But is it all falling on deaf ears??
The youths I will bet my bottom dollar don’t view any of the oldsters as idols ..
Simply they have all left the playing arena before most of these youths were born..
The sport has evolved ( with the basic element being instinctive) thus you need modern day warriors to do any improvement and impart their knowledge ..
The mindset of these youths are on what they see now.. not something they have never seen nor someone they never heard of ...
A Jofra Archer , Dwayne Bravo would get 2000 percent attention.
Oh well .. that all takes a whole lot of money ..
2022-04-24 13:06:13
I heard Adams donated 6 pairs of extra-long pads to the program to help them execute on the coaching techniques he was teaching. Kudos Jimmy!
2022-04-24 13:12:11
In reply to Dukes
Good.
2022-04-24 13:15:15
In reply to CITYBOY
It’s great that the former int’l players are trying to impart a bit of know how to the youths ...
But is it all falling on deaf ears??
The youths I will bet my bottom dollar don’t view any of the oldsters as idols ..
Simply they have all left the playing arena before most of these youths were born..
But is it all falling on deaf ears??
The youths I will bet my bottom dollar don’t view any of the oldsters as idols ..
Simply they have all left the playing arena before most of these youths were born..
A false narrative based on your cynical appraisal of the current generation.
You have ZERO first hand knowledge of what you speak.
In today's world of you tube and google.These young players have countless footage of our former greats.As a matter of fact at the Awards ceremony in February the video of Curtly's 7-1 spell was shown.The coaches use video of our greats like Viv,Greenidge,Lloyd,Kallicharran and even footage of Lance Gibbs to drive home their points.
2022-04-24 13:19:33
Not to be outdone, Sir Dukes was instrumental in explaining Runs in the Key of Life to the youngsters.
Teens were shown how average matters, where to Google averages and stats, and what part average plays in making a case for selection.
Just teasing doc, keep on doing!
2022-04-24 13:20:45
In reply to Curtis
2022-04-24 14:06:59
In reply to Dukes
Sorry Dukes. It’s the way I feel...
I know ... you don’t me and who I know.. I was once used as a technical batsman by Alvin K at Warwick shire in his coaching youngsters..
Lance sent down hundreds of deliveries in our front yard on his way home from work ..
I grew up playing along lots of national players and a few that played tests.,
I once asked Jimmy Adams why every time he goes to bat .. without warning a jumbie appears and the wicket becomes unplayable..
I was dropping Charlie Griffith and Andy Roberts back to their hotel after spending an afternoon with them and Charlie maintained that Andy is a
spinner ..
I have lots more.. and o am sure you too.. bottom line we see things differently ..
Why you think TT producing so many talented T 20 players.. they certainly not learning from Lara or Gomes.. it’s from the current guys who still ply their trade in TT..
I can go on and on ...
But YouTube ain’t providing no idol to no youngster ...
2022-04-24 14:51:11
In reply to CITYBOY
CityBoy, you play bumper ball? We looking for an aging veteran with good gyaff and batting skills.
2022-04-24 21:53:50
In reply to Curtis
U really believe you can find a bigger gyaff man dan me???
YUH MAD OR WHAT!!!!!!!
2022-04-24 22:23:10
In reply to Dukes
That gaff thing is from yester years. Bannuhs especially if a fast bowler got you hopping .. the tantalize and gaff that would come out cannot described ..
When tests were played at Bourda a bunch of us would head down from US and Can and the gaff and hangout was something else ...Lance was president lol
2022-04-24 22:33:33
In reply to Curtis
Ok you asked for it ... so I thought I was a big shot unbeatable bumper ball player.. so Kali come down to wuk in Georgetown and play for GCC..
Every Sunday big money betting on bumper ball games..so I took Kalli to play..
They picking a side and Kalli ended up by default on a team.. as no one thought he can play bumper ball ..
Well he ain’t out yet. ... Kalli was a bad man bhai ..
But I don’t play bumper ball anymore..
I will concentrate on out gaffing Dukes
2022-04-24 22:40:35
In reply to CITYBOY
No bigger gaff man than the late Fred Wills.Brilliant man.Guyana Scholar,Outstanding Lawyer DCC cricket captain and Chairman of the Guyana Selectors.
DCC playing a Case Cup match and a young batsman is shaping very well against both the DCC fast bowlers and spinners.Fred Wills is talking to the wicketkeeper but making sure that the young batsman can hear.He said what the selectors are looking for is adventurous batsmen who use their feet against the spinners and knock them off their length.The young batsman charges down to the off-spinner and is stumped.Fred Wills says to him : Boy yuh must not listen to big people conversation!!!
2022-04-24 23:00:37
In reply to Dukes
2022-04-24 23:20:07
In reply to Dukes
Ah playing against Police and open batting.. I think it’s the lefty bad man English open bowling.. a square cut for four and then took a single .. I stayed at that end and watched 6 or 7 men get bowled down and I ain’t going back to that end..
English ask why I ain’t going down that side.. I simply replied.. not even he and the whole police force can get me down there even if I get handcuff
2022-04-24 23:44:52
In reply to CITYBOY
G.S Sobers Bowled English 165
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
2022-04-25 11:03:02
In reply to Dukes
Well let me give you the lowdown on that innings..Sobie get dropped early by whom??
Let me see if you know the name and I gonna give the truth about the drop
2022-04-25 11:43:31
In reply to CITYBOY
I do not remember him getting dropped in that innings.I remember him getting dropped a few years earlier by the wicketkeeper Jackman in Barbados when he made a double hundred.
2022-04-25 12:43:41
In reply to Dukes
You ah wan young boy. ... but here is how it went down..
Ovid Glasgow was the shop keeper (lol)
But here is the gaff and true true story..
Sobie come in to bat and here is what happen..Ovid start trembling and sweating .. he said ..” man the king is in front of me and meh BT biting.. I only watching de king .. I don’t know wha happen.. ah just sweating ..”
“ ah only admiring the king strokes””
Well well Sobie nick one and Ovid by only watching Sobie never saw de ball and boo doom Sobie get drap..
And we know what happen Sobie drap 165 in we cloth ..
But you have to hear the gaff and actions etc by some of those telling the story..
Hilarious .. Next time you talk to Lance ask him who was bowler .. I am thinking old Joe ..
That same game Lashley went insane.. after the Guyana dec he carved up I think a 76 not out by close with some serious batting.. more in line t20
2022-04-25 14:10:09
Lance Gibbs seems to have had quite a "relationship" with wicketkeepers. There is a story about him and Pydanna. At the beginning of an over he told Pydanna that he was going to flight a couple of balls and then bowl a quicker straight ball outside the off stump and the batsman is going to overbalance in trying to play it and he should then stump him.
The scenario played out just as Lance had predicted BUT Pie did not collect the ball and it hit him in the mouth and broke one of his teeth!!!!!
2022-04-25 14:44:27
In reply to Dukes
What is the purpose of the group?
I looked at their age and cannot find players they worked with, in the last 3-5 years
2022-04-25 15:11:06
In reply to Baje
Let's be accurate. Robert's terrorized us in 1975. We murdered him in 1977 1980 and 1981.
Watching him in 1975 I made up my mind that I would never be good enough to play at that level.
Watching him in 1975 I made up my mind that I would never be good enough to play at that level.
It makes sense bro. In 1975 Sobers, Nurse,Boyce had finished and by 1977-1980 Greenidge, Haynes, Best Emmerson Trotman, Alvin Greenidge, Thelston Payne, Collis King came to the fore and with Bajans facing Clarke Daniel, Garner, Marshall in the trials, Roberts couldnt continue being a terror to Bajan batsmen.
But I went to a function, an awards ceremony four years ago in Deacons Farm in which a former Bajan batsman being awarded admitted they were terrified of Roberts bacck then.
2022-04-28 21:24:43
Kaieteur News -The Berbice Cricket Board ambitious cricket developmental programme took a giant step over the last week with close to one hundred youth cricketers in attendance at two clinics conducted by legendary test players Sir Andy Roberts and Roland Butcher
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The two clinics started on Friday with Sir Andy conducting the fast-bowling clinic with over forty young promising bowlers which included West Indies Under19 players Isia Thorne, Leon Swammy, Gevon Shultz, Sylus Tyndall, Collis Greene, Shiv Harripersaud, Shamar Joseph, Christopher Deeroop, Shamar Angel and Raymond Vankenie.
Butcher, who created history in 1981 when he became the first black cricketer to play for England at the Test Level, worked with over fifty players over the Three-Day Programme. Among his charges were Rampertab Ramnauth, Jonathan Rampersaud, Kevlon Anderson, Jermey Sandia, Adrian Hetmyer, Romario Ramdeholl, Ashmini Munisar, Romesh Bharat and Rampersaud Ramnauth.
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2022-04-29 01:49:21
In reply to Narper
Your highlights tells me the size of the class was too many.
BTW, is Andy or Roland coaching?
2022-04-29 14:57:03
In reply to openning
he legendary West Indies pacer, who played 47 test matches and took 202 wickets, worked with the attentive youths on a wide range of topics including run up to the crease, the need to jump before releasing the ball, follow through, hand grip, how to bowl on a flat wicket, swing through the air and how to master the art of bowling the bouncer. Sir Andy also passed on tips on the importance of physical fitness to the bowlers and spoke widely on the need to develop strong legs as fast bowling was the most difficult aspect of the game. The bowlers were also educated on the importance of warming up before the start of a bowling spell.
he legendary West Indies pacer, who played 47 test matches and took 202 wickets, worked with the attentive youths on a wide range of topics including run up to the crease, the need to jump before releasing the ball, follow through, hand grip, how to bowl on a flat wicket, swing through the air and how to master the art of bowling the bouncer. Sir Andy also passed on tips on the importance of physical fitness to the bowlers and spoke widely on the need to develop strong legs as fast bowling was the most difficult aspect of the game. The bowlers were also educated on the importance of warming up before the start of a bowling spell.
Butcher, who played at the Albion Ground for England in a One Day International Match versus the West Indies in 1981, worked on a number of topics with the batters including bat grip, batting stance, running between the wicket, bat lift, how to play fast bowling, using your feet against spin and the importance of playing each ball on its merit.
A large amount of time was also spent on indoor educational sessions with topics such as mental toughness, how to prepare for an innings, visualize the bowlers you have to face, physical fitness, positive attitude and the importance of education.
A large amount of time was also spent on indoor educational sessions with topics such as mental toughness, how to prepare for an innings, visualize the bowlers you have to face, physical fitness, positive attitude and the importance of education.
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