WES HALL DANGEROUS BOWLING

For a decade Wes Hall terrified batsmen the world over. Muscular and tall (6ft 2ins) with a classical action, Hall presented a fearsome sight. A long, lithe approach ended with a fast and well-aimed delivery. He started his cricket career as a wicketkeeper-batsman but converted to a bowler when the regular opener for his club side failed to turn up. He took the new ball, six wickets, and never looked back. He toured England in 1957 with only one first-class game to his name, but he struggled for form and with his run-up and looked unimpressive. Called into the side to tour India and Pakistan in 1958-59, he took 46 wickets in eight Tests, and he was a regular thereafter. In the classic Tied Test on 1961 at Brisbane he took 9 for 203, and bowled the last over with six runs were needed for victory with three wickets left. He took one wicket, dropped a crucial catch, and there were two run-outs. Against India in 1961-62 he grabbed 27 wickets at 15.74 and in 1963, partnered by Charlie Griffith, he blasted England into defeat. At Lord's, in another epic finish, he bowled unchanged for three-and-a-half hours and took 4 for 93 (as well as breaking Colin Cowdrey's arm). In 1964-65 his 16 wickets were instrumental in guiding West Indies to their first series win over Australia, but by the time he toured England in 1966 the signs were there that he was on the wane. He retired, along with his partner Griffith, at the end of the tour of Australia and New Zealand in 1968-69. An immensely popular man, he played two seasons for Queensland and the bulk of his career with Barbados (although that amounted to 13 matches in 15 seasons) with a few appearances for Trinidad in his twilight years. In retirement he become an ordained minister as well as a Minister of Tourism and Sport in the Barbados government. He also managed West Indies touring sides and in 2001 took over as president of the West Indies board.

[@kaushleshshukla9609]

One of the greatest Sir Wes Hall

[@primrose6969]

"Hats" off to the batsmen in those days who played such a dangerously fast bowler 🎩

[@DavidCampbell-i9p]

West Hall is the grandfather of modern-day West Indies fast bowling.

[@anilpmenon4052]

Hall and Griffith.... The most fearsome pair of fast bowlers in cricketing history ❤

[@allanshenton7716]

That's right I so them both playing in the Lancashire league

[@personal7056]

After meetup of the legends 🐐

[@chotonchakraborty7434]

Very fast bowler⚡

[@mohammadshoeb9852]

Roy gilchrist who played alongside Wes hall was equally dangerous and hard to play

[@IsrarKhan-sg3yd]

Great Hanif Muhammad faced both these bowlers for three days and made triple century 337 not out against them made world record of stay on wicket with out helmet if I m not wrong

[@geeto80]

Yes true

[@sammireddy3220]

If so its the greatest bat Hanif.

[@andrewkennaugh1065]

Hall and Griffith didn't play in that game --a bit before their time.Gilchrist played and he was very unpredictable!😊 Helmets?They weren't even thought about until the end of the 1970s.Until then anyone wearing a helmet would be ordered by the umpires to remove it!😮

[@sanjayclassesengsst7925]

Interesting run up and exhillerating bowling

[@tonyroy8123]

Hall and Griffiths were legend bowlers like Lillee and Thommo!

[@JalandharSira-pf1ki]

Fantastic bowler🎉🎉🎉 support 🎉🎉🎉

[@carl90210]

Even the umpire was keeping a close eye on him during his run up 👀

[@silvanski]

0:36 right in the crown jewels!

[@asema2711]

Those days batsman had balls of steel.

[@jimdickson1969]

Has anyone clocked his speed via timing from wicket to wicket?

[@sauravsarkar8522]

Hall, Griffith, Gilchrist were menacingly fast,,,

[@ismailmohammad2579]

No hysteria after taking wickets...

[@parvezdivecha7467]

That's what was real cricket in good old days no helmets no protection head guard & no hand protection pads only skills of the batsman it was worth it

[@ykishore4340]

Those were pre-helmet days.😢

[@danielbutcher4369]

Wes would be bowling 145-150km/h. Quicker then larwood.

[@manifestationmagic8978]

Above 160

[@rogernevin7461]

The late great Colin Milburn hit him for six and also Charlie Griffiths ! Colin played for Northants and so did Frank Tyson so he Knew all about Speed merchants.

[@hyena131]

@danielbutcher4369 Calm down there, Cliff Clavin.

[@ravindrarathnayake3783]

In fact Wesley Hall was the Rolls-Royce of fast bowling, not Michael Holding!

[@girishkangira2891]

Better to get out instead of getting injured..? Deadly dangerous bowler

[@valmiki527]

LEGENDS

[@Cyanity-ws5pe]

Very nice

[@manoharthakur244]

How many wickets he had taken

[@WonderfulCrow-fr1qc]

Nowadays batsmen should know how difficult it was to face bowling.Now a days it is very easy breaking records with helmets.

[@gerontius3]

.....and enormous bats................

[@vd2592]

Sunil gavaskar sir would have played him with ease.

[@pradeepwadhavane7581]

I think Chandu Borde played against him in 1966-67.

[@bikkiofficial.18]

Kon kon instgram dek ky idar aya pls comment and like 😅😅

[@sidjohn7111]

lol why you begging...it's ok relax

[@SurenderKumar-zw3zo]

Uncovered pitches, no protective gear helmets,thigh & chest pads , but they wouldn’t know hence they played with whatever gear that was available at that time. It looks easy now , but it’s not, try it with all the equipment they have now. The game is evolving continuously, shouldn’t compare eras.

[@fruitopia6798]

Agree but they started using covered pitches in the late 1940s, I'm pretty sure the pitches were covered nearly everywhere on a regular basis by the time Hall was playing

[@ruchiradesilva7798]

Who came to see this after he met virat kholi?😶

[@marksuffern9067]

Not everyone acts because of what happens in Indian cricket.

[@longerodds5077]

Today's batsmen will piss in their pants to face such hostile bowling without helmets and other protective gears

[@subratobagchi8830]

Could Virat and Rohit play against hin ?

[@chandrashekharbarge4160]

Bating not aggressive at that time Now bater has changed the stance back lift is before the ball left the baller and immediate reaction

[@RajashekarBs-e6c]

We can see , even though short pitch bowing was bowled, they never attacked to injure batsmen.full toss to head was not bowled till 70s

[@NarasimanN-ti2lh]

Is he bowling to take wicket or to kill batsman. Who is this rowdy

[@padsv]

Mind your language

[@jjbirdstv2445]

Shoaib Akhtar copied his bowling action almost same.

[@rj6404]

Fearsome pace, Cricket terror in pakistan, Hall removed Mushtaq Mohammad , Fazal Mahmood and Nasim-ul-Ghani in successive deliveries to become the first West Indian to take a Test hat-trick.

[@newtonkundu718]

He was bowling targetting batmans body

[@raghunandansasmal483]

Batter could have used helmet in those days for safety

[@debkumarmukherjee3872]

Remember no helmet. He would have beaten if the batsman use helmet.

[@mandapakarochish5848]

Similar bowling action to the great Indian fast bowler Kapil dev!

[@Alphastorm81]

Not too similar. Rather a mix between Fred Truman and Geoff Thompson. Yes, he was side-on like Kapil was, unusual for West Indian fast bowlers who followed. Also, Kapil was a brilliant out swing bowler, but not exactly 'fast'.

[@nag139]

It took them so many decades to realise that they could wear a helmet 😂

[@RanjitSingh-fp8vu]

Main reason was absence of helmet.

[@45vikasp]

Action stolen by shoab aktar

[@srikanthan1000]

Cricket was a barbaric unscientific sport before the modern era. This is just proof of how bad a sport it was

[@sumitmaitra8884]

Ab oh cricketer nahi rahe .ab to kewal paisa woh nahi raha.

[@padsv]

Everyone has to go into the past one day.

[@nowvishancheddie6218]

Tailenders batting, poor technique

[@zcricket3890]

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