Joel Garner

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Ian Botham, Joel Garner playing for them, they never won the County Championship.

And over the last five, six, seven years, numerous times they've been in a position where they've been really, really close to doing so, and they just keep on finishing second or third.

Can't quite get it over the line.

Mm.

He's got Imran Khan and, you know, and, um, and Michael Holding and Joel Garner and all the, and Dennis Lillee.

He's very good, Bob Willis.

He's just not any of those guys, right?

obviously later from my father that obviously he tried to get us several occasions and she wouldn't have it.

That was fairly common in those days in the West Indies, wasn't it? I mean, when Geraint and I do this show, we have a section called Who Am I, which I won't subject you to today, but Joel Garner was one of the subjects of that quiz.

And in the research that I did of that, his parents moved to Canada, I think, and left him and a sibling to live with his grandparents.

Was that quite common in those days? I would think that

So the three of us went together from MCC and That's, as I say, the rest is history.

The rest is history.

Before we just touch on England, so obviously when you're playing for Middlesex, born in Barbados and now playing for Middlesex, and then people like Joel Garner and Saviv are at Somerset, Colin Croft's up at Lancashire.

That was all your era, wasn't it? So you must have come across those guys playing against them?

Well, I'm

thinking Cigarfield Sobers, Barry Richards, Joel Garner, Rashid Khan, Ben Stokes.

God, we've got some stars over the years.

We have, haven't we? He's going to turn the turnstiles.

I mean, Lily took 21.

Joel Garner was about 20.

And these were blokes who were just really good really early.

So, you know, this is – he's a force to be reckoned with next season for us.

And-

... for a kid at that stage to be making their debut in it with some great names, I mean, Garner would've been in that side.

I know.

Joel Garner.

Holding was there.

Viv Richards.

Second string's on.

Croft and Garner."

[laughs]

I just laughed.

That's because there were a lot of fast bowlers in that series.

Yeah.

And they had Imran Khan, Procter, Garner for the rest of the world.

Then there was the four quicks for the West Indies, five of them in Marshall.