Wayne Daniel

Sussex expecting to win.

Uh, Imran bowling to Wayne Daniel, my great West Indian colleague, uh, number 10, I'm number 11 at the other end.

And he bowls him this bouncer, and it's a, it's captured fantastically by the photographer, where the ball rears up at, at, uh, at Daniel, and he does sort of jackknifes, and the ball flies over his shoulder, and his helmet flies off like this.

It looks like the ball is almost going between his head and the helmet and flies through the keeper.

I, I remember there's always been conversations, "Oh, you know, we can't have all these overseas players because they're getting in the way of young, up-and-coming talent," and all the rest of it.

And we'd oscillate between having one overseas player or two, and nowadays I think you can have two for white ball and two for red ball.

From your experience, and you've, you know, you've mentioned Desmond Haynes, and I th- I always thought Vincent van der Bijl looked a, an incredibly good bowler and actually a lot of fun off, off the pitch, and Wayne Daniel with that amazing run-up.

As a fan, they engage me totally.

I mean, t- and that caused a lot of injuries actually, 'cause people were trying to...

I mean, we had Wayne Daniel, West Indian Barbados col- Barbados colleague for Middlesex, who, who had a m- you know, lung, a run up from the boundary, and he, on a Sunday, had to fit it into 15 yards.

So he actually ran on the spot for about 10 yards before he got going, [laughs] you know.

So ridiculous.

I suppose refer back to my own career here now.

There should be a- another list, luckiest bowlers, because, uh, I, I was lucky enough to bowl at the other end to people like Wayne Daniel, very fast bowler from Barbados and West Indies, and, you know, Norman Cowans, uh, Vincent van der Bijl, who played for South Africa, he was a fantastic bowler.

Jeff Thompson.

You know, I was lucky to bowl, you know, some little swingers at the other end, and the, the batsman sort of thinking, "Oh, this is a nice day.

So, uh, we probably can't afford him really.

He'd be an expensive luxury."

Despite the fact you were bowling the other end to Wayne Daniel and benefiting from them, and Vincent van der Bijl, and those sorts of bowlers.

Anyway-