Another thrilling spell from fast bowling legend Wes Hall

Oborne & Heller on Cricket by Peter Oborne, Richard Heller

Nov 29, 202257:11Sports & Recreation

Few sights in cricket’s history have been more thrilling than the great West Indian fast bowler Wes Hall in the 1960s bounding in from his long run. He is now Sir Wesley Hall and the subject of a fine new biography Answe...

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