Back then, they were destroyed on home soil by a West Indies pace quartet of Malcolm Marshall, Courtney Walsh, Curtly Ambrose and Patrick Patterson.

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But, from gangling youth to gangling adult, he had often played fourth fiddle to the likes of Malcolm Marshall, Michael Holding, Joel Garner, Ian Bishop, Patrick Patterson and Curtly Ambrose.

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Labour MSP Ken Macintosh, Conservative MSP Jackson Carlaw, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie, SNP MSP Gil Patterson and Green MSP and party co-convener Patrick Harvie all paid warm tributes to the retiring ministers and wittily welcomed the new appointments.

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