Courtney Walsh, is currently the highest wicket taker in Test Cricket.He has been in the game playing for West Indies for the last 17 years & is now 37 years old.It is expected that he will be the first cricketer in the world to achieve the landmark of taking 500 Test wickets in a year or two.His speciality is that he can bowl over after over giving very little away making the life of the batsman at the crease a real nightmare.He can swing the ball both ways & can suddenly make the ball fly over the batsman’s head.He is credited with bowling what is called
’’the perfume ball’’-- a ball that will just go perilously close to the batsman’s nose giving him a real shake up.
Modesty of Courtney Walsh is seen in his reaction soon after taking a wicket. No exhibition of over exuberance or sledging at the batsman.Even his appeals for LBW or caught behind is more of a quizzical look at the umpire or sticking his tongue out & certainly no public outbursts of repeated appeals or emotions by kicking the ground.After the day he retires, the game will long remember a ’’Gentleman Cricketer.’’