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Curtly Ambrose

The towering Antiguan fast bowler who terrorized batsmen with pace, accuracy, and devastating spells.

Curtly Ambrose, the fourth of seven children, was born in Swetes, Antigua on 21 September 1963.[1] After his cricket career ended, he focused on music, performing on bass guitar with the reggae group Big Bad Dread and the Baldhead.[2]

Quick Facts

Country
West Indies
Full name
Curtly Elconn Lynwall Ambrose
Born
21 September 1963
Birthplace
Swetes, Antigua and Barbuda
Batting
Left-handed
Bowling
Right-arm fast
Role
Bowler

Facts from the source article.

Life and work

Ambrose's father was a carpenter, and his family had no background in cricket, though his mother was a fan.[3] Ambrose grew several inches in his late teens to reach a height of 6 ft 7 in.[4] Ambrose announced his retirement before the final Test of a series in England in 2000.[5] A scholarship from Viv Richards enabled him to play club cricket in England for Chester Boughton Hall in 1986, where he claimed 84 wickets at a 9.80 average.[6]

On 12 March 1988 in Kingston, Jamaica, he debuted for West Indies in a One Day International, taking four wickets for 39 runs.[7] In 1990 versus England, Ambrose captured the final five English batsmen for 18 runs off 46 deliveries, securing victory in the fourth match of the series.[8] On 28 February 2014, the Antiguan Barbudan government appointed him a Knight Commander of the Order of the Nation.[2]

What the cited sources add

The 1992 Wisden Cricketers' Almanack citation remarked on his consistency and stated he had "the ability to exert a debilitating psychological influence".[9][10] The same citation noted he was "arguably the essential difference between the two sides" in a series.[9][10] A 1993 Wisden report noted Ambrose was hampered by a knee injury requiring surgery, taking 50 first-class wickets at an average of 26.14.[11][12]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Curtly Ambrose" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Curtly Ambrose (ESPNCricinfo profile)", ESPNcricinfo (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Curtly Ambrose" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Curtly Ambrose (ESPNCricinfo profile)", ESPNcricinfo; Spooner, "'I was a fast bowler, I'm now a musician' – Ambrose", ESPNcricinfo, 31 August 2006; Vaidyanathan, "Reggae with Big Bad Dread and the Baldhead", ESPNcricinfo, 4 June 2006; "Three New Knights", The Antigua and Barbuda High Commission Official News letter, February 2014 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Curtly Ambrose" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Streeton, "Ambrose follows famous footsteps", The Times, 23 March 1988, p. 46; Streeton, "Ambrose follows famous footsteps", The Times, 23 March 1988, p. 46; Sundaresan, "Curtly Ambrose, a reluctant cricketer who became a legend", The Indian Express, 13 June 2011 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Curtly Ambrose" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Sundaresan, "Curtly Ambrose, a reluctant cricketer who became a legend", The Indian Express, 13 June 2011 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Curtly Ambrose" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Ambrose:It's time to leave", Barbados Nation; Hobson, "Rousseau makes last appeal to Ambrose", The Times, 30 August 2000, p. 29 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Curtly Ambrose" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Streeton, "Ambrose follows famous footsteps", The Times, 23 March 1988, p. 46 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Curtly Ambrose" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Lawrence and Goble, p. 12. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Curtly Ambrose" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Lee (1991), pp. 984–85.; Lee, "Russell's fight is all in vain", The Times, 11 April 1990, p. 46 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  9. Wikipedia, "Curtly Ambrose" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Wisden Cricketers' Almanack", John Wisden & Co, 1992, p. 65–66; "Wisden Cricketers' Almanack", John Wisden & Co, 1992, p. 65–66 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  10. Open Library record, ISBN 9780947766191 ("Wisden Cricketers' Almanack"). CC0 (metadata); book content not read. openlibrary.org
  11. Wikipedia, "Curtly Ambrose" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Radd, "Wisden Cricketers' Almanack", John Wisden & Co, 1993, p. 473–76 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  12. Open Library record, ISBN 0947766200 ("Wisden Cricketers' Almanack"). CC0 (metadata); book content not read. openlibrary.org

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Curtly Ambrose (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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