To the umpires Michael Holding was malevolent stealth personified so they christened him Whispering Death. His over to Geoff Boycott in the cauldron of Kensington Oval, Barbados in 1981 has gone down in cricketing history as the finest, fastest, most ferocious gambit of all time.

Michael took 249 Test wickets at 23.69 in his career and took 14 wickets for 149, the finest match figures ever by a West Indian.

Here our poster shows Michael in full flight seconds away from terrorising another batsman!