‘Big Bird’ was his nickname during his cricket career but, to most locals, he is simply Joel or Joely. Many travelling English fans know Oistins for its Friday-night revelry. Garner prefers ...

From school, Garner went into the Barbados youth team, into a club side, into the full Barbados team and, finally, into Test cricket with West Indies. The process took ten years, but Garner was ...

In the 1970s three world-class cricketers, Viv Richards, Joel Garner and Ian Botham, transformed Somerset County Cricket Club. For the first time in the club's long history the Somerset team ...

In 1978, Malcolm Marshall debuted for the West Indies national cricket team ... lacking the towering presence of his peers like Joel Garner or Michael Holding. What he lacked in height, however ...

Vivian Richards, Gordon Greenidge, and Joel Garner were standout performers in the West Indian lineup. The 1979 Cricket World Cup laid the foundation for the ODI format’s popularity, with its ...