Curtly Ambrose (Former West Indies cricketer) Autobiography, Wife, Weight, Height, Age, Records and More

Curtly Ambrose
(Former West Indies Cricketer)

Standing at a towering 6ft 7inches, Curtly Ambrose is one of the most lethal fast bowler in the history of cricket. A giant of the game in every sense, Ambrose was not the best swing bowlers but pin-point accurate. Ambrose used his height to trouble the batsmen with rise deliveries and bowling bouncers.

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• Best bowling average (20.99) among the bowlers with 400+ Test wickets.
  
• Ambrose registered one of the best bowling figures in Test cricket (7 for 1) against Australia in 1993.

• Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1992
• ICC Hall of Fame (inducted in 2011)
• Knighted in 2014

• Ambrose had an confrontation with Steve Waugh in 1995. He told the Aussie, “Man, I will knock you out – here and now. I don’t care if I have no career left.” West Indies captain Richie Richardson calmed things between the two. The West Indies pace bowler later revealed in his autobiography, “I did want to get physical. I was going to beat him, I was that mad…beating him would have given me some satisfaction.”

• In his early years, Ambrose was pretty much into Basketball. His mother advised him to say no to a lucrative basketball deal in USA and pursue a career in cricket.
• Post-retirement, Ambrose made a career in music as the bass guitarist. He has a reggae band called Spirited. He took up playing guitar on insistence of his teammate (and later captain) Richie Richardson.