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Here's an interesting snippet about Marshall in Michael Holding's autobiography, 'No Holding Back'....

"We were sitting down playing cards and his long pants had ridden up to his calves and I spotted he had weights strapped to his ankle. 'What are they for?' I asked him. He told me he wore them ll the time when he wasn't playing, to build up the muscles in his legs. It didn't matter whether he was relaxing in the hotel or shopping, Maco would have those weights strapped to his legs. 'When you take them off for a match, Mikey,' he said, 'You feel like you can run all day.' I was astonished, but here was a young man thinking and doing that little bit extra that would enhance his career. If you watched Maco bowl, he would sprint to the crease, really pound in so his legs would get through a lot of work. But he had put in the work, his legs were so strong." pp72-3

I call those acts the eccentricities of greatness....

it is like the great ones come to see themselves whole relative to what they are great in and at, see all they must do and more to enhance their skills...and where they detect small things they can do all the time upon which all depends and dat would improve them, they do it.

its like Constantine, recognising something peculiar that Kanhai did and called him crazy for it, to the perplexity of CLR James, who nonplussed, yet waited until he got an explanation of what old Cons' meant, rather than looking at Cons' as weird himself.

or for eg the relationship between whistling and performance with lawrence Rowe. when Rowe felt really good, at peace with himself, top of the world at the crease, he would whistle deh said. and when he was whistling, he Rowe, would score and score and score, beautifully, exquisitely, like a feather going about with a sledge-hammer carressing its work

James said that all exceptional and great players were usually exceptional personalities in life, and if one knew how, talking to them at length would likely reveal so much that one would write a book such as the world had never seen.

tremendous!

exactly Maps, well said.

The great ones always have their unique way of creating that competitive edge.

nice topic guys... here is one of the first articleI posted on the FAN by Rohan Kallicharan on Marshall

I actually used weights on my legs when walking and feel like flying after taking them off. Geniuses think alike eh?

bally, wah happen to the other article written by Rohan about his dad?

Googley wrote:bally, wah happen to the other article written by Rohan about his dad?

It still deh on the site here...Beyond the Rope Watching … Alvin Kallicharran