| In cricket, there are fearsome fast bowlers and | | | | played cricket between 1982 and 1992. He made his |
| skillful exponents of bowling at speeds upwards of | | | | Test debut against England at his hometown, Sabina |
| 90 miles per hour. Who was possibly one of the | | | | Park, in 1986. In his debut Test match, Patterson |
| nastiest and hostile pace bowlers in cricket? Who | | | | took 7 wickets for 73 runs in the match. |
| made batsmen fear for their lives and well being? | | | | As a strike bowler for the regional team, Patterson |
| Over the decades of Test cricket, there have been | | | | played 28 Test matches. He scalped (almost literally) |
| several pace men of that ilk. | | | | 93 Test wickets at an average of 30.90. In the |
| Balfour Patrick Patterson - better known as Patrick | | | | shorter ODI version of the game, Patterson's hostile |
| Patterson, for obvious reasons - was surely in the | | | | bowling reaped 90 wickets from 59 matches. His |
| class of nasty quick bowlers. Batsmen who faced him | | | | First-class career was successful as well. Patrick |
| had to use their skill and technique to defend their | | | | Patterson took 493 wickets from 161 First-class |
| wicket. Patrick Patterson displayed the willingness and | | | | matches. His strike rates were very impressive as |
| ability necessary to be a truly "nasty" fast bowler. | | | | well. In Test matches, he took a wicket every 52 |
| At Melbourne in 1989, Steve Waugh - who would | | | | deliveries. In one-day internationals,Patterson |
| later become the Australian cricket captain - decided | | | | possessed a productive bowling strike rate of 33.8. |
| to bounce Patterson on a lively Melbourne pitch. | | | | Understandably, Patterson's quickness and hostility |
| Patterson was a genuine tail-ender, so Waugh | | | | was noticed beyond the West Indies. The tall, |
| thought he should pepper him with a short ball aimed | | | | muscular fast bowler enjoyed stints with Lancashire |
| at his head. At the close of play, Patterson barged | | | | in England and Tasmania in Australia. Although his |
| into the Australian dressing room and threatened to | | | | batting was nothing to speak of, Patterson's strength |
| kill all of the Australian batsmen on the field of play | | | | surely was bowling; bowling as quickly as possible. |
| the following day. | | | | Batsmen who feared for their lives will surely |
| Former England captain and world-class batsmen, | | | | remember the inelegant preamble that brought |
| Graham Gooch, claimed that the only time that he | | | | deliveries in excess of 95 miles an hour bearing down |
| feared for his well-being was when he faced | | | | on their bodies. |
| deliveries from Patterson. This Jamaican fast bowler | | | | |