Malcolm Marshall's Broken-Hand Century and 7/53 — Headingley 1984

Marshall was already the spearhead of the West Indies attack, having taken the new ball at Edgbaston and Lord's earlier in the series.

He fractured his thumb diving in the gully on the first morning and was originally ruled out of the rest of the match.

On the first morning of the third Test, Marshall fractured his left thumb in two places fielding at gully off Andy Lloyd. He was sent for X-rays and the cast was applied. With Larry Gomes stranded on 96 not out and West Indies nine down, Marshall walked out one-handed, holding the bat in his right hand alone, and survived long enough for Gomes to reach his hundred. He then took the new ball with a plastered hand and produced figures of 7 for 53 — at the time the best by a West Indian against England. England were bowled out for 159 and lost by 8 wickets. Marshall's performance is routinely cited by his peers as the single most extraordinary individual feat of the era: the combination of pain threshold, technical adjustment and competitive ferocity made even Viv Richards shake his head in interviews decades later.

“Maco was something else that day. I have never seen anything like it before or since.”

“I just gripped it tighter with the good hand.”

Marshall played the rest of the series with the cast, finishing with 24 wickets in the rubber.