Norman Edgar Marshall was a West Indian cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er. He was born in the Welchman Hall Plantation, Saint Thomas, Barbados

Barbados

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 and played in a Test

Test cricket

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 match against Australia in 1955. His brother Roy

Roy Marshall

Roy Edwin Marshall was a West Indian cricketer who played in four Tests from 1951 to 1952. He was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1959.-Early career:...

also played Test cricket for the West Indies and scored over 30000 first class runs.

Marshall was an allrounder who bowled offspin and played in the middle order as an attacking right-handed batsman. He played most of his first class cricket for Barbados but appeared for Trinidad four times while he was working there in 1954 and 1955.

Norman played regionally for the Wanderers Club in Barbados and spent some time playing cricket in Peru and Venezuela prior to commencing his professional cricketing career.http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/westindies/content/story/306782.html

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