Barbados vs Jamaica - Fast Bowlers

I was in Barbados in 2015 to watch England vs West Indies.  A couple of people from Barbados told me about a game played against Jamaica where the greats of West Indian fast bowling came up against each other, on a lightening fast pitch, in front of a capacity ++ crowd. 

I did a bit of searching and think the most likely candidate was the Shell Shield game in 1986.

Jamaica had a fearsome pace trio of Holding, Walsh and Patterson (Michael Holding first change); Barbados responded with Marshall and Garner.  Barbados won, with their 224 all out in the first innings being the top score in the game.  The first change bowler for Barbados in the game was RO Estwick who I had never heard off but who had a first class bowling average of just over 21 and was one of the South African Cricketers of the Year in 1988.  An indication of the strength of West Indian bowling in the 1980s.

The same furious five bowlers were to play in another Shell Shield game, this time in Jamaica in 1988.  Estwick had by then been banned for playing in South Africa, and Jamaica won by 53 runs. The outstanding bowling performance was the 11 wickets taken by Jamaican captain and off spinner, Marlon Tucker.  A nice article on him from the Jamaican Gleaner.

Although the attacks put out by Jamaica and Barbados in 1986 and 1988 were test standard both were surely bettered by the Barbados line up from the April 1980 fixture: Daniel, Clarke (half brother of Estwick), Marshall and Garner.  (Has the England national side ever fielded an attack that good?)  I don't think the Shell Shield was a fully professional tournament in 1980 so presumably some of the Jamaican players had taken a holiday to go and play in the game.  So the 132 by HS Chang in the second innings deserves a mention. And even for those who were bombed out twice there was the consolation that even the greatest West Indian batsman of the 1980s struggled against his fast bowling team mates in the Shell Shield.