He has a Viv Richards-like stance and stylish pull shots are his trademark and he can bat anywhere in the order.
After captaining Barbados in an inter-island under 21 competition in the West Indies, George Codrington first came to England in 1986 as part of a Viv Richards scholarship with Curtly Ambrose and Samuel Skeete.
As an Under-19 player, Vowles held the record for the fastest century scored at the Melbourne Cricket Ground until the record was broken by Viv Richards.
It also features a life-sized replica of an Arawak house, models of sugar plantations, along with a history of the island, and Viv Richards' cricket bat.
Two double centuries were scored at the ground, 277* by Percy Holmes against Northamptonshire in 1921, as part of that 548, and 217* by Viv Richards for Somerset in 1975.
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In all, he played 455 first-class matches, amassing 34,346 runs at 49.70, including 103 centuries—making him one of a select few to score a "century of centuries", one of only four non-English cricketers to do so (the others being Donald Bradman, Zaheer Abbas and Viv Richards).
West Indian batting legend "King" Viv Richards, by far the greatest ODI batsman of all time and often considered the greatest batsman since Don Bradman, rates Thomson as the fastest he has ever faced.