10 best players of all time from Hampshire

8 Roy Marshall

Barbadian cricketer Roy Marshall, who played only 4 Test matches for the West Indies, could not quite do justice to his talents as a batsman in the international level but he remains one of the giants of Hampshire's cricket history.

He is the second highest first-class run scorer in the history of the county. Marshall was an opening batsman of rare quality and unlike many of the opening batsmen of the time, he revelled in attacking the bowlers right from the start.

Medium fast bowlers were almost always at the receiving end of his blazing blade during the 19 years that he played for the county between 1953 and 1972. In 504 games, Marshall plundered 30,303 runs at an average of 36.03 and 68 hundreds in first-class cricket.