One of the most hostile fast bowlers ever whose confrontation with Steve Waugh ('Don't write cheques your body can't cash') is legendary.
10 incidents documented
West Indies vs England
2000-04-18
Curtly Ambrose played his final Test in Barbados in April 2000, retiring with 405 wickets at 20.99 — the end of an era that had seen West Indies produce the finest fast bowlers in cricket's history across 25 consecutive years.
India vs West Indies
1996-03-09
Curtly Ambrose's short-pitched assault on Sachin Tendulkar during the 1996 World Cup quarter-final — targeting the world's best batsman with rising deliveries at his throat — produced a masterclass of fast bowling pressure that Tendulkar resisted before eventually being dismissed.
West Indies vs Australia
28 April 1995
Curtly Ambrose got in Steve Waugh's face after being told to go back to his mark. Richie Richardson had to pull Ambrose away. Ambrose then bowled a devastating spell.
West Indies vs Australia
21 April 1995
Curtly Ambrose got face-to-face with Steve Waugh during the 1995 Trinidad Test after Waugh told him to 'get back to the f***ing crease.' Ambrose had to be physically restrained by WI captain Richie Richardson. Ambrose channelled his fury into taking 7/25 — one of the greatest hostile fast-bowling spells in Test history.
West Indies vs India
November 1994
Through the early-to-mid 1990s, before neutral umpires became mandatory, home umpires in India consistently turned down LBW appeals against Indian batsmen. Curtly Ambrose and Courtney Walsh were repeatedly denied. The era became a key argument for neutral umpires.
India vs West Indies
October 1994
Curtly Ambrose and Courtney Walsh were repeatedly denied plumb LBW appeals by Indian home umpires throughout West Indies' 1994 tour of India. The era of home umpire bias was at its height before neutral umpires became mandatory in 2002.
West Indies vs England
1994-02-25
Curtly Ambrose's devastating 6/24 in 10 overs at Port-of-Spain 1994 — including dismissing Graham Gooch, the backbone of England's batting — produced one of the great fast bowling spells that left England all out for 46, their lowest total in modern times.
India vs West Indies
1994-11-05
Courtney Walsh and Curtly Ambrose's sustained pace assault on the young Sachin Tendulkar in the 1994 series — targeting him with bouncers and lifting deliveries from perfect lengths — tested Tendulkar at a formative stage of his career with one of history's great pace combinations.
West Indies vs England
1994-04-01
Curtly Ambrose produced one of cricket's most sustained bowling spells — taking 7 English wickets for just 1 run in 32 balls, reducing England from 40/1 to 46 all out as he became virtually unplayable on a lively Queen's Park Oval pitch.
West Indies vs England
18 November 1993
Curtly Ambrose refused to remove his white wristbands when asked by the umpire, leading to a standoff that required captain Richie Richardson's intervention.