| Some cricketers who have not made a mark at the | | | | international career looked over. However, he earned a |
| highest level still have a storied career. The Barbadian | | | | fortunate reprieve when the life ban from cricket in the |
| fast bowler, Ezra Alphonsa Mosley, was one such | | | | Caribbean was lifted in 1989. |
| player for the West Indies team. He was one of a line | | | | Since he kept active playing a few games in England |
| of fast bowlers that the West Indies produced in the | | | | during his ban, Mosley reappeared for Barbados in the |
| late 70s. Although the pace bowler was not a major | | | | domestic regional tournament when his life ban was |
| player for the West Indies, he was a well travelled | | | | lifted. For the 1990 home series against England, he |
| cricketer and later a junior cricket coach and part-time | | | | earned a call-up to the regional side, at age 32, for the |
| commentator. | | | | third Test at the Queen's Park Oval in Port of Spain. |
| Born in the County of Christ Church, Barbados on | | | | He picked up three wickets on that debut and scored |
| January 5, 1958, Ezra Mosley played County Cricket in | | | | 26 runs (albeit with nought in the first innings) in that |
| England even before he made his debut for | | | | drawn match. However, his bowling damaged Graham |
| Barbados-having been signed to Glamorgan. Cricinfo's | | | | Gooch-putting the England captain and marquee |
| Martin Williamson suggested that this was on the back | | | | batsman out of the remainder of the series. |
| of performances in Barbados club cricket-such was | | | | Mosley played his last Test before his home crowd in |
| the strength of Barbados and West Indies cricket in | | | | Barbados. There, he took three expensive wickets to |
| that era. | | | | help the W.I. to a 164-run victory over their former |
| Mosley played for a West Indies team just two years | | | | colonial masters. That ended his Test career with six |
| after. However, that team was the rebel West Indies | | | | wickets at an average of 43.50. The Barbadian also |
| team that toured apartheid-ruled South Africa in 1982 | | | | played nine ODIs between 1990 and 1991, taking seven |
| 1983. This earned Mosley a life ban from cricket by the | | | | wickets at 39.71 and with an expensive economy rate |
| West Indies Board (then the West Indies Board of | | | | of 5.05. |
| Control). In his mid-twenties, the Barbados fast bowler's | | | | |