Bernard Julien, the West Indies' dashing 'rebel' all-rounder dies

Dashing West Indian all-rounder Bernard Julien (right), whose career encompassed the high of winning the 1975 World Cup and the low of a lifetime ban for a rebel tour of apartheid-era South Africa, has died aged 75.

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Julien suffered from the pressure of being hailed by some as the successor to the legendary Garry Sobers.

He did get to play in the same side as Sobers, in a Test at Lord's in 1973 against England, and they put on a show to remember.

Their seventh-wicket partnership of 155 - compiled in under two hours - remains a record for the West Indies against England.

Sobers was not out on 150, the last of his 26 Test centuries, and Julien hit 121.

However, Julien, who played English county cricket for Kent, never really progressed in Test cricket from that high.

He played 24 Tests, scoring 866 runs at an average of 30.92 and took 50 wickets at 37.36.

In one-day Internationals, he claimed 18 wickets at 25.72.