His laissez - fair attitude to life made him a superb analyst of the game .
He admitted to a kind of masochist enjoyment of the battering he took as he stood up to the fast bowlers in the West Indies .
His laissez - fair attitude to life made him a superb analyst of the game , and he admitted to a kind of masochist enjoyment of the battering he took as he stood up to the fast bowlers in the West Indies .