debut: 1/11/24
47 runs
West Indies….Champions Trophy
•••••Nobody has noticed that West Indies is not playing the Champions Trophy this season. Nobody is missing the West Indian team.
I was a young kid during the Clive Lloyd era and I have seen the pace bowling quartet of Marshal, Holding, Garner and Roberts followed by Ambrose and Walsh. They fired rockets at the batsman, one after another. I have seen Richards, Greenidge, Haynes and Lloyd bat with disdain against opposition bowlers.
The greatest thing about the West Indies team was that nobody hated them. Even the fans from opposition countries regaled in their cricketing aura. I was one of them. There was no shame in losing against Windies.
In 1970s, a man called Clive Lloyd travelled across the Windies islands and handpicked bowlers with spectacular pace and gave them shoot-at-sight orders on the cricket pitch. He unleashed a war against teams like Australia and England in which India also bore the brunt. All this and more is shown in a documentary called Fire in Babylon. If you don't know what cricket looked like without helmets and bouncer limits, watch the film.
What West Indies is missing today is not talent, they are missing a man like Clive Lloyd and his vision…..
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It does feel frikken hollow not having the WINDIANS whipping boys there to cuss at
•••••Nobody has noticed that West Indies is not playing the Champions Trophy this season. Nobody is missing the West Indian team.
I was a young kid during the Clive Lloyd era and I have seen the pace bowling quartet of Marshal, Holding, Garner and Roberts followed by Ambrose and Walsh. They fired rockets at the batsman, one after another. I have seen Richards, Greenidge, Haynes and Lloyd bat with disdain against opposition bowlers.
The greatest thing about the West Indies team was that nobody hated them. Even the fans from opposition countries regaled in their cricketing aura. I was one of them. There was no shame in losing against Windies.
In 1970s, a man called Clive Lloyd travelled across the Windies islands and handpicked bowlers with spectacular pace and gave them shoot-at-sight orders on the cricket pitch. He unleashed a war against teams like Australia and England in which India also bore the brunt. All this and more is shown in a documentary called Fire in Babylon. If you don't know what cricket looked like without helmets and bouncer limits, watch the film.
What West Indies is missing today is not talent, they are missing a man like Clive Lloyd and his vision…..
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It does feel frikken hollow not having the WINDIANS whipping boys there to cuss at
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