debut: 11/30/17
12,396 runs
In reply to sudden
Imran Khan Niazi, the 80s West Indies' biggest rival and also their biggest fan, has a similar opinion actually. In giving the MCC spirit of cricket lecture, he said that the cricketing authorities could not understand the, and i quote is words directly here, "the West Indies phenomena". He describes that team as not only an incredible team but a freak of history.
Mr Imran Khan
I personally think that a variety of circumstances, The rise of black consciousness, Independence of all the Caribbean territories and that nationalism those events unleashed,`the professionalization of the members of that team by county cricket an Kerry Packer, and once the team started winning consistently, it was only natural that you would start to get players coming through the ranks who wanted a piece of the action and were seeing another means of earning a living, a living that exceeded most of the employment they could get in the region in terms of remuneration. If ne of those factors didn't take place, then we may not have seen the rise of the greatest cricketing team ever. If Malcolm X with his message black self esteem and pride didn't make an appearance before the West Indies for example, it is unlikely you'd have had explicitly political cricketers like Viv and Holding. If Kerry Packer wasn't the victim of then ACB bias(he offered to pay the ACB 2.5 million dollars for cricket broadcast rights and was told the ABC had already signed a deal with the ACB for more than 2 million dollars less) and plunged cricket into a veritable civil war, guess what, no way in hell we were dominating for 20 years and remaining unbeaten for 15 of those 20.
the reality is, is that our dominance of international cricket may have been an anomaly
Imran Khan Niazi, the 80s West Indies' biggest rival and also their biggest fan, has a similar opinion actually. In giving the MCC spirit of cricket lecture, he said that the cricketing authorities could not understand the, and i quote is words directly here, "the West Indies phenomena". He describes that team as not only an incredible team but a freak of history.
Mr Imran Khan
I personally think that a variety of circumstances, The rise of black consciousness, Independence of all the Caribbean territories and that nationalism those events unleashed,`the professionalization of the members of that team by county cricket an Kerry Packer, and once the team started winning consistently, it was only natural that you would start to get players coming through the ranks who wanted a piece of the action and were seeing another means of earning a living, a living that exceeded most of the employment they could get in the region in terms of remuneration. If ne of those factors didn't take place, then we may not have seen the rise of the greatest cricketing team ever. If Malcolm X with his message black self esteem and pride didn't make an appearance before the West Indies for example, it is unlikely you'd have had explicitly political cricketers like Viv and Holding. If Kerry Packer wasn't the victim of then ACB bias(he offered to pay the ACB 2.5 million dollars for cricket broadcast rights and was told the ABC had already signed a deal with the ACB for more than 2 million dollars less) and plunged cricket into a veritable civil war, guess what, no way in hell we were dominating for 20 years and remaining unbeaten for 15 of those 20.
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