Australia vs West Indies

[GVGjr]

How do you think the all conquering team that Australia has produced over the last few years would have gone against that dominant West Indian team?

McGrath and Warne vs Richards would have been a great contest.

Garner, Holding and Marshall pitted against Langer, Hayden and Ponting would have been brilliant as well.

I'm not 100% sure why but I would probably back the WI team in a close series against the Australian's.

Thoughts?

[LostDoggy]

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Wasn't cricket was a much better spectacle when the WI were are force. Its a bit boring now.

Did the WI struggled against spin? I recall great spinners like Allan Bordder and Murray Bennett bowling them out on a spin friendly SCG. How did they go in the India and did they have good spinners at the time?

The Australia's bats may have struggled too against the full out pace as I seem to recall Deveon Malcolm giving them a hard time once or twice when he hit the spot 1 out of 100 times.

[Twodogs]

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Warne would run through them. They struggled with Bob Holland for crying out loud.



Who was/is the better batsman, Ponting or Richards? Ponting for mine, gutsier, better footwark and dominates against all types of attacks.

[Twodogs]

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Wasn't cricket was a much better spectacle when the WI were are force. Its a bit boring now.

Frankly no. Pace bowler after pace bowler taking forever to bowl overs. 75 overs in a days play was ridiculous.


Cricket is a much better game now with improved fielding standards, better pitches and more variety in bowling.

[LostDoggy]

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Frankly no. Pace bowler after pace bowler taking forever to bowl overs. 75 overs in a days play was ridiculous.


Cricket is a much better game now with improved fielding standards, better pitches and more variety in bowling.

Maybe i'm talking about the WI, they don't have the charisma anymore.
It was a struggle to beat them and these days its 5 nil drumbings. They were cool man!
Now without Warne things have changed too.

[Sockeye Salmon]

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Maybe i'm talking about the WI, they don't have the charisma anymore.
It was a struggle to beat them and these days its 5 nil drumbings. They were cool man!
Now without Warne things have changed too.

The West Indies were cool in 1975. Roy Fredericks, Clive Lloyd, Vivi (before he got too arrogant), Lawrence Rowe, Alvin Kallicharan, Derek Murray, Andy Roberts and Michael Holding. Lance Gibbs played but unfortunately Garry Sobers didn't.

Cricket was boring as hell in the 80's. 75 overs and 180 runs a day (and none of them in front of the wicket).

These days everyone plays their shots and if you don't score 300 in a day you'll get slow hand-clapped.

[Twodogs]

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The West Indies were cool in 1975. Roy Fredericks, Clive Lloyd, Vivi (before he got too arrogant), Lawrence Rowe, Alvin Kallicharan, Derek Murray, Andy Roberts and Michael Holding. Lance Gibbs played but unfortunately Garry Sobers didn't.

Cricket was boring as hell in the 80's. 75 overs and 180 runs a day (and none of them in front of the wicket).

These days everyone plays their shots and if you don't score 300 in a day you'll get slow hand-clapped.

Lawrence Rowe was allergic to grass. It kind of killed his cricket career.

[The Coon Dog]

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Lawrence Rowe was allergic to grass. It kind of killed his cricket career.

Can't keep away from Drugs In Sport, can you?

[Dry Rot]

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Lawrence Rowe was allergic to grass. It kind of killed his cricket career.

I once smoked some of the old SCG pitch FWIW.

[LostDoggy]

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I once smoked some of the old SCG pitch FWIW.

Sounds like a very good story.

[Sockeye Salmon]

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Lawrence Rowe was allergic to grass. It kind of killed his cricket career.

So is Steve Elkington.

Lawrence Rowe was a dead set gun.

302 and 100 in his first test!

Rowe and Kallicharran put on 200 (both got 100's) against us in Brisbane that series (Greg Chappell topped them by scoring 100 in each innings in that game and Australia won)

[LostDoggy]

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The West Indies were cool in 1975. Roy Fredericks, Clive Lloyd, Vivi (before he got too arrogant), Lawrence Rowe, Alvin Kallicharan, Derek Murray, Andy Roberts and Michael Holding. Lance Gibbs played but unfortunately Garry Sobers didn't.
Cricket was boring as hell in the 80's. 75 overs and 180 runs a day (and none of them in front of the wicket).

How about intimidating, mean and scary?
With players like Garner, Croft, Marshall, Roberts and Ambrose running in at you trying to knock your head off, surely it was bad to be wearing white pants.
I remember when Colin Croft in NZ tried to elbow the umpire in his run up after the umpire turned down a decision, luckily the umpire saw it coming and moved to miss it.

Two of the best bowling actions of all time must be Holding and Lillee.
Holding actions were graceful and aply named whispering death. Lillee with his moustache was just poetic and macho at the same time.

[Dry Rot]

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Sounds like a very good story.

Years ago, they dug up the old pitch. At the end of the season they let the crowd onto the sacred ground so I took a bit of the pitch home.

[GVGjr]

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Two of the best bowling actions of all time must be Holding and Lillee.
Holding actions were graceful and aply named whispering death. Lillee with his moustache was just poetic and macho at the same time.

Holdings action wasn't the greatest in my opinion but his run up was so graceful and fluid. In his last game in Australia the commentators were hoping like crazy that he would go off the long run one more time but he just teased them. Whispering death was a brilliant name.

Hadlee and Lille had impeccable actions.

[Dry Rot]

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How about intimidating, mean and scary?
With players like Garner, Croft, Marshall, Roberts and Ambrose running in at you trying to knock your head off, surely it was bad to be wearing white pants.

They certainly had a production line of them - where did it all go wrong? Basketball?