Harsh Thakor Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 (edited) I am here pitting rest of the World teams against Clive Lloyd's West Indies in both 1980 and 1984.I have selected different sides for 1980 and 1984.I wish to asess which was the better West Indian team. West Indies team 1980 Greenidge Haynes Viv Richards Kalicharan Clive Lloyd Lawrence Rowe Deryk Murray Joel Garner Andy Roberts Michael Holding Colin Croft. Rest of the World team of 1980 Gavaskar Barry Ian Chappell Greg Chappell Vishwanath Wasim Raja Ian Botham Imran Khan Alan Knott Dennis Lillee Derek Underwood With its lethal fire power as well as batsmen who would rip the heart out of any bowling attack I would expect the Calypsos to simply roll over a world XI. West Indies team 1984 Greenidge Haynes Viv Richards Richie Richardson Clive Lloyd Larry Gomes Jeff Dujon Malcolm Marshall Joel Garner Andy Roberts Michael Holding Rest of the World Team of 1984 Gavaskar Keppler Wessels Alan Border Mohinder Amarnath Dilip Vengsarkar Alan Lamb Kapil Dev Richard Hadlee Syed Kirmani Abdul Qadir Geoff Lawson Imran Khan suffered a stress fracture so was unavailabie in period when Lloy'ds team established untold supremacy in 1984.I would have backed Lloyd's men to simply walk over a rest of the world XI of that era.Loss of many greats in that time like Lillee,Chappell brothers as well as absence of Imran as a pace bowler. Somehow I still think 1979-80 team was ahead by a slender margin with Viv Richards in better form,Andy Roberts more lethal,Holding quicker and having Kalicharan who was technically the best left-handed batsmen of his era.I feel it faced better opposition than the 1984 team which beat England without batsmen like Gooch and Boycott or Australia without the Chappell brothers or Lillee for that matter. Edited March 28, 2020 by Harsh Thakor Link to comment
Vilander Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 6 hours ago, Harsh Thakor said: Imran Khan suffered a stress fracture so was unavailabie in period when Lloy'ds team established untold supremacy Finally this Pakistani found the reason wi were great since imran was injured lol sarcastic 1 Link to comment
velu Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 quality of the your threads going down @Harsh Thakor bhai Link to comment
Straight Drive Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 One of the master stroke by Lloyd was him giving debut to Michael Holding and backing Holding even though he did not pick any wicket in his debut test. His eye for talent was seen in this selection. Out of the 3 WC he led WI in, he won two in 1975 and 1979. Under his captaincy WI were the most dominating team in Test and also in ODI format. Iirc Lillee and Thomson had wrecked havoc and were major contributors to hand Lloyd his first test series defeat as captain. The captaincy of Lloyd was also troubled by Kerry Packer's World series as some of the players were dropped by WICB. Croft was one of those. More than Lloyd's captaincy it was the world's all time best pace bowlers he has made him successful as well as batsmen like Grenidge and Richards. Link to comment
Harsh Thakor Posted March 30, 2020 Author Share Posted March 30, 2020 On 3/29/2020 at 5:08 PM, Straight Drive said: One of the master stroke by Lloyd was him giving debut to Michael Holding and backing Holding even though he did not pick any wicket in his debut test. His eye for talent was seen in this selection. Out of the 3 WC he led WI in, he won two in 1975 and 1979. Under his captaincy WI were the most dominating team in Test and also in ODI format. Iirc Lillee and Thomson had wrecked havoc and were major contributors to hand Lloyd his first test series defeat as captain. The captaincy of Lloyd was also troubled by Kerry Packer's World series as some of the players were dropped by WICB. Croft was one of those. More than Lloyd's captaincy it was the world's all time best pace bowlers he has made him successful as well as batsmen like Grenidge and Richards. Would West Indies have beaten a rest of the world XI?i In1980 and 1984? Link to comment
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