The West Indies Team that last won at the Gabba in 1988 vs the Indian team

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Australia in 1988

Geoff Marsh, David Boon, Mike Veletta, Graeme Wood, Allan Border (c), Steve Waugh, Ian Healy (wk), Tony Dodemaide, Craig McDermott, Chris Matthews, Tim May.

Australia in 2021

David Warner, Marcus Harris, Marnus Labuschagne, Steven Smith, Matthew Wade, Cameron Green, Tim Paine (c & wk), Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon, Josh Hazlewood.

Edited January 23, 2021 by sage

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Amazing thread.

The greatness of this win is to look at the bottom half of the current side. They stepped up, and matched up and even exceeded the top half.  Shardulkar (plagiarized) FTW

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Australia's bowling attack in 88 except for McDermott is really poor but WI attack is legendary. There is no comparison between that attack and what India played at the Gabba earlier this month. Marshall, Ambrose, Walsh all ended up with 350+ Test wickets and Patterson was extremely quick when he started his career. From India's attack at the Gabba, Natarajan and Thakur might never play Tests again which makes India's win much more memorable. 

 

Australian team of 2020/21 had a superior bowling attack and I will argue that their batting also was better than the 1988 one. Steve Waugh wasn't a great in the 80's. So just David Boon and Allan Border were the two main batters for Australia. So India were an inferior team to WI of 1988 and they defeated a superior Aussie team in 2020/21.

 

You would have been surprised if that WI team did not win in that 1988 game. They were very strong.