The windies clinches it in a canter.
For one, saying that there was no one remotely as good as Warne is a huge disservice.
Chandrasekhar was top class and while i rate Warne ahead of him, its not by a huge margin.
Second, of the players mentioned in the Windies lineup, Haynes, Lloyd and Kalli were excellent players of spin, with Kalli being one of the allitme greats against spin. Viv was excellent against spin too- you dont go around smashing deadley Derek or Chandra without being proficient against spin.
The west indies had probably the best ever lineup to take a field simultaneously ( replace Marshall with Croft and Richardson with Rowe and you got the team that actually took the field) and their pace battery is simply too strong.
Punter, Hayden,Taylor etc. would probably struggle to average 30 in a series versus them with Gilly not being much better...the only ones i can see handling it is Martyn and Langer to an extent.....
Punter struggled the few times he played against pace bowlers who pitch it short off good length and get it to cut in ( Ambrose and Walsh are the perfect example from the 90s) and if hayden struggles against Akhtar, i think its reasonable to say that he would be mincemeat to one certain Mikey Holding.
The difference in batting proficiency is not much but the advantage is with Australia( Gilly factor). But difference in the bowling department is most definately in the windies' corner.
Each and every windies bowler from that list is comparable to McGrath ( with probably the exception of Roberts, who is a wee bit off) but McGrath and Warne apart, no aussie bowler since Lillee has a snowball's chance in hell to crack that lineup..... bowlers of Dizzy's callibre or higher ( Daniel, Clarke, Croft, etc.) struggled to get a game.
Apart from Sunil Gavaskar,Jimmy Amarnath,Gooch and Alan Border, nobody handled the WI pace quartet with even remote proficiency...that underscores how bloody good they were.
That team also was as good as the aussie team mentioned in catching and fielding, if not better....Lloyd was the inheritor of Bland's mantle of 'best cover/point fielder ever' till Rhodes came along, Dujon was a marvellous catcher to pace bowling, the likes of Viv, Greenidge,Richardson were as good as the best aussie catching unit since 1990 and the outfielding of Holding/Roberts/Garner/Marshall was quiete good. ofcourse, in a real match scenario with substitute fielders taking the field, the WI would be distinctly in command as far as fielding came, with players like Gus Logie and Roger Harper comming in to substitute....those two may not have been Jonty Rhodes category but easily as good as any fielder apart from Rhodes from 1990 onwards.
In a 5 match series, i would put my bucks on a 3-1 WI win either way.