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WERE YOU A WEST INDIES CRICKET FAN IN THE 1970's and 1980's?

DocMaker09

Cricket Spectator
WERE YOU A WEST INDIES CRICKET FAN IN THE 1970's and 1980's?

I am writing from a Production Company making a documentary about the heyday of the West Indies cricket team from around 1975 to the end of the 1980s. We are looking for personal archive including photos and footage documenting the teams successes both in the UK and the Caribbean during this time including:

- West Indian fans traveling to grounds
- ..in the stands
- ..outside the grounds celebrating (in bars / homes / on the streets)
- Action on the field
- Fans interacting with players (getting autographs / congratulating them etc.)

Any material included in the final film will obviously be licensed and paid for.

If you or someone you know may have photos or footage as such, it would be great if you could get in contact

T: 07910434529
E: georgec@passion-pictures.com

Many thanks!
 

SJS

Hall of Fame Member
This guy wrote exactly the same post here just over a year ago, Interestingly, Richards replied with almost the same post as here.
 

Richard

Cricket Web Staff Member
This guy wrote exactly the same post here just over a year ago, Interestingly, Richards replied with almost the same post as here.
How many times SJS, I'm not Barry or Viv Richards! :p

I thought the near-repeat needed a little jazzing-up, as the thread title has been jazzed-up.
 

SJS

Hall of Fame Member
If SJS said it was last year then it was last year:happy:
:laugh:

Now I know I am the granddad no one wants to upset even when he is completely off the mark as granddads often are :)

Yes it was last month but with groggy eyes at 5.20 am I think I couldn't tell an 8 from a 9 in the year 8-)
 

bagapath

International Captain
sorry mate. dont have any material to share with you. but i was a big fan of the windies in the 80s. do let us know when the documentary is ready. i would love to buy a DVD copy.
 

SJS

Hall of Fame Member
Why does he want footage only in the Caribbean and UK? Why not elsewhere too ?
 

The Sean

Cricketer Of The Year
Why does he want footage only in the Caribbean and UK? Why not elsewhere too ?
Well to be fair if he got footage from Australia he'd have to sit through the likes of John Dyson and Murray Bennett, and you can't blame him for wanting to avoid that...
 

Richard

Cricket Web Staff Member
I wonder how many people are aware that Dyson maintained a semi-respectable average of 30.00 between 1979/80 and 1983/84?
 

Trumpers_Ghost

U19 Cricketer
Well to be fair if he got footage from Australia he'd have to sit through the likes of John Dyson and Murray Bennett, and you can't blame him for wanting to avoid that...
Not forgetting the pretty pink costumes of the Packer era...


I wonder how many people are aware that Dyson maintained a semi-respectable average of 30.00 between 1979/80 and 1983/84?
I think this only qualifies as semi-respectable on the Ramprakash Scale of respectability!
 

Richard

Cricket Web Staff Member
I think this only qualifies as semi-respectable on the Ramprakash Scale of respectability!
Nah, anything over 30 is respectable, though obviously it has to go up a fair bit to be remotely Test-class. But an average under 30 for a specialist bat (which Dyson's for the first-team fell to after his horror-story against West Indies in 1984/85) is seriously bad stuff.

After all, Ramprakash averaged 38 from 1998 onwards.
 

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