Dawood Ahmad
U19 Vice-Captain
When the likes of Joel Garner, Malcom Marshall, Andy Roberts and Michael Holding bowled for them. How difficult would it be for batsmen to face them one by one.
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Did Westindies have the best every bowling attack around 1980?
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Daemon
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Not as hard as it would have been to face them simultaneously
Fuller Pilch
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And little old New Zealand thrashed them...
by one wicket
by one wicket
Debris
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It was the number of good bowlers that was remarkable. They possibly had 6 or 7 of the best 10 fast bowlers in the world for a span of around 10 years. The fact that they could get away with bowling under 80 overs a day was obviously a massive advantage considering their attack but the production line of great fast bowlers was pretty startling.
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The Battlers Prince
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They still have some of the best bowlers going, it's just those guys don't play tests or even many ODI's if there's a twenty20 tournament going on anywhere
mr_mister
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who are you referring to? Andre Russell? I don't really rate any of the t20 specliasts as anything other than respectable pace bowling sloggers. mostly their game changing ability lies with the bat. This is true for Pollard, Braithwaite, Sammy and even Russell who is probably the best bowler of the bunch
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lol no they don't
fredfertang
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They could afford to leave out Sylvers - says it all
The Battlers Prince
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Hmm would you believe better than their test side are out there but not playing tests?
OverratedSanity
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Yeah that's the one thing about the movie I really hate. It portrays those great 60s Windies teams as a bit of a joke team which didn't really have the desire to win which was a bit ridiculous.
fredfertang
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Most of that arises out of the bad press Sobers got for that declaration that gave England the opportunity to win the fourth Test in 67/68
Fuller Pilch
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It doesn't mention the series loss in NZ either and Croft shoulder charging umpires, Holding kicking stumps out etc. That omission is the thing I hate - sugarcoating history
Fuller Pilch
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NZ and Pakistan were the only teams to challenge the Windies in the 1980s and that is ignored in FIB
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not really
Dawood Ahmad
U19 Vice-Captain
It was probably Majid Khan who perfromed too well against them by scoring a century
The Battlers Prince
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I think Narine's better than Bishoo and Andre Russell is better than the quicks in the side atm too.
Overall though I'm still in the camp of hoping that this period of time becomes a footnote like WSC and in years to come we're saying about the guys who went to IPL, big bash etc. and the game improves and adapts.