West Indies was conquered in cricket world between 1948-1996. Sir viv. Richards & clive Lloyd were The greatest ever players in 150 years cricket history & west indies was The greatest ever cricket team between 1970-1985 in 150 years cricket history, remember it ❤❤❤. Australia never deceive west indies in cricket world cup final, remember it also 😊.

Old is gold

ME TOO

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Mr. Balaji, i had the privilege of hearing the running ball by ball commentary in my transistor Radio 31 meters & 19 meters frequency of this great prudential cup final. Viv Richards & collis king enthralled me and i was expecting century from Viv and he obliged it with unbeaten one. Memorable finals nostalgic running commentary by very high standard by legends John Arlott, Trevor Bailey, Braint Johnson, Christopher Martin jenkins. The way they narrated the match proceedings as though we are watching real finals Live . Watched Bangalore ksca debut test match in 1974 india vs wi. Paid just rs. 25 /- for five days test match season ticket for gallery stand. Thats how we became huge fan of wi and cricketrs like Viv Richards, Andy Roberts, Clive Lloyd, alvin KALLICHARAN, Gordon Greenidge. The very best of my vintage orginal cricket era . From Seventhwest Blore. ✌

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Who asked you to remember?

It's that Boycott or Brearley you're referring to? 🤣

@@MrDunkiep Very good. Excellent line....

No it wasn't. However, the accolade does belong to Viv, for this one kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bMB_mNGqptjeook.html

@@Wally-H Bearing in mind the occasion, the fact it was a finaln etc i reckoned Kings 86 was the one. Completely changed the game taking it away from England but its all about opinions

@@dlamiss I remember it well - the highlight of his career and rather unexpected.

Randall did it all the time. The best fielder I’ve ever seen.

Richards and Greenidge were too old to play in the 1992 world cup, they were well past their best.

Back then the West Indies senior players in their final years had virtually appointed themselves as unofficial selectors. They got to decide which matches and which tours they wanted to play and the selectors just sat back and said yes sir, very good sir, anything was ok as long as they were winning, by the 90s the cricket board had cracked down on players taking holidays whenever they wanted.

They were so far behind the run rate after Boycott and Brearley's slow start that the remaining batsmen had to try and hit everything and take outrageous chances. Would you have preferred them to have batted defensively and ended up with a score of 220 for 3 off 60 overs???

You should always play your best gloveman its only a might that they might get a few runs,taylor was the best gloveman I have ever seen

I totally agree with you, the selection of the England team was really appalling, but then again what can you expect with people like Alec Bedser picking the team. Also Hendrick's lbw appeal against Richards being rejected had a major affect on the result.

Yeah England would rule the cricket from 1970-1992 in the absence of 1970-80s West indies

​@@Shimosevilbrother99Australia was strong then too. Tony Greig was a great character captain and cricketer though.

In what way it would have affected Richard's career. Don't write anything for publicity sake. Viv was a great hit in Packer Circus before the 1979 WC.

Man Viv was on top of the world by the 79 World Cup. This final was just icing on top of the cake…..

No effect on Viv's carrier.Viv is no. one(1) batsman in a history of cricket. There is no comparison of SIR. VIV. RICHARDS with any batsman of worldcricket

@@ashokkumarpatel9976 His namesake Barry Richards would have taken the plaudits in the 70's but for South Africa's test ban.

​@@gunternetzer9621 Every cricket fan who really wants to know important truthful details of Indian team performance in earlier events must read this ☺️ ✌️☺️Till millennial era events Indian team performance in a nutshell☺️ Interested readers, properly read this summary, which you won't find anywhere precisely put together. Your polite appreciation for this refined truthful analysis of several hours efforts & corrective replies & additional details are truly welcome (although I won't reply to any of the replies, and provocative least knowledge toddlers will be deservingly ignored as usual) ☺️ H : HEROES (better performers) V : VILLAINS (worse performers) (I've written the HERO & VILLAIN performers from best to worst order) 1975 & 1979 : [ IN BOTH WC IT'S BATTING FAILURE ] CAPTAIN : S VENKATARAGHAVAN 1975 : OUT, 3RD IN GROUP A H : SYED-ABID-ALI (allrounder) V : GAVASKAR 1979 : OUT, 4TH IN GROUP B H : VISHWANATH GAVASKAR KAPIL (allround okay contribution) & BRIJESH (although small contribution) (All have performed fairly average) V : Whole batting lineup (and even worst bowling), especially GAEKWAD VENGSARKAR AMARNATH with bat vs strong teams WI NZ 1983 & 1987 : [ KEY VETERAN PERFORMERS EITHER INCONSISTENT OR MISSED CRUCIAL KNOCKOUTS, AS IN 1987 ] CAPTAIN : KAPIL DEV 1983 : WINNERS H : BINNY SANDEEP AMARNATH MADANLAL YASHPAL KAPIL SRIKKANTH (BINNY is solid overall throughout) V : GAVASKAR (Single digit streak except 2 odd innings in WC1979) 1987 : LOST SEMIS TO ENGLAND (1st 50 over World Cup) H : SIDHU AZHAR MANINDER SHASTRI GAVASKAR (except his AUS ENG failures) KAPIL (SIDHU AZHAR SHASTRI MANINDER are exceptional, with batting consistency crucial contribution or crucial batter wkts) V : VENGSARKAR GAVASKAR (Both are batting legends, but they've performed only vs AUS or else weak NZ ZIM of this WC unlike relatively stronger NZ ZIM of 1975 till 1983, VENGSARKAR didn't play SEMIS vs ENG which is real big dent to added batting strength, KAPIL is also inconsistent with bat) 1992 TILL 1999 : [ OVERALL BATTING BOWLING FAILURE, TOO MUCH CHOPPING AND CHANGING & NOT BACKING PROVEN PERFORMERS, LIKE WC1987 MATCHWINNER SIDHU EXCLUDED IN WC1992 ] CAPTAIN : MOHD. AZHARUDDIN 1992 : DISQUALIFIED IN TOP4 IN ROUND-ROBIN WORLD CUP H : AZHAR KAPIL SACHIN MANJREKAR PRABHAKAR (bit with ball)/JADEJA V : No consistency except AZHAR KAPIL & somewhat SACHIN/JADEJA/MANJREKAR, and mostly it's batting failure (than bowling vs last SA match), SIDHU exclusion from WC1992 is totally baseless (knowledgeable ones tell me about this) 1996 : LOST SEMIS TO SRILANKA BY RIOTING CROWD (Note that SL had got 2 matches walkover in group stage from AUS & WI due to bombing & safety concerns caused by LTTE in SL) H : SACHIN SIDHU KUMBLE RAJU JADEJA PRASAD & lastly SRINATH (in SEMIS and few other matches, also inconsistent at times) V : AZHAR JADEJA PRABHAKAR KAMBLI (very very inconsistent with bat or ball, and consistent shuffling of batting order by captain with unsettled openers despite matchwinner SIDHU availability) 1998 : LOST SEMIS TO WINDIES H : SACHIN GANGULY JADEJA ROBIN JOSHI DRAVID V : Worst bowling unable to pick wickets or contain runs, especially KUMBLE SRINATH vs strong WI in SEMIS 1999 : OUT, LAST IN SUPER SIX H : DRAVID GANGULY SACHIN ROBIN JADEJA RAMESH (good contributions with bat often at times) & SRINATH KUMBLE PRASAD MOHANTY (either wicket takers or have contained runs somewhat often) V : Extremely inconsistent batting except DRAVID GANGULY SACHIN, JADEJA peeks in super six stage and ROBIN is solid, but often the top trio fails in some crucial matches, AZHAR MONGIA and bowlers except PRASAD MOHANTY SRINATH ROBIN & little of KUMBLE are alternately damn inconsistent and have leaked runs in few matches which led to WC exit with last position in super six, and even GANGULY was very iffy in super six.

They lost the match in three ways, a plumb lbw decision against Richards early in his innings being turned down, it would have been 125 for 5, and King would not have had Richards to advise him thru the early part of his innings.

That just wasnt done back then, England were still very much rooted in the tried and tested tactics of 50 years earlier. Opening batsman was usually a career position from start to end, Gooch had started his career batting at 6, a promotion to opener would have been almost unheard of back then.

I must see if he has a biography. I've followed cricket from afar for years sometimes more interested than others but became more interested in about 2016 and now I'm an almost obsessive fan. I've heard Mike Brierley was one if the best examples of a captain and man manager in almost any sport not just cricket despite not being the best player himself. I've thought that in recent years the England football team have been silly in always giving them arm band to the "best" player as opposed to the best leader.

I watched this game live and I still can't understand to this day why Brearley didn't take a chance and open with Gooch, Randall or Gower instead. Starting with himself and Boycs was like throwing the match. By the time our stroke makers got in they had to throw the bat at everything and the result was inevitable.

@@Wally-H Yes I remember it too, all they had to do was bowl straight and fast.

He always running with fear of game

Kumar they win 2012 and 2016 wc t20 they are also champions of 2 t20 world cups you forget

@@salamat6778 agreed but which strength they had 70s and 80s decades they missed now adays west indies is week team all though they can upset any team

@@RajinderKumar-kq9nn yes i agreed with you westindies not like old team but i jusy want to tell you that they win 2 t20 wc because you said that they no win any major event after defeat to india

@Rajinder Kumar bhai 83 wc k baad westindies india tour ki thi test aur odi dono m india ko whitewash Kiya tha

@@salamat6778 Who cares T20?? Minows games