I am a Sri Lankan and I love to watch West Indies play!

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@@srilankangenie 0999

One of the most remarkable things Ive seen in cricket, the rise of Sri Lankan cricket over that decade, just incredible. Their tenacity, their fast learning, just amazing what they achieved.

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@@janakaariyaratna7718 ?

Hard to believe that Arjuna Ranatunga played in this game and would later lead the Sri Lankans to World Cup victory.

It's goes to show you that when you make up your mind about something you can get it someday

The chucker

Yea Clive Lloyd wore a helmet quite often towards the end of his career. Without a visor.

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Resourceful bowler. Ratnayake could bowl reverse swinging yorkers as well when hardly anybody could.

Not even Imran Khan could bowl blockhole deliveries at the death as consistently.

channel 9 was in a league of its own

Just hyped up bowlers with hardly any variations in their repertoire. Today's bowlers have the same pace and bounce with myriad variations.

@@NishitShukla Bullshit. Marshall in particular was one of the cleverest bowlers I've ever seen. I can only assume you're too young to have actually witnessed what this lot used to do.

@@Wally-H Try using better civilised language, don't show us where you are coming from. Will be back.

@@Wally-H Ya I never said Marshall was not a great bowler, I started watching cricket from 1984 when ENG toured India, have known Marshall from when he was at his peak. Any bowler like Marshall has to be great, someone who has 380 odd wickets in 80 tests at an avg of 20. What I am saying is, the 70s and 80s brought genuine pace into the world of cricket for the first time, batsmen without helmets were ill prepared and that is what seems to have added an aura to these bowlers. Today's bowlers are as fast and definitely have many more variations, the batsmen have also worked out how to face pace, which has made the work of bowlers difficult. That's what I meant. I remember Srikkanth hitting Marshall for a six on the very first ball in Sharjah. I remember Gavaskar hooking and pulling Marshall on way to his Bradman world record equalling century in Delhi. I know about Amarnath making 600 odd runs against Marshall in WI in 83. I saw Amarnath hooking and pulling Marshall to a century in 88 in India

@@NishitShukla Picking some random occasions where he was hooked and pulled to show how poor they were ?? Wierd lad !! The guyzz like Lillee, Thomson (pre injury), Roberts, Marshall, Bob Willis, Young Ian Botham were as skillfull as mean they were !!

Yes. They were on tour from September 1984 to March 1985 .7 months away from home. That's something

@@pravinkumarshetty3256 Great effort though.

Lovely comment, lol

It's not funny

That bowler was not that quick, those balls hit a rough spot and took off.

Maximum, I agree, his actions looked suspicious.

@@ianbynoe6515 Nonsense. His action was fine. Clive Lloyd was sour because the Windies got a taste of their own medicine

When the batters were hit by their bowlers, they said it was due to bad technique. When their batters were hit by the opposition bowlers, they said bowlers were chucking.

Asantha D'mel

3 in the world cup final 1975

Neville Warner he never seemed to miss throwing down the stumps, saw him warm up with 1 stump in the ground in the outfield before play, the amount of times he hit it was stupid over a 15 min period.

could have been very nasty if it hit him on the glasses

Don'tunderstand the Lloyd comment? He played in many test series

windies played first test against srilanka only in 93. that is eleven years after srilankan debut test.

yes

Who???????

@@kamrankhan-lj1ng Rumesh Rathnayake. Clive Lloyd in the post match interview accused him of chucking.

Yes, he was. Chucking , throwing. What a dirty bowler.

@@jugheadsrule funny the west indies had played sri lanka 5 times already that summer in the world series cup and Clive Lloyd said nothing about ratnayake then when they were smashing his bowling all over the place. Clive Lloyd was just sour that he, Gomes and Richardson copped it in this match.

The time when scoring runs wasnt easy,, today with t20 crickt is boring

For fans like you we should keep one bowling machine and one robot lol so that you can enjoy t20 always😂that's all that it's become now 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Ninad Choudhury the pitch in Melbourne in the '80's was the worst, very slow, very dusty, and the outfield was massive and slow, you could have run 5 somedays

Graham Labroy

Sure let me know your email and we can chat further

Where are you from and what kind of games do you have?

Also yellow. But with green border.

@@moulindra dox Boxing

I'll let

What a load of rubbish

They destroyed India in India right after the '83 world cup without Croft. You forget Malcolm Marshall & Holding. Marshall is still considered by most who played against him as the best bowler they've ever faced, so i'm not sure if your statements had taken that into consideration. This team destroyed Australia in Australia in 84/85 then went on to smash England both home and away in the series that was remembered as the "Blackwash" series. That England team beat Australia in their backyard to win the ashes so it wasn't a weak English team either. All those series wins came without Roberts & Croft. So i'm not sure what you're basing that argument on. India had a great team, but if you ask anybody from that era they'll tell you the Windies were the ones to beat. Not true about Australia either, Australia lost to the Windies after their world cup win in test series both home and away. It took them another 9 years after that '86 WC victory to win a series against he WIndies in '95. The meteoric rise of the Aussies actually started after the '99 WC.

Windies is no 1 team at that time.

pradeep kumar have you been smoking curry?

Dreaming there. Illusions.

What! Who r u pradeep what?