Read more...For more than four decades from around the late 1950s, fast bowlers from the West Indies terrorised batsmen throughout the world. They were fast, ruthless and they meant business. And one had to be seriously good to keep them at bay. The West Indies cricket team reached its peak around 1970-1985. They boasted a four pronged pace attack for much of this period, each man capable of running down the opposition line-up all by himself on his day. The presence of some world class batsmen in the side made them the side to beat in world cricket. West Indies won the first two cricket world cups, in 1975 and 1979, under the leadership of Clive Lloyd. He almost led them to a third title in 1983. But an inspired Indian team led by Kapil Dev stopped them 43 runs short of the silverware. The supply of quality fast bowlers started to go down around the late-1990s and by the dawn of the new millennium, it was all but over. The overall performance of the team started to decline and the side that had once ruled the cricketing world was reduced to a mere shadow of itself. Here in this piece we take a look at some of the men, the fast men, who took the West Indies to the pinnacle of the cricketing world.
The Fast and the Furious: From the Caribbean
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