linkThe international cricketing fraternity in the seventies and eighties witnessed some of the greatest fast bowling combinations to have graced a cricket pitch. Australia had Dennis Lillee and John Thompson, Pakistan housed Imran Khan and Sarfaraz Nawaz, England boasted of Ian Botham and Bob Willis while New Zealand had the services of Richard Hadlee and Ewen Chatfield.
However, the West Indies proved to be the best in the business. The attack comprised of Joel Garner, Andy Roberts, Michael Holding, and the best of them, Malcolm Marshall.
After the defeat, Clive Lloyd went back home with a mission to encourage youngsters to take up fast bowling in the West Indies. As a result, the West Indies was able to form a formidable bowling attack in the mid seventies and eighties which ran wild across pitches in the world.
Clive Lloyd wanted his side to dominate every backyard in the cricketing world. He knew that they had some attacking batsman to help them along. In such a situation, the West Indian skipper knew that a four front pace attack was essential who would always hunt in pairs in a bid to reply to Australia’s battery of pace bowlers.
nice read... What about Crofty et al?
