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The cricket channel showed the batting collapse from 1984-5; god it was hard watching it.

ArkRoyal wrote: The cricket channel showed the batting collapse from 1984-5; god it was hard watching it.

Ark Waca 3rd test v West Indies.Kim Huges hooked a bouncer and Joel Garner caught it above his head.On the fence.84-85..Marshall-Garner-Holding-Walsh.Part time spin from Sir Vivian and Rojer Harper.That played just on his fielding alone.What a Cricket team

As a young tacker in the 80s this phenomenal side gave me nightmares almost every summer from the late 70s until the early 90s-

Greenidge
Haynes
Richardson
Richards
Lloyd
Gomes (#Kallicharran, Logie, Rowe....)
Dujon
Marshall
Holding
Garner
Walsh (#Ambrose, Croft, Patterson, Daniel, Clarke, Davis....)
12th man Harper (# the fielding specialist)

You had nightmares watching them BH....imagine actually having to play them....great team to watch...Greenidge was my fave.....imagine this lot playing T20....certainly wasted on this generation of cricketers.....Sir Viv, Greenidge and the Big Cat would of made a mint playing T20

I still say we could have won that series, good as the were, if we had held our catches in the field.

Don't forget lads, we beat them in Sydney with the class spin bowlling of Murray Bennett and Allan Border. We had them 5 down for less than 180 in every test, includding dropped catches.

Correction: Bobby Holland bowlled them out with Bennett