WEST INDIES FAST BOWLERS OF THE 80'S - BRUTAL COMPILATION!

[oporciuncula]

What about King Curtley???!!!

[psychoherent]

Thanks Rob!!! Been looking for a compilation like this FOREVER!! You da man!!! Couldn't help noticing how the keepers seem to stand closer these days! And it brings to mind how bowlers these days never seem to uproot the stumps, let alone send them cartwheeling- although they're allegedly be bowling at 150+ - supposedly faster than some of these Windies greats. So much for speed guns...

[Shinji379]

this video is immense... people who say the MIGHTY AUSSIES under steve waugh who won 17 tests in a row is the BEST team ever, then they should see this video and know about the CARIBBEAN KINGS of all times . ;)

[sateeshkumar16]

Also Mark Nicholas

[sateeshkumar16]

I like Tony Cozier alongside Bill Lawry, Richie Benaud.

[vishyvikranth]

This is a great video Robe. Treasure! Thanks a lot!

[TejasTalks]

o my goodness me! so deeply satisfied seeing this as a cricket lover. huge respect for this WI team. too bad to see its situation now :( even being an indian

[mysparerib]

Yallop looks clueless. I don't remember him being that shit.

[TheAlfonz69]

Greatest athletes of all time. They made the world shit its pants, sit up and notice the caribbean as more than just the place to grow bananas. Incredible human beings.

[mili12367]

The pitch look shorter when they bowl, specially marshall. I love his pace.

[mili12367]

Rape, Rape, Rape, Rape. Only dressing room can save me.

[ThePakibro786]

this is GOLD ! ! Amazing Video really enjoyed it ,Great work ROB.

[amigogon]

Damn! Michael Holding looks super duper Quick , may be the quickest ever??

[mistersmith6000]

The Rackerman one was evil. Even an accomplished batsman - how could you handle it? It wasn't a bouncer, but it just reered up and into his chin!

[thatguyyouknow2]

everyone should spam cricinfo telling them to advertise rob's videos.

[heaffy2112]

brilliant video, this is my P.E. revison for the next month

[imthemess]

pure gold video.. Marshall was the KING & Holding was the MASTER

[robelinda]

@imthemess its a great video, pity hardly anyone watches it.

[faisal4478]

@robelinda its awesome rob. thanks

[suffern63]

@robelinda don't give up the fight,we,the chosen few,appreciate what you are doing

[wizardrockiscool]

I wonder if Courtney Walsh ever wondered whether West Indies cricket would go from an era of dominance to the shithole it is today.

[ednan9]

destroyed australia...simply, what a pace attack

[Flagfalls]

Deryck Murray & Jeff Dujon deserve a tribute. Keeping wickets to that juggernaught can't have been easy.

[rangy8888]

Look at their bowling action, their arms swinging perfectly, their precision perfect catches and their beautiful run up, their exact length and the awesome consistence in speed and accuracy. No present bowlers can match their perfection in all these aspects. They look like real sportsmen. Present day fast bowlers are pussies. Thanks bro, for your marvelous work. Keep uploading.

[vladtepes97]

very nice video, but i wonder how come possibly the most famous piece of fast bowling wasn't included in a show about west indies fast bowling in the 1980s. holding to boycott was in 1981. i'd like to see the original live version complete with commentary if anyone has it.

[vladtepes97]

lloyd, richards, haynes, richardson, garner, holding. what a slips cordon that is!

[manwalrus]

I'm surprised Rodney Hogg doesn't have a Bradman-esque average based on how many of these innings he finished not out.

[cooldewd35]

I remember these series very well. The Windies used to come to Australia virtually every summer those days. The most popular touring team in Australian cricket history - everybody loved them. Simply awe inspiring!

[Flagfalls]

Truly, pace like fire. An absolute delight to watch. Robelinda, you deserve to be mentioned in Wisden for your invaluable contribution in preserving the beautiful game of cricket for posterity. Those with ADHD (i.e followers of IPL) and Team BCCI maniacs will never be able to appreciate vintage cricket, so nuts to them.

Are there any existing videos of Vanburn Holder and Wayne Daniel? And wasn't Pat Pat also a part of the 80's Juggernaught?

[couldabeenanything]

This takes me back! This would be the first series I remember vividly ( I remember bits of 83-84 v Pakistan and 82-83 Ashes) and I remember how it was this first two tests that had Kim Hughes resign in tears.

Along with an incredible attack, a batting order including Greenidge, Haynes, Richardson, Richards was unbelievable. Only losing the series 3-1 was a miracle at the time

[blairomatic]

A great series but from memory it ended a bit 'flat' for the Windies.

They won the first three tests easily but blew the fourth at the MCG (Lloyd declared too late - choosing to bat on into the fifth day - and not giving themselves quite enough time to bowl Australia out). They lost the fifth test in Sydney falling to 'spin twins' Holland and Bennett whilst not playing their own specialist spinner (Harper) on a dusty, turning track.

Still, a 3-1 winning margin was a fitting one.

[kripaks]

This is the 'Frank Worrell Trophy' series of 1984 where Courtney Walsh made his debut.

[Coltrane5000]

listen had some indian fan at work talking trash about how weak the W.Indies are now..... i pointed out that his team have never Run Tings so much that they changed rules to stop them... or that weak sh*t that india did in the 70's when they cried about a lil fast bowling...... had to tell him when that if your team ever run cricket like west indies or the aussies then come and chat lol

[farazzubair]

You have been an absolute entertainer. I was at office, but couldnt resort but watch the whole clip in awe at one of the greatest eras of dominance. To me nothing beats the WI dynasty of the late 70's and 80's in terms of sheer dominance and we have to be thankful to you for reliving it

[robelinda]

@farazzubair Vintage cricket is the best!

[ph97pnm]

watch 'Fire in Babylon'

Awesome film on Windies cricket..



[blaksuperman]

i sat and watched this from start to finish in complete awe......great video

[aizad3755]

Excellent video!

[vipulhalbe1]

how can one MF dislike this beautiful video.

Does he understande cricket at all

[Glat64]

Cricket is so much more skill full than baseball, such a shame the game never caught on in the USA.

[dyogi4u]

@ZippyZak1 Which is precisely why i said i would like to see England in Asia next year before elevating them to greatness. Currently, they are very good.

[dyogi4u]

@ZippyZak1 We are talking about Tests here and so 4 ODIs do not change my opinion. English bowling attack has done well for almost two years now... Anderson, Broad, Tremlett, Bresnan & Finn is an impressive list of bowlers. How many bowling attacks in the world today have someone of the quality of Tremlett, Bresnan & Finn fighting for the third bowler's spot ? Their bowling in Asia next year would be a test of whether they are a very good attack or a great one.

[HeartfeltDawn]

@dyogi4u Comparing England's bowling stocks to the great West Indian reserves is madness. England stand out at the minute because so many attacks are utter garbage. The standard of bowling is on the slide, not coincidentally as the 20 over rubbish keeps growing. Finn and Tremlett (when fit... the new Simon Jones?) are good but Daniel and Clarke for instance were much much better.

[JFK2684]

how did this great site went from hero to zero............

[JFK2684]

You are awesome Robelinda, you got some unique and rare videos...

Thanks alot

[lookwhoshere1000]

boon c holding b holding ..it was such a good catch full credit went to Holding :)

[orbitaltrooperc]

look at the big bird take off!!

priceless ^_^

[dyogi4u]

I wonder what is it that makes bowling riches pour in buckets.. The older generation Indians talk of some top class spinners who never got a look in because of the spin quartet. Someone said the same about Sylvester Clarke and Wayne Daniel. Aussies in late 90s had some good bowlers in Kasper, Fleming who would have walked into many other sides. The same now is true of English fast bowling stocks. Are the main bowlers being so great making the secondary bowlers to push themselves a notch higher ?

[eydiot909]

The standard of catching there was flippin' amazing !!!

[dyogi4u]

@eydiot909 Very true. When people talk of the Windies one does not hear about their catching. Some of the slip catching was fantastic.

[ryn105]

Mann id give anythin to see these guys play and im a west indian. Shame

[robelinda]

@ryn105 I wish I appreciated the quality of cricket back then, i was so young, luckily i taped hundreds and hundreds of hours of cricket in the 80's! Priceless stuff.

[ryn105]

@robelinda its really good that u do so we can all remember the heroes of the past. Id never forget seeing curtley running in against england at queens park oval.

[KanhaTigerman]

@robelinda Well said Rob. The quality of cricket has really gone down the toilet in the last five years or so. And that has mostly happened because of what the West Indies have now become. I wish we could get this 80s Windies team again - what a treat it would be to watch Marshall, Holding, Roberts, Garner, Croft, Daniel or Clark bowling down the slope at Lord's instead of the insipid rubbish we saw this summer in England.

[KanhaTigerman]

@robelinda Well said Rob. The quality of cricket has really gone down the toilet in the last five years or so. And that has mostly happened because of what the West Indies have now become. I wish we could get this 80s Windies team again - what a treat it would be to watch Marshall, Holding, Roberts, Garner, Croft, Daniel or Clark bowling down the slope at Lord's instead of the insipid rubbish we saw this summer in England.

[manishPh]

@robelinda

One of the striking features of this West Indies Cricket team is their slip fielding. Boy! did they catch brilliantly! Its unfortunate I was not born/very young when they were at their peak. Rob, you are doing a fantastic job for all the true cricket lovers across the globe irrespective of their nationality. Wonder what was your inspiration back then to tape all these matches? Mate, you rock!

[robelinda]

@manishPh Yeah they were great natural athletes, a joy to watch. I certainly loved cricket from a young age, at the time very early on i didnt just record cricket, but anything, it was fun to have a VCR back in those days, felt like a millionaire!!!

[joosofoos]

its amazing how the short balls that get wickets are aimed at the ribs not at the head. Also it mustve helped to be 7 foot tall .

[therockfan678]

@ZippyZak2 not only australians, praveen kumar is a better bowler than steyn and anderson combined and swings it more than both of them. Munaf patel is the new holding and vinay kumar the new marshall

[ran60k]

@therockfan678  hey man don't insult to the geniuses.... We can understand wot r u gonna say u wish that u r indian bowlers wanna be same as them right???? Bud dude it's not simple but if someone has passion , try and determine it could not be so hard 2!!!

[robelinda]

@ZippyZak2 What user? I dont get it.....

[KanhaTigerman]

@IAMATROLLPLZENJOY Holding was quicker. Imran said so. But it was marginal - and Roberts regularly clocked 150 kph consistently with deadly accuracy. He possessed what was probably the most lethal bouncer in the game.

[microsonik]

thanks for this video rob - i was there in perth for the first 3 days in 1984.. great memories

 a request though... do you have the entire highlights of this series? ie including the west indies batting?

[robelinda]

@microsonik Yes I have it all.

[microsonik]

@robelinda wonderful - any plans to post here?

btw, the interesting work these bowlers did was actually in the build-up to the wickets... on the highlights it seems like the batsmen seem to just hang their bats out to balls they didn't need to play at, but all the softening up and pressure and accuracy is what caused it - the game in perth was a detailed study in executing the perfect bowling plan...

[therockfan678]

i give u the real fearsome fast bowlers- praveen kumar, munaf patel and vinay kumar LOL

[robelinda]

@therockfan678 GOLD! The shitsome foursome.

[therockfan678]

@robelinda Back in the day batsmen were forced to face fast bowlers without helmet but nowadays they would willingly wear a cap to face praveen kumar and co.. shitsome foursome is right ROFL

[ran60k]

@therockfan678 - Hey man are they bowlers??? u guys always talking biased to u r players and it would be ok if v r talking about indian bowlers but it's not here.. one think i would lke to remind u dude y dt u talk about kapil dev the greatest bowler india has even been produced!!!!

[venkat2212]

@therockfan678 LOL I love how so many indians are getting pissed off at your comment. They simply cannot take a joke and laugh at themselves. I'm an indian myself and I was rofling on your comment!

[bodommed666]

@therockfan678 hahahah !! that was funny

btw sehwag 219 of 145 ball in odi ...how does that make u feal ??? praveen kumar, munaf patel and vinay kumar are enough to destroy a hapless team as west indies

sure they had good start

bt look at them now!!

[TheAlfonz69]

@therockfan678 Praveen Kumar? Mr Shuffle? Never bowls above about 65 mph? Fuck off mate

[vishyvikranth]

@TheAlfonz69 sarcasm mate xD

[whouster]

During the 1980's, the two most terrifying fast bowlers operating in English county cricket were Sylvester Clarke and Wayne Daniel - and neither of them got a look in for the Windies! Those two would've been handed the new ball in any other Test side of the era. There's never been such a crop of outstanding fast bowling talent in any Test team before or since.

[pagerewrite]

/great upload. Dujon's keeping is amazing

[AIMANALI]

@Indianmasterify That is very interesting. Thx for sharing. Wonder if those speed guys were consistent with the ones used much later - like at present ? never heard that story though - thx

[KanhaTigerman]

Who says brutality cannot be beautiful? My God, what an attack. My only crib is that Roberts was not in it. I think Roberts, Holding, Garner and Croft was slightly better than Marshall, Holding, Garner and Walsh. But only by the tiniest of margins...........!!

[AIMANALI]

@KanhaTigerman Yeah - according to Holding they were at their best as a pack in 1979 . All relatively young but with enough experience.

[heathirving]

great compilation,but sylvester clarke was faster than all four of them,by their own admission wish you had some footage of him.

[AIMANALI]

Rob how quick you think Marshall was at his quickest ? like 145 -150 ? or what

[VVKY10]

Great upload!

[mofficer65]

Great video! Thank you again..

[AIMANALI]

In my opinion Holding was past his quickest by than but still effective as ever. Rob do you have his ball to ball spell of any of these test matches or the one in 1981-82 ? or even one dayers Thx

[monash72]

What an awesone pace attack, they played hard and fair. Absolutely the best ever. Notice that there is nothing in the name of sledging or mental disintegration as Aussies call it. Just great skill and class.

[tigershark10]

Oh Man Awsome!!1 The recent England team after beating India have been called one of the best ever....... This Windies team or any other in the 70's and 80's would have murdered them!!! This was the best EVER to have played the game of cricket....

Absolutely Brilliant !!!

[anshuman0001]

Fucken awesome !!!

[thekeylimeishere]

My god these guys were incredible...a clear reminder to keep it simple and good things will happen.

[jjmullion]

Kim Hughes wearing the cap and then out for a duck. Ha Ha

[abner5640]

this is soo special

[mrbollocks1979]

There's one word for these guys - clinical. No nonsense, no swearing and shouting, just brilliant athleticism and playing the game to perfection.

[Imrankniazi]

This video should, for once and for all, settle one thing. That these guys were NOT JUST about raw pace. Yes, they were quick but very skilled and intelligent bowlers as well. Notice the number of times they have batsmen undecided on which foot to play off and edging to keeper/slip/gully. They had a real good idea of how to work batsmen out (as a group) and used seam and bounce sufficiently to work their way to results.

Magnificent attack and great upload!

[kapurprem]

TFS

[arvindr25]

sanjay manjrekar once said the West Indian slip cordon was like a fishing net. nothing would get past them. if you edged the ball, you didnt have to look back.

with richie richardson, lloyd, viv and harper in the slips, i can see what he meant.

[Mladenovski28]

I made a request a while ago involving the West Indies dishing out short stuff during the 80's. This is pretty close to that, great effort Rob. The standard of catching in the slips was very high, apart from those 2 dropped chances, they were awesome, they took some real hard ones. Amazing to think these guys went UNDEFEATED for 15 YEARS. Poor Kim Hughes, they just picked on him.

[metalandcricket]

great video. could add a few more bowlers to this compilation as well. But kim hughes...seriously, how often he fell to that short ball trap, it was so obvious of the Windies plan to him, and he fell for it everytime!

[Come2PaaPaa]

THE AWESOME FOUR WOULD RAPE ANY BATTING LINE UP ANY AREA DAY OR NIGHT RAIN OR SNOW WIND OR SAND

[gv27347]

To think in the early 1980's the Windies could have had a bowling rotation of Marshall, Holding, Garner, Croft, Daniel, Davis, Clarke and Stephenson all on the top of their game boggles the mind.

[robelinda2]

@gv27347 Thats the true test of a number one team, the backup players. Puts to shame the Indian team currently where Zaheer gets injured and the entire team falls apart and can't even dismiss Tim Bresnan!

[gv27347]

Thanks, Rob. This is the best treasure trove of cricket video that I have found. I am an Indian fan, who has been living in the USA for the last 15 years now. As an 8 year old, I watched a somewhat weakened version of this attack devastate India at home in 1983, 3-0 in tests and 5-0 in ODI's. Marshall and Holding were there, Garner was not there. Roberts was there but he was already way past his prime.Even the lesser bowlers in that squad - Daniel, Davis and Baptiste would have been top10 today

[ixale66]

Great Video , thanks Rob

[dannykaye85]

Could you put up a compilation of Jonty Rhodes' fielding as well? I've searched it for so long and found just crappy videos. I hope you do have some of his recordings. Thanks again :D DK

[dannykaye85]

crystal clear dismissals are a hallmark of the West Indian bowling of this era. Holding, Garner, Marshall and Walsh- what a quartet . Richie Richardson's debut match. Wonderful memoirs. The only mistake they did is not to encourage the younger generation to play as well as they did. Thanks again Rob :D A big fan !

[omonoia23]

what sort of helmet is that at 7:17 ?? did hannibal lector create it?

[Boyd1200]

@omonoia23 After the match Dyson ate Marshall's liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti...pffft..pffft..pffft.

[Voltairec]

Rob- As you promised this is GOLD*GOLD. I followed this series in 84 where Windies won 3-1 which could have been easily been 4-1. Lloyd's men also created record for most consecutive victories(11).....every victory was embellished almost super natural performances by once in a million years confluence of talents! Despite the obvious ferocious brilliance of the fast bowlers i was stunned by Richardson's goalkeeper style catches.....each better than the other. Fantastic feast for true fans

[OBJones28]

Ouch, dat's gotta hurt at 5:31-5:36. what a wicket by Michael Holding and his dashing fast bowling. hehehe

[OBJones28]

excellent stuff robe, West Indies kickin asses and takin names in tha 80s. HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

I feel sorry for the Aussies in this vid.

[jstreete]

Left me feeling a bit sorry for Kim Hughes though, because he was an excellent player. A sad way for him to go out.

[jstreete]

Amazing stuff - thanks for putting it up. That must be the greatest team of them all.

[yennavai646]

This the greatest of all your golden treasures..Think about it..I don't think anywhere else on the internet we would have the great fortune of a 35 minute video of the West Indian quicks in their prime..Definitely not for free..You sir, are doing a great humanitarian service for poor hungry cricket buffs like us..You need to be knighted !!

[imthemess]

Robbie you're a legend!!!

[cricmahanty]

West Indies !!!!!!!!!!!

[lenogooch]

Love Lawson's reaction at 22.40. Mind you given that he kicked his own stumps down twice in a previous clip and didn't walk .......... I guess we shouldn't be surprised. Hilarious. WG Grace would have been proud.

[say2chander]

BBBBLOODY BBBBRILLIANT

[TheSinnical]

rob is a legend...hats off!

[thepavansnehith]

legends.thanx for the upload rob