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Long before chants of 'AB, AB' in IPL made commentators rave about how tournaments like IPL have made crowds endear to foreign cricketers, there was the West Indies cricket team of the 70s and 80s which received love and adulation aplenty simply for their brand of cricket. And that too in an era where, forget social media, even television hadn't proliferated. They infused a new life into Test cricket in a way that no team had done before. All teams had bowlers who could bowl at good pace and some attacking batsmen to boot, but West Indies had a factory production of cricketers who were born to entertain who, luckily for them and their fans, played alongside each other in the same team.
In this picture from 1973 Oval Test, fans mob Clive Lloyd after he scored a century on the first day of the Test as English players Alan Knott and Graham Roope look on. Got to feel for them.After all this was a 'home' Test for them. Pretty sure I would never want to be in Roope's and Knott's place in life. Needless to say, West Indies won the series 2-0 as well as the ODI tournament that followed.
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