The WI fast bowling "peaked" for me during this tour. As incredible as they were still for a good few years, during this tour they were truly unplayable
5:15 look at the press conferences in those days. Shirtless with shorts and glasses beside the pool with a pen and a book sitting and casually asking questions.😂. Something new for this generation to see.
Hello Ian, it is, as the title states, a report from March 26 1986. The 3rd Test ended a day early on March 25th, making it 3-0 with two to play. Newsnight put this report out on what should have been day 5. Thank you for your interest, DARREN
I don’t know why we bothered turning up and playing those series against the West Indies in the 80’s!! I really don’t!! They were just too good for everyone.
More than that, tours of the West Indies were a money-losing proposition. The slow over-rates and give-nothing-away approach of their fast bowlers, as has always been the case, repelled live audiences both West Indian and foreign. Even with their (supposedly) exciting brutal fast bowling and slow over-rates that were friendly to advertising, television stations shied away from cricket in the Caribbean, even limited-overs cricket.
Well except Pakistan......Pakistan always were up for the scrap. Of the 5 series we played against them from 78-90, only one had an outright winner. There is actually a belief that lost series of the 1980s would have been WI vs Pakistan in 1983, when Imran was at his fastest.
Australia in 1985 were possibly the worst team from an established nation to tour England since the 1962 Pakistanis (India in 1967 and 1974 would be the nearest rivals, but the poor quality of the 1985 England opposition calls even that into question). The absence of Alderman and Rackemann who were banned for touring South Africa certainly made a big difference, and still did so in 1986/1987, but even a 2-2 tie would have not shown 1985 to 1987 Australia as other than weak.
