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History Of Cricket In The West Indies From 1980–81 To 1990
This article describes the history of West Indies cricket from 1981 to 1990. During this decade, the West Indies cricket team dominated Test cricket. Outstanding players of the time were the captain Viv Richards, opening batsmen Gordon Greenidge and Desmond Haynes, wicketkeeper-batsman Jeff Dujon and a battery of fast bowlers headed by Malcolm Marshall and including Joel Garner, Michael Holding, Curtly Ambrose and Courtney Walsh. The only "achilles heel" in this outstanding team was the lack of a quality spin bowler. Domestic cricket 1980–81 to 1990 Shell Shield winners * 1980–81 Combined Islands * 1981–82 Barbados * 1982–83 Guyana * 1983–84 Barbados * 1984–85 Trinidad and Tobago * 1985–86 Barbados * 1986–87 Guyana * 1987–88 Jamaica * 1988–89 Jamaica * 1989–90 Leeward Islands International tours 1980–81 to 1990 England 1980–81 * 1st Testat Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain, Trinidad – West Indies won by an innings and 79 runs * 2nd Testat Bourda, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Indies Cricket Team
The West Indies cricket team, nicknamed the Windies, is a multi-national men's cricket team representing the mainly Commonwealth Caribbean, English-speaking countries and territories in the Caribbean region and administered by Cricket West Indies. The players on this composite team are selected from a chain of fifteen Caribbean nation-states and territories. , the West Indies cricket team is ranked eighth in Test cricket, Tests, and tenth in One-Day International, ODIs and seventh in Twenty20 International, T20Is in the official International Cricket Council, ICC rankings. From the mid-late 1970s to the early 1990s, the West Indies team was the strongest in the world in both Test cricket, Test and One Day International cricket. A number of cricketers who were considered among the best in the world have hailed from the West Indies: Sir Garfield Sobers, Garfield Sobers, Lance Gibbs, George Headley, Brian Lara, Viv Richards, Vivian Richards, Clive Lloyd, Malcolm Marshall, Alvin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
