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THOMSON HIT WINDIES IN A REIGN OF TERROR

by
The Cricket Paper Team
20 September 2020

Garfield Robinson looks back to when the Australian gave the world’s best team a taste of their own medicine

Treatment: Viv Richards

Australia toured the West Indies in 1977-78 with a team depleted by the implications of the Packer affair. The West Indies, the best team in the world at the time, would itself become a depleted force by the third Test. The selectors had chosen to drop Deryck Murray and newcomers Desmond Haynes and Richard Austin in what was clearly retaliation for aligning themselves with the Packer enterprise. Clive Lloyd, and much of the rest of the team withdrew, ...