India was a mediocre side most of 70s and 80s but were far from terrible. Never lost a test series in Australia through 80s and only a lost a closely fought series down under in 1977-78 by 2-3(against a Packer weakened side admittedly). India also won a test series in England in 1986. That WI side absolutely crushed us in 1983-84 which is more an indication of their quality.
There is an equal religious like worshiping of Australia during their period of dominance.The Aussie dominance period lasted like half of WI.Like I said before that Aussie side was as good as WI and there would be nothing in it if they lock horns with each other. It is just that the WI could field another good quality side outside their best possible XI during 1976-1995.
What would this other good quality side look like? As I've alluded too earlier I'd have serious doubts about the batting depth
I will give it a try.
So it seems to be from the '76 make them grovel series to the Frank Worrell defeat of '95. And just the general best and second best teams from that pool
Lol... I never said Warne was not good against good players of spin. My point was Warne was great against teams that were not good against other great spinners around the world either. Against the very best players of spin, Warne was average. And given the batsmen of the 80s Windies team (which was the context of this discussion) are closer to the Tendulkar, Lara, Dravid, Jayawardenas than the list you mentioned, I don't see the relevance of this. this. And honestly I dunno how you got the bolded part from any of my posts here. Nothing I said suggested that and I should know, I am one of the biggest Warne fans here.
I am sure the wickets of the 80s and the noughties were the same.
I think it was palpably obvious that irrespective of whom the best bowlers were, the overall quality of bowling as well as pitches made it much harder for batsmen int the 80s than in the noughties. If your point is that Greenidge, Haynes, Lloyd and Kallicharan belong with Thorpe and Cullinan, be my guest. Like I said, that line up is better than 90% of the batsmen Warney bowled at. I don't see any reason why that cannot be considered true.
I don't think you quite understand what ATG means.
I know his career average minus Australia is pretty healthyI don't think you quite understand what ATG means.
Obviously not enough prayer for rain going on in Pakistan.
Likely. Most of the weak teams havent played that many in a single country. Pak are just hopeless vs bounce.
