Coronis
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Pretty great they let him get to 100 on that last day. Low SR innings tho so meh af.
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Fantastic knocks against West Indian fast bowlers of the 80's
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Maybe if he'd scored more runs and wasted fewer balls the other batsmen wouldn't have gotten out trying to move things along
PlayerComparisons
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The spinners bowled like half the overs during Borders hundred lol
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And two of the pace bowlers were Wayne Daniel and Milton Small lol
PlayerComparisons
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Border came in at 114-4 as well so he probably avoided most of Marshall’s and Garner’s overs
Daniel, Small, Richards and Gomes bowled 75 of the 112 overs of that innings so yeah, not a fantastic knock against the fearsome WI pace bowlers
jcas0167
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Jeff Crowe's 112 at Sabina Park in 1985 was apparently a very good attacking innings. He batted at 3 and came in at 1–13. Martin Crowe had a golden home series against the Windies in 86/87, including scores of 104, 119 and 83 across the three tests. In his book he said when he was bowled on 83 it was the first pre-meditated shot he'd played all series.
Hurricane2
U19 Cricketer
Geoff Howarth scored 84 against the West Indies in 1985 and argued vociferously the inning should save his career. But he wasn't listened to and was dropped after that match.
One of my earlier live cricketing memories (age 12). Robin Smith 148* Lords 1991. Ambrose and Walsh near unplayable for best part of an hour on third morning. Can still mentally “hear” the square cut that broke the shackles (something I was glad to have confirmed years later when video was uploaded on YouTube).
Silver Silva
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Wow Wasim Raja has such a great record against WI that was surprising to know he's never talked about muchThis is an excellent article on who fared best against the West Indies of old
Who was the best against the famous four-pronged West Indian pace attack? — CricketMash
It is widely accepted that the most difficult bowling attack ever was the four-pronged West Indian pace machine that dominated world cricket for nearly 20 years. Arunabha Sengupta looks at the numbers to see who the best batsmen were against fearsome fast bowling.cricmash.com
Coronis
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Why are people trying to say Daniel wasn’t a good fast bowler?
According to Charles Davis's database, Border was in during 4 (out of 15) overs from Garner, 15.3 (out of 22) from Marshall, all 9 from Daniel, 4 (out of 14) from Small, and all 52 overs from Gomes and Richards. (Plus the 1 ball from Logie at the end to give him his 100).
Slater averaged 46 in the 98/99 Ashes: no-one else has scored 3 hundreds in a series and averaged under 50. (Edit - no-one else other than Lamb with 42, as stated above).
(Curious fact: the two lowest averages by a batter scoring 4 hundreds in a series are both by Herbert Sutcliffe. To be fair to him, it's only been done 21 times by anyone).
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Slifer
International Captain
Think he meant barring Lamb as the post he was replying to was the one that suggested Slater averaged less than Lamb.Literally Allan Lamb as mentioned in this thread..