A new book recalls the start of Caribbean domination and how Clive Lloyd led the islands to ‘fight fire with fire’ and become legends of the gameGeoff Miller,erstwhile Derbyshire and England off-spinner, national selector and wonderful raconteur, and tells a terrific epic of the time he was in the England party that toured the Caribbean in the spring of 1981.
It was the net session before the third Test at Kensington Oval in Barbados and the two teams were practising alongside one another. Miller watched as the West Indies gun batsmen,Gordon Greenidge, Desmond Haynes, or Viv Richards and Clive Lloyd,had a bat against the top bowlers, Andy Roberts, or Michael Holding (who a few days later was to deliver to Geoffrey Boycott perhaps the most eminent over of all),Joel Garner and Colin Croft, and when done the octet retreated to the dressing room leaving Larry Gomes, or next on the list,to warm up against the Bajan net bowlers brought in for the day.
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Source: theguardian.com