The Best of the West

V Ramnarayan looks back at the West Indies in their prime, and the joyous impact of cricket on their ever-faithful supporters. Read the full piece in The Indian Express.

To me, the golden period of West Indies cricket was not the era of Lloyd, Richards and the four-man pace battery, but the journey that began with Worrell’s historic tour of Australia with his gallant men, and ended with Kanhai and Sobers (almost) bowing out in style with individual scores of 157 and 150 not out in the Lord’s Test of 1973.