When New Zealand overcame Caribbean fire
In the Dominion Post , Gavin Bertram talks to members of the New Zealand team that famously beat West Indies in a Test series in 1980
Dustin Silgardo
25-Feb-2013
In the Dominion Post, Gavin Bertram talks to members of the New Zealand team that famously beat West Indies in a Test series in 1980. They recount the controversies that surrounded the West Indies players' behaviour and their reaction to decisions that went against them that included Michael Holding kicking down the wickets and Colin Croft colliding with the umpire in his run-up.
The following day the volatile Croft became enraged with a Goodall decision when Hadlee was on strike and flicked the bails off. He followed this act of petulance by colliding with Goodall when storming in for a subsequent delivery. While Croft claimed it wasn't a deliberate act, television footage suggests otherwise. "Live it didn't look deliberate," Lees said. "It didn't seem that bad, but when you saw the replay you thought what the hell are you doing?" "It's physical assault, and there's no doubt it was deliberate," Glenn Turner says. The New Zealand batsman was a commentator during the series. "They thought Fred had it in for them. They were convinced the racist side of it was coming into the decision-making."
Dustin Silgardo is a former sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo