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Really gripping

posted 12 years ago by youngian67
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A great documentary is one about a subject you have little interest in. Cricket doesn't entrall me but this way compulsive viewing. Up until the late 70s Windies cricket was a best patronised, players ripped off and a team that had not adapted to the more ruthless Aussie fast bowling of Greg Chappell and the like.

Clive Lloyd was more than a Captain but a talent scout and man on a mission. This tale of how the West Indies became a cricketing superpower is better than Rocky or any other fictional account.

Cricket was always seen as a game played by arrogant toffs by many Brits and the sight of them cowering to a new generation of West Indian fast bowlers in 1976 bought delight far beyond the Carribean and Brixton.

[–] ibbi 12 years ago

True story. Turns a subject most people wouldn't consider cool, and makes it absolutely so. Gets to the real heart of it.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIMBC7PA_uo

[–] kelboy45 12 years ago

I was brought up on West Indies Cricket and remember being in my push-chair at Grace Road Leicester when the West Indies came to play there!
This Documentary was fantastic! I just wished they had continued into the next phase of the dynasty when Viv was Captain and we had Curtly Ambrose et al in the Arsenal!! Good Times! I hear Tino Best also watched this to get some inspiration for his highest score as a tail-ender? Great great DVD I will buy this to watch again!! Proud To Be West-Indian is an under-statement, a touching look back at a great great team!!!