Revenge of the Carribean | When the King was Hit on the Head - Australia v West Indies |Viv Richards

This is a story of a bouncer It starts from the 1975 west Indian tour of Australia It was right at the steps of the 1975 world cup And it was being labelled as the champion bout On hand we had Clive Lloyds along with his young bucks including Vivian Richards and Gordon Greenridge While the other had the legendry line-up of Thomson Dennis Lillie and the chapel brothers They were hands down the best 2 teams in the world And this series was gone decide the champion Well It could have But Australians armed with the bouncer made quick short work of the calypso style of cricket The entire west Indian line-up was so bruised with the 5-1 thrashing That after returning home they even lost a series to India in the port of Spain Failing to defend a target of 400 And so the captain Clive Lloyds decided to shift to an all pace line-up Which in time became the terrifying pace attack that dominated world cricket for 2 straight decades And while that pace attack wqas maturing The master blaster viv Richards…himself started perfecting his persona His attitude His swagger His image In time becoming the Symbol of west Indian cricket And then As for the preparation of the 1979 world cup West Indians once again visited Australia This time armed with the fearsome foursome Michael Holding, Colin Croft, Andy Roberts and Joel Garner Who in matter similar to the Australians 4 years back Went on to destroy the Australian line-up with their bouncers But While this tit for tat was going on In came a hit to Viv Richards head And the psychological tactics that went in after that They for all intent and purposes Shaped what was to soon come This is a story of revenge of comeuppance of thrilling finish and lessons learnt This a story of the birth of a dynasty This is a story of a bouncer #cricket #vivrichards #bounce