00:00And Australia have lost their 8th wicket.
00:04In June 1975, the West Indies won the inaugural ODI World Cup after getting the better of Australia at Lords by 17 runs.
00:11Captain Clive Lloyd played a key role by smashing 102 in that match.
00:15Fifty years later, revered cricket analyst Fazir Mohammed gives his take on how important that achievement was for the Caribbean.
00:22That first World Cup success by the West Indies men's team in 1975
00:27is obviously significant in its own right to win a World Cup, a first major ICC tournament in men's competition.
00:35Clearly, what it indicated is that not only was West Indies cricket pretty close or at the top of the tree
00:42because they had been dominant in the 1960s as well, but it heralded a period of supreme dominance
00:48the likes of what we've never seen again in the international game
00:52with that period from 1988 to 1995, playing unbeaten in test match series.
00:57Of course, the West Indies went on to successfully defend the World Cup in 1979.
01:02At the moment, Mohammed has his work cut out for him on a daily basis.
01:06That's because he makes a contribution on the 1975 achievement on a local website.
01:11The series has started. It started on May the 2nd. It goes all the way to June 21st.
01:16And the website that you can see. Follow the series. Read the articles in this series, wired868.com
01:25Well, in this 50-day countdown, you can really look forward to a lot of information.
01:30It's not particularly lengthy, each piece. In fact, for those who are accustomed to really lengthy stories
01:36about every single thing in the game of cricket, you might actually be disappointed.
01:41The intention really is to have it almost like a bite-sized bit of information.
01:45Because remember, it's running for 50 days.
01:48The information on the website would surprise many.
01:51For example, was the first Cricket World Cup a men's or women's tournament?
01:56You're going to get a lot of background information. The first World Cup itself, which was a women's, not a men's.
02:02The first limited of a cricket tournament, which wasn't in England, but was in another country, was actually in India.
02:08You'll get profiles of the entire squad that represented the West Indies.
02:12There might be some surprise, surprise names in the squad.
02:15Mohamed says it's quite painful that West Indies cricket is no longer a force to be reckoned with.
02:20An example being the team's absence from the 2023 men's ODI World Cup.
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