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Fire in Babylon (2011) is a powerful sports documentary that tells the story of the legendary West Indies cricket team. Through rare archival footage and insightful interviews, the film highlights their journey to international recognition, showcasing the talent, determination, and pride that made them one of the greatest teams in cricket history. Inspiring and uplifting, it celebrates resilience, unity, and the cultural impact of sport.  Fire in Babylon 2011, Fire in Babylon documentary, West Indies cricket film, cricket team documentary, inspirational sports documentaries, cricket history films, Fire in Babylon full movie, West Indies cricket legends, Fire in Babylon interviews, 2011 sports films, cricket documentaries, Fire in Babylon review, iconic cricket stories, sports documentary classics, cricket culture films, West Indies team legacy, Fire in Babylon online, must watch sports documentaries, cricket movies 2011, sports history documentaries, inspiring cricket films, Fire in Babylon cast, West Indies cricket history, motivational sports documentaries, Fire in Babylon soundtrack, cricket fans documentary, sports heritage films, Fire in Babylon trailer, best cricket documentaries, Fire in Babylon 2011 film

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00:00:301, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.

00:00:39Look at the eyes, the concentration.

00:00:41Trying to unsettle the new batsman.

00:00:44Yes, this is fast bowling.

00:00:45They really are going to get it in at it.

00:00:49Oh, it's a good bouncer.

00:00:51That is a quick ball.

00:00:53When he wants to turn it on, he's quick.

00:00:55Oh, yes, that is a fine, aggressive, nasty delivery.

00:01:03All of a sudden, these West Indians are starting to turn it on.

00:01:06Shot into the body.

00:01:08You watch this.

00:01:09I reckon this one will be straight at the jaw as well.

00:01:12Oh, and again, it whizzes past his nose.

00:01:14This is pace like fire.

00:01:16Shooting up, cutting back, snakes in a long way.

00:01:20Oh, that is a magnificent ball.

00:01:28The West Indies reckon they're on a roll here.

00:01:31Keep his eye on the ball.

00:01:32You've got to keep looking at it.

00:01:33Look at it.

00:01:34Look at it.

00:01:35Oh, he's hit him.

00:01:36That's hurt.

00:01:37That's hurt.

00:01:38I've often wondered why he doesn't wear the proper protection.

00:01:41That may have broken his jaw.

00:01:43It's beginning to swell as we speak.

00:01:44That's not right.

00:01:45I really don't care whether you're a West Indian or an Englishman.

00:01:48That cannot be right in critique.

00:01:50All the negative things which were said.

00:01:53A lot of folks felt that we were spoiling the game.

00:01:56We were aiming to kill.

00:01:58No.

00:01:59Aggression meets aggression.

00:02:00And that's how I look at life.

00:02:02You fight, I'm going to fight.

00:02:04We had a mission.

00:02:06And a mission that we believed in ourselves.

00:02:08And we believed that we were just as good as anyone.

00:02:11Equal, for that matter.

00:02:13All is fair in love and war.

00:02:20You know, it was important for me to try and instill some of this belief.

00:02:26It wasn't going to take ordinary individuals to accomplish that.

00:02:30These were a special bunch who felt the same way.

00:02:33Had the same special consciousness.

00:02:35It was a magnificent combination.

00:02:37You're speaking about a group of black guys being successful for a period of time.

00:02:46People couldn't imagine this possible.

00:02:48The teams before were still subservient to the English.

00:02:54They still listened to what the English had to say about their own game.

00:02:58We were called terrorists.

00:02:59And that's a fact.

00:03:00It's not a both.

00:03:01The West Indians are very, very formidable bowling scene.

00:03:08It was representing a region, representing something more significant than just cricket.

00:03:14It was a matter of feeling of work.

00:03:16You know, we were playing to show our people that we were going to make them proud.

00:03:23We were setting standards that future West Indian generations would have to aspire to.

00:03:33That sort of environment that would either make you or break you.

00:03:38And you've got to make a choice which one you want.

00:03:40And we always thought that the day will come when we will beat the rest of the world.

00:03:45In the West Indies, the greatest cricketer is found.

00:04:10We, the Caribbean people, on a whole, have some kind of a knowledge of how to hold the bat or how to bowl the ball.

00:04:20Cricket is something that is a daily situation.

00:04:24We play cricket for the value of cricket.

00:04:28Hey, let's go on a second.

00:04:29Listen up.

00:04:30Keep the dog, them round, sir.

00:04:36Lift the dog when the dog go round, they're there to play with him.

00:04:38Clap him again.

00:04:42Good.

00:04:44Mommy, dear little man.

00:04:46Hey, just make the dog go round, sir.

00:04:49That's the kind of spirit that's in the Jamaican people for cricket.

00:04:59People picture the sunlit islands of the Caribbean to be a place of paradise.

00:05:04But things were not always so peaceful.

00:05:06Our history has been a long and painful struggle against forces that denied and oppressed us.

00:05:12Babylon.

00:05:13And only through cricket could we win our freedom.

00:05:15The 60s and 70s, particularly, it was a real revolutionary time throughout the Caribbean

00:05:27that highlighted the tenor and the temper of the times.

00:05:32Black people were still not regarded as equals.

00:05:34This whole disparity between have and have not, white as have and black as have not, still existed.

00:05:43In the Caribbean, as in America, black power fervor was very much on the rise.

00:05:48Very much part of the upheavals at the time.

00:05:50To imbibe in black West Indians, a sense now of your own power, of your own self-worth and pride.

00:05:57I taught history.

00:06:03Young teacher involved in the whole revolutionary cosmic.

00:06:08I had established a very close relationship with Viv.

00:06:11You know, a lot of those youngsters at the time were very interested in the black power philosophies

00:06:18that were being talked about, and Viv would have been no exception.

00:06:22That was the time where I think the heat was on for you to start getting up and standing up

00:06:27because of some of the things that you felt were happening worldwide.

00:06:32There was a journey for us as black people.

00:06:35Africa had us to be the starting point.

00:06:37The Caribbean people were brought here through colonialism to be cheated of origin, culture,

00:06:46will and bravery transmitted by the chain, the lynch and the lash,

00:06:53conditioned and trained to be a nigger.

00:06:55You are remnants of your ancestors for sure.

00:06:59It runs in the blood.

00:07:01It is a history of a period that one should never forget.

00:07:04Cricket itself was used as one of the instruments of colonising

00:07:10and was very much seen as imparting English aristocratic values

00:07:15to discipline the nigger.

00:07:18And now here it is, we have ex-slaves trying to excel in something

00:07:22which the English masters had brought on.

00:07:25We have an avenue to accomplish,

00:07:27and that avenue, it's the God-given talent of cricket.

00:07:30It's about showing how equal you are

00:07:33and hope that you are a little bit more useful than they see you.

00:07:38So that's the kind of fight, that's the kind of struggle,

00:07:41and they know they have something to do with righting that wrong.

00:07:47It took English society some time to recognise

00:07:54that African people felt that they were stripped of something

00:07:57by colonialism and slavery,

00:07:59and this latest generation want to restore a dignity what was taken.

00:08:06This is the age of the major Caribbean territories

00:08:09asserting their independence.

00:08:12Jamaica in 62, Trinidad, Guyana and Barbados in 66.

00:08:15Independence was seen as the high point of a civil rights struggle

00:08:20that had gone on for a hundred years.

00:08:23We had been born in colonial times.

00:08:26We grew up in independent times.

00:08:28We started thinking like West Indians

00:08:30and not like Englishmen who were living in the West Indies.

00:08:34We all had ambitions.

00:08:35We wanted to be something to prove that we've emerged from being a slave.

00:08:40We wanted to show our emergence as a nation.

00:08:44The existing superstructure has handed out crumbs.

00:08:49We don't want any crumbs, we want the whole loaf now.

00:08:52This team is really, in fact, a mauve piece for these transformations,

00:08:56reflecting the confidence of this independence generation.

00:09:00There's no going back.

00:09:02Cricket has to lead the way,

00:09:03and we have to go through the future as fast as we can.

00:09:06To see someone of your color representing you at that level

00:09:11gave us as folks upliftment.

00:09:14Those guys were heroes,

00:09:16people that epitomized the struggle.

00:09:19That also was a part of the struggle of the Caribbean.

00:09:22It started to take that side of consciousness,

00:09:24and I could identify, more than anything else,

00:09:27the pain which our brothers and sisters would have been through.

00:09:32Their fight certainly was our fight, too.

00:09:36Through the cricket,

00:09:37we would be able to carry a message to the white world

00:09:41to balk this racism

00:09:43by defeating it on the field of play,

00:09:45by truly making the cricket field

00:09:49a level playing field.

00:10:03Cricket, love me cricket

00:10:04I thought you're right for it

00:10:07Cricket, love me cricket

00:10:10I thought you're right for it

00:10:13The Westin is made up of a host of different islands.

00:10:34All of different governments,

00:10:36all of different attitudes towards different things.

00:10:39And those islands only come together

00:10:41under the banner of the Westin is cricket team.

00:10:44It's the only thing we do together.

00:10:46We are very different.

00:10:48And if you travel the Caribbean,

00:10:49the accent's different.

00:10:51The food is different.

00:10:52You experience a variety of things in different islands.

00:10:56So our play, our cricket, spoke for us.

00:11:01Cricket was it.

00:11:02Anybody who grew up in the Westin is

00:11:03wanted to play cricket for the Westin is.

00:11:06You would walk miles and miles.

00:11:08You would find yourself at the beach.

00:11:10Some match was going on and you would join in.

00:11:13Guys would be batting from the time

00:11:14they come home from school

00:11:15until the light faded.

00:11:18As soon as you get out,

00:11:19you're back in the water again

00:11:20or you would be looking around

00:11:21trying to help a fishing boat.

00:11:23When you did catch something

00:11:25that was worthwhile eating,

00:11:26you said the light of fire, you ate it.

00:11:29It was all fun-loving stuff

00:11:30and wow, have a great time.

00:11:33Friendship and bonding

00:11:34and being more or less free.

00:11:35Every time you bowled,

00:11:38you were Lance Gibbs

00:11:39or Wes Hall or somebody.

00:11:42You know, every time you batted,

00:11:43you were Seymour Norris.

00:11:44So Frank Warwell,

00:11:46Sir Gary Sobers,

00:11:47Sir Everton Weeks

00:11:48and all the numerous names.

00:11:50These guys gave you hope.

00:11:52Pioneers, for sure.

00:11:54They were the inspiration.

00:11:55What still persisted

00:11:57up until 1960

00:11:59was that a white man

00:12:00would always be the captain

00:12:02of the West Indies team.

00:12:04It was extremely meaningful

00:12:06to Caribbean people

00:12:07to see a black man

00:12:08now as captain.

00:12:09It thrilled their heart.

00:12:14Excellent cricketers

00:12:16will always be in the annals

00:12:17of the world.

00:12:19But they were not

00:12:19winning combinations.

00:12:21There were sparks

00:12:22and flashes of genius

00:12:24followed by droughts

00:12:25of performances.

00:12:27There was a period

00:12:29where there were 21 test matches.

00:12:31None of them

00:12:32were West Indian victories.

00:12:33People would look at us

00:12:34as happy-go-lucky

00:12:36bunch of people

00:12:36who just like to...

00:12:38Well, the name they had

00:12:39at that time

00:12:41was Calypso Cricketers.

00:12:43You may say

00:12:44that it has some good connotation

00:12:46because Calypso is great music.

00:12:48But at the same time

00:12:48it has some pretty bad connotations

00:12:50in that it meant

00:12:51that OK, you're all fun,

00:12:52frolic,

00:12:53but no real substance

00:12:54entertaining the crowd

00:12:55and then losing.

00:12:57When they left Australia

00:12:58in 1961

00:12:59they were given

00:13:00a motorcade

00:13:01that included

00:13:02a million people

00:13:03through Melbourne

00:13:04for losing

00:13:05in gentlemanly fashion.

00:13:08We were entertainers

00:13:10but we were not winners.

00:13:12And they always feel

00:13:13like any time

00:13:14we could collapse

00:13:15and we had no backbone.

00:13:16It was felt in the Caribbean.

00:13:19Perhaps the feeling was

00:13:20we'll just keep them

00:13:21as the way they are

00:13:22so they can just play cricket

00:13:23because maybe

00:13:24they can't do anything else.

00:13:27We all came

00:13:28from very different backgrounds

00:13:29and to mould it into a unit

00:13:31was never going to be easy.

00:13:33You have to have someone

00:13:34who can keep

00:13:35all those people

00:13:36from different islands

00:13:37together

00:13:38and bond them

00:13:39and get them

00:13:40pointing in the same direction.

00:13:41In the Caribbean

00:13:46we have a saying

00:13:47that ten youngsters

00:13:49thrown together

00:13:50is not a team

00:13:50it's a gang

00:13:51and there is

00:13:52a fundamental difference.

00:13:54This latest generation

00:13:55needed a great captain.

00:13:57My word

00:13:58a Westerners

00:13:58looking to him now.

00:14:03Clay Loy

00:14:03was a very quiet man.

00:14:05Very silly

00:14:05very cool

00:14:06very calm

00:14:07a real thinker

00:14:08the players

00:14:09looked up to him

00:14:10and respected him

00:14:12as their leader

00:14:13and he was a leader

00:14:15he wasn't just a captain

00:14:16he was a leader.

00:14:18Clive was someone

00:14:19that you could approach

00:14:20you thought to yourself

00:14:21this is someone

00:14:22I want to play for

00:14:23this is somebody

00:14:23I want to go out

00:14:24on the field with.

00:14:25He was very conscious

00:14:27of his own family background

00:14:29losing his father

00:14:30at an early age

00:14:32he was the breadwinner

00:14:33of the family.

00:14:35Clive was the father

00:14:36he just led the way

00:14:37he was just the man.

00:14:39Ten years older

00:14:40leading some young boys

00:14:42he mentored them

00:14:43he really led them

00:14:44on and off the field.

00:14:45He instilled

00:14:46that thought process

00:14:48that look

00:14:48we are strong people

00:14:50we came from

00:14:50a strong people

00:14:51we came from

00:14:52kings and queens

00:14:53and we will

00:14:54go back to that

00:14:55which is strong.

00:14:57We are not here

00:14:58to make fun

00:14:59we are here

00:15:00to win.

00:15:01I wanted to have

00:15:02a different team

00:15:04with different thinking

00:15:05shared all the stuff

00:15:07that we had before

00:15:08we are now

00:15:09a team

00:15:10a West Indian team

00:15:12working together

00:15:13so that the young people

00:15:15can understand

00:15:15that hey

00:15:16we can work for

00:15:17a better life

00:15:18and a better future

00:15:18one people

00:15:20one nation

00:15:21one destiny.

00:15:241975

00:15:25and we are at the start

00:15:26of our journey

00:15:27full of youthful ambition

00:15:29and eager to uproot

00:15:30the prejudices

00:15:31of Babylon

00:15:32still we had everything

00:15:33to prove

00:15:34at the top level

00:15:35of the game

00:15:35test cricket

00:15:37a five day contest

00:15:39battling against

00:15:39an opponent

00:15:40very soon

00:15:41we will be facing

00:15:42the toughest test

00:15:42of all

00:15:43travelling to Australia

00:15:44to face the champions

00:15:45on their home soil

00:15:47shot one

00:15:48take four

00:15:48one two

00:15:49turn

00:15:49sweat all day

00:15:53in burning sun

00:15:54Aussie baseman

00:15:56love punch fun

00:15:57batsman

00:15:59with roof

00:15:59dirt is green

00:16:00he gets 100 runs

00:16:02by team

00:16:03already there's

00:16:06an air of expectancy

00:16:07their dashing

00:16:08captain

00:16:08Clive Lloyd

00:16:09is quietly spoken

00:16:10but determined

00:16:11are you very confident

00:16:13of winning?

00:16:13we want to win

00:16:14there's no doubt

00:16:14to go there

00:16:15it has been billed

00:16:16as a sort of

00:16:17world championship

00:16:18so I'm hoping

00:16:20that we can give

00:16:21our best

00:16:22at the moment

00:16:22the Australian side

00:16:24to my mind

00:16:24is the best

00:16:25in the world

00:16:26and I think

00:16:27fast bowlers

00:16:28all through test history

00:16:29have been the difference

00:16:29between a good side

00:16:31and a great side

00:16:32Thompson and Lily

00:16:33are great bowlers

00:16:45Jeff Thompson and Dennis

00:16:46are the most talked

00:16:47about cricketers

00:16:48in the world

00:16:49the underlying point

00:16:50is controversy

00:16:51controversy about

00:16:54bounces or bumpers

00:16:55deliberate intimidation

00:16:57aiming to hit the batsman

00:16:58and bowling bounces

00:16:59at tail enders

00:17:00splendid bowling performance

00:17:08then from Jeff Thompson

00:17:09he bowled really fast today

00:17:10as indeed he has done

00:17:12throughout this match

00:17:13and a great psychological boost

00:17:14for him

00:17:15and for the whole

00:17:16of the Australian side

00:17:16then they are struck again

00:17:18another great performance

00:17:19there by Lily

00:17:20that cricket team

00:17:22decimated

00:17:23every other cricket team

00:17:25around the world

00:17:25they beat everybody

00:17:26at home and abroad

00:17:27they nearly killed England

00:17:29Thompson to Lloyd

00:17:30and hit badly there

00:17:33that time

00:17:33I remember the English

00:17:35literally running for cover

00:17:37and begging for mercy

00:17:38Australia had outstanding

00:17:42fast bowlers

00:17:43fast bowlers

00:17:44and when I say fast bowlers

00:17:45I'm talking about people

00:17:46who really bowl fast

00:17:47not talking about people

00:17:48who just bowl 80-81

00:17:49miles an hour

00:17:50talking about people

00:17:51who bowl 90-90-odd miles an hour

00:17:53because that extra dimension

00:17:55is whether you can get hurt

00:17:56or not

00:17:56and that's when I hit a bad one

00:18:00the batsman is down

00:18:01people get killed

00:18:02it has happened

00:18:03it's like a bullet

00:18:05if there's something

00:18:06in front of it

00:18:07you could be dead

00:18:07now once you have the capability

00:18:12of hurting someone

00:18:14with that ball

00:18:15that person is not thinking

00:18:17about how to play the ball

00:18:18he's thinking about

00:18:19self-preservation

00:18:20I'm trying to scare him

00:18:23trying to hurt him

00:18:24perhaps in the ribs

00:18:25or the leg

00:18:26or something like that

00:18:27so that he at least

00:18:28knows you're around

00:18:29Dennis Lily

00:18:30would stand

00:18:31in front of you

00:18:32and he stands up

00:18:34this enormous figure

00:18:35look you in the eye

00:18:36he wanted that ball

00:18:38he wanted that ball

00:18:38to cause me

00:18:39a great deal of harm

00:18:40he wanted to inflict pain

00:18:43he wanted to injure me

00:18:44the one individual

00:18:45that you found

00:18:46just very difficult

00:18:47to play

00:18:48would be Jeff Thompson

00:18:49he was ruthless

00:18:50in my opinion

00:18:51some of it was a danger

00:18:53he was a danger man

00:18:54Thompson's sport away

00:18:56from the test match arena

00:18:57helps keep him fit

00:18:58for hurling down

00:18:59his thunderbolts

00:19:00it takes a lot of running

00:19:01with a zest

00:19:02akin to collecting

00:19:03test scalps

00:19:04he was a mean man

00:19:11my word it does look

00:19:16a picture today

00:19:17it's always a great moment

00:19:18nerve-wracking one

00:19:19for some players

00:19:20an exciting one

00:19:21for others

00:19:22it is the test of all tests

00:19:26that's why they call it

00:19:29the test

00:19:30test matches

00:19:32to be out in the field

00:19:35for five days

00:19:36you have to have the endurance

00:19:37the race is not for the swift

00:19:40but you can endure to the end

00:19:42that's the test

00:19:44that's the test of every player

00:19:46a lot of young people

00:19:49were in that West Indistia

00:19:50that was either their first tour

00:19:53or their second tour

00:19:54we were green

00:19:55we were young

00:19:56we were inexperienced

00:19:57thrust into international cricket

00:19:59thrown at the deep end

00:20:00you went out

00:20:02and all you could hear

00:20:04screaming in your ears

00:20:05was

00:20:05you felt that

00:20:14there kept me a lot of love

00:20:16going on here

00:20:17it is in your face

00:20:18it wasn't easy walking out

00:20:20to face those guys

00:20:21with the crowd almost

00:20:22on top of you

00:20:23out there

00:20:24it was a war

00:20:25believe me

00:20:26it was a war

00:20:27and they didn't let up

00:20:28they threw the kitchen sink

00:20:30they threw everything at you

00:20:31they let you know

00:20:32well we're in charge

00:20:33and you're not coming

00:20:34on our patch

00:20:35to do well

00:20:36it was a

00:20:37it fought out of a rifle

00:20:38Lillian and Thompson

00:20:39they bounced

00:20:40any and everyone

00:20:41people were bobbing

00:20:42and weaving

00:20:43and ducking

00:20:43and falling

00:20:44on their backsides

00:20:45trying to get away

00:20:46a serious induction

00:20:48into fast bowling

00:20:50that was terrifying

00:20:51absolutely terrifying

00:20:54I remember

00:20:55Lillian bowling

00:20:56a bounce

00:20:56at the Lance Gibbs

00:20:57and Lance

00:20:57at the end of the day

00:20:58went up to him

00:20:59and said

00:20:59listen I've got a wife

00:21:00and kids

00:21:00be careful what you're doing

00:21:01start with fire

00:21:03and direction

00:21:03serious ball

00:21:09I think it got him

00:21:10on the jaw

00:21:11straight up

00:21:13injuries

00:21:14broken fingers

00:21:16broken shoulders

00:21:17cracks on the head

00:21:18and it was humiliating

00:21:20it was like a military

00:21:22assault

00:21:23on West Indies cricket

00:21:25that was a lovely piece

00:21:34of cricket

00:21:34by the Australians

00:21:35that was a nasty series

00:21:51and lots of confrontations

00:21:52on and off the field

00:21:53they knew

00:21:55they knew

00:21:56they were seasoned campaigners

00:21:57and they knew

00:21:59when to turn the screws

00:22:00some of the Aussies

00:22:02has this way

00:22:03if they could not

00:22:04get you out

00:22:04they would rather abuse you out

00:22:06things were said

00:22:08and the colour of your skin

00:22:09came into it

00:22:10when you're constantly

00:22:11being bombarded

00:22:12with comments

00:22:13and behaviour

00:22:14well I encountered

00:22:15some ignorance before

00:22:16but this was very different

00:22:18very very different

00:22:20the crowd

00:22:21people in the crowd

00:22:23did say things

00:22:24things that shouldn't

00:22:25have been said

00:22:25things that weren't

00:22:26politically correct

00:22:27where people would tell you

00:22:29about your heritage

00:22:29or your background

00:22:30or go back to the trees

00:22:31that you came from

00:22:33were you black bastard

00:22:34and I get rather annoyed

00:22:35anyone's going to call me

00:22:36a black bastard

00:22:37because I'm not

00:22:38you stop and look

00:22:41and see where the comment

00:22:42came from

00:22:42then they would laugh

00:22:43and so on

00:22:44because to them

00:22:44it's a big joke

00:22:45it degraded me

00:22:47and downgraded me

00:22:48a great deal

00:22:49I was naive

00:22:52going to Australia

00:22:53and I thought

00:22:54test cricket

00:22:54was a gentleman's game

00:22:56I lost it

00:22:57I just could not believe

00:22:59that this was taking place

00:23:00Michael just went

00:23:01and sat down

00:23:02and could not believe

00:23:03and tears was coming

00:23:04out of his eyes

00:23:04saying he don't know

00:23:06how guys could play cricket

00:23:07like this so hard

00:23:08and yes

00:23:09there was a lot of bickering

00:23:10people started to blame

00:23:11each other

00:23:12batsmen blaming bowlers

00:23:13the bowlers blaming batsmen

00:23:15it was not a very happy

00:23:16dressing room

00:23:17and it was not a happy time

00:23:19there it is

00:23:20Australia winning by

00:23:22seven wickets

00:23:22we got a job in

00:23:26they beat us 5-1

00:23:28when the Weston

00:23:31was annihilated

00:23:32that burned everybody

00:23:34in the Weston

00:23:35is really badly

00:23:36we feel it

00:23:37with tears

00:23:37I see people cry

00:23:39when Weston is loose

00:23:40when Weston is gut

00:23:42people tears come down

00:23:44very disappointed

00:23:45very very disappointed

00:23:49we wonder now

00:23:50if we can come back up

00:23:52when

00:23:53people didn't feel

00:23:55the West Indies players

00:23:56had the fight in them

00:23:57this calypso cricket

00:23:59stigma stuck with us

00:24:01we weren't willing

00:24:03to go there

00:24:03and fight to the end

00:24:04and we just give up

00:24:05when that team

00:24:07returned to the Caribbean

00:24:08it was like soldiers

00:24:09coming home from a war

00:24:10they realised

00:24:11that everything

00:24:12was at stake

00:24:13and Clive Lloyd

00:24:14knew that Weston

00:24:15in cricket

00:24:15was at the crossroads

00:24:16a lot of soul searching

00:24:19went on

00:24:20during that time

00:24:21Clive as a young captain

00:24:24was under pressure

00:24:25he became

00:24:26very depressed

00:24:27even questioned

00:24:28his own

00:24:29right to be the captain

00:24:30they say

00:24:35after humiliation

00:24:37is riches

00:24:39power

00:24:40might

00:24:41and blessing

00:24:42eternally

00:24:43forever

00:24:45fight

00:24:49fight

00:24:50is a game

00:24:52you have to put your heart

00:24:54in to play

00:24:55and keep it up

00:24:57don't

00:24:58fight

00:24:59I can remember

00:25:06Clive said

00:25:07never again

00:25:08if you can find

00:25:09some fastballers

00:25:10who are just as

00:25:12quick as they are

00:25:12or even quicker

00:25:13let us see how well

00:25:15they handle it

00:25:16Clive Lloyd

00:25:17took a very blunt decision

00:25:18we can also

00:25:20play your game

00:25:21we can generate

00:25:22a bowling machinery

00:25:23that will obliterate

00:25:25that can rub you

00:25:26into the ground

00:25:27and decimate

00:25:28so he needed

00:25:34very fastballers

00:25:36and he went

00:25:37through the Caribbean

00:25:38looking for players

00:25:40to fit into his machine

00:25:41he had already

00:25:43picked Michael Holden

00:25:44and saw the talent

00:25:46and the brilliance

00:25:47of this young man

00:25:47and people question

00:25:49Clive Lloyd's knowledge

00:25:50say Clive Lloyd

00:25:51how you bring in

00:25:52Michael Holden

00:25:53he must have 17

00:25:54but Clive said

00:25:55don't watch that

00:25:56this little youth

00:25:57I like him potential

00:25:58the captives

00:26:00were so astute

00:26:01such cricket brain

00:26:02come once in a lifetime

00:26:04oh lord

00:26:05first you had three

00:26:06Wayne Daniel

00:26:08Holding

00:26:09and Roberts

00:26:10fast, furious, aggressive

00:26:12and really could dismiss you

00:26:14it was very skillfully done

00:26:16it was a superb construction

00:26:18this is cricket

00:26:19lovely cricket

00:26:21yes

00:26:21cricket

00:26:22lovely cricket

00:26:24are you ready

00:26:27blow

00:26:28oh lord

00:26:30there's always been

00:26:43the demon black

00:26:44fastballer

00:26:45young strapped in box

00:26:48releasing a thunderbolt at you

00:26:49it can become something

00:26:51of a firing line

00:26:52when you look at a Michael Holden

00:26:55running into bull

00:26:56what you're looking at

00:26:58is an African individual

00:27:00with African rhythm

00:27:02yeah that's really

00:27:04one in a million

00:27:05born to bowl a cricket ball

00:27:07Michael in that stride

00:27:10would put fear into

00:27:11any particular batsman

00:27:12I was just a young man

00:27:14running in

00:27:15bowling fast

00:27:16attracting attention

00:27:18look out for this guy

00:27:19he's coming

00:27:20Andy Roberts

00:27:22was one of the hard-nosed

00:27:23individuals on the team

00:27:24a guy that

00:27:25he would take in the battle

00:27:26anywhere

00:27:27you know

00:27:27I'm a warrior

00:27:29I take fast bowling

00:27:30more seriously

00:27:31than anything else

00:27:32I would say Andy

00:27:33was misunderstood

00:27:34because he hardly ever smiled

00:27:36and people thought

00:27:37he was just a grumpy

00:27:38miserable guy

00:27:39never shown emotion

00:27:40so nobody know

00:27:41what to expect

00:27:42that was me

00:27:44Andy taught me a lot

00:27:46about fast bowling

00:27:47taught me a lot

00:27:48about cricket

00:27:48that could set you up

00:27:50easy

00:27:50you knew how to catch a fish

00:27:52Andy used to have

00:27:53two different bouncers

00:27:54the first one

00:27:56the batsman would

00:27:56sometimes hook it away

00:27:57and get a boundary

00:27:58and the second one

00:28:00with the same action

00:28:01same effort

00:28:02would be a great deal quicker

00:28:03and of course the batsman

00:28:05would feel some pain

00:28:06he could hurt you

00:28:07seriously hurt you

00:28:09and he was the original

00:28:11leader of that face attack

00:28:12not long after Australia

00:28:18we returned home to play India

00:28:20we were eager to banish

00:28:22our humiliation

00:28:23and the show we had

00:28:24the character to win

00:28:25for Clive

00:28:27it was the opportunity

00:28:28to start flooding

00:28:29the newly formed

00:28:30ace attack

00:28:31the pressure was on

00:28:33and was to reach

00:28:34boiling point in Kingston

00:28:36the whole Jamaica

00:28:38come for sea

00:28:39go pack like a sardine

00:28:42there was the feeling

00:28:44that now

00:28:45we were unleashing

00:28:46this firing power

00:28:47let's play the type of cricket

00:28:51that they do not

00:28:52associate us with

00:28:54our guys

00:28:55are going to show

00:28:56that they learned something

00:28:57from Australia

00:28:58how would the Indians

00:29:01withstand our head-on

00:29:03onslaught

00:29:04my heart started beating

00:29:07beating hard

00:29:08and they seem running

00:29:11and then deliver the board

00:29:13right

00:29:13we were making

00:29:18in the really buckle

00:29:21under a pressure here

00:29:23you know

00:29:23the Indian team

00:29:24was like the walking

00:29:25wounded

00:29:25all of them unbroke

00:29:27everybody

00:29:30had get leaked

00:29:31you understand

00:29:32the Indians

00:29:35thought we were

00:29:36overdoing

00:29:37the fast bowling

00:29:37surrendered

00:29:38the test match

00:29:39to the West Indies

00:29:40almost as a

00:29:41show of protest

00:29:42it takes a lot of guts

00:29:46to face fast bowling

00:29:47most people

00:29:48who don't expect

00:29:49to get it

00:29:50complain

00:29:50every time

00:29:52I go out to bat

00:29:53I expect

00:29:54to get my share

00:29:55Australia

00:29:5775-76

00:29:58we didn't complain

00:29:59if it can't take

00:30:02the heat

00:30:02and if it can't

00:30:04take the pace

00:30:05get out

00:30:06I believe that

00:30:08unfortunately

00:30:08the Indians

00:30:09were there to receive

00:30:10the brunt

00:30:11of the revised

00:30:12strategy

00:30:13and the desperation

00:30:15to restore pride

00:30:16what you saw

00:30:18then

00:30:18was a team

00:30:19that had

00:30:20its mind

00:30:21made up

00:30:22do or die

00:30:23ask no quarter

00:30:25and give none

00:30:25that theory

00:30:27was reinforced

00:30:28in Clive's mind

00:30:29because of the results

00:30:30that we got

00:30:31I think

00:30:31then people realized

00:30:33oh okay

00:30:34this can work

00:30:35and it has worked

00:30:35beating India

00:30:41was the first sign

00:30:42we had the firepower

00:30:44to win

00:30:44it was a success

00:30:46but it was still

00:30:46early days

00:30:47for the team

00:30:48soon after

00:30:50we had to face

00:30:50our oldest enemy

00:30:52in the fiercest

00:30:53grudge match

00:30:53of all

00:30:54it was 1976

00:30:56and we boarded

00:30:57the plane to England

00:30:58could we beat

00:31:00our former masters

00:31:01at the game

00:31:02they created

00:31:03this driving ambition

00:31:07was always towards

00:31:08England

00:31:09specifically

00:31:10seeing cricket

00:31:11as the vehicle

00:31:12through which

00:31:13they were expressing

00:31:14rebellion

00:31:14against this British

00:31:15colonizing power

00:31:16we were playing

00:31:19against our old masters

00:31:21and therefore

00:31:23we had to up our game

00:31:24to be able to beat them

00:31:25we wanted to show

00:31:27Englishmen

00:31:28you brought the game

00:31:29to us

00:31:29and you know

00:31:30that we are better

00:31:31than you

00:31:31the English as you know

00:31:34do adore test match

00:31:35cricket

00:31:35England would rather

00:31:38lose a battle

00:31:39than to lose

00:31:39the test match

00:31:40but hearing that

00:31:42you know how serious

00:31:43it is

00:31:43beating England

00:31:46was more satisfying

00:31:47to me

00:31:48than anybody else

00:31:51because I believe

00:31:52that we struggled

00:31:53more in England

00:31:55than anywhere else

00:31:56in the world

00:31:56as usual

00:31:58in those times

00:31:59my family

00:32:00had moved to England

00:32:01in the hope

00:32:02of a better life

00:32:03a pathetic sight

00:32:06already their coming

00:32:08has caused

00:32:09a national controversy

00:32:10what will they find

00:32:12in the land

00:32:12they regard

00:32:12as an elderada

00:32:13at 14

00:32:18having to leave

00:32:19the Caribbean

00:32:19was very difficult

00:32:20arriving in England

00:32:22thrust into an environment

00:32:24that you know nothing about

00:32:25being confronted

00:32:26with a variety

00:32:27of things

00:32:27well of course

00:32:28there are far too many

00:32:30immigrants in this country

00:32:31we do not have sufficient

00:32:32houses

00:32:33jobs and schools

00:32:34for our own people

00:32:35let alone immigrants

00:32:36and unless something's done

00:32:37about this quick

00:32:38that prejudice

00:32:38is going to be

00:32:39sheer bloody hatred

00:32:40there was a vacancy

00:32:41for a flat

00:32:42and on the stairs

00:32:43they were saying

00:32:44all applicants

00:32:45accepted

00:32:45no

00:32:47Irish or Black

00:32:48during the early 70s

00:32:53I didn't have an understanding

00:32:54of what racism

00:32:56was all about

00:32:56had no experience

00:32:58whatsoever

00:32:59it was called a wog

00:33:01I said

00:33:02what the hell is that

00:33:03when guys got angry

00:33:05the things that you would hear

00:33:06you black this

00:33:07you black that

00:33:07you know at times

00:33:09you felt well

00:33:10you know I think

00:33:11I would like to be back

00:33:12in the Caribbean

00:33:13I'd rather to be here

00:33:14my anger came out

00:33:16in the way I played

00:33:17I felt that

00:33:19to forcefully go at

00:33:20what I was doing

00:33:22to attack

00:33:22perhaps was a way

00:33:24of letting out that anger

00:33:25I wouldn't be right

00:33:26to do it on another

00:33:27human being

00:33:28although you felt like it

00:33:29at times

00:33:29but I'm going to

00:33:30sure take it out

00:33:31on five and a half ounces

00:33:32you just take it out

00:33:35on the ball

00:33:35every little bit of power

00:33:38you can imagine

00:33:38going into that strength

00:33:40my bat

00:33:41would have been my sword

00:33:43at that time

00:33:43and it's people

00:33:45who you wanted

00:33:46to put it to

00:33:47everyone wanted

00:33:49to give the West Indian

00:33:50people living in England

00:33:51something to hold on to

00:33:53people who were

00:33:54looking up to you

00:33:55who were

00:33:56willing you on

00:33:57for support

00:33:58if the West Indianers lose

00:33:59they're even afraid

00:34:00to go to work

00:34:01because they know

00:34:02that their workmates

00:34:02was short abuse

00:34:04and they can't

00:34:05leave it down

00:34:05all they had to boast

00:34:08about was the success

00:34:09of the West Indian

00:34:10team

00:34:10to step beyond

00:34:12the sport

00:34:12where there's a whole

00:34:14lot of things

00:34:14needed defending

00:34:15rather than the cricket

00:34:17ball itself

00:34:17people are building

00:34:21people are building

00:34:21these West Indians up

00:34:22I'm not really quite sure

00:34:23that they're as good

00:34:24as everyone thinks

00:34:25they are

00:34:25if they're down

00:34:26they grovel

00:34:27and I intend

00:34:29with the help of

00:34:29Closier and a few others

00:34:30to make them grovel

00:34:31grovel

00:34:32they grovel

00:34:33grovel

00:34:34to make them grovel

00:34:35that wasn't

00:34:36a clever thing to say

00:34:37the timing was

00:34:39very very wrong

00:34:40especially given

00:34:41the situation

00:34:42in South Africa

00:34:42with apartheid

00:34:43here was this guy

00:34:45you know

00:34:46apartheid still going strong

00:34:47and he's gonna make

00:34:49these black guys grovel

00:34:50the appetite was there

00:34:55immediately

00:34:56Clive Lloyd said

00:34:57guys we don't need

00:34:58to say much

00:34:59all men on the television

00:35:01have just said it all

00:35:02for us

00:35:02we know what we gotta do

00:35:04we took that seriously

00:35:06very very seriously

00:35:09took it

00:35:10I've not seen our guys

00:35:12so focused

00:35:13that comment alone

00:35:16was sufficient

00:35:17to set the tone

00:35:18for the whole series

00:35:19the bowlers

00:35:21they really turned on

00:35:22the heat

00:35:23he made the others

00:35:24suffer for

00:35:25what he said

00:35:25sitting hard

00:35:33and typical

00:35:34closely style

00:35:35he hasn't rubbed it

00:35:36and in my word

00:35:42Brian Close

00:35:43did well to

00:35:43avoid quite a nasty

00:35:44accident there

00:35:45he was really

00:35:47fired in

00:35:48extremely quickly

00:35:49only at the last

00:35:50possible minute

00:35:51did he manage

00:35:51to get

00:35:51out of the way

00:35:52that's hurting

00:35:56somewhere around

00:35:59about the mark

00:35:59where earlier

00:36:00he let one bounce

00:36:01off him

00:36:01that really

00:36:02must have stung him

00:36:03close

00:36:04trying to take

00:36:05this pace attack

00:36:05but extremely

00:36:06difficult

00:36:07enough is enough

00:36:12he's really

00:36:13overdone the short

00:36:14pictures

00:36:14going close

00:36:15there's going

00:36:16to be a mass

00:36:16of bruises

00:36:17when he gets

00:36:18back into the

00:36:18haven of the

00:36:19pavilion

00:36:19a new row

00:36:21has erupted

00:36:22over dangerous

00:36:23bowling

00:36:23a former chairman

00:36:25of the cricket

00:36:25society

00:36:26warns that

00:36:27unless rules

00:36:28are tightened

00:36:2910 cricketers

00:36:30will die

00:36:31and 40 more

00:36:32will suffer

00:36:33brain injury

00:36:34through being

00:36:34hit by a ball

00:36:35this summer

00:36:36the world

00:36:37more or less

00:36:38portray the

00:36:39west of these

00:36:39team as brutal

00:36:40bring the game

00:36:42into disrepute

00:36:43but the adrenaline

00:36:44that's going to

00:36:45be pumping

00:36:45the tension

00:36:46that would have

00:36:46mounted from

00:36:47that ill-fated

00:36:48comment

00:36:48you're going to

00:36:50release that ball

00:36:50at a serious

00:36:51pace

00:36:52there were

00:36:53umpires that

00:36:55in the laws

00:36:55of the game

00:36:56were allowed

00:36:57to act

00:36:58to protect

00:36:58people

00:36:58you don't want

00:37:00to hurt

00:37:00someone

00:37:01inevitably

00:37:02a batsman

00:37:03will get hurt

00:37:04and you regret

00:37:05that

00:37:05I always feel

00:37:07when I hit

00:37:08a batsman

00:37:09the sympathies

00:37:10in here

00:37:10you may not

00:37:12see it

00:37:12and I can't

00:37:14show the batsman

00:37:15that

00:37:16but it's just

00:37:17that I have

00:37:17a job to do

00:37:18we're not

00:37:19we're not going

00:37:19to be these

00:37:20happy-go-lucky

00:37:20cricketers

00:37:21that only here

00:37:22to entertain

00:37:22we're going to

00:37:23entertain by

00:37:24this high skill

00:37:25and whatever it

00:37:26takes to win

00:37:26within the rules

00:37:27of the game

00:37:27we're going to

00:37:28do it to win

00:37:29oh that's a fine

00:37:31goal

00:37:32holding stripes

00:37:33again

00:37:33we were made

00:37:35to feel at home

00:37:36away from home

00:37:37the crowds

00:37:38supported us

00:37:39because of the

00:37:39way we played

00:37:40people turned up

00:37:46in their drawers

00:37:47and one section

00:37:48of the ground

00:37:48was just all

00:37:49West Indians

00:37:50and having a ball

00:37:51as good a shot

00:37:55as you will ever

00:37:56see

00:37:56everyone say

00:38:04it was the hottest

00:38:04summer in England

00:38:05for donkey's years

00:38:06well I think the heat

00:38:07was swept by the

00:38:08English

00:38:08not by the West

00:38:09Indians

00:38:10spectators

00:38:16that hardly

00:38:17have had

00:38:17better entertainment

00:38:18the crowd

00:38:19more sore

00:38:20than anyone else

00:38:21took a turn

00:38:23at Tony

00:38:23for what he said

00:38:24they reminded him

00:38:26and they kept

00:38:27all repeating it

00:38:27so I think

00:38:29he got the message

00:38:30whenever he came

00:38:34into band

00:38:35he would have it

00:38:36if they were tired

00:38:38guys would find

00:38:39the strength

00:38:40just to make sure

00:38:40and it wasn't

00:38:41getting him out

00:38:42caught in the slips

00:38:43it was like

00:38:44just knocking

00:38:44his poles over

00:38:45bang

00:38:50wow

00:38:51those were some

00:38:51special moments

00:38:52you can forgive

00:38:58but you never

00:38:59ever forget

00:39:00righteous

00:39:00must always

00:39:01stand

00:39:02cause if you

00:39:03don't

00:39:03prophecy

00:39:04will fulfill

00:39:05upon you

00:39:06and you will

00:39:07cry like

00:39:08Michael Holden

00:39:09and myself

00:39:10had great summers

00:39:11in 76

00:39:12Viv Richards

00:39:13had a great summer

00:39:15in 76

00:39:16so it was

00:39:17bat

00:39:18versus ball

00:39:20in 76

00:39:21every test

00:39:28match

00:39:28that

00:39:28he looked

00:39:29invincible

00:39:30and a terrific

00:39:32shot

00:39:33this really

00:39:33master batsman

00:39:34the master

00:39:36blaster has

00:39:37arrived

00:39:38there was so

00:39:40much talk

00:39:41about

00:39:41intimidatory

00:39:42bowling

00:39:42well we had

00:39:43a batsman

00:39:44that didn't

00:39:44mind

00:39:44if you

00:39:45bowl

00:39:45six

00:39:45bounces

00:39:45at him

00:39:46he would

00:39:48not have

00:39:48been scared

00:39:49he came

00:39:50and stood

00:39:50his own

00:39:50you know

00:39:51take that

00:39:52in your

00:39:52ass

00:39:52man

00:39:53batman

00:39:54you have

00:39:54a bat

00:39:54in your

00:39:55hand

00:39:55defend

00:39:55yourself

00:39:56that sort

00:39:56of attitude

00:39:57some said

00:39:58I have

00:39:59a little

00:39:59swagger

00:39:59is my

00:40:01sign of

00:40:01saying

00:40:01I'm so

00:40:02confident

00:40:02here

00:40:02you know

00:40:03with some

00:40:03chewing gum

00:40:04in mouth

00:40:04I back

00:40:05myself

00:40:05every time

00:40:06what a

00:40:09shot

00:40:09it's

00:40:09new

00:40:09he's

00:40:10bowling

00:40:10this

00:40:10fella

00:40:10the

00:40:12battle

00:40:12against

00:40:12the fastest

00:40:13of

00:40:13bowlers

00:40:13and totally

00:40:14took

00:40:15everyone

00:40:15apart

00:40:15I

00:40:16could

00:40:16knock

00:40:17him

00:40:17back

00:40:17as

00:40:17well

00:40:17you

00:40:18better

00:40:18get

00:40:18out

00:40:18of

00:40:18the

00:40:18way

00:40:19the

00:40:21baller

00:40:21through

00:40:21the

00:40:21viva

00:40:22which

00:40:22I

00:40:22did

00:40:22instead

00:40:23of

00:40:23the

00:40:23chance

00:40:23with

00:40:24the

00:40:24cooler

00:40:24if he

00:40:26wasn't

00:40:26confrontational

00:40:27I felt

00:40:27that we

00:40:28were kicking

00:40:28and if

00:40:32he wasn't

00:40:32in my

00:40:32face

00:40:33you

00:40:33wouldn't

00:40:34see

00:40:34the

00:40:34best

00:40:34of

00:40:34very

00:40:34witness

00:40:35vv is

00:40:38the name

00:40:39cricket

00:40:41is

00:40:41the game

00:40:42brother

00:40:43I don't

00:40:44know

00:40:44how

00:40:45he

00:40:45could

00:40:45play

00:40:46cricket

00:40:46so

00:40:46but

00:40:48his

00:40:48batting

00:40:48bowling

00:40:49feeling

00:40:50catching

00:40:50his

00:40:51breathtaking

00:40:51sometimes

00:40:53I

00:40:53does

00:40:53wonder

00:40:54if

00:40:54he's

00:40:54an ex

00:40:55so

00:40:55bars

00:40:55in

00:40:56the

00:40:56making

00:40:56that

00:40:59man

00:41:00richard

00:41:00could

00:41:01really

00:41:02bat

00:41:02is

00:41:04something

00:41:04to

00:41:04see

00:41:05him

00:41:05and

00:41:06he

00:41:07attack

00:41:07plundering

00:41:09bowlers

00:41:10again

00:41:11and

00:41:12again

00:41:12it's

00:41:13remarkable

00:41:14how

00:41:14he

00:41:14does

00:41:15dictate

00:41:15the

00:41:15game

00:41:16no

00:41:18bowler

00:41:19holds

00:41:20a

00:41:20terror

00:41:21for

00:41:22Vivian

00:41:23Richards

00:41:23not

00:41:24Thompson

00:41:25or

00:41:25Lily

00:41:25not

00:41:26baby

00:41:27not

00:41:27chandels

00:41:28it

00:41:28a

00:41:29perfect

00:41:31coordination

00:41:31body

00:41:33on

00:41:33mind

00:41:34that

00:41:35brother

00:41:36is

00:41:36really

00:41:36dying

00:41:37oh

00:41:37mate

00:41:38I

00:41:38tell

00:41:38you

00:41:39pace

00:41:39or

00:41:40spin

00:41:40he

00:41:41ain't

00:41:41give

00:41:41a

00:41:41france

00:41:42while

00:41:42you

00:41:42bowling

00:41:42him

00:41:43fast

00:41:44and

00:41:44slowly

00:41:44you

00:41:45going

00:41:45back

00:41:45to

00:41:46the

00:41:46boundary

00:41:47Vivian

00:41:49Richards

00:41:49a great

00:41:50man

00:41:50wonderful

00:41:51we've

00:41:59come

00:41:59a long

00:41:59way

00:41:59in the

00:42:00space

00:42:00of

00:42:00one

00:42:00year

00:42:00from

00:42:01the

00:42:01lows

00:42:01of

00:42:01Australia

00:42:02to

00:42:02victory

00:42:02against

00:42:03our

00:42:03colonial

00:42:03masters

00:42:04under

00:42:05Clive

00:42:06Lloyd

00:42:06this

00:42:07youthful

00:42:07team

00:42:08were

00:42:08becoming

00:42:08mature

00:42:09men

00:42:09it

00:42:10was a

00:42:11surprise

00:42:11to

00:42:11others

00:42:12and

00:42:12perhaps

00:42:12even

00:42:12ourselves

00:42:13now

00:42:15the

00:42:15big

00:42:15question

00:42:15is

00:42:15whether

00:42:16we

00:42:16could

00:42:16continue

00:42:17our

00:42:17success

00:42:17and

00:42:17beat

00:42:18the

00:42:18other

00:42:18test

00:42:18nations

00:42:18of

00:42:19the

00:42:19world

00:42:19that

00:42:20question

00:42:21would

00:42:21have

00:42:21to

00:42:21wait

00:42:21there

00:42:22was

00:42:23a

00:42:23fight

00:42:23against

00:42:23Babylon

00:42:24on

00:42:24our

00:42:24very

00:42:24own

00:42:25doorstep

00:42:25a

00:42:26fight

00:42:26for

00:42:27equal

00:42:27rights

00:42:27and

00:42:28rewards

00:42:28as

00:42:28true

00:42:29professionals

00:42:29of

00:42:30the

00:42:30game

00:42:30for

00:42:32the

00:42:33success

00:42:33which

00:42:33we

00:42:34had

00:42:34then

00:42:34there

00:42:35should

00:42:36have

00:42:36been

00:42:36more

00:42:36benefits

00:42:36coming

00:42:37to

00:42:37that

00:42:37team

00:42:37that

00:42:38the

00:42:38powers

00:42:39of

00:42:39that

00:42:39team

00:42:39should

00:42:40be

00:42:40used

00:42:40as

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00:42:41negotiating

00:42:41tool

00:42:42there

00:42:44were

00:42:45issues

00:42:45in

00:42:46getting

00:42:46to

00:42:46the

00:42:46same

00:42:47level

00:42:47of

00:42:47payment

00:42:48as

00:42:48the

00:42:49same

00:42:49players

00:42:49for

00:42:50England

00:42:51and

00:42:51Australia

00:42:51against

00:42:52the

00:42:52West

00:42:52Indian

00:42:53what

00:42:53sort

00:42:53of

00:42:54money

00:42:54do

00:42:54they

00:42:54get

00:42:54paid

00:42:54the

00:42:55West

00:42:55Indian

00:42:55team

00:42:55well

00:42:56I

00:42:56don't

00:42:56know

00:42:56how

00:42:57much

00:42:57exactly

00:42:57they're

00:42:57getting

00:42:58but

00:42:58certainly

00:42:58it

00:42:58wouldn't

00:42:59be

00:42:59anything

00:42:59in

00:42:59comparison

00:43:00to

00:43:00the

00:43:00amount

00:43:01of

00:43:01money

00:43:01that

00:43:01comes

00:43:01through

00:43:01the

00:43:01gate

00:43:02almost

00:43:03all

00:43:03of

00:43:04the

00:43:04cricket

00:43:04boards

00:43:04were

00:43:05headed

00:43:05by

00:43:05Caucasians

00:43:06whites

00:43:07and

00:43:08that

00:43:08might

00:43:08have

00:43:08been

00:43:08perceived

00:43:09as

00:43:09trying

00:43:09to

00:43:09keep

00:43:10the

00:43:10black

00:43:10man

00:43:10down

00:43:11if

00:43:11you

00:43:11will

00:43:11I

00:43:12don't

00:43:13think

00:43:13it

00:43:13has

00:43:13race

00:43:14to

00:43:14do

00:43:14with

00:43:14it

00:43:14at

00:43:15all

00:43:15power

00:43:16is

00:43:16a

00:43:17numbing

00:43:17thing

00:43:17it's

00:43:17like

00:43:17a

00:43:17drug

00:43:18as

00:43:19players

00:43:19we

00:43:20were

00:43:20very

00:43:20upset

00:43:21that

00:43:21the

00:43:21West

00:43:22Indies

00:43:22cricket

00:43:22board

00:43:22had

00:43:23short

00:43:23sold

00:43:24us

00:43:24after

00:43:26sport

00:43:27you

00:43:27have

00:43:27to

00:43:27live

00:43:28what

00:43:29they

00:43:29were

00:43:29paying

00:43:29to

00:43:29play

00:43:30cricket

00:43:30could

00:43:30not

00:43:31make

00:43:31me

00:43:31live

00:43:31we

00:43:34were

00:43:34exported

00:43:35in such

00:43:35a degree

00:43:35that

00:43:36we

00:43:36were

00:43:36laughing

00:43:36stuff

00:43:37we

00:43:38want

00:43:39some

00:43:39people

00:43:39who

00:43:40cheats

00:43:40and

00:43:40steal

00:43:41but

00:43:42then

00:43:42suddenly

00:43:43the

00:43:43possibility

00:43:44presented

00:43:45itself

00:43:45to

00:43:46challenge

00:43:46the

00:43:46establishment

00:43:47it

00:43:48was

00:43:48called

00:43:48world

00:43:48series

00:43:49cricket

00:43:49a

00:43:54revolutionary

00:43:55new

00:43:55development

00:43:56has

00:43:56come

00:43:56under

00:43:57the

00:43:57scene

00:43:57organized

00:43:58not

00:43:59by

00:43:59the

00:43:59traditional

00:43:59authorities

00:44:00but

00:44:01by

00:44:01an

00:44:01independent

00:44:02australian

00:44:02businessman

00:44:03kerry

00:44:04packer

00:44:05the

00:44:05result

00:44:06has

00:44:06been

00:44:07official

00:44:07apoplexy

00:44:08i

00:44:09fail

00:44:09to

00:44:09see

00:44:10how

00:44:10his

00:44:10business

00:44:11type

00:44:11piracy

00:44:12is

00:44:12welcome

00:44:13to

00:44:13our

00:44:13cricket

00:44:13they

00:44:14are

00:44:15the

00:44:15lowest

00:44:15paid

00:44:16team

00:44:16sport

00:44:17practically

00:44:18in

00:44:18the

00:44:18world

00:44:18and

00:44:19they're

00:44:19entitled

00:44:19to

00:44:19the

00:44:20reward

00:44:20that

00:44:20their

00:44:20skills

00:44:21demand

00:44:21so

00:44:22here's

00:44:23a

00:44:23man

00:44:23like

00:44:23kerry

00:44:24packer

00:44:24coming

00:44:24and

00:44:24saying

00:44:25look

00:44:25guys

00:44:25we

00:44:26want

00:44:26to

00:44:26pay

00:44:27you

00:44:27what

00:44:28you're

00:44:28worth

00:44:28kerry

00:44:29decided

00:44:30he's

00:44:30going

00:44:30to

00:44:30get

00:44:30the

00:44:30best

00:44:31west

00:44:31indian

00:44:31cricketers

00:44:32the

00:44:32best

00:44:33australian

00:44:33cricketers

00:44:34and the

00:44:34best

00:44:34of the

00:44:35rest

00:44:35of the

00:44:35world

00:44:36to

00:44:36play

00:44:36a

00:44:36three

00:44:37way

00:44:37tournament

00:44:37in

00:44:38australia

00:44:39the win

00:44:39money

00:44:39was

00:44:39thirty

00:44:40thousand

00:44:40dollars

00:44:41it

00:44:41was

00:44:41so far

00:44:42superior

00:44:43to what

00:44:43we're

00:44:43accustomed

00:44:44to

00:44:44it

00:44:45felt

00:44:45like

00:44:45VIP

00:44:45and

00:44:46I

00:44:46said

00:44:47well

00:44:47for

00:44:48this

00:44:48sort

00:44:48of

00:44:49money

00:44:49I

00:44:49can't

00:44:49think

00:44:49about

00:44:50playing

00:44:50cricket

00:44:50show

00:44:51me

00:44:51where

00:44:51to

00:44:51sign

00:44:51the

00:44:53proverbial

00:44:53whatever

00:44:54it

00:44:54is

00:44:54hit

00:44:54the

00:44:54fans

00:44:55the

00:44:57west

00:44:57indies

00:44:57cricket

00:44:58board

00:44:58saw

00:44:59us

00:44:59as

00:45:00rebel

00:45:00players

00:45:01we

00:45:02were

00:45:02all

00:45:02banned

00:45:03from

00:45:04playing

00:45:04for

00:45:04the

00:45:04west

00:45:04indies

00:45:05we

00:45:06had

00:45:06no

00:45:06cricket

00:45:06to

00:45:07come

00:45:07back

00:45:07to

00:45:07we

00:45:08felt

00:45:09like

00:45:09outcasts

00:45:10we

00:45:10were

00:45:10now

00:45:11on

00:45:11our

00:45:11own

00:45:11we

00:45:12even

00:45:12thought

00:45:12at

00:45:13one

00:45:13point

00:45:13that

00:45:13would

00:45:14mean

00:45:14never

00:45:14ever

00:45:14play

00:45:15for

00:45:15the

00:45:15western

00:45:15again

00:45:15and

00:45:16we

00:45:16just

00:45:17did

00:45:17not

00:45:17feel

00:45:17good

00:45:17about

00:45:18that

00:45:18what

00:45:18would

00:45:19have

00:45:19happened

00:45:19to

00:45:19us

00:45:19what

00:45:20would

00:45:20become

00:45:20us

00:45:20after

00:45:24all

00:45:24the

00:45:24publicity

00:45:24or

00:45:25the

00:45:25uproar

00:45:25the

00:45:25haggling

00:45:26the

00:45:26start

00:45:27of

00:45:27the

00:45:27packer

00:45:27series

00:45:27was

00:45:28a

00:45:28fizzer

00:45:28the

00:45:30players

00:45:34took

00:45:34the

00:45:34field

00:45:35in front

00:45:35of

00:45:35only

00:45:35500

00:45:36spectators

00:45:36leaving

00:45:37the

00:45:37stadium

00:45:37all

00:45:38but

00:45:38deserted

00:45:38Kerry

00:45:40realised

00:45:41that

00:45:41the

00:45:42success

00:45:42of

00:45:43world

00:45:43series

00:45:44depended

00:45:45heavily

00:45:46on

00:45:46the

00:45:46success

00:45:47of

00:45:47West

00:45:47Indies

00:45:48there

00:45:49was

00:45:49one

00:45:49game

00:45:50that

00:45:50we

00:45:50played

00:45:51and

00:45:51we

00:45:51got

00:45:52bowled

00:45:52out

00:45:52cheaply

00:45:53he

00:45:54came

00:45:54into

00:45:54the

00:45:55changing

00:45:55room

00:45:55and

00:45:56put

00:45:56a

00:45:56tongue

00:45:56lashing

00:45:57on

00:45:58us

00:45:58gentlemen

00:45:59you

00:46:00are

00:46:00wasting

00:46:00my

00:46:00time

00:46:01I

00:46:01could

00:46:02get

00:46:02rid

00:46:02of

00:46:02you

00:46:02immediately

00:46:03Qantas

00:46:04001

00:46:05lives

00:46:05here

00:46:05every

00:46:05afternoon

00:46:06and

00:46:06some

00:46:06of

00:46:06you

00:46:07could

00:46:07be

00:46:07on

00:46:07it

00:46:07unless

00:46:08you

00:46:08pick

00:46:08up

00:46:08your

00:46:08game

00:46:09we

00:46:09are

00:46:10going

00:46:10to

00:46:10have

00:46:10to

00:46:10send

00:46:11some

00:46:11of

00:46:11you

00:46:11home

00:46:11Kerry

00:46:12Parker

00:46:13demanded

00:46:14professionalism

00:46:15he

00:46:15demanded

00:46:16a

00:46:17professional

00:46:17outlook

00:46:18and

00:46:18just

00:46:18your

00:46:19cricket

00:46:19but

00:46:19on

00:46:19life

00:46:20and

00:46:20we

00:46:20let

00:46:21him

00:46:21down

00:46:21and

00:46:22everything

00:46:23changed

00:46:24from

00:46:24that

00:46:24day

00:46:25here

00:46:29we

00:46:29have

00:46:29a bunch

00:46:29of

00:46:30guys

00:46:30now

00:46:30who

00:46:30realize

00:46:31that

00:46:31there's

00:46:31no

00:46:32tomorrow

00:46:32it's

00:46:32only

00:46:33today

00:46:33and

00:46:35nobody

00:46:35wanted

00:46:36to

00:46:36give

00:46:36up

00:46:36we

00:46:37then

00:46:38bonded

00:46:38together

00:46:39because

00:46:39that's

00:46:40all

00:46:40we

00:46:40had

00:46:40we

00:46:40had

00:46:40each

00:46:41other

00:46:41that

00:46:42family

00:46:42feeling

00:46:42that

00:46:43ultimate

00:46:43one

00:46:44for

00:46:44all

00:46:44for

00:46:45one

00:46:45pervaded

00:46:46I'm

00:46:47gonna

00:46:47put

00:46:47on

00:46:48iron

00:46:49shirt

00:46:49put

00:46:49on

00:46:50iron

00:46:50shirt

00:46:51Terry

00:46:52Parker

00:46:52assigned

00:46:52Dennis

00:46:53to

00:46:53the

00:46:53Westerners

00:46:54team

00:46:54as

00:46:54our

00:46:55physiotherapist

00:46:55trainer

00:46:56and he

00:46:57went to

00:46:58Clive Lloyd

00:46:58and said

00:46:58Skipper

00:46:59I do

00:47:00not

00:47:00think

00:47:00that

00:47:00this

00:47:00team

00:47:01is

00:47:01fit

00:47:01enough

00:47:01and

00:47:01that

00:47:01is

00:47:02when

00:47:02we

00:47:02started

00:47:02to

00:47:02train

00:47:03Dennis

00:47:06was a

00:47:07fit

00:47:07strong

00:47:08man

00:47:08he

00:47:08would

00:47:08run

00:47:09to

00:47:09the

00:47:09hotel

00:47:10while

00:47:10we

00:47:10took

00:47:10the

00:47:10bus

00:47:11he

00:47:11pushed

00:47:11us

00:47:12to

00:47:12the

00:47:12limit

00:47:12I

00:47:13mean

00:47:13madness

00:47:14we

00:47:16were

00:47:16fit

00:47:17at

00:47:17all

00:47:17times

00:47:17if

00:47:18we

00:47:18weren't

00:47:18fit

00:47:19we

00:47:19were

00:47:19glad

00:47:19to

00:47:20get

00:47:20fit

00:47:20quick

00:47:22single

00:47:23having

00:47:23to

00:47:23hurry

00:47:24and he's

00:47:24hit the

00:47:24stop

00:47:25he's

00:47:25gone

00:47:25this

00:47:28team

00:47:29became

00:47:29the fittest

00:47:30test

00:47:31team

00:47:31the world

00:47:31had

00:47:31seen

00:47:32coming

00:47:32against

00:47:33the

00:47:33tradition

00:47:33of

00:47:34pot-bellied

00:47:35unfit

00:47:35cricketers

00:47:36the

00:47:37fitness

00:47:37led

00:47:38to

00:47:38superb

00:47:39displays

00:47:39of

00:47:40catches

00:47:40incredible

00:47:41endurance

00:47:42there

00:47:43was a

00:47:43spectacle

00:47:44highly intense

00:47:52cricket

00:47:53highly

00:47:54highly

00:47:54the hardest

00:47:55cricket

00:47:55I've ever

00:47:55played

00:47:55every

00:47:56team

00:47:57had at

00:47:57least

00:47:57five

00:47:58genuine

00:47:59fast

00:48:00bowlers

00:48:00every

00:48:01day

00:48:01you

00:48:03wake up

00:48:04you

00:48:04know

00:48:05that

00:48:05the

00:48:05cricket

00:48:05is

00:48:06going

00:48:06to

00:48:06be

00:48:06harder

00:48:07than

00:48:08the

00:48:08day

00:48:08before

00:48:08that

00:48:10whole

00:48:11tournament

00:48:11itself

00:48:11helped

00:48:12to

00:48:12change

00:48:12your

00:48:12whole

00:48:12psyche

00:48:13to

00:48:14getting

00:48:14fitter

00:48:14winner

00:48:15takes

00:48:15or

00:48:16being

00:48:16in

00:48:16that

00:48:17zone

00:48:17to

00:48:17be

00:48:17as

00:48:17mean

00:48:18as

00:48:18anything

00:48:18else

00:48:18there

00:48:23are a lot

00:48:23of

00:48:23things

00:48:23introduced

00:48:24colored

00:48:25clothing

00:48:25the

00:48:26westernies

00:48:26were

00:48:26in

00:48:26pink

00:48:27the

00:48:28press

00:48:29had

00:48:29a

00:48:29feel

00:48:29David

00:48:29it's

00:48:30all

00:48:30uniforms

00:48:30you know

00:48:31pretty

00:48:32and

00:48:32pink

00:48:32and

00:48:33it

00:48:33went

00:48:33so

00:48:33far

00:48:34say

00:48:34the

00:48:34poof

00:48:34does

00:48:34in

00:48:35pink

00:48:35so

00:48:35we

00:48:36had

00:48:36to

00:48:36show

00:48:36them

00:48:36that

00:48:36we

00:48:36were

00:48:37not

00:48:37that

00:48:37way

00:48:37disposed

00:48:38from

00:48:41then

00:48:41to

00:48:41the

00:48:41end

00:48:42of

00:48:42overseas

00:48:42cricket

00:48:43we

00:48:43did

00:48:43not

00:48:43lose

00:48:43a

00:48:43game

00:48:44and

00:48:46the

00:48:46Australians

00:48:47have

00:48:47always

00:48:48suggested

00:48:49that

00:48:49Kerry

00:48:49Packer

00:48:50ought

00:48:50not

00:48:50to

00:48:50have

00:48:51come

00:48:51in

00:48:51to

00:48:52make

00:48:52that

00:48:52speech

00:48:52to

00:48:53the

00:48:53West

00:48:53Indies

00:48:53even

00:49:01though

00:49:01you

00:49:02playing

00:49:02as well

00:49:03as

00:49:03you

00:49:03think

00:49:03you

00:49:03are

00:49:04and

00:49:05winning

00:49:05as

00:49:05much

00:49:06as

00:49:06you

00:49:06are

00:49:06there

00:49:07was

00:49:07still

00:49:08something

00:49:08very

00:49:08much

00:49:08missing

00:49:09one

00:49:15of the

00:49:16things

00:49:16that I

00:49:16find

00:49:16with

00:49:16West

00:49:17Indies

00:49:17supporters

00:49:17is

00:49:18that

00:49:18they're

00:49:18loyal

00:49:19love

00:49:20to

00:49:20see

00:49:20West

00:49:21Indies

00:49:21win

00:49:21they love

00:49:23to see

00:49:23good

00:49:24cricket

00:49:24but

00:49:25one

00:49:26of the

00:49:26things

00:49:26that

00:49:26they

00:49:26do

00:49:26not

00:49:27like

00:49:27is

00:49:28to

00:49:28see

00:49:28administrators

00:49:29lie

00:49:30to

00:49:30them

00:49:31the

00:49:32supporters

00:49:32wanted

00:49:33to know

00:49:33why

00:49:33we

00:49:33were

00:49:33still

00:49:34banned

00:49:34they

00:49:35wanted

00:49:35their

00:49:36best

00:49:36players

00:49:36back

00:49:37our

00:49:38continued

00:49:38fight

00:49:39against

00:49:39the

00:49:39board

00:49:39was

00:49:40the

00:49:40same

00:49:40fight

00:49:40our

00:49:41people

00:49:41faced

00:49:41against

00:49:42our

00:49:42politicians

00:49:42despite

00:49:43independence

00:49:44inept

00:49:45leaders

00:49:45still

00:49:46robbed

00:49:46us

00:49:46of

00:49:46wealth

00:49:47and

00:49:47benefits

00:49:47dividing

00:49:48the

00:49:48islands

00:49:49for

00:49:49their

00:49:49own

00:49:50end

00:49:50in

00:49:51Clive's

00:49:51team

00:49:52the

00:49:52people

00:49:52saw

00:49:52a

00:49:53model

00:49:53for

00:49:53cooperation

00:49:54and

00:49:54unity

00:49:55our

00:49:55sympathies

00:49:56were

00:49:56shared

00:49:56and

00:49:57we

00:49:57united

00:49:57as

00:49:58one

00:49:58we

00:49:59were

00:49:59the

00:49:59heroes

00:50:00of

00:50:00the

00:50:01West

00:50:01Indian

00:50:01public

00:50:02because

00:50:02we

00:50:03were

00:50:03standing

00:50:03up

00:50:04to

00:50:04our

00:50:05establishment

00:50:05board

00:50:06more

00:50:07and more

00:50:08people

00:50:08recognized

00:50:09that

00:50:09the

00:50:10strength

00:50:10was

00:50:11in

00:50:11getting

00:50:11together

00:50:12what

00:50:13our

00:50:13politicians

00:50:14could not

00:50:15achieve

00:50:15we

00:50:16did

00:50:16when

00:50:17we

00:50:17were

00:50:17playing

00:50:17and

00:50:18we

00:50:18got

00:50:19on

00:50:19that

00:50:19field

00:50:19we

00:50:20put

00:50:20aside

00:50:20all

00:50:20the

00:50:21differences

00:50:21and

00:50:21issues

00:50:22which

00:50:22the

00:50:22islands

00:50:22had

00:50:23uniting

00:50:24that

00:50:24region

00:50:25together

00:50:25where

00:50:25collectively

00:50:26everyone

00:50:27could

00:50:27speak

00:50:27as

00:50:27a

00:50:28unit

00:50:28the

00:50:30public

00:50:30were all

00:50:31unanimous

00:50:32in calling

00:50:32for boycotts

00:50:33of West

00:50:34Indian

00:50:34games

00:50:35it

00:50:36did

00:50:36so

00:50:36much

00:50:36for

00:50:37Clive

00:50:37to

00:50:37recognize

00:50:38that

00:50:38he

00:50:39was

00:50:39accepted

00:50:39as

00:50:40the

00:50:40leader

00:50:40not

00:50:40just

00:50:40within

00:50:41the

00:50:41team

00:50:41but

00:50:42throughout

00:50:42the

00:50:43Caribbean

00:50:43the

00:50:44timing

00:50:44was

00:50:45right

00:50:45and

00:50:46the

00:50:47West

00:50:47Indian

00:50:47cricket

00:50:47boards

00:50:48hands

00:50:48were

00:50:48tied

00:50:49they

00:50:49had

00:50:49to

00:50:49bring

00:50:50us

00:50:50back

00:50:50you

00:50:51know

00:50:51we

00:50:51came

00:50:52together

00:50:52and

00:50:53stuck

00:50:53together

00:50:54Clive

00:50:55returned

00:50:56as the

00:50:56undisputed

00:50:57leader

00:50:57of our

00:50:58cricket

00:50:58no longer

00:50:59would

00:50:59politics

00:51:00divide

00:51:00our

00:51:00people

00:51:01and

00:51:01we

00:51:01would

00:51:01all

00:51:02share

00:51:02in

00:51:02the

00:51:02fruits

00:51:03of

00:51:03the

00:51:03West

00:51:03Indies

00:51:04success

00:51:04and

00:51:06that

00:51:06same

00:51:07nucleus

00:51:07which

00:51:08was

00:51:08a

00:51:08real

00:51:08family

00:51:09who

00:51:09really

00:51:10gelled

00:51:10came

00:51:11back

00:51:11into

00:51:11traditional

00:51:12cricket

00:51:12and

00:51:13yes

00:51:14we

00:51:14had

00:51:14really

00:51:15achieved

00:51:15something

00:51:15we

00:51:16were

00:51:17much

00:51:17better

00:51:18team

00:51:19fitter

00:51:20team

00:51:20and

00:51:21that

00:51:21would

00:51:21turn

00:51:21us

00:51:22into

00:51:22professionals

00:51:23from

00:51:24then

00:51:24I

00:51:25never

00:51:25thought

00:51:25we

00:51:25could

00:51:25lose

00:51:26the

00:51:26game

00:51:26during

00:51:34World Series

00:51:35cricket

00:51:35Joel Gardner

00:51:36and I

00:51:36forced

00:51:37away

00:51:37into

00:51:37the

00:51:37team

00:51:38and

00:51:38the

00:51:38bowling

00:51:39chain

00:51:39for

00:51:39West

00:51:39Indies

00:51:40the

00:51:41media

00:51:41were

00:51:41very

00:51:42interested

00:51:42because

00:51:43for

00:51:43the

00:51:43first

00:51:43time

00:51:44ever

00:51:44you

00:51:44had

00:51:45four

00:51:45fast

00:51:46bowlers

00:51:46who

00:51:46could

00:51:46all

00:51:47bowl

00:51:47at

00:51:47over

00:51:4890

00:51:48miles

00:51:48per

00:51:48hour

00:51:49Michael

00:51:50Olin

00:51:50Andy

00:51:51Roberts

00:51:52Joel

00:51:52Garner

00:51:53and

00:51:53Colin

00:51:54Kraft

00:51:54Colin

00:51:56Kraft

00:51:57Kraft

00:51:58we

00:51:58were

00:51:58called

00:51:58the

00:51:58four

00:51:59horsemen

00:51:59of

00:51:59the

00:51:59apocalypse

00:52:00we

00:52:01were

00:52:01called

00:52:01terrorists

00:52:02dangerous

00:52:03murderers

00:52:03we

00:52:04were

00:52:04called

00:52:04all

00:52:04sorts

00:52:04of

00:52:04things

00:52:05these

00:52:05guys

00:52:06were

00:52:06physically

00:52:07intimidated

00:52:08Joe

00:52:09garner

00:52:09six

00:52:09foot

00:52:10eight

00:52:10and

00:52:11he

00:52:11was

00:52:11always

00:52:11coming

00:52:12either

00:52:12at

00:52:12your

00:52:12toes

00:52:13or

00:52:14up

00:52:14at

00:52:14your

00:52:14neck

00:52:15that

00:52:16is

00:52:16the

00:52:16enemy

00:52:16of

00:52:16the

00:52:17other

00:52:17age

00:52:17those

00:52:17fellows

00:52:17wearing

00:52:18the

00:52:18pads

00:52:18in

00:52:19the

00:52:19back

00:52:19those

00:52:19were

00:52:19the

00:52:20enemy

00:52:20and

00:52:20it

00:52:20is

00:52:20very

00:52:20intentionally

00:52:21made

00:52:21life

00:52:21for them

00:52:22very

00:52:22uncomfortable

00:52:22having

00:52:25craft

00:52:26the

00:52:26mother

00:52:26action

00:52:27you

00:52:27can't

00:52:27understand

00:52:28there

00:52:29is

00:52:29a

00:52:29man

00:52:30to

00:52:30society

00:52:31I

00:52:31was

00:52:32scary

00:52:32I

00:52:33know

00:52:33that

00:52:33you

00:52:34knock

00:52:34a guy

00:52:34down

00:52:34with

00:52:35a

00:52:35bouncer

00:52:35and

00:52:35you

00:52:35smile

00:52:36and

00:52:36you

00:52:36laugh

00:52:37I

00:52:37am

00:52:38here

00:52:38get

00:52:38out

00:52:38of

00:52:39my

00:52:39way

00:52:39we

00:52:40asked

00:52:40him

00:52:40Croffy

00:52:41suppose

00:52:41your

00:52:42mother

00:52:42was

00:52:42at

00:52:42the

00:52:42other

00:52:42end

00:52:43he

00:52:43said

00:52:43boy

00:52:43if

00:52:45my

00:52:45mother

00:52:45was

00:52:45at

00:52:45the

00:52:45end

00:52:46she

00:52:46the

00:52:46target

00:52:47and

00:52:49he

00:52:49was

00:52:49a hit

00:52:50man

00:52:50and

00:52:52I

00:52:54hear

00:52:54people

00:52:55say

00:52:55that

00:52:55I

00:52:55was

00:52:55hit

00:52:56man

00:52:56I

00:52:56didn't

00:52:56go

00:52:56out

00:52:57to

00:52:57try

00:52:57to

00:52:57hit

00:52:57people

00:52:58it

00:52:59just

00:52:59that

00:52:59a lot

00:53:00of

00:53:00people

00:53:00get

00:53:00hit

00:53:00Colin

00:53:01Kowdry

00:53:02Sadiq

00:53:03Mohammed

00:53:03Majid

00:53:04Khan

00:53:05all the

00:53:05press

00:53:06factor

00:53:06of the

00:53:06cheekbone

00:53:07and

00:53:08he

00:53:08was

00:53:08so

00:53:09feared

00:53:09they

00:53:11all

00:53:11had

00:53:11their

00:53:11different

00:53:12styles

00:53:12but

00:53:13Michael

00:53:13was

00:53:13called

00:53:14whispering

00:53:14death

00:53:15the

00:53:16umpire

00:53:16wouldn't hear

00:53:16me

00:53:17coming

00:53:17he

00:53:17had

00:53:17to keep

00:53:17on

00:53:18looking

00:53:18behind

00:53:18him

00:53:18to

00:53:19see

00:53:19if I

00:53:19was

00:53:19actually

00:53:19running

00:53:20in

00:53:20and I

00:53:21suppose

00:53:21the death

00:53:22came

00:53:22from the

00:53:22pace

00:53:22at which

00:53:23I

00:53:23bowled

00:53:23that it

00:53:23could

00:53:24create

00:53:24death

00:53:24the

00:53:27team

00:53:27by

00:53:271979

00:53:28was

00:53:28stronger

00:53:29much

00:53:29stronger

00:53:30we

00:53:31were

00:53:31on top

00:53:31of our

00:53:32game

00:53:32all of

00:53:33us

00:53:33superb

00:53:35premium

00:53:35that's

00:53:36professional

00:53:37sport at

00:53:37the highest

00:53:38level

00:53:38the West

00:53:40Indians

00:53:40came

00:53:40and said

00:53:41to the

00:53:42cricket

00:53:42culture

00:53:42listen

00:53:42cricket

00:53:43can be

00:53:43spectacular

00:53:44it is

00:53:45art

00:53:45you

00:53:46will

00:53:46be

00:53:46coming

00:53:47of

00:53:47force

00:53:47politically

00:53:48they are

00:53:50saying

00:53:50this is

00:53:51a West

00:53:51Indian

00:53:51product

00:53:52they are

00:53:53showing

00:53:53on the

00:53:54world

00:53:54stage

00:53:54coming

00:53:55out

00:53:55of

00:53:55the

00:53:56so-called

00:53:56third

00:53:56world

00:53:57can

00:53:57be

00:53:58excellent

00:53:58there's

00:54:01a wind

00:54:01of

00:54:01change

00:54:02let's

00:54:03be better

00:54:04than

00:54:04we have

00:54:04ever

00:54:04been

00:54:05we

00:54:06are

00:54:07on

00:54:07our

00:54:08way

00:54:08to

00:54:08victory

00:54:09of

00:54:10good

00:54:10over

00:54:12evil

00:54:13clive

00:54:15lied

00:54:15you

00:54:15know

00:54:15you

00:54:16are

00:54:16the

00:54:16man

00:54:16calling

00:54:17croft

00:54:18one

00:54:18to

00:54:18the

00:54:18head

00:54:19six

00:54:19to

00:54:19the

00:54:20chest

00:54:20eh

00:54:21cricket

00:54:21and

00:54:21sports

00:54:22and

00:54:22people

00:54:22know

00:54:23that

00:54:23the

00:54:23ball

00:54:23me

00:54:23a

00:54:24ball

00:54:24and

00:54:24people

00:54:24know

00:54:25that

00:54:25who

00:54:25faff

00:54:26clive

00:54:26lied

00:54:26him

00:54:27does

00:54:27the

00:54:27classics

00:54:27score

00:54:28gone

00:54:28up

00:54:29on

00:54:29them

00:54:29seat

00:54:29Michael

00:54:31only

00:54:31ball

00:54:31them

00:54:32like

00:54:32Saddam

00:54:33watch

00:54:33it

00:54:33that's

00:54:34why

00:54:34clive

00:54:34light

00:54:34and

00:54:35me

00:54:35the

00:54:35cannon

00:54:35color

00:54:36color

00:54:36man

00:54:37a

00:54:37real

00:54:37jump

00:54:37you

00:54:37can

00:54:38you

00:54:38know

00:54:39we

00:54:39better

00:54:39than

00:54:39the

00:54:39rest

00:54:40we

00:54:49were

00:54:49made

00:54:49to

00:54:49relive

00:54:5075

00:54:51and 76

00:54:52in

00:54:52Australia

00:54:52every

00:54:55time

00:54:55the

00:54:55highlights

00:54:56were

00:54:56shown

00:54:56of

00:54:56one

00:54:57of

00:54:57those

00:54:57test

00:54:57matches

00:54:58you

00:54:58were

00:54:59never

00:54:59given

00:54:59the

00:54:59chance

00:55:00to

00:55:00just

00:55:00put

00:55:00in

00:55:00the

00:55:01back

00:55:01of

00:55:01your

00:55:01mind

00:55:01they

00:55:01kept

00:55:02on

00:55:02focusing

00:55:02on

00:55:03what

00:55:03happened

00:55:03it

00:55:05was

00:55:06so

00:55:06important

00:55:06for

00:55:07those

00:55:07of

00:55:07us

00:55:07who

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00:55:08been

00:55:08part

00:55:08of

00:55:09defeating

00:55:091975

00:55:10to

00:55:11have

00:55:11the

00:55:12opportunity

00:55:12to

00:55:13put

00:55:13that

00:55:13right

00:55:14at

00:55:15that

00:55:15stage

00:55:15Australia

00:55:16were

00:55:16officially

00:55:17number

00:55:17one

00:55:17in

00:55:17the

00:55:17world

00:55:18still

00:55:19the

00:55:20West

00:55:20Indies

00:55:21had

00:55:21never

00:55:21won

00:55:21a

00:55:22test

00:55:22series

00:55:22in

00:55:22Australia

00:55:23so

00:55:23this

00:55:24would

00:55:24have

00:55:24been

00:55:24breaking

00:55:25new

00:55:26ground

00:55:26we

00:55:28must

00:55:28beat

00:55:29Australia

00:55:29at

00:55:30all

00:55:30costs

00:55:31it

00:55:31didn't

00:55:31matter

00:55:32how

00:55:32we

00:55:32did

00:55:33it

00:55:33ugly

00:55:34nice

00:55:34we

00:55:35had

00:55:35to

00:55:35beat

00:55:35them

00:55:35psychologically

00:55:37physically

00:55:38every other

00:55:39adverb

00:55:39you could

00:55:39use

00:55:40we were

00:55:40ready

00:55:41we

00:55:43encountered

00:55:44similar

00:55:45problems

00:55:45that we

00:55:45had

00:55:45in

00:55:4675

00:55:4676

00:55:47you know

00:55:47they would

00:55:48walk past

00:55:49you

00:55:49or come

00:55:49down the

00:55:50track

00:55:50and so on

00:55:50they would

00:55:51say

00:55:51off

00:55:51you know

00:55:52piss off

00:55:53for your

00:55:54wanker

00:55:55you know

00:55:55you're

00:55:56coming

00:55:56into

00:55:56bat

00:55:56before

00:55:57you

00:55:57get

00:55:58there

00:55:58Dennis

00:55:58Lillie

00:55:58will

00:55:58tell

00:55:59you

00:55:59straight

00:55:59out

00:55:59I'm

00:56:00going

00:56:00to

00:56:00knock

00:56:00your

00:56:00effing

00:56:00head

00:56:01off

00:56:01I'm

00:56:01coming

00:56:02for

00:56:02that

00:56:02Lenny

00:56:03Pasco

00:56:04at one

00:56:05point

00:56:05said

00:56:05if I

00:56:05hoped

00:56:06I was

00:56:07going to

00:56:07be a

00:56:07hospital

00:56:07case

00:56:08I

00:56:09think

00:56:10that's

00:56:10now

00:56:10taking

00:56:10the

00:56:10game

00:56:11to

00:56:11a

00:56:11different

00:56:11level

00:56:11they

00:56:12thought

00:56:12that

00:56:12when

00:56:13they

00:56:13threw

00:56:13it

00:56:13at

00:56:13us

00:56:13we

00:56:14were

00:56:14just

00:56:14going

00:56:14to

00:56:14fall

00:56:14over

00:56:15and

00:56:15die

00:56:15and

00:56:15remember

00:56:16what

00:56:16happened

00:56:17before

00:56:17but it

00:56:19wasn't

00:56:19like

00:56:19that

00:56:19it

00:56:20was

00:56:20a

00:56:20completely

00:56:20different

00:56:21story

00:56:21they

00:56:22were

00:56:26taken

00:56:26by

00:56:26surprise

00:56:27I

00:56:29wasn't

00:56:30a

00:56:30helmet

00:56:30man

00:56:30I

00:56:31didn't

00:56:31wear

00:56:31all

00:56:31this

00:56:31protective

00:56:32gear

00:56:32I

00:56:34knew

00:56:34that

00:56:35there

00:56:35would

00:56:35be

00:56:35a

00:56:35lot

00:56:35of

00:56:35forces

00:56:36would

00:56:36be

00:56:36looking

00:56:36to

00:56:36get

00:56:37me

00:56:37the

00:56:38message

00:56:38that

00:56:39I

00:56:39sent

00:56:39is

00:56:39that

00:56:40I

00:56:40rather

00:56:40die

00:56:41out

00:56:41there

00:56:41the

00:56:42only

00:56:42how

00:56:43I'm

00:56:43going

00:56:43to

00:56:44be

00:56:44not

00:56:44here

00:56:44is

00:56:45if

00:56:45I'm

00:56:45knocked

00:56:46out

00:56:46oh

00:56:48nasty

00:56:49blood

00:56:49nasty

00:56:50blood

00:56:50everyone was

00:56:55thinking

00:56:55oh hell

00:56:56baby's

00:56:57going to

00:56:57be

00:56:57damaged

00:56:58and

00:56:58we're

00:56:58expecting

00:56:59bib

00:56:59to be

00:56:59walking

00:57:00on the

00:57:00field

00:57:00at

00:57:00some

00:57:01point

00:57:01you

00:57:03cannot

00:57:03afford

00:57:03to let

00:57:04your

00:57:04opposition

00:57:04know

00:57:05when

00:57:05you

00:57:05are

00:57:05hurt

00:57:06they

00:57:07stand

00:57:08up

00:57:08and

00:57:08look

00:57:08you

00:57:08in

00:57:09the

00:57:09eye

00:57:09and

00:57:09look

00:57:09back

00:57:10and

00:57:11we

00:57:11have

00:57:11this

00:57:11little

00:57:11steering

00:57:12mask

00:57:12for

00:57:12a

00:57:12while

00:57:13you

00:57:13know

00:57:14when

00:57:14you

00:57:14would

00:57:14have

00:57:14got

00:57:15the

00:57:15better

00:57:15of

00:57:15them

00:57:16by

00:57:17the

00:57:17time

00:57:17they

00:57:17turn

00:57:17around

00:57:18they

00:57:18pass

00:57:18down

00:57:18pie

00:57:18and

00:57:19they

00:57:19get

00:57:19back

00:57:19to

00:57:19their

00:57:19mark

00:57:20they

00:57:20will

00:57:20take

00:57:21a

00:57:21little

00:57:21look

00:57:21around

00:57:21again

00:57:22to

00:57:22see

00:57:22if

00:57:22you're

00:57:22still

00:57:22looking

00:57:23I'll

00:57:23be

00:57:23still

00:57:23looking

00:57:24you

00:57:24know

00:57:24and

00:57:25that's

00:57:25when

00:57:36the

00:57:36very

00:57:36next

00:57:36ball

00:57:37he

00:57:37hit

00:57:37it

00:57:37straight

00:57:37out

00:57:38of

00:57:38the

00:57:38ground

00:57:38look

00:57:39what

00:57:39you've

00:57:40done

00:57:40you

00:57:40know

00:57:40you

00:57:40just

00:57:41pull

00:57:41the

00:57:42lion

00:57:42tail

00:57:42they

00:57:43weren't

00:57:43saying

00:57:43kill

00:57:44kill

00:57:44for

00:57:44too

00:57:44long

00:57:45and

00:57:45I

00:57:45think

00:57:45when

00:57:46Australia

00:57:46done

00:57:46that

00:57:47it

00:57:47just

00:57:47motivate

00:57:48our

00:57:48players

00:57:48to

00:57:48get

00:57:48pretty

00:57:49mean

00:57:49oh

00:57:51that's

00:57:51hit

00:57:51Chepel

00:57:52under

00:57:52the

00:57:52heart

00:57:52a

00:57:52nasty

00:57:53blow

00:57:53that

00:57:53was

00:57:54a

00:57:54blow

00:57:55that

00:57:55would

00:57:55hurt

00:57:55Joel

00:57:56Garner

00:57:57saying

00:57:57you

00:57:57can

00:57:57wear

00:58:06painful

00:58:06day

00:58:06for

00:58:06the

00:58:06Australians

00:58:07the

00:58:09same

00:58:09Australian

00:58:10who

00:58:10were

00:58:10so

00:58:11aggressive

00:58:11all

00:58:12of

00:58:12a

00:58:12sudden

00:58:12were

00:58:13crying

00:58:13can

00:58:15imagine

00:58:15that

00:58:15from

00:58:16Australia

00:58:16you know

00:58:17I

00:58:17could

00:58:17not

00:58:17believe

00:58:17the

00:58:19harder

00:58:19they

00:58:19come

00:58:20the

00:58:20harder

00:58:20they

00:58:20fall

00:58:20when

00:58:21they

00:58:21had

00:58:21the

00:58:22peace

00:58:22and

00:58:23the

00:58:23peace

00:58:23get

00:58:23real

00:58:24hot

00:58:24they

00:58:26would

00:58:26touch

00:58:26it

00:58:27and

00:58:27they

00:58:27would

00:58:27walk

00:58:27because

00:58:30the

00:58:30peace

00:58:31is

00:58:31real

00:58:31hot

00:58:32we

00:58:34were

00:58:34talking

00:58:34about

00:58:34a

00:58:34peace

00:58:35truth

00:58:35that

00:58:36peace

00:58:36truth

00:58:36last

00:58:37for

00:58:37a

00:58:37game

00:58:38and

00:58:38then

00:58:38it

00:58:38was

00:58:38back

00:58:38to

00:58:39norm

00:58:39again

00:58:39but

00:58:42that

00:58:42is

00:58:42how

00:58:43far

00:58:43it

00:58:43went

00:58:43at

00:58:43that

00:58:44stage

00:58:44and

00:58:45we

00:58:45kept

00:58:46the

00:58:46pressure

00:58:46on

00:58:46the

00:58:46opposition

00:58:47and

00:58:47we

00:58:47hammered

00:58:48them

00:58:48into

00:58:48the

00:58:48ground

00:58:49it

00:58:52bumps

00:58:53it

00:58:53out of

00:58:53them

00:58:53wow

00:59:00that

00:59:00I

00:59:01think

00:59:01was

00:59:01special

00:59:01it

00:59:03felt

00:59:04as

00:59:04if

00:59:04yes

00:59:04we

00:59:05had

00:59:05really

00:59:05achieved

00:59:06something

00:59:06we

00:59:06had

00:59:06learned

00:59:07from

00:59:07our

00:59:07experiences

00:59:08and

00:59:09yes

00:59:09we

00:59:09have

00:59:09now

00:59:09proven

00:59:10ourselves

00:59:10at

00:59:10the

00:59:10highest

00:59:11level

00:59:11you

00:59:12know

00:59:12it

00:59:12really

00:59:13was

00:59:13a

00:59:13feeling

00:59:14that

00:59:14West

00:59:15Indies

00:59:15cricket

00:59:16has

00:59:16now

00:59:17come

00:59:17of

00:59:17age

00:59:18and

00:59:19we

00:59:19really

00:59:20are

00:59:20the

00:59:21best

00:59:21team

00:59:22in

00:59:22the

00:59:22world

00:59:22this

00:59:39this was the first time the West Indies have produced something which was the best the world had seen

00:59:46here we are several dots on the map dominating the world

00:59:53it's difficult to describe the feeling you know there was joy beyond words

00:59:58we're on a high celebration time everything was working out to perfection

01:00:05we went to Pakistan and we're the only team to beat Pakistan in Pakistan ever we went to India and beat India again as the only team to have done that

01:00:14West Indies

01:00:15West Indies bowling was poetry in motion at that time you have never seen it since

01:00:20we just wanted to win everything we wanted to win every game we put our feet on them kept them down and beat them

01:00:28you can't beat a team like that

01:00:32all you can beat a team like that

01:00:34then the West Indies began to win so consistently

01:00:39it triggered a pride in the workplace it triggered a pride in the way we dress in the way we went into studios and recorded

01:00:47African culture had been criminalized and driven into the ground for 300 years

01:00:53at the first opportunity to be free to express itself it comes up to the surface and it comes back there again and

01:01:01suddenly we have this extraordinary emergence of culture in the Caribbean

01:01:07Bob Marley in the Wailers

01:01:10Jimmy Cliff coming with aggression abrasion and a force of change

01:01:16you combine all of that with the West Indies cricket success

01:01:21unbelievable

01:01:22they thought that we were heroes

01:01:26but to me they were heroes

01:01:29Bob Marley come to the dressing room telling you you gotta win

01:01:33Mass Croft man rotted we gotta get these men out quick brilliant

01:01:36that's a period of history that will forever be the most productive time of our lives

01:01:41they start to boast

01:01:44instead of being ashamed they can wave their flags and say our heroes made us look good

01:01:52you know all these things are totally inspiring stuff you know sound in the protest bell

01:02:00spell stand up stand up to me it's not a crime it is about standing up for what you believe in

01:02:20and you walk into the field and it's totally embedded in your mind you may call it your

01:02:27battlefield music yeah I will never ever forget with written that I speak about it now I can

01:02:34picture him right there in his heart burns the custom culture of Rastafari he was rasterized

01:02:45but a lot of people didn't know that came from him having to do with Bob Marley he always find

01:02:52himself in the company of the whalers had he not been involved in cricket he would have surely

01:02:59been a dread-lap Rastaman real deal we've was very very much the darling of Caribbean peoples you know

01:03:14he was really the extension philosophically of Clive Lloyd taking it now to a further consciousness

01:03:22of spiritual religious thought there was really becoming into the fullness of identity as an

01:03:30African even his armband that he wore showed the African colors the green for the land itself the

01:03:38yellow for the gold taking away and stripped away the red meant the blood that was shed those particular

01:03:46colors and what it meant take time out play this one for brothers and sisters in South Africa African

01:03:59people unite man there's a great sense of sympathy for these struggles for independence in Africa at the

01:04:27time be they Mozambique Zimbabwe or South Africa the anti-apartheid fight the anti-colonial fight was very

01:04:37much the heart of the Caribbean struggle also you felt seriously embodied with the folks who were

01:04:44suffering in South Africa this human injustice taking place for so many years it was a real sense

01:04:50of horror black people being just shut down mercilessly and particularly those Alsatian dogs running

01:04:56through Soweto fighting up people etc it brought tears to the eyes of Caribbean watchers man there was

01:05:03always the feeling that we could do everything to assist them not only in song and in cultural

01:05:09expressions but in the field of cricket also in imposing the sanctions against South Africa 17 West

01:05:19Indian cricketers are to play in a country which has been banned from international cricket because of its

01:05:24apartheid policies so that it was a great abhorrence when some of our cricketers defied the sanctions and

01:05:31went to play in South Africa this is a major propaganda coup for South Africa the fact that

01:05:35they're black will be seen as giving some credibility to the South African regime most Caribbean people were

01:05:42in shock how can you go and support a regime like that as Kerry Packer said every man has his prize money

01:05:50is everybody's God let's be honest we have to look after yourself the team is believed to include Colin

01:05:57Croft lured by the 70,000 pound contract former Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley said the rebel players were

01:06:05mercenaries I'm a mercenary when I went to world series cricket was I not a mercenary there I'm not

01:06:11sure I understand the differences it's not a game it's my livelihood this is my job no we wanted to know

01:06:19who else is going where are they after every man has his prize how he conducts himself will determine how

01:06:28he will rate in history well it was an open check basically for my figure at the time if I had signed

01:06:37then then I think we would have had the Exodus I think Westerners team would have dismantled at that

01:06:42particular period I felt that I had to show some leadership not going to the apartheid regime in South

01:06:51Africa I will not go they cannot pay me enough money the sacrifices vibrators made is really heroic I

01:06:59see a serious correlation between Muhammad Ali and the Richards one throwing away a medal refusing to

01:07:06fight an unjust war and the other one refusing to take a million dollar check from an unjust society one

01:07:12of the things on the table is that whilst there you're going to be an honorary white how can a black

01:07:21man be an honorary white man what is wrong with the color of my skin what is wrong with my ethnicity why

01:07:31should everyone tell me I've got to be an honorary anything apart from what I am these guys are sold

01:07:38out having no accepted the term honorary white if they paid them enough money they'd be willing to

01:07:43even accept chains on their ankles I was disgusted those rebel cricketers they were bringing down the

01:07:51wrath of our ancestors and they were bringing down the curses of the African spirits by having betrayed

01:07:57the cause of African rebellion and of African liberation I had an incident in South Africa where I was asked to

01:08:06remove myself from my free and carry it because it was for whites only that's it's not fine a lot of people

01:08:14can say well look embarrass the Caribbean I take whatever comes with it West Indian cricket authorities have

01:08:21banned its players who defied an international boycott and gone to play in South Africa

01:08:26they were destroyed their career were torn down their respect was you know to the dust to the garbage

01:08:36Caribbean people just ostracize them just cast them off the map totally their life was just

01:08:43generally made very miserable nothing good ever came of many of them some of them was thought to

01:08:48have gone kinky getting hooked on cocaine or other debilitating drugs and that's another devilish curse I had

01:08:56heard some of the players who came back to badly treated I had heard that some of them had fallen in hard times

01:09:02but when I came back from South Africa I didn't come back to the West Indies I went to Florida it hurt to

01:09:09not be a part of that team being able to walk down the street hold your head high that was better than

01:09:16millionaires that was better than gold these guys will always be my friends regardless of the decisions that

01:09:22that they made in life I'm not in any position to judge anyone but the Jews are out there

01:09:28I met Desmond Tutu and he said Nelson Mandela we appreciate you what the West Indies was doing at the

01:09:38time thank you so much in helping to dismantle the apartheid regime in helping the

01:09:44movement of some of our struggling brothers and sisters when I heard that I was rather moved

01:09:50wow they knew who you were and they knew exactly the part you played it felt very appreciated

01:09:57the struggle goes on even though you were winning as much as you are you got to be so aware and be

01:10:11watchful that's when the evil side of things and the racism could easily catch you off guard you stop

01:10:20taking the punches now and start giving some all of a sudden some have a problem with that

01:10:25every time there have been successful black expressions be it culturally sporting or politically there have been attempts to bring it down the English press have always been

01:10:27Every time there have been successful black expressions, be it culturally, sporting or

01:10:49politically, there have been attempts to bring it down.

01:10:54The English press have always been very, very, very damaging.

01:10:58How we suffered the amount of pressure that the English press used to put us on.

01:11:04I know that I think this cricket is rubbish.

01:11:07What you're doing is you're staging a human coconut shine.

01:11:11Some of the players thought their level of criticism was racial.

01:11:14Because they couldn't get you, colour was always the next thing.

01:11:18I don't suppose they expected the success to have gone on so long.

01:11:22I always thought that they'll fall soon.

01:11:24Yeah, a couple of years and then they'll be back where we know them to be.

01:11:28They wanted the old style West Indies, entertaining and losing.

01:11:32When that changed, a lot of people didn't like that idea.

01:11:35This is the body armour required against the West Indies.

01:11:38Self-preservation is the name of the game.

01:11:40We were never given credit.

01:11:42We were always being looked upon as though our success was mainly to intimidation.

01:11:48Those sort of things will make me lose my cool.

01:11:52People who didn't have the fast bowlers were the ones who were critical.

01:11:55Let no one fool you.

01:12:02Everyone wanted to have fast bowlers the way we did.

01:12:07Everyone.

01:12:08There was jealousy.

01:12:10It went to the very top.

01:12:12The English people in authority decided to restrict the West Indies.

01:12:16Different rules and limitations on how you can bowl the ball.

01:12:20It was just too much.

01:12:22They did everything to stifle the success of West Indies cricket.

01:12:27And they always thought that they would kill us.

01:12:29Going to England in 1984.

01:12:33We wanted to send a message that when we are hurt, we'll come out fighting.

01:12:37The drive against England.

01:12:39It was a matter of making sure that what we started, we were going to finish.

01:12:44Can we do it again?

01:12:46Let's go there and prove that the first one wasn't a fake.

01:12:50The great occasion of the summer, England and the West Indies.

01:13:01Two teams locked in battle.

01:13:03A very, very important stand this for England.

01:13:07England had very good players during that period.

01:13:10Some of the best in the world.

01:13:12And some fiery exchanges out there.

01:13:15They could compete.

01:13:21Somewhat immense pressure.

01:13:23The English were saying that this is the best chance to beat us.

01:13:27It was a who draw first blood situation.

01:13:31Great shot.

01:13:33Excellent start by Inwood.

01:13:36And Otham breaks through.

01:13:38Lovely display of aggression.

01:13:40And Alan Lamb goes to a century.

01:13:43That test match at Lord's.

01:13:46They were in the ascendancy.

01:13:48The West Indies deep in trouble now.

01:13:50I can remember wondering to myself.

01:13:53Are we going to win this game?

01:13:56Facing the fire.

01:13:59It was pressure for me.

01:14:01Is today going to be my day?

01:14:04All these things you would have gone through.

01:14:07Those years of hurt.

01:14:09Now have to be put in focus.

01:14:12That's an extraordinary strike.

01:14:13That's an extraordinary strike.

01:14:17And that went off like a riot.

01:14:18The West Indian spectators delirious.

01:14:20Win gone on his best.

01:14:21I tell you it's brilliant to watch.

01:14:22And that day at large, you know, you just look unstoppable.

01:14:23The West Indian spectators delirious.

01:14:24Win gone on his best.

01:14:25I tell you it's brilliant to watch.

01:14:26And that day at large, you know, you just look unstoppable.

01:14:27He was just in awesome form.

01:14:28flying it to all parts of the ground.

01:14:29The West Indian spectators delirious.

01:14:30Win gone on his best.

01:14:31I tell you it's brilliant to watch.

01:14:33And that day at large, you know, you just look unstoppable.

01:14:34He was just in awesome form.

01:14:35Flying it to all parts of the ground.

01:14:36I applauded him all the way back to the pavilion.

01:14:37214 not out.

01:14:38And what seemed to be an almost impossible assignment has turned out to be the best.

01:14:42The West Indian spectators delirious.

01:14:44The West Indian spectators delirious.

01:14:45Win gone on his best.

01:14:46I tell you it's brilliant to watch.

01:14:47And that day at large, you know, you just look unstoppable.

01:14:52He was just in awesome form.

01:14:55Flying it to all parts of the ground.

01:14:58I applauded him all the way back to the pavilion.

01:15:01214 not out.

01:15:02And what seemed to be an almost impossible assignment has turned out to be an absolute

01:15:08dollar.

01:15:09And I think that was a defining moment that we felt that we could come from the brink regardless

01:15:14of whatever.

01:15:15We were now fighters.

01:15:16We didn't know when we were beaten.

01:15:18Nothing was too daunting for us.

01:15:22And out of that spirit emerged this youngster called Malcolm Marshall.

01:15:27Once Malcolm Marshall went out, you knew that he was going to produce.

01:15:34Marshall strikes again.

01:15:36Malcolm was a guy who just exude this sort of brilliance.

01:15:40The future of the ball and the top was always there.

01:15:43That was Malcolm.

01:15:44Malcolm Marshall bearing a double fracture.

01:15:47He broke his arm.

01:15:48It was in plaster.

01:15:49I said, you think you can play with that?

01:15:51He said, well, if you want me to, I will.

01:15:54To see him come out with one arm in the plaster of Paris, I think made him a giant of a man

01:16:01really.

01:16:02There was a guy who was in excruciating pain, running up the ball at the speed of light.

01:16:07Ran out on bats and won the game for us.

01:16:11That showed the spirit of our team.

01:16:15The statement made, you know, just very, very powerful.

01:16:19He didn't miss glasses to believe this.

01:16:22It's not just the man out in the field bowling the ball and trying to get the opponent.

01:16:28It's the man watching the radio.

01:16:30He says, we're going to bowl him now.

01:16:32We have to get him now.

01:16:34And I've seen this happening.

01:16:36Billy and it turns to jail.

01:16:41What the man's in?

01:16:43How's he doing?

01:16:44What is toughie like?

01:16:47How is that?

01:16:48And it started to...

01:16:50How the world was that?

01:16:51Feel the stump fly.

01:16:53I've seen that as a game going over there.

01:16:56I've just chopped faster.

01:16:58Big nights in the place.

01:16:59You know, they get what they want.

01:17:00No fun I can tell you for any England batsman.

01:17:03that's the kind of unification that's the kind of willpower that the people develop

01:17:13you were just seeing something totally brutal and all what it needed was the finishing touches

01:17:21at the end of four test matches we were four nil up we could have taken the foot of the

01:17:25gas we never played cricket like that not this team i played for anyway

01:17:28don't let them fool you we were humiliating them we were really making them grovel by

01:17:36they're not being allowed to win even one there was this feeling that we could be looking at five

01:17:43done the white star the angels got mad and you run down so get west please plug everyone down

01:17:51sir it went crazy you're talking a tremendous amount the energy i could imagine the noise

01:17:58and the various islands i could see the passion how people felt

01:18:06all these guys had a very special message i think we are an equal power in here

01:18:10babylon it's not a place it's a practice that is unrighteous me not rating you because of your

01:18:21color not treating each other as human beings that is babylon the english had difficulty in recognizing

01:18:29what west indians had done with cricket but guess what i think they came to like it

01:18:34this was going to change the game forever and it was going to bring value that is what you call

01:18:41cultural exchange in its finest sense live for yourself you live in vain live for others you live

01:18:49again one love they were part of us whatever we did what we achieved we brought a lot of songs to

01:18:59people to the people who were struggling we defeated england beating them every test of the series

01:19:06represented a total reversal of our humiliation and our full flowering as a cricketing power

01:19:13even in changing it from whitewash and calling it now blackwash black is beautiful black is bright

01:19:20that to me epitomized everything that we represented bravery wanting to succeed the true west indian feeling

01:19:34there was a lot that we had to overcome we did not complain and here we are one of the greatest sporting

01:19:41teams in the history of team sports

01:19:44to be around people who you had an enormous amount of respect for and to able to have done that with

01:19:56them especially yeah all right let me cut it short it was like slave whipping the asses of masters

01:20:14these are rare moments in one's life especially with the struggles that one would have been through

01:20:20it is history that you'll never forget that's what it was

01:20:34i see your face in front of me still grainy from that old black and white tv my whole family silence

01:20:47in silence watching you shake destiny with your two hands faster than i can see

01:20:56you know what i just take a few facts 10 years old there's a fact an undisputed fact that between

01:21:03february march of 1980 and february march of 1995 the west indies did not lose a test series

01:21:1215 years they did not lose a test series and no other sporting team in any discipline anywhere in

01:21:19the world dominated their sport for 15 years and we are very proud of that

01:21:28so

01:21:33i

01:21:37Did you know I was?

01:21:43Did you know I was?

01:21:53Did you know I was?

01:21:58Did you know I was?

01:22:00Your achievements if I believe

01:22:02From the belly of the beast rising like yeast

01:22:04My release from no self-esteem

01:22:06Came when I saw you rapping on my TV screen

01:22:09You flapped like a butterfly that described my walk to school

01:22:12After fight night I felt so cool

01:22:14Cause I was the greatest too

01:22:16Love is self-born simply out of love for you

01:22:18And I knew some dope people that loved me too

01:22:21None of the heck I didn't about my black-skinned suit

01:22:23I'd need to walk barefoot to hell for you

01:22:26It's how I felt back then and I still do

01:22:28So did you accept these humble words of praise

01:22:31And my gratitude for those glorious days

01:22:33And the notorious ways instilled in a young mind

01:22:36Skills sublime, yours to mine

01:22:38I knew you are

01:23:05Would you know what I know?

01:23:10Would you know what you are?

01:23:15Would you know what I know?

01:23:35Would you know what I know?

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