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@OhGlammyGlammy @GlamCricket Love the mug mike

C'mon @GlamCricket - get to 300 if you can. #OhGlammyGlammy

@nickwebb2017 @CountyChamp Yes with Dickson at 3

@CfcSprucey @CountyChamp Byrom after 100 in Somerset friendly

🏏1️⃣ day to go @CountyChamp #cricket *weather not guaranteed BBC Glamorgan page has season previews and is the place to bookmark for commentaries and reports bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/…

@ToeKneeM1995 Agree mate not in the same class

Just nearly crashed my car when McCoist and cascarino just said it’s a tough choice to pick between Gerrard and Rice. It’s not even close, Rice couldn’t lace his boots. Talkshite as usual.

@nimishdubey Good article

Speak of West Indies in the late seventies and the eighties and it is a fair chance that most people will talk of their high quality pace bowling. As per many, it was this that enabled to dominate world cricket. There is more than a grain of truth in this. Any team with an array of bowlers like Roberts, Holding, Marshall, Croft, Garner, Walsh, Ambrose, Daneil, Bishop and Patterson would be a handful to play against. Indeed, the second string of Windies pacers would have been good enough to make it to most Test teams - Gray, Davis, Small (Milton), Baptiste, Benjamin (Winston) and a few others. However, a crucial part that gets overlooked in this analysis is the incredible strenght of the West Indies batting line up. For a perios of time, from about the late 1970s to the mid 1980s, the West Indies had four batsmen - Richards, Lloyd, Greenidge and Haynes - with averages well above forty, in an era when an average of 35 was the rule. They even had Kallicharan until 1979-80 and Roy Fredericks until 1977, who again averaged above forty. Larry Gomes got off to a slow start but was a heavy scorer in the 1980s. Most cricket teams at that time had at the most two players with averages above forty and some (New Zealand) did not even have that. Add to that perhaps the best wicket-keeper batsman of that era, Jeff Dujon, and the West Indies were easily the best batting line up in the world, and that too by some distance (Steve Waugh's Australia were similarly gifted in batting, but other nations were not this far behind). What was sigfnficant was that this batting dominance came during a time when the likes of England, Australia and Pakistan had very good attacks. Imran Khan had once remarked that the real challenge of beating the West Indies was dismissing them cheaply. "They always ended up scoring 100 more than us," he said after an early 1980s series. Most cricket teams in the 1980s generally had 2-3exceptional batsmen, one of whom was potentially great. West Indies had FOUR great batsmen. Not surprisingly, the signs of the West Indies decline were marked by the weakening of thei batting, especially post the retirment of Lloyd in 1985. Although Richardson emerged as a great player, Lloyd was never replaced and Richards, Haynes and Greenidge got increasingly inconsistent towards the late eighties, and Dujon lost his batting touch to a great extent. The door was opened and the other teams would kick it down in the nineties, notwithstanding the best efforts of Ambrose and Walsh. Cricket is called a batsman's game, but this was a case in which bowlers totally overshadowed batsmen who could claim to have been great in their own right. And I just love that!! (@WG_RumblePants @alawyerwrites @VatsMusings @anandkumarn, @fredfertang, @Raja_Sw) #WestIndies #Nostalgia #Cricket

@Sher__Ali The GOAT

Sir Vivian Richards First-Class Career

@WG_RumblePants Think probably best overseas team to tour uk

I just stumbled across this photo of the 1984 West Indians on their tour of England. That’s really quite a team!

@GlamCricket He looking at getting test call up this year

Some of these shots 🤯💥 Ben Kellaway with a solid century in pre-season 👏 #OhGlammyGlammy

@StanCollymore Omg that bowling line up probably the greatest wouldn't like to face them on bouncy wicket

The West Indies, 1984 England Tour. Batsmen Clive Lloyd(C) - Guyana Larry Gomes -Trinidad & Tobago Gordon Greenidge -Barbados Desmond Haynes-Barbados Gus Logie-Trinidad & Tobago Viv Richards-Leeward Islands Richie Richardson -Leeward Islands Wicket Keepers Jeff Dujon-Jamaica Thelston Payne-Barbados All Rounders Eldine Baptiste -Leeward Islands Roger Harper -Guyana Bowlers Joel Garner -Barbados Michael Holding-Jamaica Malcolm Marshall -Barbados Milton Small -Barbados Courtney Walsh-Jamaica "Nuff said"

@whitewall618431 Very sad had good spell at Chelsea

Sad to hear Tony Godden has died. No one who was there will forget his two penalty saves at Old Trafford 1986 when Chelsea won 1-0 RIP Tony.

@fredfertang @abutch58 Good batsman watched him at Glamorgan opening with Hugh Morris great partnership

A look of determination on the face of a 22 year old @abutch58 as he bats against the 1976 West Indians in early May - Butch impressed in making 83 and 59 - should he have won a Test cap that summer?

@rhyscardiff Think we be ok in batting department just lacking in all rounder another bowler just about staying league this year

@CfcSprucey Yeah we are desperate for reinforcements

@rhyscardiff definitely need a strike bowler rhys

@rhyscardiff Yes agree hopefully they can recruit a bowler during season possibly on loan

@CfcSprucey Yeah 100% light in the pace bowling department. Thought we needed 2 seamers and that was before Harris retirement 🤦‍♂️

@CFCJnR @calvin_bough 6 million what a bargain think I'd give 6 million to badiashille and fofana to go

Chelsea signed Gary Cahill for £6m from Bolton, and he won every single trophy. One of the best Centre Backs in the Premier League through his peak, a monster. I look at most of our Defenders now and cry, this was a real man, now we got wimps.

@rhyscardiff @GlamCricket Oh cheers mate 👍

@CfcSprucey @GlamCricket Mark Wallace announced at the AGM it’s Ryan Hadley, NSW seamer. Been reported that Sam Elliott is now Middlesex bound, which is quite annoying as he’s had a superb season

👀⌛🇦🇺⚡ #OhGlammyGlammy

@GlamCricket can't believe no front line bowler been signed by county going to cost them in 1st division current bowling attack no where near good enough

Come back Dave beasant

@GlamCricket G O A T best I've seen

Swagger. Power. Greatness. Happy Birthday to the legendary Sir Viv Richards 👑 #OhGlammyGlammy