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If I am correct, that happened to be Ian Redpath's last series.
He ended his career in fine style scoring 3 hundreds. In fact,
he hit his first six in test cricket during the course of one
of the hundreds. It was McCoskar who lost his place during mid series
but came back with a hundred before the series was over.

RABINDRAN

d Kanhai played in that series ?   He had retired from test cricket
  by that time. He did play in the 1975 world cup in England, though.
  BTW, you forgot Alvin Kallicharan and... Jesus-I-forgot-his-name,
  the first 300 wkt spinner.. Another big name was Lawrence Rowe, the
  opener who had showed so much promise earler on, but faded away later.
  Wasn't Keith Boyce also in that team ?

  Lance Gibbs. He retired with a haul of 309 wickets. No, Kanhai didn't
  play in the series. If I'am not mistaken, he was dropped. He, however,
  played in the '75 world cup and scored a half centaury in the final.
  Yes, Boyce was in the team, but the big name definitely was Andy Roberts.
  He was very quick in that series. Before the series began, Rowe was the
  most dreaded of the WI batting line up. But he had problems with his
  sight. He played against the West Zone before the first test and was
  quickly dismissed by Salgaonkar. He didn't play in any of the test matches
  in that series. He later played against India when India toured WI in '76.
  He'd some useful knocks, but that's about it.

  That was a memorable series. India tied the series after losing the first
  2 tests thanks to the spinners and Vishy. Then before the final test at
  Bombay ( first at the ***hede stadium ), the whole city Bombay was talking
  about just cricket. Then there was a rumor that WI were going to fly Sobers
  just for the last test. The actual test turned out to be one sided though.
  Even though everyone talks about Lloyd's 242, my personal favorite was
  Gavaskar's 86 in the first innings. He had missed the previous three tests
  and there were doubts about his form. I won't forget his footwork against
  Gibbs and the leg spinner Barrett.

Nitin Bhave

kanhai hadn't come to india for that series, maybe you are talking about
kallicharan ?

the typical west indies line up for that series was :

1.  fredericks
2.  greenidge
3.  kallicharan
4.  richards
5.  lloyd
6.  murray
7.  julien
8.  boyce
9.  holder
10.  roberts
11.  gibbs

abhijit

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Abhijit Sahay,
UC, Berkeley.

During the Madras test in this series, one of the commentators
went :

`` In comes Anderson Montgomery Everton Roberts and bowls to
   Gundappa Ranganath Vishwa...four runs!''

-- abhijit

Lawrence Rowe had an accident and I believe he lost an eye. He was truly
outstanding.

Yeah, Vishy has always been superb under pressure. Brings to memory, the
classic centuries he and Vengsarkar scored at Lords to save the match.

Dept. of Computer Science
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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              ^^^^^^

After playing test cricket he joined Packer's gang in 1977.  In one
match he was asked to bowl, actually got a wicket and jumped in the
air with glee to celebrate.  Unfortunately he tore his achillees
tendon in the process and *that* was the end of his career!
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  One of Kipling's "White flannelled fools."     \_.--._/
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Wasn't this Holding's first tour as an 18 year old?  I can still see
him on his knees crying on the field after having Ian Chappell given
"NOT OUT" caught behind.  Of course nobody was game to call him a
'crybaby'! :-)

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                                                 /      \ <-- Brizzo
  One of Kipling's "White flannelled fools."     \_.--._/
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