Feature documentary about the great West Indies cricket team of the 1970's/80's.
Director:
Stevan RileyWriter:
Stevan Riley
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Credited cast: | |||
Richie Benaud | ... | Self - Commentator (voice) (archive footage) | |
Ian Botham | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Geoffrey Boycott | ... | Self - Commentator (voice) (archive footage) | |
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Brian Close | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Colin Croft | ... | Self |
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Jeffery Dujon | ... | Self |
David Frost | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Joel Garner | ... | Self | |
Sunil Gavaskar | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Lance Gibbs | ... | Self |
David Gower | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Gordon Greenidge | ... | Self |
Tony Greig | ... | Self | |
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Desmond Haynes | ... | Self |
Jason Holder | ... | Self - Opening Credit Fast Bowler |
Feature documentary about the great West Indies cricket team of the 1970's/80's.
STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday Morning
A documentary by Stevan Riley, charting the rise of the West Inides cricket team during the late 1970s and early 1980s, from their humiliating defeat in Australia in 1975, which spurred them on to form an electrifying team that took on the likes of England and India, lifting the hopes of a people and a nation, from the sturdy leadership of Clive Lloyd, onto the enigmatic Viv Richards.
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