cricket in the 70's

Australia
May 5, 2008 7:34pm CST
well who's your fav player that played in the 70's and what did you think of the 70's for cricket wise. for me the 70's was teh start of modern cricket with the wsc cricket starting up with packer. it had great players, from the end of sobers career to teh start of viv richards to the chappel era with dennis and thompson what a great era my fav players would definatly be, sobers, ian chapple, dennis. viv, doug walters, geoff boycott
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@dexterlab (458)
9 May 08
the favorite player that played in the 70s is sunil gavaskar he was the awesome player of thet time i am the the great fan of the gavaskar his record his method of playing and his methodlogy was awesome
• Australia
10 May 08
i have to admit that sunil gavasker was one of the best openers i have seen in my life. even though i prefer to watch other openers such as boycott,gooch,desmond haynes,gorden grendige,mark taylor and mike atherton. thats what i'd prefer to "watch play" but sunil gavaskar was probably the best opener or one of the best openers there was/is
@mrtimharry (1180)
6 May 08
Viv Richards was good but from an England point of view Ian Botham has to be the best or at least most entertaining although he probably didn't hit his best form until 1980 or 81
• Australia
10 May 08
well seeing as though this is a cricket in the 70's i really dont think ian botham should be counted in this:P i should make a cricket in the 80's one yeah i might do that in the future but yeah best player-early 70's sir garfield sobers
• Pakistan
11 May 08
70's era will always be remembered for Westindies domination, begining of ODI cricket, Kerry packer's cirus and Ofcourse gentleman's game This era produced the legends fo the game that are always remembered. Some of the few legends i do remember now are: Sir Viv Richards Sir Garry Sobers Sir Ian Botham Imran Khan Clive Lloyd Gregg Chappel Ian Chappel Dennis Lilee Javed Miandad Richard Hadlee Sunil Gavaskar Geoff Boycott and the list goes on To select one player from the following will be the toughest job ever since all were great in their own ways. I will place 3 players on top and thwese will be 1. Sir Viv Richards 2. Sir Garry Sobers 3. Imran Khan Sir Viv Richards, the agressive hostile batsmen, who literally hated to run. He scored boundaries. He dominated the bowlers all over the world. Even the tough cricket has become faster, but still eh holds the record for the fastest ever century in tests. His famous innings of 181 in ODI's is still termed as the bestever ODI innings and was the highest score in ODIs for quite long time. Sir Garry Sobers, a master all rounder, he was equally great with both bat abd bowl. Hwe could ahve played in any team eith as a bowler or as a batsmen. he could bowl medium pacers as well as slow china man. He used to have the record for highest test score of 365, which was later broken by his own countryman, Brian Charles Lara Imran Khan, a great all rounder and an aggressive intelligent captain. He changed the afte of Pakistani cricket. He used to be the spearhead of the bowling attack and learnt the art iof reverse swing which was later passed on to Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis and other bowlers. In the latter stage of his career, he played more as a batsman in the team. He was a great captain. Straigtforward, aggressive and always thinking of winning. he termed leg spinners as wicket takers and introduced them in ODIs. In his captaincy, he won the WORLD CUP 1992 inspite of having a weak squad and a poor start tournament. He termed the pakistani players tigers.