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Colin Croft

Colin Croft demands probe into West Indies’ dismal show

Colin Croft has called for an inquiry into West Indies' disappointing performances .

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Sachin Tendulkar lucky not to have faced West Indian pace greats: Imran Khan

Former Pakistan captain Imran Khan on Saturday said recently-retired Indian batting icon Sachin Tendulkar was lucky to have never faced the ferocious West Indies pace attack of '70 and '80s.

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Barbados school names park after Malcolm Marshall

A school in Barbados has named its park after a former student, the late West Indies fast bowler Malcolm Marshall.

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World 1979 Cup final: Viv Richards, Collis King and Joel Garner play pivotal roles in annihilating England

West Indies bagged their second World Cup title owing to a century from the magical willow of Viv Richards, a blitzkrieg by Collis King and toe-crushing yorkers from Joel Garner. The English were emphatically trumped, falling short by 92 runs.

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Colin Croft: Most unorthodox of the West Indian fast bowling terrors

Colin Croft, they said, could bounce his grandmother...

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Colin Croft takes 8 for 29, best-ever figures for a West Indian fast bowler

Colin Croft was playing only his second Test, but that did not stop him from going past the 8 for 92 by Michael Holding — the man he replaced.

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Colin Croft barges into umpire Fred Goodall

When Colin Croft veered away at the last moment to crash into Fred Goodall.

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Ravichandran Ashwin becomes fastest Indian to take 50 wickets in Test cricket

Ravichandran Ashwin has become the fastest India to record 50 wickets in Test matches as he overhauled the milestone in his ninth game. He achieved it when he dismissed the England opener Nick Compton on the second day of the first Test at Ahmedabad.

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Treat for cricket fans as Fire in Babylon releases today in Indian theatres

'Fire in Babylon’ releases in India today, a riveting behind-the-scenes look at the evolution of the West Indies cricket team into a fearsome superpower running on a battery of pace bowlers. Arunabha Sengupta turns a critical eye at the movie which shows some of the scariest spells of fast bowling.

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Cricketing Rifts 21: Holding’s kick and Croft’s shoulder charge

The Dhoni-Sehwag rift may have been true or blown out of proportion by the media. However, far from being unique, discords such as this have been commonplace in the history of the game

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