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grovel
Wed, August 17 2016
Michael ‘Whispering Death’ Holding blows away Tony ‘Grovel’ Greig’s England
Holding, who had earlier said Greig’s comment ‘smacked of racism and Apartheid’, emerged as a hero. “He got our backs up and made us more determined,” he had said and his performances/actions backed his words, unlike Greig’s.
Tue, January 20 2015
Fire in Babylon – Documentary film about the record-breaking West Indian team of 1970s and 1980s
Set in the times of the turbulent apartheid era in South Africa, race riots in England and civil unrest in the Caribbean, the West Indies cricketers, with their skill and fearless spirit march their way to glory triumphing over their colonial masters and shambling the forces of white prejudice.
Fri, May 02 2014
Cricketing Rifts 14: When West Indies made Greig’s life miserable for using word ‘grovel’
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. In this series, Arunabha Sengupta looks at some of the most famous feuds of cricket. In Part 14 of the series, he writes on how the West Indians hounded and humiliated Tony Grieg for his insensitive choice of words.