Big Bird : 1983

             

"I turned to Malcolm and said :

'Do you think you'll have to bat today?'" Garner recalls.

"He came back with, 'Yeah, and you too.'

"I think he saw the look on my face. After all, he would bat at No. 8 and I was No. 10."

"You know when we chase small totals, everybody looks to the next person to finish the job,"

he reasoned. Marshall's forewarning and Garner's response -

"In that case, well then, we've got a problem"                  - were prophetic.

Marshall wrote in his autobiography that they

"had paid the ultimate price for an act of complacency".

Captain Clive Lloyd acknowledged afterwards that his team had approached the small target

"in a complacent manner", conceding that India had played better on the day.

"They were perhaps mentally stronger,"  :-[

"There must have been 5000 Indian fans there in the lobby with their cowbells and their music,

taunting 'We beat you.'

I said to myself, 'You mean I've got to put up with this?'"  ::LOL::

                     

Folks, cannot believe Subba Row got me great seats.... ::LOL::

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Happy 83rd Birthday TODAY Rafman  !