The West Indies Golden Age

The West Indies is a fairly decent team in the present day. They have qualified for all world cups and have one a T20 world cup in 2016.
Windies can beat anyone on their day' – coach Richard Pybus

 However during the late 1970 - mid 1990's, West Indies were cricket's most powerful force. This all started when the West Indies were in the 1975 world cup. They ended up at the top of their group's table. They ended up beating New Zealand in the semi-finals and Beat Australia in the Finals by 17 runs. They also went unbeaten during the whole tournament. They were also in the 1979 world cup. They also ended at the top of the group again. They beat Pakistan in the semi-finals. They beat England in the finals by a whopping 92 runs. They again went unbeaten during the whole tournament.
On This Day: Windies win 1979 World Cup

 During these times they had the best bowling attack in the history of cricket. This bowling attack included Colin Croft, Michael Holding, Joel Garner, Andy Roberts and Malcom Marshall. Who have all had a 5+ wicket hall and whose test bowling averages were under 25. They also had a scary batting attack including Clive Lloyd, Viv Richards, Desmond Haynes and Gordon Greenidge.

 They continued to tear teams apart with their furious batting and bowling attack. They also beat the world-famous Australia 2-0 in a 3 match test series.

 This squad was legendary and is talked about everywhere as one of the best squads of all time. This truly was the West Indie's Golden Age/Era.
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