Tag Archives: John Snow

(Part 49.) Gary Gilmour’s day. While the West Indies were breezing past New Zealand at The Oval in London in one semi-final, a relative newcomer to the Australian side had a day to remember up at Headingley in Leeds, as Ian Chappell’s men overcame their old rivals, England, to book …

(Part 45.) Turner turns up again. With only six days to go to the 50th anniversary of the West Indies victory over Australia in the 1975 World Cup final, and having put the focus on the Caribbean side’s surprisingly easy defeat of the ‘Aussies’ on the last day of group action …

(Part 28.) England expects… If experience alone was the deciding factor, England would have won the 1975 Cricket World Cup running away. In no other part of the cricketing world was the limited-over game played in such profusion at that time. We already established that the first limited-over competition started …