AS West Indies extended Christmas charity to their South African hosts on the opening day of the second Test at Port Elizabeth’s St. George’s Park yesterday, Michael Holding made an undeniable observation on television commentary.
It was that the all-conquering teams of the 1980s would not have been quite so all-conquering had he and his proliferation of pace partners been repeatedly betrayed by their fielders as are the present, appreciably weaker West Indies.
Almost invariably, when Holding and his accomplices found edges that flew into slips and gully, any combination of Vivian Richards, Clive Lloyd, Alvin Kallicharran, Lawrence Rowe, Roger Harper, Richie Richardson and Gordon Greenidge were there to latch on to them; the
