By Cosmo Hamilton
The West Indies team was fresh from a hard fought victory over India in the absorbing 1974-75 Five-Test series that went down to the wire as the team from the Caribbean under Clive Lloyd in his debut as captain, took the Fifth and decisive Test at Bombay in which he scored an epic 242 not out in the first innings. It was evident that the West Indies team was beginning to forge a new identity under the fledgling skipper after the departure of the legend Garfield Sobers. On that India tour Test debutants Gordon Greenidge and Vivian Richards and another newcomer named Andy Roberts gave early snapshots of their star quality.
Complemented by the likes of Roy Fredericks, Alvin Kallicharran, Deryck Murray, and all-rounders Keith Boyce and Bernard Julien,
