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Len Baichan
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 3:07 pm
by Googley
If Baich was given a fair shake at WI team, could he have made it as Shiv did?
Afterall he was discarded only after 3 games at an average of 46 and first class of 51 (I do believe).
Re: Len Baichan
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 3:26 pm
by BallOil
Googley wrote:If Baich was given a fair shake at WI team, could he have made it as Shiv did?
Afterall he was discarded only after 3 games at an average of 46 and first class of 51 (I do believe).
looking at his stats and the quality of bowling around then I would say yes... But I didn't see the chap play ... Who they replaced Len with?
Re: Len Baichan
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 3:29 pm
by BallOil
What is his Test strike rate googs?
Re: Len Baichan
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 3:48 pm
by howzdat
BallOil wrote:What is his Test strike rate googs?
I remember him playing for Guyana and West Indies.
Martin Williamson from cricinfo wrote:A left-hand opener with remarkable powers of concentration, Len Baichan made hundreds in his first two matches of the West Indies' 1974-75 tour of India and Pakistan, the second a match-saving effort in the second innings of the first Test at Lahore. A car accident meant he missed the Tests against India, and the presence of Roy Fredericks and Gordon Greenidge made it nigh on impossible for him to regain one of the opening slots. He made his third and final appearance - batting No. 3 - the following winter in the sixth Test against Australia at Melbourne where he made 3 and 20 against the might of Lillee and Thomson. That was that.
Coming up with his strike rate is gonna take some doing cos back then they didn't have such stats as a natural part of the records. I remember he was pretty sticky at the crease.
Re: Len Baichan
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 3:59 pm
by Googley
Len was replaced by Greenidge, who btw stink up the place in Oz. Yet, Len only got 1 game.
Re: Len Baichan
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 8:51 pm
by mapoui
yuh always goin' orn with dese things. Baichan before who?
Biachan is good for when yu dont have better. a strokeless wonder he cud sit down in the wicket, bl;ock fuh days on end.
but lillee and dem got him anyway. he cud not block dem and get away with it
if yu must do with baichan yu must do. but not when ah Greenidge appears, or a haynes....fuhget about it
Re: Len Baichan
Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 8:28 am
by mapoui
Greenidge obviously had a lot of ability.
the Oz pace attack, along with the oz empires, befuddled everybody on the westindies team, including baichan...broke Kallies nose among many blows to the westindies team and westindian pride.
everybody failed in the end save Viv. pay back wud have to wait for another time, during which the nebies wud develop. and develop deh did and payback we exerted.
stop with yuh crocodile tears. wasted water dat is. deh doh make nutten grow
Re: Len Baichan
Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 10:09 am
by BallOil
Maps...early Sunday mornin you are beating up pon Gong Lee?
Re: Len Baichan
Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 10:44 am
by mapoui
Re: Len Baichan
Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 9:14 am
by Googley
Maps chatting up pure shyte! Stroke wonder as he calls baich, was the one who saved WI against Pakistan! And this was scab team the WI was using either!
Did I not say that Oz tamed everyone on that tour?
How come you are not addressing why Baichan only got one chance????? eh?
