Were the great West Indies team untested against spin?

[anikrc1]

I didn't watch the great west Indies team of the 70's and 80's. The greatest team i watched was the great aussie team. And they dominated all kind of bowling attack , not only pace. They won against prime murali in lanka, , against prime kumble and bhajji in India, against saqlain and mushtaq
in Pakistan, when saqlain was in his prime. Compared to that, As my father said that West Indies faced India , our unholy trinity were at the end of there careers. In the 1980's only world class spinner was Abdul Qadir, and they didn't manage to win a single series against him. Even Narendra hirwani, who ended with an mediocre record managed to draw a series against them. Given that both team faced pacers of roughly the same quality, shouldn't this go against the west indies team while comparing them to the great Aussie team?

 

[Robert]

They were a bit vulnerable to good spin, though they lost just one series in twenty years (that in NZ with a lot of rain and questionable umpiring). There were no top line spinners to practice against in the Shell Shield, and their batters didn’t face any in the County Championship either.

 

[happydavy]

Yeah rite.. kuch bhi..

 

[anikrc1]

Yeah rite.. kuch bhi..

It's true. Compare the quality of spinners faced by Aussies against that of West Indies. They faced our trinity at the end oftheir career. Struggled against qadir. While the Aussies played in the era of great spinners. As far as fast bowling is concerned lilee, Thompson, willis, botham, Hadlee, Washim, Kapil , Washington Vs Donald, pollock, ntini, Washington, waqar,shoaib,gough,ambrose,walsh, bond, srinath, these two groups are roughly of the same quality. But the spinners Aussies faced were at a different level.

 

[KP From India]

Maybe....but Aussies too were not so great against sheer pace and swing as shown by Bond, pace quartlet of Hoggard, Harmison, Flintoff, Jones also by Shoib and Waqar.

 

[KP From India]

I think a bowler like Bumrah would have troubled Aussies more than someone like Shaun Pollock, though I might be wrong.