Fire in Babylon

How the West Indies Cricket Team Brought a People to its Feet

Ranked #26 in Cricket

Cricket had never been played like this. Cricket had never meant so much.





The West Indies had always had brilliant cricketers; it hadn’t always had brilliant cricket teams. But in 1974, a man called Clive Lloyd began to lead a side which would at last throw off the shackles that had hindered the region for centuries. Nowhere else had a game been so closely connected to a people’s past and their future hopes; nowhere else did cricket liberate a people like it did in the Caribbean.





For almost two decades, Clive Lloyd...
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