Pratham Chhabria |
Part 7
Pratham: You went to Australia after this 68-69 England series. It was Wes and Charlie
Last tour.
Pratham: And you passed the first test, which was in Brisbane, a transport of 8 counters in the match for
Establish a victory.
Pratham: Do you remember this Brisbane performance?
Lance Gibbs: No.
Pratham: All right.
Pratham: It was now the only victory that the Antilles would have during this tour. They would finish
Losing this series against Australia in 68 -’69 by a decent margin: 3-1.
Lance Gibbs: I had to drink (both grove)!
Pratham: There are reports on how it was not a very happy tour in 68 to 69. Sir Garry spoke
On how 30 catches have been reduced.
Lance Gibbs: What?
Pratham: In 4 tests, yes.
Pratham: It was considered a fairly harsh tour. I suppose your memories now –
To judge by your memories, you do not have much of which you remember this series?
Lance Gibbs: (Shake the head)
Pratham: No?
Pratham: Well, there was a period in your career in which we would enter after this Australian tour where
You have had a little crisis in your form.
Pratham: This is from ’69 to ’71.
Pratham: You visited New Zealand, England, then India at home.
Pratham: Your figures for most of your career were really good – but there was this period, that
Three -year period, where they …
Lance Gibbs: Were not very good.
Pratham: Not very good – at all, really
(Note: Lance Bowling Record Gibbs of his international
The beginnings until the end of the Australian tour of 1968 in 43 games were 191 windows to an average of
25.19. Between the New Zealand tour of February 1969 to the loss of the Home Antilles series
In India in 1971 where he only played one match in Guyana and was abandoned, the rest, launches
Gibbs welcomed 8 games 18 windows with an average of 56.11).
Pratham: I remember when we discussed for the last time, you had an injury that I saw photos – the
Bombed from your index – the index you would use to turn (the ball).
Pratham: I remember an image dating from ’69.
Pratham: Do you think that the lack of results at that time was perhaps due to this injury
you had?
Lance Gibbs: Yeah, bulge.
Pratham: And that you would say, was it mainly a part of having to be part of so many overshoots?
Lance Gibbs: Could be.
Pratham: Obviously, there are so many factors involved, but it seems that if you are injured …
Lance Gibbs: Yeah.
Pratham: You will probably not be able to give your best.
Pratham: Well, returning to the era of the crisis in your form, you were excluded from all except 1
Match against India at home in 1970-71.
Pratham: Jack Noreiga was chosen in place of you and it was a spinner. He only played
This series and was quite old at that time.
Pratham: India would in fact win its 1st series abroad in this tour. They would win
This 1-0 series. You have played a game – you did not take a counter in this particular game.
Pratham: The reasons why the selectors gave you to have been abandoned aside – did you go well
with them? How did you take it? How did you try to bounce back into this situation?
Lance Gibbs: Once I decided to continue playing, I will continue to enter the side.
Pratham: So you felt that even if you had been abandoned …
Lance Gibbs: I could make a return.
Pratham: And you made a return – in 1973, of course. Now Australia has won the 2-0 series, but
You took 26 counters in a home series against them.
Pratham: What did you think you are the most responsible to get back in shape?
Lance Gibbs: Probably check the finger.
Pratham: I see, I see. Fairly fair.
Pratham: Ian Chappell was the captain of this tour. And he said it was an interesting series in
that there were certain circumstances that they would not expect to win but they ended up
Put a 2-0 defeat for the West Indies.
Pratham: And Doug Walters also scored a 100 in this tour during a session.
Lance Gibbs: I remember him. Struck at n ° 6
(Note: while Doug Walters beat at n ° 6 in the
Ordering order for most of the tour, it was promoted to the stick at n ° 4 in the 3rd test where it
marked a 100 in a session after Ian Chappell moved in the order of striker at n ° 6 after
excavate your ankle).
Pratham: Chappell talks about a battle in this round of this tour where Doug Walters was
Playing on a rotating surface and fought very well.
Pratham: What is Doug that allowed him to score as many races against the West
Indes and you in particular?
Lance Gibbs: Doug Walters… He was not a coward. He would take risks. And he would do it
Probably get away with it, like that day.
Pratham: Did he play a lot of the back?
Lance Gibbs: When a guy like this one plays on the retro-cuffage, you must bring it coming
Before!
Pratham: Right, right.
Pratham: Well, your last series in England was in 1973.
Pratham: But you have been playing regularly in England for many years before that.
Pratham: I was looking at the moment when you spent the bowling alley for the Warwickshire.
Lance Gibbs: Warwickshire, yes.
Pratham: You had signed up there for Bowl in the county (Cricket). What was your experience
County cricket bowling?
Lance Gibbs: Very different, very different. It was like playing another game.
Pratham: How was Birmingham? You stayed there …
Lance Gibbs: Yeah, I lived there until I lived here.
Pratham: So how was it?
Lance Gibbs: Okay, good – Very good! They treated me well.
Pratham: Was there any adjustments that you had to make Guyana there?
Lance Gibbs: No, no. My children went to school there.
Pratham: Did they like it-your children there?
Lance Gibbs: Oh yeah, oh yeah. My daughter is a lawyer …
Pratham: When you had this passage from the Warwickshire, Wisden Almanack appointed you one of their five
Cricket players of the year.
Pratham: There is an art that English spinners would have traditionally would derive the balloon
from the right while coming around the counter. So the ball would be there then curve
Back a little.
Pratham: And they said you started doing so in the County cricket at that time in 1972.
Pratham: Do you remember what kind of change has triggered this change?
Lance Gibbs: In bowling or striking, to get to the top, you have to bring certain things
You know, you are not used to doing.
Lance Gibbs: When I was doing this, I saw something with which I would succeed.
Pratham: I see, so you saw another English spinner …
Lance Gibbs: Yeah, yeah.
Pratham: In this way around the counter and that’s what triggered it.
To follow ……………
