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Part 8
Pratham: Another final tour you made in a different place: the subcontinent in ’74 -’75.
Lance Gibbs: India.
Pratham: Yes.
Pratham: Before he talked about the spin “quartet” – you made them there in the series.
They also succeeded, but you did a good job to shake it.
Pratham: This was also the last series that Tiger Pataudi, the Nawab …
Lance Gibbs: He died.
Pratham: Yes, sadly.’74 -’75 was the last series to catch.
Pratham: You saw him play on his first tour (Tour of India in the Caribbean on 61 -’62 where
Gibbs took 8 by 6) So far. What did you do as a person and captain?
Lance gibbs: He was a good friend, very beautiful.
Lance gibbs: He was a super captain. You know, you could always say what I was going to do.
I could say what he will do.
Pratham: Have I heard that I would play a lot in terms of selection?
Lance Gibbs: I have never entered the selection of opposition teams and things.
Pratham: Just enough. Were you friends?
Lance Gibbs: Yes. My wife stayed in her house as a guest.
Pratham: Your final test tour and sets in general were in Australia 75 -76.
Pratham: When I hear about people who speak from the Camp of West India, often
Mention that it had a very lasting influence on the western Indian cricket psyche to some extent.
Pratham: The argument is that being in this cauldron of an environment and losing to the
The way the western Indies (5-1 loss) caused the tendency and pushed to another
Dominant approach of rhythm of the West India team in a set.
Pratham: Forgive -me, but there is an anecdote by Ian Chappell on the tour I always did
You want to ask -you.
Lance Gibbs: What was it?
Pratham: Said that Jeff Thomson was bolling toward you and you approached him (Ian
Chappell).
Pratham: And you said, “I have a woman and a child at home, make sure you don’t
blows your head. “
Lance Gibbs: Hahaha!
Pratham: Do you remember Jeff Thomson?
Lance Gibbs: Yes, yes, yes!
Pratham: Was it the fastest diaper you’ve ever seen?
Lance Gibbs: One of them.
Lance Gibbs: (In the appointment) Man, Listen: When you are beating at number 11 and you leave
There, all the companions are trying to get an additional wick (laughter).
Pratham: All increasing (their rhythm).
Lance gibbs: Hahaha!
Pratham: There is a time I would ask.
Pratham: January 31, 1976. This is your final test game on the Australian tour. Ian Redpath,
Gibbs dumped, taken.
Pratham: Number 308. This is the main wicket you take to pass in front of Fred Trueman as a
Take the wicker head in the world.
Pratham: So now we have arrived at Mount Everest of Bowling if you want to say so.
Pratham: You have some memories of what happened to your mind when I was almost there
And when did you get there?
Lance gibbs: It’s not really, not really.
Lance gibbs: I play hard cricket to the end, you know. Finally, I play a lot. When walking from the
Field, it is a different thing.
Pratham: There was a discussion that I heard of having a profit from India for you on 76
When they traveled. How to give -you are a final game there. And was this idea not proceeded?
Lance Gibbs: I am not aware of it.
Pratham: OH, OK.
Pratham: After retiring -you thought of training any of the spin bowls that were there
Reach the Caribbean?
Lance Gibbs: Number
Lance Gibbs: You see, you knew the bowls when you enter the test side. And to
Pull them out and start taking care of them alone … It’s a different thing.
Pratham: After withdrawing -Dou, did you enter the shipping business? Is it right?
Lance Gibbs: MMHMM.
Pratham: And what interested you in this?
Lance gibbs: I was sending before converting -me to cricket.
Pratham: I see. So you just got back to …
Lance Gibbs: Something I like.
Pratham: Just enough. And what was your motivation to change to Miami?
Lance Gibbs: It is where the shipment was treated. Main trade vessels.
Lance Gibbs: If you meet a guy from Miami, you want to send something, you will contact you
Lance gibbs. Because you know him.
Pratham: What was your participation in creating the Broward County Cricket Stadium
Do you see Lauderhill? My understanding is that you have been involved at this point.
Lance gibbs: Put the ground well.
Pratham: So you supervised the pitch preparation …
Lance Gibbs: Get good doctors … Because you know, you give you a land. And you have it
Doctors on the floor, but they are not well prepared and things. I helped along the line.
Pratham: Sometimes you go to see matches?
Lance Gibbs: Yes, yes, I’m constant!
Pratham: She has been married to your JOY wife for 50 years. To your wedding on ’63, late
Sir Clyde Walcott was your best man.
Pratham: What kind of paper did your wife play during your career? And what kind of paper is
Clive played as a source of support? I know he retired earlier: in 1960 he was his last game.
Pratham: But what kind of paper have they played on the support of your career?
Lance Gibbs: Whatever the advice you can wish.
Lance Gibbs: My wife knows all the names of the cricket and different things and that. So I didn’t
You have to worry -look –
Lance gibbs: I could have said what happened like this, and she would know it!
Pratham: It has a type of encyclopedic memory … OK!
Pratham: So just a couple of final questions.
Pratham: You have played three international games at the end of your career. And one of them,
The last of them, in fact, was a match against Sri Lanka in the first Cricket World Cup in 75.
Pratham: What did you do in the format at that time? You felt you needed to dump a little
A little different compared to the test cricket to the hatred?
Lance Gibbs: No, I turned the same way. Anyone I have to do against, I have to look to get it
out.
Pratham: What is the most valuable thing you got from your game days?
Lance Gibbs: Meet pleasant people.
Pratham: And this is what has helped you on the way.
Lance Gibbs: Yes, yes.
Pratham: And what do you miss most about your game days?
Lance Gibbs: This week, for example. I won’t go out. I will stay home all day.
Pratham: I see. So you miss this ability to …
Lance Gibbs: Get out and … help others and such things.
Pratham: If there is something you could tell young people to be interested in playing
The game, what would it be?
Lance Gibbs: If you are going to play, you have to play strongly. You have to play the best
Possible and behaviors you can give. And be cute with people. That’s everything!
Pratham: Very well. Well, it was, Mr. Gibbs.
Pratham: I really appreciate the time you got to sit with me and chat about your
Career … your life … it has been a pleasure.
Lance Gibbs: All the best!
Pratham: Value -!
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