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Part 8
Pratham: Another last round you made to a different place – ’74 -’75 ‘subcontinent.
Lance Gibbs: India.
Pratham: Yes.
Pratham: I was talking about “Quartet” Spin before – you took them there in those series.
They also had success, but you did a pretty good job to do it.
Pratham: It is both Tiger Pataudi, Nawab …
Lance Gibbs: Died.
Pratham: Yes, a sad.’74-’75 found their own captain.
Pratham: You would see her first round playing (India ’61 -’62 Tour to the Caribbean
Gibbs took 8 for 8) so far. What did you do to him as a person and captain?
Lance Gibbs: He was a wonderful thing, it was a real beautiful.
Lance Gibbs: Super was captain. You know, you can always say what to do.
I could say what to do.
Pratham: Heard that it will play a lot of gambling in terms of election?
Lance Gibbs: I have never entered the choice of opposition teams and items.
Pratham: Fair enough. Were you guys friends?
Lance Gibbs: Yes. My husband remained at home as a guest.
Pratham: The last test round and usually your series was in Australia in ’75 -’76.
Pratham: It’s often when I hear about people who talk about this on the West Indian Camp
Note that an unusual reputation has a very durable impact on the psyche of cricket in the west of the reputation.
Pratham: The argument is that an environment is that profit and loss
Western Fincans (a loss of 5-1) really sparked in the train and pushed to different
The dominant approach from the Western Indian team of PACE.
Pratham: Forgive me, but I always have a lenght from ian Chappell about the tour
I want to ask you.
Lance Gibbs: What was it?
Pratham: He said Jeff Thomson had bowling you and you approached you (ian)
Chappell).
Pratham: You also told him – “I have a wife and a child at home, please make sure that it is not
Play my head. “
Lance Gibbs: !
Pratham: Do you remember Jeff Thomson?
Lance Gibbs: Yes, yes, yes!
Pratham: Was it the fastest bowler you’ve ever seen?
Lance Gibbs: One of them.
Lance Gibbs: (In Quote) Man, listen – when you are dipped and exiting
There, all the falling are trying to get an extra wicket (chuckles).
Pratham: All landings (tempo).
Lance Gibbs: Hahahaha!
Pratham: I have a moment to ask you.
Pratham: January 31, 1976. This is your last test match in the Australian tour. Ian redpath,
Bowled Gibbs, caught.
Pratham: Number 308. This is the leading wicket you have taken to go to the former Fred Truean
Leading Wicket Taker in the world.
Profile: So now, if you want to put this way, we have reached the Boulevard Mount Everest.
Pratham: Almost there you have a memory of those in your mind when you are there
And when you are there?
Lance Gibbs: Really, not really.
Lance Gibbs: I know, I know the cricket until the end of the cricket. I play a lot to the end. While walking
The field is a different thing.
Pratham: ’76 There was a discussion about getting a benefit compared to India for you
when you walk. As you give you the last game. And did it last with this opinion?
Lance Gibbs: I don’t know at all.
Pratham: Oh, okay.
Pratham: After retirement, did you think about any exercise from any spin bowlers?
Do you come in the Caribbean?
Lance Gibbs: Yn
Lance Gibbs: If you see, you will know Bowlers as they come to the test side. And
Pull them aside and start looking alone … it’s a different thing.
Pratham: You entered the shipping job after retirement? Is this correct?
Lance Gibbs: MMHHMM.
Pratham: And so what did he care about you?
Lance Gibbs: I was sent before I had my cricket.
Pratham: I see. So you just came back …
Lance Gibbs: Something I like.
Pratham: Fair enough. What was your motivation to move to the Miam?
Lance Gibbs: This is the place where everything is. Basic trades.
Lance Gibbs: If you know a guy in Miami – if you want to send something, you will contact
Lance Gibbs. You know him.
Pratham: What was your participation in building Broward County Cricket Stadium
See on LauderHILL? I have participated in this extent to this extent.
Lance Gibbs: To go towards the ground.
Pratham: So let the pitch prepare …
Lance Gibbs: Get good wickets … The reason you know is given to a place. And there is
Wakets on the ground, but are not well ready and things. I helped along the line.
Pratham: Sometimes you go to watch matches?
Lance Gibbs: Yes, yes – I’m going there!
Pratham: You have been married to the joy of your wife for 50 years now. At the wedding in ’63, late
Sir Clyde Walcott was the best man.
Pratham: What role did your wife play in your career? And which role is there
Played as a CLIVE support source? I know before he retired – 1960 was the last game.
Pratham: What role did he play in supporting your career?
Lance Gibbs: Any advice you want.
Lance Gibbs: My husband knows the whole cricket names and different things and this. That’s why I didn’t
You should be worried – look at it.
Lance Gibbs: So so it was so so that he knew!
Profile: He has a encyclopedic memory type … okay!
Pratham: So just a few last questions.
Pratham: You played three international games at the end of your career. One of them,
In fact, in the last, ’75 was a game against Sri Lanka in the first Cricket World Cup.
Pratham: What did you do from the format then? Did you feel that you need to put a little dish?
Is it a bit different in the ODIS compared to the test cricket?
Lance Gibbs: No, I sat on the same way. I have to look at it to get it if I leave
It turned out.
Pratham: What is the most valuable thing you’ve got from your game days?
Lance Gibbs: Meet beautiful people.
Pratham: That’s what’s going on to help you along the way.
Lance Gibbs: Yes, yes.
Pratham: What’s something you miss the most from your game days?
Lance Gibbs: This week, for example. I will not go out. I will stay at home all day.
Pratham: I see. So you miss this ability …
Lance Gibbs: Exit and … Help others and this kind of thing.
Pratham: If you have something you can say to young people who are interested in playing today
Game, what would it be?
Lance Gibbs: If you want to play a game, you should play it hard. You should play in the best
in a possible way and behavior you can give. And be nice to people. What is it!
Pratham: Okay. Well, it was, Mr. Gibbs.
Pratham: Sitting with me and thank you for the time you took to chat with you
Career … Your life … It’s been a pleasant thing.
Lance Gibbs: The best!
Pratham: Appreciate it!
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