New Film Looks Back at the Golden Age of West Indies Cricket
By: Caribbean Journal Staff - May 18, 2011
Following their success in the first Cricket World Cup in 1975 and until the 1990s, the West Indies ruled the cricket world. The so-called “calypso cricketers” were a machine, which is now the subject of a feature film, Fire in Babylon, which tells the story of the West Indies’ rise. [BBC Sport]
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