West Indies
1985-06-30
Standing six feet eight inches, Joel Garner — 'Big Bird' — bowled the most accurate Test yorker of the 1980s, took 259 Test wickets at 20.97 and was the second pillar of Clive Lloyd's pace cartel alongside Malcolm Marshall.
Australia
1984-12-15
Allan Border inherited a broken Australian Test side from Kim Hughes in 1984 and, by the end of the decade, had rebuilt it into the team that would win the 1989 Ashes 4-0 and dominate world cricket for the next twenty years.
India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
1984-04-06
Emirati businessman Abdul Rahman Bukhatir built a cricket stadium in Sharjah and, between 1981 and 1984, turned it into the first major neutral venue for international cricket — culminating in the inaugural 1984 Asia Cup.
Pakistan
1982-04-01
Imran Khan's first captaincy stint between 1982 and 1989 transformed Pakistan from a talented but inconsistent side into the team that would win the 1992 World Cup and dominate the 1990s.
Pakistan
1980-01-01
Through the 1980s, a generation of Pakistani fast bowlers — Sarfraz Nawaz, Imran Khan, Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis — perfected and exported reverse swing, the technique that would dominate Test cricket for the next two decades.