Controversies in 1984

3 incidents documented

Marshall Shatters Gatting's Nose — Headingley 1984

England vs West Indies

2 August 1984

Malcolm Marshall broke Mike Gatting's nose with a sharply rising bouncer at Headingley in 1984 — while bowling with a broken thumb in a plaster cast. Blood poured from Gatting's shattered nose as he retired hurt. Marshall refused to leave the field and came back to take wickets. One of Test cricket's most viscerally brutal moments.

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🥊Serious

Michael Holding Decimates Ian Botham — 1984 West Indies

England vs West Indies

1984-06-14

Michael Holding's specific assault on Ian Botham during West Indies' famous 'Blackwash' series in 1984 — where England lost all five Tests — showed how Botham's attacking instincts, normally devastating, became a liability against sustained express pace.

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⭐Serious

The Blackwash — West Indies 5-0 England, 1984

England vs West Indies

1984-08-14

West Indies whitewashed England 5-0 in the 1984 series — the first time England had ever been beaten 5-0 in a home series — through the most dominant fast bowling combination ever assembled: Marshall, Holding, Garner, and Baptiste.

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