Top 5 Embarrassing Defeats for West Indies in ODIs

#3 97 run loss to Pakistan in CB Series at Melbourne, 1984

The West Indies were irresistible in the 1980s and were prone to blow teams away quite regularly. However, one team that always seemed to hold their own against them was Pakistan and back in 1984, they handed the best team in the world at the time a resounding defeat. In the 3rd match of the tri-series at Melbourne back in 1984, Pakistan batted first against a West Indian bowling attack fronted by Michael Holding, Joel Garner, and Malcolm Marshall. They had been reduced to 87 for 4 but a gutsy 69 (78 balls) from Qasim Umar helped them in making 208 for 8 in 50 overs.

It was a paltry score and there must have been no doubt that the outstanding West Indian batting line-up would make short work of it. Pakistan’s attack of Sarfraz Nawaz, Rashid Khan and left-arm pace Azeem Hafeez, however, proved up to the task against the likes of Desmond Haynes, Viv Richards, and Clive Lloyd. The West Indian top order was blown away as they were reduced to an embarrassing 10 for 4 and they were pretty much out of the game. The innings folded for 111 all out in the 42nd over and ended up being one of the most humbling reverses that was suffered by the great side.