In Fire in Babylon, the film on West Indies cricket, pace bowling great Michael Holding summed up his team’s dominance on the global scene by underlining that the West Indies did not lose a series from the time New Zealand shocked them in 1980 till Australia beat them in 1995.

“15 years,” Holding stressed in his pleasing Jamaican accent. He added that no other team in history had dominated their sport for so long. He is probably unaware of Mumbai’s 15-year winning spree from 1958-59 to 1972-73.