For some reason I always think that it was the West Indies who were playing Derbyshire that day*, but no, it was just a routine county cricket match against Lancashire.
I have also been trying to check if 1975 was the year that West Indies lost to Ireland in Dublin, but, frustratingly, have been unable to persuade Google to guide me to that information.
Of course The West Indies toured England in 1975 & again in 1976, when they began their climb to world domination after the humiliation of losing to Australia in 1974.
Although summer 1975 started so badly, it turned hot later on & the West Indies won the first World Cup on a glorious day at Lords.
We were all just being given a practice run at what it would be like during the long hot summer of 1976 when West Indies returned for a test series proper.
*Perhaps because Clive Lloyd was playing for Lancashire.
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