Furhtermore I agree that Clarke was a great bowler but not as great as guys like Holding and company!
Yes and he was quick. Now imagine him at 28 he was at his prime. Pollock though past his best at 39 climbed into him.
That Great Windies team would have missed the SA team as 1966 SA started to build that team which was the complete product in the 196970 series and they would have dominated till around 77. But 80's most were past their best as that's the period the Windies took over. The guys like Clive Rice and others who would have taken over were not as great as that Windies so yes the Windies would have beaten us. But in the 70's we would have beaten them.
Just to show you Mr. Chappel and Lawry was lying a bit about fatigue we have to go back to 1966/67 series which
SA won 3-1 against the same Australian side.
That was when SA started to build the side. Mike Proctor was 21 years old then and still young. 69/70 he was 24 not even at his peak which is 28 normally for fast bowlers. The 7 matches he played he took 41 wickets. Which is phenomenal.
In 69/70 the picture was completed with a young Barry Richards coming in and avg over 73 in that series. He and Graham Pollock are both inductees in the Hall of fame of the ICC. Even if he played only 4 matches that good was his ability recognized by others. Graeme Pollock was 19 years old when he made a double ton vs a International Cavaliers side with Chappel as the captain of the Cavaliers. He said then Pollock was a great talent and he turned out to be right as he avg
76 and
73 against Australia in both series. Shaun Polocks dad and Graem Pollocks brother also played in both series and with Mike Procter and Goddard to extent in 67 series ripped them apart. You will note that the SA team were stacked with all rounders which was a tradition of producing them down the years. Not as good these days as they were back then.
For the Aussies being tired well I call it fud. First of all Mr. Chappel claimed they been on tour in India for 5 months. That is BS because they started to tour India in November and the
first test was on the 04/11/1969. Their previous series was against the Windies which ended on 14/02/1969. 8 Months later they went to India where the last match was played on 24/12/1969. 22 January 1970 they played their first game against SA which suppose to be 2 tests. The reason for it being 4 was due to the fact the Aussies wanted to set the 3-1 record straight and give SA a hiding as well as they got paid handsomely as well. But after losing the first 2 a request by Australia cricket board was made to make two of the tour matches against provincial sides to test matches. Two in fact were changed to Aus vs SA tests. They wanted to see if they could pull it back to 2-2 as the first to tests were lost by 170 odd runs. But they got hammered even more in the next two. When they were 4-0 down the SA cricket board asked to add another test match and the Aussies said no as they knew 5-0 would have look very bad and they went home.
The trouble in India was all their own doing. Who told Lawry to insult the Indian woman and not to ask the Indian batsman to come back when he clearly saw that the umpire was wrong in the decision. He should have he did not and the tour turned sour. That was after the third test but they still managed to win them. So they had about 2 weeks of bad hotels and heavy security which was all their own doing. But the horror tour of them being tired is fud. Plain and simple.
"willingness of Lawry and his team" double 
