The West Indies cricket team toured Australia in the 1975–76 season and played six Test matches and 1 ODI against Australia. The test series was built up as an unofficial World Championship series for title of best test team in the world. The West Indies entered the series after winning the 1975 World Cup defeating Australia with several exciting young talents most notably in Gordon Greenidge, Andy Roberts and Viv Richards. Australia win the first test in Gabba convincingly by 8 wickets but West Indies came back and defeat them in WACA by an innings. However, Australia recovered and pummeled the West Indies in remaining games and won the series by 5–1.