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Bahnz

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Wasn't that just after the scandal involing Tuffey and video tape in Queenstown?
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No, was a month or two before the news of it broke out in the media iirc, but it seems possible that it was on his mind anyway.

One can only imagine how bad this would've been under current rules. Adam Gilchrist, with a succession of free hits against Daryl Tuffey's medium pace and with Eden Park's toy boundaries...Australia could've picked up 40 odd from the first over.
 
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Burgey

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For those who like some old school cricket, Fox Sports 2 has a compilation of the 2nd test of the 1961 Ashes series right now. Bill Lawry with a big ton against Statham and Trueman.
 
Burgey

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It's interesting to watch how much more the players of this era seemed to play off the back foot, even to balls which today would be be played off the front foot.

I wonder if this is a legacy of the pitches, with exaggerated movement and the need to play later? It isn't that the players don't drive, rather that the ball must be very full for them to attempt it.

Some classic Kenny Barrington on now.
 
smash84

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Burgey said:
It's interesting to watch how much more the players of this era seemed to play off the back foot, even to balls which today would be be played off the front foot.

I wonder if this is a legacy of the pitches, with exaggerated movement and the need to play later? It isn't that the players don't drive, rather that the ball must be very full for them to attempt it.

Some classic Kenny Barrington on now.
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:huh:
 
benchmark00

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On the topic though, that sort of **** is really interesting to me. The evolution of batting craft has always been an area of fascination for me.

I'd think almost certainly it was a result of the pitches. Driving a ball that wasn't a half volley back then was always fraught with danger because there was a propensity for it to hold up in the wicket, whereas today the pitches are far truer, and you can simply drive through the ball with relative surety that the ball would have a regulation speed and bounce to it.

Having slower pitches simply allows one more time to sit on the back foot and hit it along the ground.
 
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