Barry Richards and Graeme Pollock

[robelinda]

Yeah that was great, Lillee, what a hornbag. Zoe might have been on his team but not THAT team.

 

[archie mac]

Did not see much of either player, so only going I what I have read, will go with GP by a tiny bit. Mainly because some contemporaries including Holding thought BR was a little stale because of all the county cricket he played and this might have reduced his class, still not sure that should be a good enough reason, but I don't have much else

 

[robelinda]

Got a ton of Pollock to upload if anyone wants to see it, from the rebel tours in 83/84, 84/85 and 85/86, he was a bit old (40's) but he just stood with his dominating frame and belted the ball HARD, especially through the off side. Have to say Ive never seen him do anything on the legside, maybe there's hope for Phil Hughes yet!!

 

[ankitj]

Got a ton of Pollock to upload if anyone wants to see it, from the rebel tours in 83/84, 84/85 and 85/86, he was a bit old (40's) but he just stood with his dominating frame and belted the ball HARD, especially through the off side. Have to say Ive never seen him do anything on the legside, maybe there's hope for Phil Hughes yet!!

That episode on Pollock on ESPN legends of cricket mentions something about Pollock overcoming his leg side weakness to score a good hundred against Australia when the plan was to challenge that apparent weakness.

 

[Top_Cat]

Yeah that's it. A good player will turn a weakness into a 'don't bowl there to that ****'. Viv did the same after early troubles outside off-stump.

And Rob, would love to see more Pollock.

 

[vic_orthdox]

Yeah, can't wait to see some Pollock, Rob!

 

[vic_orthdox]

YouTube - Barry Richards 129 Hampshire vs Lancs 1970

YouTube - Graeme Pollock 114 vs England 1970

Regarding Pollock, he seems to just tap those cut shots off the spinners through the off, amazing.

 

[Top_Cat]

won't bother you any more Rob I know you're busy and all but if you could just upload more Pollock that would be swell ok

 

[robelinda]

Mate you can hassle me plenty, most guys here have lots of hassle credit built up, cant say the same for youtubers.

 

[vic_orthdox]

Mate you can hassle me plenty, most guys here have lots of hassle credit built up, cant say the same for youtubers.

Think it was a piss-take of all the youtubers.

 

[robelinda]

Hah you are right, and a good one too! Didnt know humour existed in Adelaide.

 

[subshakerz]

Feel we should revive this thread. Not a conclusive answer.

 

[kyear2]

Barry Richards was the greatest batsman I have ever seen. I always preferred him to Viv Richards because he was as destructive as Viv but classically orthodox in defence and even more inventive in his strokeplay - I have never seen anyone play the "inside out" shot or dance down the wicket to pace bowlers more easily. He was also the most mercurial batsman I have ever seen - the sense of melancholy pervading a globetrotting mercenary (as some saw him) deprived of a country to represent in test cricket was almost palpable as was the boredom with which he threw his wicket away from time to time as if in disgust at having to compete with lesser mortals. Then there was the occasion his parents flew from Durban to see him play for Hampshire - his mother missed the plane and he scored a century in front of his father in the first innings, his mother was at the ground on the last day and he scored another hundred for her in not much more than a couple of hours. He finally had enough and walked out of Hampshire in 1978 - Packer gave him the motivation to challenge himself against the best and although past his prime he did better than any other batsman against the West Indian pace battery. Hopefully someone some day will recover all the old BBC tapes of his televised centuries for Hampshire (playing in front of a television audience invariably gave him the incentive to produce his best) and put them up on youtube. The other great thing about Barry Richards playing for Hampshire, I should add, was his opening partnership with Gordon Greenidge - people talk about Haynes and Greenidge and rightly so, but believe me, Richards and Greenidge was something to behold!

Basically says it all.

 

[subshakerz]

Basically says it all.

Do you favor Richards over Pollock?