That was awesome SJS
Amazing clip. It is so great to be able to watch Sobers bowl. That was the best part for me.
That was a fantastic clip. Seen a couple of particularly brilliant Sobers clips on Youtube in the past couple of days. He really was a brilliant cricketer, and comes across as a fantastic bloke too. That bouncer to Lillee was a beauty. Loved the commentary too, every time Sobers hit the ball the commentary would be the same "where's that going?....away to the boundary again". Quality stuff.
great game! thanks.I remember someone arguing here once about Lillee being able to bowl only out swingers and that in-swingers were not in his repertoire. At the very end of this part, bowling in England's second innings, Lillee bowls a massive late in-swinger to trap Woolmer leg before. Its difficult to be certain whether the point of contact was inside or just outside the off stump but the beautiful, huge and late in swinger left Woolmer completely foxed. So much for people forming opinions purely on ... God knows what
Yeah it was Max Walker I'm afraidgreat game! thanks.
but actually the commentators were saying it was walker that bowled that ball somebody should check the scorecards to confirm
Yep I was living in QLD and was at that match where it bucketed down. Crowds outside were crapping themselves, the size of the hailstones were massive. Pretty funny when Dean Jones runs out with helmets. Cars were damaged everywhere outside the ground and down Vulture street.Have been on a bit of a Youtube surf today, can anyone remember this? Had no idea about it but had a chuckle at the West Indian player bringing out helmets to the groundstaff.
Also found a video of Brett Lee's huge six vs. Windies at the Gabba in 05/06. Unfortunately the cameras didn't pick up where the ball went so you can't actually see it go out of the park.
Edit: Oh, and David Hookes' 34 ball FC hundred.
Yeah, as Robelinda said, was Dean Jones.Have been on a bit of a Youtube surf today, can anyone remember this? Had no idea about it but had a chuckle at the West Indian player bringing out helmets to the groundstaff.
Hookesy, WAFG (although I reckon McCurdy is probably still spewing about the not-out call when Hookesy was in the 90's). Was at the ground when he smashed 222not for East Torrens out of a team total of about 260-odd. Can only imagine what he would have done to attacks in a modern T20.Edit: Oh, and David Hookes' 34 ball FC hundred.
No footage exists thats professional, it was barely broadcast in the WI. News highlights at the time here featured some pretty average footage that was all over the place. The first good proper footage out of the WI I can find is of the Indian tour in 1989, in the years before that you just have stacks of footage with no commentary, or just one camera. Viv's fastest ton deserves a lot better picture quality, you can even see the ball. Ive got some of the NZ tour in 85 and its barely watchable.Does anyone know where there might be available any footage of Australia's tour to the WI in 1984?
In particuslr, I'm looking for anything from this test:
2nd Test: West Indies v Australia at Port of Spain, Mar 16-21, 1984 | Cricket Scorecard | Cricinfo.com
in which AB made 98* and 100*.