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I saw Michael Holding and Wayne Daniels rip through the Yorkshire batting order twice at Abbeydale (Sheffield) which had a wicket so quick it might have been made of concrete.
They had to move the sight screen for Holding’s run up, it’s the only cricket match I was ever at where the ball was travelling so fast I literally didn’t see it from Holding’s delivery to wicket keeper Murray catching it, and two Yorkshire batsmen ended up in hospital.
It was the 1976 West India Test Series year where Geoff Boycott declared himself unavailable for England and, surprise, surprise, he picked up a mysterious injury and didn’t play this Tour match for his own County either.
“Where’s Boycott? Bring on Boycott!” I can still in my mind’s eye visualise the cheery drunk West Indians partying around the pitch chanting that sunny day 47 years ago.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Boycott valued his average far too much to get involved in any of that lark
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The West Indies bowling line up at the time would have been enough to turn your whites brown
Ambrose, Walsh, Marshall, Pattinson could take heads offJoel Garner and Michael Holding were the decapitators in 1984, the four you mentioned brown-trousered England’s best somewhat later, if memory serves
‘Big Bird’ Garner played for your beloved Somerset, so I guess you saw him in the flesh a few times
Michael Holding had the most beautiful run-up and bowling action I’ve seen, though my father and aforementioned uncle insisted it wasn’t as fine Fred Trueman’s
I had a brief chat with Curtly and Courtney in the bar of the Trinidad Hilton during the 1998 England tour of the Windies. Friendly gents actually, if still a tad alarming, and the only time that 6’4″ Drone has felt titchy in the company of others
I was only 4 in 84 Drone..
The only time I got to see Joel Garner was through the fence of the county ground when being dragged to salvation army on a Sunday. I begged to be left looking through the small hole and to be picked up later but even back then the stranger who took us each week was aware of the stranger danger I’d be in if left unattended
First chance I got to attend was 89 and Jimmy Cook was the overseas player then and still a favourite of mineCharles Darwin to conquer the World
6’4 Drone to open the bowling for TRF cricket team
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Chezza fancies himself as TRF wicket-keeper – a relentless torrent of sledging the batsmen (sorry, “batters”), incessant frivolous appeals, numerous impossible stumping attempts to keep umpires busy (and annoyed), and err, legion dropped catches.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"I am blind and therefore wear glasses all of the time so I’m obviously suited to a Jack Leach or Daniel Vettori role. I might need to learn to bowl and bat first but we’ve all got to start somewhere. I am used to having to stop what I’m doing to clean my glasses though.
Looks like we have a good allround team building
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I was only 4 in 84 Drone.
Apologies, I knew you were a junior, permitted honorary entry to this club of crusty old lounge lizards but thought you were nearer 50 than 40
Jimmy Cook was a splendid batsman
I was a half-decent fast-medium bowler in my youth, though line-and-length was never mastered and my ‘corridor of uncertainty’ – a Boycottism I believe – tended to keep second-slip and third-man busy
Having suffered a frozen shoulder a few years ago I would have trouble getting my bowling arm much above horizontal now
No worries Drone, it was lazy of me to not think Garner and Holding would have been the weapon of choice in the early to mid 80s
BigG can field at silly mid
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DRONE “Greenidge, who was always an entertaining batsman, went on to make a double century. For a good many years he opened the batting for Hampshire with the great batsman Barry Richards, who never got the chance to shine at Test level due to South Africa being banned from international sport”
If I remember rightly this is when Greenidge had a dodgy knee and it came on to plague him in this match. The only problem was for England, that it was said he batted better the more pain he was in. One of my favourite batters of that era.
“Having said that, I attended the 1983 World Cup semi final between England and India on a school trip. It is still one of the hottest days I can remember in this country.”
I didn’t know you’d done a bit of teaching CAS
The only match I’ve been to at OT was the 1990 Test against India. Gooch and Atherton made centuries in a double century opening stand.
England rattled on at well over 3 runs per over. Not a bad strike rate in them days but almost pedestrian to todays standards.
Test cricket is more entertaining in the “Bazball” era, but it’s a product of improved bat technology, resulting in various mistimed top edges still going for six, rather than into the waiting hands of fielders in the deep.
All of a sudden cricket pitches look far too small for what the game has evolved into.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"In my yoof, I was a medium pacer who used to get a bit of swing/seam if conditions were in my favour.
I was usually a lower order batter going in between 8 and 11. Only once did I hit a century when they reversed the batting order at the end of the season so I opened. Playing for the 3rd XI against an opposition of 8 players (we had 9) it took me around 30 overs to reach my only ever 50 and then only another 8 to reach my century. We went on to lose the match by 1 run in a batting feast of about 600 runs in total.
Fielding was my strong point winning the league award one season.
I wonder if you’d be in profit to a level stake historically always backing the Draw in Old Trafford Tests?
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"BBC Cricket Live: “Ever wondered what commentators and chief cricket writers do during rain delays?”
No.
This latest bout of media self indulgence and mistaken sense of self-importance is even more irritating than the weather which, being Manchester, can be a surprise to no one.
I should know – I was born there.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"If we are starting a racing forum cricket xi can I take the Andrew Flintoff pissed on a bus position , id do more but the backs a bit sore
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