Lovely. Great commentator and personality Aggers. RIP Jack & Fred. It’s been going wokely downhill for a bit. You see less of Vaughan and Tuffers, got rid of Bumble. Thankfully he’s on Talksport now. Athers and Naz are good. TV doesn’t seem to want characters or professional commentators anymore.
The Legend, the man, the Myth; Fred Trueman. I met Mr Trueman in the early eighties during a charity match, I asked for his autograph during the luncheon interval and he said 'not now lad'. True Yorkshireman.
When we could still laugh at ourselves without there being a social media meltdown, lawyers involved, and people getting cancelled. That England is long gone now.
My son a few years back had trials for Wales as a U11, the entire group were told by a coach in his late 70's, Im not looking for bowlers that can bowl at 100 miles an hour or batsmen who hit 6's every ball.
Johnners. Aggers. Warnie. How damn silly that habit of putting ers or ie at the end of names by the Cricket crowd is. Childish. But then so are they. Silly little boys.
Lovely chap was Jack Bannister, my dad knew him quite well , he arranged a trial for me in the early ,60,s at Warwickshires ground (I was a fast but rather wayward bowler) Jack wasn,t too impressed ,cause i heard no more , but i remember his encouraging words .😄
From 1993. We did have a fast bowler at that time, but I think it is fair to say that he was a bit erratic and probably wasn't utilised properly. Fred Trueman's comments about bowling 1100 overs a season is an interesting one in the current climate, seeing that we do now have a few genuine quicks but they constantly break down.
Amazing to think Fred Trueman's daughter Rebecca married Raquel Welch's son Damon. How the heck did they ever meet? What social circles were they in together?
Bless Aggers here. In the early 80's he bowled high 80's. Not rockets, but quick enough to be considered fast. Saw him in a Leicestershire V Worcestershire match where he did a Mark Wood and get a bouncer over the keepers head one bounce for 4. Keeper was stood a good pitch length back as well.
Every now and again, have to watch this again. To remind me of a Britain which once was. We were so lucky. Now we have to save something for our kids! Watched this, incidentally, when it first aired.
Sadly, it's an England that is fast disappearing in the rear view mirror. I miss those more gentle days of yore when we could laugh at ourselves. Now we're an Americanized, paranoid, PC mess.
Yes, it was wonderful. My grandfather had been captain of Darwen Cricket Club in the 1930's and later in the 1970's he would sit me down while TMS was on the wireless, talk about swing bowling and show me how they had shined the ball on one side. We would then have a game of Howzat. He would then practice handwriting with me, then we would go into the garden and do some work there (with TMS in the background). I was only a little toddler, but he had all the time in the world for me, there was no rush to do anything. Wonderful days and maybe not to be repeated.
Haha yes, Fred a tough talking Yorkshireman insinuating that Aggers was brought up in a rough council house, when his grandparents actually lived in a stately home.
