Trent Bridge 1972 was first Test I went to. Youngsters were allowed right up to the ropes, Basil D'Oliveira chatted to us non stop while he fielded on the boundary, what a lovely lovely man! Best two keepers I have ever seen.
It's interesting to see the old Australian-style scoreboard and that corner of the ground before Trent Bridge House was built. Quite a sizeable part of the ground was lost when that office block and its car park were built.
Unfortunately, I was a mere toddler then (born 1970), so have to rely on second hand accounts of the period. Ray Illingworth, was thirty eight years older than me and his birthday the day before mine!
This was Dennis Lillee in the raw.Awesome! I went to see the Oval test where the Chappell brothers hit centuries.Ian Chappell remains in living memory as the best ever Test captain.
I remember watching this series as a 21 year old and watching it now my opinion of some of the England players hasn't changed. How players like Luckhurst and Gifford were ever considered Test class is beyond me. Geoff Arnold, a name that lots of younger cricket fans would never come across was a superb bowler of line and length and didn't play as many Tests as he ought to have. Ray Illingworth who was typical Yorkshireman calling a spade a spade, was a great captain.
...35.10 ⚡️..the young lion. Massey...a wizard.....like a beautiful dream.The “real “ cricket of yesteryear...R.I.P Tony Greg.thanks so much for posting.Bright Moments from Australia 🌈 p.s. I could watch..John Snow..bowl all day...pure class. P.p.s. Lillee was ferocious...a menace to society.
Rod marshes stumping in the 4th test of mallet and university show some skill to keeping toward spin. One wonders if he would have went as well to Warne as Healy and to a lesser extent Gilchrist, did.
@@evanaskew6652 A keeper can only be as brilliant as the spinner he's keeping to. Alan Knott spent over a decade keeping to Derek Underwood on uncovered pitches for Kent and England, and that would've been just as big a challenge as keeping to Shane Warne. Rod Marsh never kept to such high quality spin, but no doubt he would've done a great job if he did.
Had This Series On Video Watched It Constantly Bob Massie's Brilliant Performance At Lord's The Highlight As Were Ian And Greg Chappell's Centuries In The Fifth Test!🙂🏏🏟️🇦🇺🇬🇧
@steve brindle Times have changed. The likes of Gilchrist, Sangakkara, AB de Villiers and Andy Flower put them way above Knott given they can win games through their batting. Knott was a truly great keeper and while a useful middle to late order batsman, he is nowhere in the same league as above with the bat.
@@paulbeasy7863 Healy has a test batting average of 27 and Mash 26. Compared with Gilchrist, Sangakkara, AB de Villiers and Andy Flower, there is no way you could pick them in a world XI. Gone are the days when keepers were selected for pure keeping skills. Now you you have to be selected as a specialist batsman also. The four men I mentioned could play test cricket in any side based on their batting alone. Not Healy or Marsh. Are you Australian per chance?
@@hyena131 Knott was a better kerper than all of them. His 30 half centuries and 5 centuries in test cricket prove he was a little better than useful. Gilchrist was definately a better batsman but in an all time xi with the likes of Bradman, Richards, Sobers or whoever your first six batsmen you could pick, I'd go for the best keeper who would get more than enough runs that you could ever need at 7 or 8 is the smart choice.
What an iconic series. Not necessarily because either of the sides were great, but because the series provided some iconic performances - Lillee's overall bowling efforts, Massie's incredible debut, Greg Chappell's finest century, and of course Marsh's famous bat-swinging celebration in the final match. Especially after the debacle of Underwood's Test match performance, Australia felt they came away from the drawn series the moral victors, and it set them up for the next few years. I only wish the picture was clearer to take in the full impact of how much Massie was swinging the ball at Lords. It was such a shame that he lost his way soon after this series. One of the great losses to the game has been the shift away from medium pace bowling - bowlers like Terry Alderman were almost unplayable in English conditions.
It is fascinating to watch Boycott playing the hook shot, which he escued in his later career. You can see why. He never looks in control of the shot here when he plays it off Lillee's bowling.
I was just two years old and in the pushchair at the time. Too young to understand or remember the game of cricket. What I know of that period is second hand, going on what I read about or was told!
Anyone with linux use "sudo apt install youtube-dl" in terminal to install youtube down-loader. Then (in terminal) use "youtube-dl [copy and pasted video url] to download videos to watch ad free, offline with a video player of some sort. Taking 8 hours of ashes highlights to binge watch on holiday :p
Error in the scorecard at 1:08:28. It wasn't J. K. Lever who took the new ball with Snow in this match: it was Peter Lever of Lancashire. No relation as far as I know.
How on earth did Bruce Francis get selected for this tour, at the expense of somebody like Ian Redpath? If the Australian selectors could have eaten humble pie and apologised, then Bill Lawry should have been included. Selectors do some pretty bizarre things.
Bruce Francis was prototype of Leg Before Watson 2013 vintage. And Graeme Watson who toured in 1972 also was a shocker, that 2nd innings dismissal in the 2nd innings of the 1st test was abysmal.
What was the theme tune that the BBC used for the 1972 Ashes Cricket it wasn't the theme tune that we all are used to it was something different i wonder if anyone can tell me what it was
Players of that era look more handsome and elegant. Today's players, with their tattoos, short hair, and all kinds of gimmickry - look lousy in comparison.
Boycott never completely recovered from the mauling he got from Lillee in this series .He was "unavailable " for the 74/75 ashes series in Australia,then England. He did not fancy the heavy artillery of the West Indies in 1976 then came back to England selection in 1977 against the Aussies with NO Lillee and a half fit Thomson who had lost about 20 % of his monstrous pace.Good 'ol Jeffrey (Geoffrey ? ) He always knew where the easy life lay.
The reason why Boycott didnt play in the last 3 tests of this series was due the fact that he had his hand badly broken by Bob Willis in a Gillette Cup match whilst playing for Yorkshire.....you might not rate Boycott but in the 70s he was easily Englands best batsmen....he came back and scored very heavily in the West Indies series of 1973/4.....he didnt play for England after that for personal reasons but to suggest that he was somehow afraid of fast bowling is ridiculous....he was an opening batsman and in those days faced fast bowling nearly every day of the week.....
What are the " personal reasons " ? You seem to be a Boycs fan boy so you should know .Just a blanket evasion of " personal reasons " is just not good enough.I think the only reason was Dennis Keith Lillee but you will disagree!
@@djangorheinhardt I'm not a fan boy but i have read a few of his books.....he became Yorkshire captain and wanted to devote time to Yorkshire cricket......why don't you read a few books about Boycott yourself and you might learn a bit more about him and his career......
Not sure he went for the easy life. He played against the West Indies, Roberts, Holding and all, in 1980 and 1980-81, then Lille in 1981. By then he was 40 years a old.
@@eldrip6242 His injury via Willis was so bad his finger tip was hanging off and had to be stitched back I believe. Phil Carrick the 12th man drove him to hospital.
+Chris evans I used to have this on VHS, and I've thought similar things with this, and some others. The problem is, they only had so much space to put on many highlights, so certain imbalances were, I think, inevitable with these tapes. It helps to have scorecards of such series available when watching these highlights. Of course, just seeing some of this action is still very rewarding.
