Barry Richard's stroke play was as good as any I've seen today he's a very elegant player and Graeme pollock shows that even at 50 he still has it, very dominant batting look at his s/r in this match
@@dileep.v.m3967 - wasn't just him. It was Barry Richards, Mike Proctor, Ali Bacher, Clive Rice, Jimmy Cook, all these great players prevented from competing on the world stage (necessarily imho, but still sad).
@@abhishekghosh2686 Well, I'll concede you probably have half a poinrt - both Gavaskar and Tendulkar (and Rahul Dravis) did both average more outside, but the rest of your topm10 batsmen were worse outside India and most of them significantly so. Bear in mind, though, a lot of those tests - certainly proprtionately a lot more than those of other nations - were played on the flat tracks of Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh - and against some comedy bowling from the Bangladeshis.
Graeme Pollock was a batting genius. He was the only player that I ever saw who would determine the crowd at a match. When Eastern Province visited Transvaal in Johannesburg, many spectators would wait until the results of the toss were known. If Province were batting first, the ground would fill up quickly. Everyone knew - Pollock would bat that day! And it didn't matter who one supported, we would all wait impatiently until the second wicket fell. Then everyone would stand to their feet and applaud as the Maestro left the pavilion, walked down the stairs, and strode out to the wicket. If we were fortunate, we'd see him get a 100. If he got out for a duck, we'd all stand and applaud him all the way back to the pavilion. What an aura he had!!
This was a gem of a knock by Graeme Pollock ! Unfortunate that he couldnt play a lot but you can see what kind of a batsman he was. even Lara, my other fav, looked meek in front of him...... clearly one of the greatest ever !
Even Sir Donald Bradman admired Graeme Pollock's batting. According to Sir Don Bradman, Graeme Pollock was the best left-handed batsman, together with Sir Garfield Sobers, that he ever saw in the game of Cricket. Sir Don Bradman had also seen Lara's batting, but he preffered Garfield Sobers and Graeme Pollock over Lara. Graeme Pollock is considered as one of the greatest South African batsmen. Graeme Pollock's batting average was 60.97,till his career got destroyed,when he was 26 years old, due to the sporting boycott of South Africa. Just imagine if South Africa had not got this sporting boycott, Graeme Pollock would have ended up scoring enormous runs and becoming one of the highest run scorers in the history of Test Cricket, as many Cricket analysts from all over the world say. Interesting fact: South African Cricket legend Shaun Pollock is the nephew of Graeme Pollock.
Man gavaskar average and numbers are amazing!! He's one of the best batters in cricketing history!! He faced the best bowling of cricketing era and still.averages about 51 and that's amazing!! He had no support from other end and there were no fast bowlers in indian team and when other teams made fast bowling tracks he always used to do it all alone!!
Golden memories detained in video, uploaded on you tube and enjoyed by cricket lovers like me ...... What quality of cricket this is even from vateren player.... I Admire it a lot.
It was always my dream to see Sunil Gavaskar and Barry Richards opening together (not sure if they did during the World XI tour of Australia in 1972) - thank you for making that dream come true!
I had never seen Graeme pollock bat before this, had only heard how he dominated... this vid gave a pretty good idea!! Thommo looked scary esp. that bouncer to gavaskar!! Wow... Gavaskar still has gr8 technique. And last but not the least, sometime during that video, fell in love with zoe goss!! Fantastic vid...
@@iankemp8535 Gavaskar 'one of the best indian opening bats'? He was the absolute best indian opening bats, noone even comes close. Gavaskar is one of the absolute best opening bats of any country.
Piyush check this out: early 1987 Pollock was 43 and this was a slightly more serious match against the best bowlers Australia had to offer at this time in the mid 1980s (most of the best Australian bowlers were on the rebel South African tours). ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-U3V4fS_xdys.html
@@Bernie8330 Bernie I am not disagreeing with you that he was India's greatest opener. Saw him play on a few occasions , But still think over all Hutton Sutcliffe Hobbs were more complete opening bats I saw Hutton and he was easerly the best I ever saw on any wicket.
@@iankemp8535 Yeah i know Hutton was great - I have always been a fanatical fan of the game's history. If he's your favourite no problem whatsoever. Before my time though, I was born in 1972. I rate Gavaskar so highly because he scored runs against the best bowlers of his time - and there were many great bowlers in those days - i.e. the west indies, Imran Khan and Australia. He was, at the time of his retirement, the only player to have scored a test century in every country that played test cricket in his era, 7 in all i.e. India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, New Zealand, Australia, England and the West Indies. I'm not sure how many since have equalled this feat. Gavaskar was also one of only 3 players to average more than 50 in the 1970s i.e. taking into account only tests played in that decade. On account of the up and down pitches, and the quality of bowlers, run scoring was majorly difficult in the 1970s, but not for Greg Chappell, Viv Richards and Sunil Gavaskar.
abdul qadir remind me his batting vs west indies in 1987 wc vs courtney walsh when pak required 10 runs on 2 balls and he hitted 6 and 4 to courtney walsh and pak won thst match
It was 10 runs required off 3 balls.....first he scored six ...then 2 runs.....final ball 2 runs required of 1 ball ...he scored a boundary to win the match.......
They would certainly have done that, along with Procter, Rice, Peter Kirsten, McEwan, van der Bijl, Jimmy Cook, etc etc etc... There's a long list... It's very sad that the world was robbed of these fine players...
Use to love Australian grounds from the 90s. They had huge outfields, but unfortunately more and more of them seem to be getting smaller and smaller after redevelopments.
Spot on. That was always the great thing about Australian Test Match Grounds, that in order to score a boundary the ball near enough had to hit the fence. None of these pathetic inflatable boundaries that you get now. First time I saw Test Match highlights from Australia here in England was in 74/75.
Michael Holding @ 9:24, "I think Dennis enjoyed that Collision" ROTFL, just when you thought that was absolute Gold, Holding follows it up @ 9:39 with "I think i might have enjoyed it myself" !!!!
Bharath Kumar Yes, that pull shot against Lilee was fantastic, lovely technique he showed there by going back, rolling the wrists over and hitting it powerfully, cameraman couldn't pick up the ball even. the ball he got out was unfortunately didnt bounce as much as he expected, otherwise he would have definitely hit that for four. Amazing opening batsman. Aggressive as well as technically perfect!
What a great game! Thanks for giving me the chance to see it! It's kind of funny though, how much they were patronizing Zoe Goss treating her like, well, a woman...giving her huge wraps every time she fielded, and her bowling was quite average compared to the way the commentators were going on about her hehe
Denis Compton was a true genius He could play on any wicket against any attack and destroy it. Still scored over 123 centuries 39000 runs 600 hundred wickets despite losing his 6 best years due to the war.He averaged over 50 in test and county Cricket.He was also a great footballer playing for the Arsenal and England during the war years as a goal scoring outside left. He was also a great sportsman very charismatic and charming. Probably the best looking sportsman of all time along with Keith Miller of film star looks. One of the really great all rounders > again lost 6 years due to the war where he flew Mosquitos as a night fighter pilot. A true boys own hero. Look em up you will be surprised but please study the history of the game.
whoever the uploader of this vid is but he/she own something from me. G. Pollock was is and would be the all time best after Hammond and Sobers and i got to see him via this video. Hats off
Graeme Pollock, my utmost respectful salutations to that elderly statesman who made batting look like the "real walk in the park". He is THE MAN!! for ages 🙏
1969 में बिल लॉरी की ऑस्ट्रेलिया की टीम के अगेंस्ट ग्रीम पोलॉक की 274 रन की इनिंग्स को रेडियों पर कमेंट्री पर सुना था, अब इस age में उनकी शानदार batting को देखा.....!
You just cannot say that … There are so many great batsman in the history of cricket... Hammond Compton Hutton Weekes Sobers Walcott Barrington Dexter...Border You have to into account covered and uncovered wickets shorter boundaries , heavy bats that mean a defensive shot goes for four..... the standard of the bowlers ..and indeed county or state cricket. Some of the real greats like Hutton Compton Miller Hammond Hobbs Sutcliffe Bradman lost 6 of their best years due to the war.. You can say which is the greatest batsman for each era of say 12 years It is just nonsense to just talk about cricketers over the last 30 /40 years. And say this was the greatest of all time . Bradman is up there because of the opposition and his average which nobody will ever beat. But really he is the only one that could be considered the greatest of all time ….. Barry Richards was very good but hardly played any test cricket so was Pollock again not enough test cricket. Tendulkar is up there but look how many tests he played the type of wickets bats the opposition.
I think Akram would be a better captain for your team. He was a great captain both in tests and odis. He is someone who commands respect as a test player and also aggressive in nature.
Which era are you talking about???? The last 30/40 years You cannot if you have read or know anything about cricket history restrict your self to these few. I Have watched cricket and played in earlier years for over 70 years....Bradman is easerly the greatest Compton Hutton Miller Hammond And Hobbs and Sutcliffe along with Hutton were the best opening batsman I have seen
