Australian captain Allan Border was giving Brian McMillan a hard time in the middle during a Test match, so Big Mac went to see him in the change room afterwards to sort everything out. With a gun...
Macmilan this guy was one of the best slip fielder, most hardest hitting batsman & a deadly bowler. The first finest allrounder cricket have ever seen. His sequel was kallis who was similiar to macmilan. Love from INDIA.
One of my fav back in the 90s. Oh! Cricket was much better those days. I was desperate to watch even a clip of cricketing action from Sa vs Aus because, there was no live telecast in my country at that time. I'd wait for the sports time of the news in the hope that they might paly few seconds of the match as they tell the news.
Mr. Mc is a true gentleman Was at Wanderers stadium 92/93 SA vs Pakistan I was 12 Cricket was everything in my Greek house (Pothas I love you) Asked Mr Mc for a signature at tea He said after the match I said that is what you All Say We were 20 meters from the rope and marked an X with that tiny shoe of his With big spikes And said at the close of play meet me here. True as bob he was there to sign my mini gm bat. Bless you Brian You inspired Wish to meet you once more
Big Mac, he would run in so slowly and relaxed and then all of a sudden let rip with a quick bouncer. I remember him breaking the middle stump in half after bowling a batsman in the 1992 cricket world cup. I can't remember against what team it was, maybe Pakistan.
My favourite cricketer , excellent slip fielder , genuine number 6 batter with outstanding technique and a fiersome fast medium bowler. Best all rounder in cricket between 92-97
I liked the memories of South Africa losing semi finals in the World Cups... also a great day for cricket today. All wrapped up in 2 days for the Brisbane test. Go Aussies.
@@midshipsport Actually there were a few seriously good all rounders in the 90s, especially from South Africa. Lance Klusener, Shaun Pollock and Jacques Kallis certainly spring to mind. Sanath Jayasuriya and Andrew Flintoff both played in the 90s. Also Steve Waugh, Imran Khan and maybe Wasim Akram. I might also call Shahid Afridi an all rounder. I got the wise crack, but Big Mac, while far from the best, was also more than handy to have in your team. I seem to recall some amazing catches by him.
@@interestedbystander196 Big Mac made this debut late and was a "Genuine" Alrounder. Yes Flintoff was but more of 2000s Imran was 70s & 80s , Jayasurya was a batsman who could bowl well and the rest were great fast bowlers who could bat.
@@midshipsport But Klusener could bat (could he ever!) and bowl. Ditto Pollock - he only batted as low as he did due to the batting firepower in the SA lineup at the time. He could have batted 5 or 6 easily, instead of 8 or even 9 like he usually did. Several test 100s. Steve Waugh was an excellent bowler for Australia, often on as first change, so he passes muster for my definition, and Jacques Kallis is up there at the top of the all-rounder tree alongside Sobers. Kallis could have been in the side just as a batsman, or just as a bowler. He was pretty much the perfect all rounder, especially in his younger days - he had good pace as aza bowler, and his batting record speaks for itself.
McMillan Burger had a test/odi batting average of 34/10 and bowling average of 46/46 against Australia. He certainly wasn't intimidating anyone ON the field. It tells you a lot about his character that he is proud to retell the story of himself, a 6foot 2 big frame of a man, and the only time he ever intimidated was not during the career of his chosen profession, but behind the barrel of a gun. That's the real joke.
Brian seems like a decent bloke & I know there was no malice intended & it was only a joke, but pretending to threaten someone with a gun? I'm sorry I think that's going a bit too far.
Border was one of the greatest, Mac was was crucial at times for SA. Came from isolation and we done quite well in that time period. As for Bakkies he had a job as enforcer. And excuse me we won numerous titles and world cups. He played within what the law allowed. Bakkies as a person off the field is a gentlman and well liked. Just because he kicked ass on the field he wasnt liked by opposition supporters.
Please don't tell me that you are one of those muppets who think that the ridiculous speech impediment called "received pronunciation" is a sensible way to speak English.
@@ass09tube You don't have to be a match-winner to be good. He was more the solid, dependable guy, much like the SA wicketkeeper at the time, Dave Richardson. I'm sure McMillan got MoM once or twice, though. He was good in his day.
We know that Semi Final of 1992 world cup was bull shit and we also know that Richardson and Mcmillan will chase the score but duckluwise method had been dostroyed in cricket history. My suggestion is if rain will start in important matches then match will be postponed for next day or as and if rain will stop.
Hey mate thats a bit mean you do realise as good as cricketer as AB is brian done pretty well and AB had and extra 24 years then him so maybe if south Africa wasn't expelled he could of played a lot earlier and his career would of been better but as an Aussie I reckon he didn't do to bad
Kegan Du Preez Would that be the test record where he took 75 wickets across 64 innings? Yes, he is a force to be reckoned with!!!? 1.05 wickets per innings? He’s deadly! 😂🤣.
ryan mitchell Not saying BM is the greatest, but I'd happily take a test batting average just shy of 40. As would you...and it would probably stop you from squeaking:) Hopefully anyway.
Firstly, even if you average 200 you should not be taking a gun, loaded or not, into an opposition changeroom. Clearly, even after dismissing Border, he felt he still needed to prove himself. We don’t need Freud here. There are esteem issues. I don’t like to speak without evidence, so I crunched some numbers on cricinfo. Many of his scores down at batting position 7 & 8 are sound, true, but not out. I do not want to criticise Donald, de Villiers and Snell...but hardly guys who would hang about. Like Michael Bevan, scratch the surface, and the high average comes from not out appearances. When given a chance up the order batting at three, we see a huge drop. When batting at 7/8 he was left on 87*,59*,103*, 98* Remove these from the data set? His test average is 13.78. That includes the 55 he made batting a 3 and the 100* vs England. So yes, his average, at first glance, is passable yeah, he’s a hero etc But don’t tell me his actions were acceptable- or as a player he was anywhere near Pollock, Kallis or Cronje.
Ryan Mitchell You're a bit of a finger wagging holier than thou moralist re the gun incident. And let's face it - you're really engaging in hair splitting semantics. At the end of the day, after 38 test matches and 62 innings, McMillan ended with a batting average a whisker shy of 40, so just stop. I don't think his batting average makes him a "hero" and nor did I say that. And I never compared him to Pollock, Kallis or Cronje. Nor did I say his actions were acceptable or unacceptable. And nor did I say his actions were related to his average any way what so ever. Stay focused and stick to the point. And you referring to a cricketer's actions being unacceptable and then lauding (ha!) hanse cronje (who had a test batting average of just over 36!!!) did make me chuckle:) You're all over the place!!! And why such virulent antipathy?
