Australia vs West Indies Adelaide test 1981-82. Can the great West Indies team keep their winning record alive against the awesome Aussie bowling attack.
This is when cricket was cricket, as we say in the cricket fraternity. The game has changed in multiple ways and not always for the better in my view. Changes are inevitable irrespective of the sport. However, Test cricket is still the ultimate test of a player's skills set, temperament, mentality and the like. No other format can compare in this respect. Yes, i'm old school/traditionalist and not ashamed of it. Long live Test cricket.
@@johnbraithwaite-mt2fy the shorter format of the game and the IPL have destroyed test cricket All we have are a bunch of expensive divas.You think any of those divas would return to bat for the team like Chanderpaul with an injured arm? In those golden years it was all about the team and representing the WI.I have stopped watching cricket because all they are doing is vooping The artistry and the battle between bowler and the batsman is gone
absolutely - i just saw this now and was abt to post 'great umpiring - anywhere else even back then or these days, those would be given out, notwithstanding reviews'
1992-93 Adelaide test of Frank Worell Trophy was the best. Australia of captain Allan Border needed to chase 186 runs in 4th innings to win that fourth test of the trophy as well as that trophy but West Indies bowled out Australia for 184 runs to level the series and then won Perth test to win that test series in Australia.
I followed this game in the newspapers at the time (from the other side of the world). Hoped one day that I would get to see some footage. 40 years later and here it is :)))). Brilliant stuff. Thank you.
Thank God for RU-vid. As an elementary schoolboy in 1963, I started listening to cricket WI vs England, on a transistor radio, never dreaming that one day I would be able to see actual footage of those games. Now, it's right here on my screen.
Yes! Classic match and finish! Listened to it on Radio Australia with bated breath from Bangladesh! Always wondered if the TV footage could be retrieved. Thanks RU-vid!
Back in those days Australia & west indies rivalry spectacular. Australia can never find another pair like Thompson & Lillie pace like fire. WEST INDIES throwing the kitchen sink at them.
I remember watching this game in Australia. What a bowling effort from Thompson, Yardley and Pasco. Lillee was hurt in his first bowling spell in that game as well as Terry alderman and Greg Chappell. I think even marsh had a couple of overs in the first innings but look at the West Indies team. Big Bird, Sir C Lloyd, Michael holding, Larry Gomes, Desmond and Gorden arguably one of the goat opening combinations, and of course sir Vivian Richards. And us, border, hooks, Lillee and Tompson (enough said about how feared Those two were.) Chappell, Marsh, Alderman, Yardley. A great platform this which allows some of us to relive our memories which commentary we remember listening to and remembering great players and great commentators rip Richie and Ian
@Dinesh God bless!! You have brought back my childhood and teen age memories back. I remember waiting for newspapers and Dharmayug and Saptahik Hindustan magzines for updates on matches and we would make an album for the season by pasting pictures cut off those. The boy with more coloured pictures would be neighbour's envy. Oh how dearly I miss the great WI of yore!!! I still remember waiting for 4-5 hours on my rooftop to take a glimpse of my favourite WK Dujon and favourite bowler Holding to come out at their hosts' balcony and acknowledge the cheering fans atop roofs around and on road. Those days in Kanpur few millionaires {including Sunil Gawaskar's father in Law} used to invite the teams for dinner as sponsorship was something unheard of and there wasn't much money but just passion in cricket. Thanks again @Dinesh. Please keep posting such gems. Love Amit Misra Navi Mumbai
@Amit ji thanks for the message. As a kid I was the biggest Windies fan- they were an awesome team and my family and I met the team on a few occasions, very friendly and happy bunch of cricketers. Thank you for sharing your experiences 😎
@@Dinesh-nx4lh indeed they were the most loved visiting team. No arrogance at all. The way they were ever ready for photograph or autograph was amazing. And for us the teens they were the style icons. Even Richards style of chewing the gum was followed. 😂😂😂😂😂
Super Cat was a thorn in the flesh of many a teams.Just when the opposition dismissed Viv and sighed with relief ,in comes Lloyd to play a match winning innings,many many times. A real crisis man for the Windies.
If you are a good batsman, then you have to prove it by scoring against the Aussies. They believe that the game is not over until the last ball is bowled. How I admire the Aussies....
Border's catch attempt at a wide 1st slip off Lloyd's only chance, was a virtual impossible catch, and would've had to stick. If that had have happened, they may had won the series 2-0. But "WE" knew he was going to drop it. Some have said that he should've left it to Marsh, or that Marsh shouldn't have dived, as it was closer to Border, and would've put Border off. But Marsh was the one who had the gloves, and it would've stuck if he got in the palm.
Cricket was simply a romantic drama in those days. V Richard was the beloved hero Lily was a threatning villan. Picturization was simple n great. No intervals no adds. Those were the days of great pleasure.
Either the grounds were much larger in those days or the present day players are much stronger than the players from that era. It appears that hitting a boundary took a lot of strength! The ball rolls on and on but never reaches the ropes! Wow!
The bats are very different now. You mishit the ball now and it still goes for six a lot of the times for shots you would be caught with these older thinner blade bats. But also the bring in the boundaries with ropes now. That Adelaide Oval had long boundaries but short square of the wicket. Viv Richards, Gordon Greenidge and Clive Lloyd with the bats they use this decade would be hitting boundaries at will in the same game.
Yes the boundaries are in from the fence now, a long way in on the straight boundaries, and the bats are much bigger but now heavier and hit the ball harder and longer. Clive Lloyd and Viv Richards were more powerful than most players today.
Thanks Lawrie- also uploaded the Aussie collapse early in the day. If the Aussies had taken even some of their catches, the Windies unbeaten record would have been short lived
At 3:47 Thommo gets Richards, given not out...but watch how fast the ball gets from the inside edge of Richards' bat to Marsh's glove...genuinely fast ball.
I wasn't there, and I understand why DK Lillee couldn't bowl, but why didn't Marsh ( the stand in skipper ) have A Border bowl a couple of overs to give Pascoe & Thompson a bit of a break? I'm aware that the usual change bowler was G Chappell, who was also absent (ill or injured) but why not try something, anything. Continuing with just the 3 bowlers was just asking for defeat.
@@Dinesh-nx4lh indeed, the old saying "catches win matches" certainly applies! And I've often said, to friends, that it's impossible to win a test match with only 4 bowlers, (which was what Australia were doing with McGrath, Lee, Gillespie & Warne) let alone what happens if one breaks down. Like McGrath did at Edgbaston in 2005.
@@EarlJohn61 McDermott was injured early in 2nd Ashes test of 1993, and Australia went on to thrash England by an innings, M Waugh opening the bowling in 2nd inns.
@@sentimentalbloke185 and the Waugh twins were people who could if needed step up and bowl a few overs, just to give the main bowlers a break. Then, when one of the main bowlers breaks down, they had the ability (& the will) to bowl a few extra overs. I'm not asking for 6 bowlers each bowling 15 overs in a day. What I'm saying is needed is 4 or 5 front line bowlers and 2 or 1 "part-time" bowler that can bowl say 3 overs each either side of the tea break (or something like that). Not a formula set in concrete, but a guide... 11 players: 5 batters, 1 batting all-rounder, 1 wicket keeper, 1 bowling all-rounder, 3 bowlers. With 1 or 2 of the batters able to roll an arm over
The appears to be so much larger than is common nowadays. Is it just an optical illusion with the old camera? Anyone know how long the boundaries were those days? They appear to be about 75 yards in the modern game, which is about 3.25x the length of the cricket pitch. This video makes it appear that the boundary is about 90 yards away
@@chalkandcheese1868 It's only an illusion, there's no way the Aussies could have challenged the WI of 70s, 80s & mid 90s however fit they were. The WI were simply invincible & unbeatable those days.
@@adsdynamic9219 I was there son, it wasn't an illusion. They had an amazing win in Melbourne, mostly thanks to Hughes and Lillee, the Sydney test was a rain affected draw. If Australia had Lillee and Chappell on that last day in Adelaide, in my opinion, they would have won, or gone very close to it, but it was a great series.
shocking umpiring as usual.....that first caught behind off thomo defected about 20 feet to marsh, and the lbw shouts against greenidge and clive would probably be out with DRS.
Windies were great, but Australian attack wasn’t at its best. Lillee the best bowler was injured, only bowled 4 overs in each innings. Geoff Lawson out of match, probably a better bowler at that time than Thomson or Pascoe.
The aussies could not catch a cold that day..otherwise they might have gained the coveted frank worrell trophy given that they had won the boxing day match
I believe Kallicharan retired in 1981 and then led a rebel West Indies team to South Africa. All players were banned for life by the Windies cricket board
@@janga75 goodness buddy: Sobers, Kanhai, Richards, Kallicharan, Three W’s…. All made runs in India… Greenidge started with a century there… Richards got centuries in his first series in India… Bedi, Venkat, Chandrasekhar Doshi etc etc. Clive Lloyd 1st test in India, 82 and 70-odd n.o. So I think More than Lara, Hooper and Chandi. The myth is that we couldn’t play spin.
@@mkirsia I stand corrected I should have named kanhai as well never saw too much of kallicharan even on youtube. Im afraid we have been pretty poor against spin for a couple decades now
Maybe so. But they didn't start dropping catches 'til about 50 runs to get. But then u wouldn't know if the Windies would've lost their remaining 5 wickets after even if Pascoe would've caught Bacchus. All you Aussies go on as if u would've won the match, after those catches not been taken from that period.
west indies cricket change when burnham the prime minster of british guyana he cause the cancellation of and english tour he clive lloyd was not selected for aussie tour he burnham pressure selector to bring llovd rohan kanhai as captain replacing sobers who captain the west indies 20 test in the carribean he won 2 test lost 3 and 15 draw win one lost two and draw one series lloyd was name captain 1975 he burnham dislike rohan kanhai he kanhai went to jamaica to coach their youth team brought them to bourda green and beat guyana as the commenator said the son on guyana came in guyana and beat guyana llovd and burnham was two of a kind he lloyd destroyed alvin kallicharan career and larry gomes cricket career when viv richard career that is a fact bud from nyc
Are you allergic to punctuation marks? What a load of rubbish which you have submitted. You should present factual evidence to buffet your opinion otherwise your post will be dismissed as mere speculation. And cease making WI cricket issues as one of Blacks v Indians. Our cricket problems go deeper than that, way deeper. Wheel and come again, Sir.
Jean Cowcahran you are mistaken about the whole scenario about Lloyd in 1972, when he was dropped from the WI team. Because he was performing very poorly so he was replaced by Lawrence Rowe,it was a toss up with him and Alvin Kallicharran and. Rowe 224 or 227 against New Zealand and got the selection over Alvin Kallicharran, because he played in the president 11 at Jarrett Park in Montego Bay and scored 133.The team was captain by Sir Garfield Sobers so, what you are saying about that Forbes Burnam took away the captain from Sobers. Nothing does not goes like that at all,in 1972 I was 17 years of age so I know what am saying. I watched that test match from start to finish, so go back and do some research. It is 51 years ago since that happened my dear,I guessed you were too young to know what was going on. You only hear from people, so get your facts straight young lady, ok.
