Greatest? nah...... the 99 series with the two sides and the 88 title clash between Pakistan and the WI were better. Most significant? Certainly. It signalled the end of a style of cricket that had dominated the sport for the last 20 years. Reason I say 20 years is because the style of cricket perfected by the WI had really been started by the Chappell brothers and Lillee and Thomson.
The West Indies dominance of test cricket in the late 1970's and 1980's probably started just after their 5-1 hammering by Australia in 1975. In my opinion anyway.
Beginning of another team of decade to follow. Australia. Salute. Waugh brothers. This test match remembered for Waugh Ambrose war of words. Great contest..
Miss those strong Windies sides. Richie Rich a bit sore though - If that was a weak Aussie side, the Windies had some passengers in their lineup - only really had 3 batters, 2-bowlers, and on the previous tour in Australia 93 they nearly lost the FR trophy in Adelaide. WI were already on the decline before this series.
A lot of people saw the Waugh twins as detached. But they just knew each other so well that verbal communication wasn't even needed. Is this not in fact a higher level of understanding? Great entertainment this series. A genuine team effort with 11 players doing their job. Imagine talented players like Ponting Langer Rackemann and May not playing in the tests and doing it without Fleming and Mc'Dermott as well. Huge effort.
Had there been no AB, the hard edge of McGrath, Warne, Waugh twins and Taylor visible here wouldn't even exist. Border established the empire, Taylor administered the finishing touches.
Unfortunately for them Greenidge retired in 1991 and Haynes in 1994. Considering Greenidge made his debut in 1975 and Haynes in 1978 I’m not surprised!! 😂😂👍👍
@@andrewassing2269 they should have played Phil Simmons....who had an excellent ODI series before the tests. Campbell was kinda ok, hideous to watch but he has scored some useful runs for us....williams was downright awful. But the WI shot themselves in the foot.....played keith atherton(garbage) the entire series, the wicb barred Haynes for playing i SA and were subsequently sued(haynes won the lawsuit) and they changed the popular manager rohan kanhai for andy roberts.......who lets just say wasn't any of the team's cup of tea. Honestly i think a lot of politics went into that series......not saying Aus didn't deserve to win but i am saying the WI with better selection and Steve Waugh not being dropped by courtney browne, we probably would have won. In 95 the teams were evenly matched. In 97, they were definitely better but not in 95
@@juanestadian8471 I agree with you about Phil Simmons. He scored a battling century at Melbourne in the 1992/93 test series. A very good player, would you say that he was a bit of an unfulfilled talent??
@Mr Kipling I was too young to see a lot of his career, but I know my parents along with most other Trinidadians said he was never the same after David Lawrence hit him with a bouncer in bad light during the 88 series. I wasn't around in 88 but I did read that he needed emergency surgery to save his life following the incident. That must mess with you mentally as a batsman. Case in point, I remember Dilhara Fernando felling Sarwan with a bouncer in that classic world cup game in SA. I am convinced that Sarwan was never the same after that lash. He developed a tick, a nervous ticket vs the fast men. Not that he was shoddy against them but he was never as settled as he was before.
This was real Test cricket. It was a war out there. Mental toughness, supreme skill and the ability to deal with physical pain were necessary to achieve success. It was the birth of one of Australia's greatest test teams. McGrath and Warne were to become two of the greatest bowlers of all time. The Waugh brothers tough and skillful world class batsmen. We then added Ponting Hayden and Langer with Gilchrist and Brett Lee in the following years to be become an amazing team that could win just about anywhere.
I was about to ask the same thing. SA dominance lasted until Mitchell Johnson paid them a visit in early 2014........and caused Graeme Smith to quit.......softies
@@donmylifedonmylife368 Wait, I would like to disagree with you. Indian dominance in what sense? They're mostly winning in Indian subcontinent, and if purely record wise and in terms of winning ODIs and Tests, they don't come anywhere close to the Windies if 70s and 80s and Aussies of mid 90s and early 2000s. What they do heat every cricket playing nation in, is money.
I remember that McGrath really came of age but Brendon Julian starred as well. I also remember Steve Waugh playing the toughest innings I had ever seen, after copping a terrible barrage on the body from Ambrose and Walsh. Winning this series is the greatest cricketing achievement I have ever witnessed.
Amazing series... That Steve Waugh catch somewhat soured the series. Key moment and a moment that puts astrix next to it. It's not an overstatement. That was prime Lara - the best of the best in his prime.
I remember it like it was yesterday. After a decade and a half of being beaten by the Windies (Australia should have won in 81-82 and especially 92-93), it was a great result.
Watching this makes me realise I truly missed out never going to fhe West Indies to watch a test series. I was 19 for this one, should have gone in 99. What an atmosphere it must have been. Maybe a Windies resurgence will bring this kind of contest back again… Let’s pray 🙏🏻 Richie’s omments at the end were sour grapes, first West Indies captain to lose a series in 20 years no wonder he was salty, but unforfunatley for him our bowlers stood up and Steve Waugh, cometh the hour cometh the man… Absolute legend.
Everything that rises has to fall one day, That's what it was with the Great West Indies team, Still the West Indies was a competitive side till the early 2000s.
Excellent documentary,would never normally get to see this been in the North of England 🏴, thank you ever so much for the upload,best aussie captain I've ever seen is Mark Taylor comes across as an absolute gentleman too-England fan
This was just about about the best series I can remember as an Aussie supporter, especially after how arrogant Richie Richardson was before the series and how much of a sore loser he was afterwards. It was so, so sweet as a fan. We also played some fantastic cricket.
adam872 Considering how close Australia got in 93 to beating the West Indies Richie Richardson should have taken the challenge of Australia more seriously. It showed arrogance and poor judgement.
@@thecarpetman7687 hard to say. Steve Waugh is an all time great and this was his moment, and Mark Waugh could produce Lara like magic albeit less consistently. This team was less experienced but in hindsight a better one. They definitely fielded better than Border's Aussies.
@@meshalsinnen5917 That is a myth about Lara and Mark Waugh. Lara failed completely in the 1996-97, played only one token innings of any significance in 2000-01, and only played a decent innings in a dead rubber after the series was already lost in 2005-06. Lara’s impact in the 2003 series was also fairly minimal. Lara only exerted genuine impact in two of the six series he played against Australia i.e. 1992-93 and 99. Mark Waugh on the other hand, performed consistently in all of his first four series against the West Indies when they still had a powerful bowling attack, and made timely contributions in the 1999 series when their attack was still competitive, though no longer feared. Among his colossal individual scores, Lara made 400, 375, 216, 209, 179 and 152 in lifeless, pointless, high scoring draws on flat pitches where the bowlers of either side were never in the match at any stage. He also made 226 in a dead rubber after he had done nothing earlier in the series, which his team lost anyway, but none the less would have been a predictable boring draw on a flat pitch had the West Indies still had other batsmen around him of similar class to their 1980s line-ups. Even his 277, only about the first 100 exerted any genuine impact on the match and series. Those innings in the previous paragraph account for six of Lara’s nine 200+ scores, and 8 of his 19 150+ scores, 16% of all his test runs and almost 25% of his centuries. Lara’s 400 also came in a dead rubber with his team 0-3 down and Lara not having reached even 50 in any of the previous tests. Mark on the other hand only had pointless non-impacting 100+ scores of 111 and 111, which was barely 2% of all his test runs and only 10% of his test tons. Australia lost only one test in which Mark made a ton, but he outscored the next highest scoring team mate across both innings by a decimal of 1.41, and the third highest by 2.88. He was pipped by the highest opposition scoring batsman by a decimal of only 1.01, but outscored their second highest scorer across both innings by 1.53. In a test lost by only 74 runs, Mark more than did his job. 15 of Mark’s 20 tons were in wins, three of which were in deciding tests in series. All 4 of his test tons in draws were in deciding tests, with Australia the series victors on three of those occasions, with the other shared at 1-1. I am not saying Mark was a better batsman than Lara, but I am saying that if Lara was better, than it was only by a miniscule margin, and the determining factor is in no way sheer volume of runs on their personal stats.
Don't forget the impact junior had with his fielding especially his catching at second slip one of the best if not the best slippers to ever play. Also once in a while he would take a wicket or two
This was covered live on free to air TV which was very rare back then for matches in the Caribbean. I remember staying up all night to watch the Waugh bothers 4th Test partnership and going to work without a wink of sleep, then I stayed up until about 4AM the next night to watch Steve reach 200 The next day was a rest day so I was able to get some sleep then stayed up til 4AM the next night to see Australia win and make history.
Exactly!!!!! Those of us in the Caribbean who saw it live are still bitter about that. Australia a bunch of shameless cheats. And what's worse his teamates commenting was trying to defend it
This is an amazing upload. I'm looking for something similar with the 2002/2003 ashes series - loving the longer highlights you have! Any chance you can help me? Thanks a lot.
Mark Waugh struck outside the line of off stump playing a shot...then Brendon Julian bowled by a ball that stayed so low that it should have bought a ticket for the "Underground"
I do wonder if Richardson ever realised the irony of his words after he labelled this team the worst side in many years and they ended up being one of the best teams in history. May 3rd 1995 the start of an era
think he said that cause border just reitred..jones just left..no hughes or mcdermott..but in hindsight he was wrong..mcgrath obviously turned into a champion
1:45:00 Mark Waugh LOL. I really wished Allan Border had stayed on one more year as captain it would have been nice to see him hold aloft the Frank Worrell trophy as a swan song.
Richie was a poor loser, but it wasn't like he'd had much experience of it at this point! His captaincy in the 92-93 series was a key reason the West Indies weren't de-throned then. He also captained the West Indies to a number of other cliffhanger victories in the lead-up to 1995.
@@mrkipling2201 Nah, he could barely hit the cut surface by the late 90s in Shield cricket. The one thing he had going for him was the lack of left arm seamers at the time.
@@colourandsound really?? I didn’t know his form dropped off to that extent. I’m surprised he didn’t play more test cricket from, say, 1992-1998 though.
The weakest Australian team that he has played against??? Richie - come on - Warne, McGrath, the Waugh bros, Healey, Slater, Taylor etc - now that is a BAD call!
@@roygbiv6010 Steve played in five and a half series against the West Indies up until 1999, and Mark played in five - Steve only getting picked for two of the five tests in 1991. There are ‘deciding tests’ and ‘deciders’. All deciders are deciding tests but not all deciding tests are deciders. A deciding test is the test in which the series result of win, loss or draw is sealed. For example, Mark Waugh debuted in the 4th test of a 5-test series and his team was leading 2-0. A win or a draw in this match seals a series victory with one to play. In Mark’s first series against the West Indies (in 1991), the deciding test turned out to be the 4th (of 5) as the West Indies won it after leading 1-0 going in. In Australia’s first innings, Mark was left stranded on 20 not out when they were bowled out for a paltry 134 in reply to 149. What he scored in the second innings was irrelevant as Australia were facing a lost cause, set 536 to win in the fourth innings, which no team will ever even come close to achieving. His second series against them (1992-93) was the only one of five in which he failed in the deciding test - this was also a decider as the series was locked at 1-1 going into the final test. However, Mark had scored 39, 60, 112, 16 and 57 in the first three tests after which Australia led 1-0. The only team mate to match his run scoring in those tests was David Boon, but his speed of scoring in no way matched Mark’s. Then there was the 126 in this video. In 1996-97, he scored 82 in the deciding test, the 4th, and then scored 65 in the decider in 1999. 2000-01 is irrelevant as the West Indies were now virtual minnows. Performing in deciding tests was Mark’s specialty. In his prime years, from the 1993 Ashes until the 1999 world cup, inclusive, he played in 18 test series consisting of 3, 4, 5 and 6 tests durations. In the 18 deciding tests of those series, 10 of which were also ‘deciders’, he averaged 61, and made 17 scores of 50 or more, six of which were centuries. Australia were victorious in 13 of those series, drew 3 and lost only 2. I am pretty sure no other batsman in history would match that record in a streak of deciding tests of anywhere near that long - Bradman played in only 11 series altogether, and didn’t bat at all in the deciding test of 1 of them, the 1938 Ashes. I know you never said as such, but speaking to the wider cricket fan population all over the world, anybody who assumes that Steve Waugh was Australia’s premier test match batsman in the 1990s has not done their homework at all.
1995 had to be the start of the rest of Brian Lara’s life. No Desmond Haynes(who was still in form) or Phil Simmons at the top( who had an excellent ODI series before) to provide ameen a little cushion.
Courtney Browne is the biggest curse to ever befall WI cricket. Dropping Steve Waugh in 40's in the deciding test. The following year he dropped Stuart Law in the semis of the world cup and could have had Australia 5/15. They went on to make just over 200 which they were able to defend.
Richie Richardson you humiliated yourself with your total disrespect to an amazing side, a better side, AN AUSSIE SIDE 🏏🇦🇺❤️ They beat you fair and square.
At the end of his career after a break he did really well and averaged a lot, think he averaged close to 50 as captain, and scored one if the best looking 200’s you’ll ever see against India. Then he lost the captaincy for no obvious reason. But you’re right in that people remember the early years of him when he was averaging in the 30’s when he looked like he could do so much more
Westindies batting decline was major reason for their downfall. They were heavily dependent on Lara, Chaderpaul, hooper and Sarwan. Openers and lower middle order was poor. Bowling wise Ambrose and Walsh were excellent but support bolwing fast or spin was weak. Westindies decline and Australia rise to top was determine from this series.
It was, but he also took 6 wickets in the preceding test against England in Perth, including Mike Atherton in both innings which is where he established his bunnyship over that particular English batsman.
Richie Richardson saying it was the weakest Australian team he had played against minutes after losing the series has aged about as well as Tony Greig's "grovel" comment.
West indies cheat as well. I remember roger harper claiming a catch that wasnt and was correctly given not out. the batsman was bevan and he had the last laugh when he Hit a four off the last ball of the match to win the game for australia
Maybe....but he got caught. That's because West Indians aren't used to cheating. However the aussie cricketers' hard but unfair tactics are a tradition that hordes of future aussie cricketers secretly cherish. Remember steven smith asking for off field help in india or handscomb's grounded catch of virat kohli
@@juanestadian8471 West Indians aren't as saint as they claim to be; they behaved terribly at times and were crybabies like any cricketing teams; You know about Sabina Park bloodbath in 76 ?? That was actually before quatret appeared first time (later against Pak in early 1977); Clive was frustated after hammering in Aus; then they gave us turning tracks at QPO and Bedi and Chandra made a mess of them apart from Viv Richards who scored half of team runs; West Indies always whine about umpring in Nz and Aus but there umpires were equally hypocrite post Viv's retirment and even 88 onwards; They dont like bouncers as well even complaint once that Steve Waugh is bowling a lot of snorter at them..I remember Viv threatning umpire here in India in 87 to force him to get Vengserkar.. At end of day all teams are flawed; But Windies werent as saint or free spirited as they claim..
no he wore it in all 3 odis in England in 1995 he wore it 2nd innings 4th test at old trafford 1995 he wore it in every innings he batted in 1996 world cup
@@theman9042 Thanks for the correction. I should have said it was the last time he wore it without interruption. I know he wore a helmet for the first time in the next innings in that 1995 series against Australia when he opened the batting. Also he continued to wear it while fielding.
Bit rude of Richie Richardson at the end to not accept defeat graciously. Wheels came off for west indies after this. Steady decline and look at their test side today. Jokers lot
I didnt understand ritchie richardsons comment weakest australian team ever West indies have not beaten australia in a test series since 1992 Thats 31 years
The salt in Richie Richardson's voice: The weakest Aussie team he faced, couldn't believe they won. Well, 30 years later, and WI still hasn't won the FWT.
