Lovely seeing Gibbs and Sobers bowling together in 1963. My dad tells a story of when a match was about 5 minutes to lunch and nothing much was happening so he got up to make himself a drink of coffee. In the time it took him to empty the kettle, refill it, wait for the kettle to re-boil and pour himself the coffee - Sir Garry Sobers had bowled one over of his Googly/Chinamen assortment, Gibbs had bowled a maiden from the other end and Sobers was just about to bowl his 5th delivery of his next over!!
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"214 for no loss" Lorry and Simpson were playing against England in Austrailia in early 60s. Richie Banue, Neil Harvey, Davidson toured Karachi Pakistan in 1959.
I was just 10 years young, when one of the greatest tests ashes to boot, series level 1-1, fourth test, Benaud on the last day England needing about 100 odd runs to win, 9 wickets in hand collapsed to around 220 all out and lose that test and ashes and the two best commentators John Arlott and Brian Johnston were on the radio. Wonderful test that was.
Despite slow scoring matches, Test matches used to draw crowds in large numbers, avid crazy followers would keep glued to radios all day long leaving most important work aside, shops would make special arrangements to let crowds on the streets listen to ball by ball commentaries, schoolboys would cut out picturs of cricket stars from magazines and papers and exchange them eagerly. To day these matches appear boring. I have seen today's youth making fun of these matches. We live in a fast moving world and tend to get bored quite easily. Back in 1950s and 1960s I never heard anyone say that he was bored. We used to find ways to keep ourselves entertained and discover joys in simple things. Note how fielders and bowlers keep cool even after a wicket falls. There is no paranoia of shaking fists, gnashing teeth, jumping up and down and throwing tantrums like we see today.
Havent watched all this but I as a boy will never forget the field placement for underwood 5th test australia 1968 at The Oval everyone circling the batsmen in the wet grass.Can still remember the drama
I don't know anything about 1960s cricket, but the next of kin were mentioning in 1970 or 1971 about buying me a Richie Benaud hard cover book from the local newsagency. And I was thinking to myself that I don't really wish to be lumbered with the bastard of a thing. Nothing at all against Richie Benaud. I just didn't want it. Then it was not there in the newsagency and they figured it as already sold. Which it probably had been. Phew !
Ted Dexter must have been an ODI player more than a decade before ODIs were invented. I heard he smashed one of the biggest sixes of all time at Adelaide. Also, looks like the BBC doesn't have footage of the pounding that Brian Close received from Wesley Hall and Charlie Griffith in 1963. I was hoping for it.
FUN FACT: Ted Dexter came out of retirement to face the West Indies touring team of 1976 - playing for the Lavinia Duchess of Norfolk's X1 in their opening tour game that year. He made 8 and the West Indies won by 7 wickets.
It's a shame with such brief highlights that the reason for him bowling left arm spin was never explained. I have a feeling he bowled left arm spin at Lord's too.
Strange that there is no footage of the formidable West Indies batting in the 1963 series..Hunte Kanhai Sobers hammered the English bowling..BBC coverage leaves much to be desired..
Ted Dexter, the captain of England, geniine hitter of the ball, controversial Charlie Griffth; Lakers took 10 out of 10 but no body recognised him, the partenerships of Bill Lorry and Simpson are great memories. But Pakistan team in 1963 must have memorable names like little master Hanif Muhammad who along with Sir GARFIELD Sobers retired in1963.
Correction: The greatest cricketer ever to play the game, Sir Garfield Sobers, retired in 1974 after the WI series against England on home turf. I'm a native Barbadian and as a schoolboy, was privileged to watch him play on many occasions for Police, Barbados and of course, WI. The man was simply a genius, gifted from birth by GOD to play the game we all like and enjoy. Kallis, Botham, Imran Khan, Sir Richard Hadlee as well as the other all-rounders sometimes touted as better than Sobers, pale in comparison to GOAT.
I was hoping to see more of Trueman's 7/44 at Edgbaston in 1963. I was born in the middle of it, just after lunch! Then I saw my first day's test cricket against the Windies at the same venue exactly 10 years 1 month later.
I remember the words "and that is the end of John Murray" being spoken by a commentator on a TV transmission in the early '60s. Momentarily I was concerned for JM's health! Then I realised only his innings had ended, not his life! Does anyone know which transmission it was?
Looking at some batsmen stance between 8-10 Truman looks like a fastesh spinner. Notuce hiw batsmen defend with an angled bat or crouch downwards after plonking their bats in the ground. That we do fir spinners now,
To this day many people suspect the groundsman overwatered the pitch to suit the bowling of Laker to give him a great advantage.Hence the 19 wickets.I remember the suspicions were spashed all over the news papers at the time.
An interesting thing is the fielding in the 60's..Compared to today! Have a look at them, slow, even elephantine lumberers after the ball and giving up when the ball was within 3 metres of the boundary!..Some of it looked comical as they arrived near the boundary, totally shagged out after trying to chase down a ball that today, wouldn't have got within 15 metres of it!..And scoring 250 runs in a day was considered to be very fast scoring! How the game has changed!..Sitting there, watching batsmen like Boycott..Lawry and Tavare scoring 25-30 runs in a session..On a good day, boring everybody to sleep! They'd be dropped today for slow scoring!..Good ol' days?..I don't think so!
Perhaps, but things need to be viewed in context as the cliche goes. Sport evolves as humans push the boundaries and technology advances. It must have taken a lot of skill to last in those days. I'd also imagine with more draws than wins in that era, the premium placed on ones wicket might perhaps have been higher i.e. greater risk aversion on the part of batsmen. Also, the yorkers / bouncers from Hall and Griffith would be top drawer stuff anytime. @Chris Law ... thank you for sharing.
@@firstal3799 Get your eyes checked out. Both bowlers varied their pace but it's obvious that severel of the balls bowled by both here were very quick. Plenty of batsmen had careers that spanned the period between Hall and Griffith and the era of Roberts, Holding and Thompson and Lilley and batted against them. I've heard several batsmen compare Hall and Griffith's speed as at least equivalent to the later bowlers.
