Richie Benaud was the cricket commentator par excellence - his reference to the St Valentines Day massacre for the Aussie bowling was so apt and inventive
Amazing upload. I had this on VHS and watched it time and again. It's just the most idyllic Saturday afternoon of Test Cricket. This is 36 years ago and yet the scoring rate is very high. England didn't start batting until 11.15 and had 100 on the board by lunch. And over 330 in the day. It really wasn't bad going at all. I'd rather watch this all afternoon than 4 hours of T20 nonsense these days. Bob Holland sadly passed away a few years ago
Some people call test cricket boring, this is so entertaining I could watch test cricket all day and of course football but nothing tops test cricket unlike the boring limited overs version of the game
Imagine that England bowling attack against the current Ozzie batting line up😂. We’d struggle to bowl them out once never mind twice. The Ozzie Test team of that era were about the only team worse than us.
Thanks for putting this up. I bought the Ashes Regained VHS tape 36 years ago but these highlights are much more extensive. Golden days for English batting indeed. Perhaps it's just as well that there isn't any footage of the first test in England's next series against the West Indies at Sabina Park. Bob Holland is much easier to face than Patrick Patterson.
@@justinschiferl213 Yes Thomson was past it, Geoff Lawson never very well on the tour and Hilditch the Happy Hooker just brainless. Others like McDermott and Boon were just flowering while O' Donnell was a genuine all rounder (he couldn't bat or bowl). The thing that surprised me most about that Aussie touring side was how few runs Wessels made in the series. He was a genuinely class act and a dictionary definition of the tough South African.
@@Canalboyable I agree! What’s really interesting how Australia came back 4 years later with players like Steve Waugh, Mark Taylor and Terry Alderman coming back from the rebel tour. I think in my opinion Wayne Phillips was a better keeper/batsmen than Ian Healy never really understand why they dropped him
This series would have been completely different if Alderman and Hogg didn't go on those rebel tours to South Africa. Thommo was well past it by this time, McDermott was too raw and O'Donnell was a nothing bowler.
