Thanks for this! Great batting from England, 300+ was quite rare then. Notably, this was also General Election Day in the UK, I remember having the day off school (they used it as a polling station) and watching the first hour or so of this match. I have to correct you on the England vs Sri Lanka game though. It was televised, I remember watching it very clearly. However, you are absolutely correct in saying that few of the other matches were shown!
Hello dmoorb, no, you are incorrect. We played two games v Sri Lanka. The first game on Saturday, June 11 1983 is uploaded on my channel. However, on the day of the second game, Monday, June 20 1983, there was a strike at the BBC. No live broadcasts were shown and no recordings were made, so no highlights. They showed the Test Card instead of cricket. Thank you for your interest, DARREN
I celebrated my thirteenth birthday on General Election Day. Lance Cairns, playing here, is the father of Chris, who was born just four days after me and was also turning thirteen!
Great one thanks Darren, great memories. My friend had faced Martin Crowe a couple of years prior and found him quick. He was a bit crestfallen to see Lamb etc. playing him with such ease when he saw this match in TV 😀
The funny thing here is Jeremy Coney facing the fearsome pace of Bob Willis bareheaded and batting against the offspin by Vic Marks with a helmet on! 😂
Proper cricket in those days. 60 overs a side like in the Gillette Cup/Natwest Trophy. People find it hard to believe that 120 overs in a day were once possible. Even West Indies did it with four fast bowlers. Now batsmen change gloves every 30 balls, take them off when at non-striker's end and bowlers throw the ball to fielders to shine for them and complain to umpires when it doesn't swing. Bring back the good old days !
At 12:10, Lamb clips a beautiful leg glance from a ball well outside the leg stump. The current rules about leg-side wides take that shot out of the game by-and-large, which I think is a shame
NZ bowler Martin Sneddon scored an unwanted ton in this match. His bowling figures of 2-105 from 12 overs were the most runs conceded in a Cricket World Cup match until 2019 when Afghanistan's Rashid Khan went wicketless whilst conceding 0-110 in 9 overs against England.
Hello CricketCrazy1x, sorry, but those matches were not televised. Pakistan only had three matches televised from that World Cup and they will all be uploaded. Times were different in 1983, not helped by the BBC also having a strike during the tournament so that even England's second match v Sri Lanka was not televised. Thank you for your interest, DARREN
Great Channel and nice to briefly see Glenn Turner batting. Is there any other uploads of Turner I wonder? I think he got an 81 odd in the 3rd test against England at Headingly in 1973 but don't see that one in the archive. Keep up the great work!
Hello Painter19, he played in this game, but with little success. Thank you for your interest, DARREN ru-vid.com/group/PLdz_rC7tjXMsqgxSGJPdygLyi-qT-sTGE
In those early World Cups four matches were played on one day and the BBC were only ever going to be at two of those places maximum. Of course they would have cameras at the England games.
