Agreed, when you consider they had Test players; Willey, Steele, Mushtaq, Sarfraz, Larkins & Bedi in their ranks. But then Lancs also had Test players; Lloyd, Engineer, Hayes, Wood & Lever. John Dye on his day (such as this day was) could be quite a handful. I've batted against him after he retired from 1st class cricket and even as an over 45 year old player he could make the ball move prodigiously.
One of the biggest upsets of all time, minnows Northants against the one day kings of that era. John Dye, legend, that ball won us the final. 45 minutes of Engineer and he would have made a great start for Lancashire. Dye also hit Wood on his hand and he couldn't bowl. Sarfraz putting in a short leg to catch Pilling. Oh what great memories.
@@stephendines1936 forgot about that. I remember my dad being given a bottle of champagne in the early 70's and he put it in the top cupboard until we won a trophy. He opened it when we got back from Lords. I was a few weeks of 13 and my brother a couple of weeks of 17. My brother died by Abington park bandstand 4 days before his 17th birthday. Last picture of him was at the county ground waiting to board the coaches, being tall his head was overlooking a banner "mushtag's mighty men" which got printed in the chron. The kids with the banner were my school teacher's kids.
4:53 You can clearly hear David Gower swearing like a trooper in the commentary box. It seems the 1990s commentary audio bled into the 1976 audio during a rainbreak.
Something which was rare back then and even rarer today; an Indian (Bishen Bedi) and a Pakistani (Mushtaq Mohammad) shoulder to shoulder on the same team.
David Hughes’s assault on Bedi was similar to the way he went after Mortimer in the semi final against Gloucestershire at Old Trafford in 1971. There was another less well remembered (and I can’t remember the details either) event when he also hit around 20 in the last over of a John Player game not long after the Gloucester game. I saw it on TV when BBC2 used to broadcast a whole game on a Sunday afternoon.
@@graemestarkey7524 True; back in the day he wasn't good enough to be ahead of Phil Edmonds, never mind Derek Underwood, in the left-arm spinning hierarchy.
@@graemestarkey7524 David's List A bowling average 23.55 (at a time when he was bowling to the likes of high class overseas stars). His batting average was 20.55 - usually batting at the end of an innings when the slog was on. He hit 11 Half centuries - highest score 92 not out - again at a time of high quality overseas players and death bowling specialists - ie Joel Garner and the other West Indians and South Africans etc. His record, which stretched 23 years, is a pretty good one - actually much better than some spinners who did represent England in ODI's during the 70's and 80's!!
You can hear Gower and the 1995 commentators in the background here. Someone hasn't switched off their mics properly! 4:53 Gower: "They can't fucking see you dozy pillock!!!"
I wondered what that racket was - sound bleeding in from another recording on the same tape, I thought. But you're right. You can hear Ritchie and I think Jack Bannister as well. Hilarious.
9:35 Richie Benaud talks here about the BBC's 'special camera' when the only thing that is special is that the BBC has actually got 2 cameras, one at each end !
Does anyone have full BBC highlights of northants v Somerset in the 1979 Gillette cup final ? Also the b&h 1982 semi final at trent bridge between Lancashire and Nottinghamshire please ?
Do you have any county highlights yourself? Especially from that era? I have the 79 Final highlights but I got it from someone else so I'm not posting it on youtube.
Paul P I don't have any highlights myself but I wish I could of taped loads of games years ago,that's why i liked the cricket when it was on the BBC whenever it rained they always showed the highlights of matches from the 70's & 80's, I was a big Somerset fan when I was younger that's why I wanna see the 79 Gillette final it was the first competition they ever won
If not for that late thrash, Lancs less than 3 an over! Pretty grim for a one day game. The 3 sixes Hughes scored in the last over is more than 6 overs worth of scoring for the rest of the team.
David Steele always lofted his attacking shots into the air on the legside - technical deficiency of his I've noticed before. Didn't roll his wrists over the ball to keep it down and it cost him here and indeed he should have been caught at deep long leg prior to that.
No Clive Lloyd? I thought the W.Indies tour had finished by then - he obviously didn't go back to Lancs for the last few games of the season. It might have been a very different match if he'd been playing.
@@kevinhiggins910 For the first 40 overs of a Gillette cup match it was rather like watching a county championship game. There were no restrictions on bouncers, wides were the same as 1st class cricket and no free hits too. It was revolutionary to go into a game without 2 spinners and there were less attempts to hit sixes and more emphasis on trying to score off every ball (not always successful!!) in the last 5-7 overs.
