I listened live commentary on Radio in BBC as a 17 yr.Old boy then.What a cricket battle played by the two sporting teams.No sledging and wild emotions by Bowlers then.They played as Gentlemen.Golden days and memories now at the age of 74 yrs.Thanks for loading the clippings of the match after 57 yrs.
Fantastic to see this again. I used to be glued to my chair watching matches like this as a young teen, as i was at the time. Thanks a lot for putting them up.
I was at this match for the last day [the 4th day was the last] .Rhohan Khanai was the hero of the day. At the end we all ran on the pitch. It was a great day out.
@@TranquiloTrev Wow respect to you sir, always love to hear from people who were present live during those moments. Thanks for sharing your experience! Have a nice day 👍
First of all, great credit to you for bringing the cricket videos of 1960's for cricket crazy fans to have a glimpse of great yesteryear cricketers. Former fearsom West Indian pace bowler Wes Hall is the only bowler in the history to have delivered 6 byes on a single delivery. U could just imagine, how much power this man had to send a ball from his bowling run up over the sightscreen at the back of the wicketkeeper.
Hall was as fast as Holding and Thomson and perhaps even faster, if people of my father's generation are to be believed. None of the Indian batsmen could face him.
Only Vijay Manjrekar was used to his technic just to clicking the ball in between the seven fielders standing aside to a wicketkeeper coming from Wasley Hall and Charlie Griffith. No batsman was able to flash the bat to play incoming ball from these two fast bowlers I.e. Hall and Griffith.
Wes Hall tormented Manjrekar, Pataudi, Jaisimha, Sardesai, Surti, Durani et al during the '62 tour to the Caribbean. The only batsman to take the full measure of him was Polly Umrigar who scored 172 in the Test at Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago where he received much vocal support from the local Indian population. The others were literally afraid of Hall's thunderbolts leading to a 5-0 flogging of their team This was the first Test series i'd followed as schoolboy in my native Barbados. Thanks for sharing this vid.
Salim Durrani never flinched against them.In fact he punished them.Poly umrigar, Borde Durranni only played well in that tour. In fact Durrani tied them by His masterly bowling also.He took 17 wickets in that tour. Had he been assisted by a good close in fielding India could have won at least 2 tests.
World hasn't seen a better all rounder than Gary Sobbers. He held the record for most wickets and top score at the same time. Its ludicrous to think of such records now a days.
I heard about west hall & Charlie's Griffith bowling ,but after watching this clip it proves they were really dangerous pace bowler with bodyline bowling ability.I started learning cricket in 1970 at the age of 8,etc.😂
Five test matches were played and West Indies won the series 3-1 against England.,one match was drawn.Charlie Griffith was the leading bowler who took 32 wickets @ 16.21
@@suhail_69 Thing looks a bit slow in the older clips. It's very clear that he (as well as Charlie Griffith and Roy Gichrist) was much faster than than any of today's "quicks" eg Bumrah or Naseem Shah. In the league of Jeff Thomson, Michael Holding, Shoaib Akhtar, Allan Donald, Waqar Younis, Harold Larwood., Frank Tyson. His Wikipedia page says he was once timed at 103 mph at his fastest! He was nowhere that quick on this '63 tour of England, though
@@studyonline4763 Your comment is all over the place. Doesn't look like you have a habit of verifying things. If you think someone bowled at 103 mph then you are too gullible 🤣😜 And to your other comment, don't add Waqar Younus and others to the league of Akhtar and Jeff Thomson. All of them were great bowlers but nowhere close to Akhtar's or Thomson's speed. Andy Roberts came close. I'm sure you would believe batsmen hit 150 meter six if you saw that on Google 😁
Is it my imagination or do those guys really look fearsome ?? Decades of burnishing the truth only makes it sparkle more .Only heard of these legends in our childhood , thanks to Utube getting to see them in action.
Hall and Griffith were lethal on the pitch. Had the great pleasure of meeting Hall on the 40th anniversary of the Tied Test. What a gentleman, and a very funny raconteur. The video is grainy, but the first ball must have got an edge, otherwise how was it not LBW, and the Hit Wicket should have been "overridden" (at least these days) by Caught. Hit his glove as evidenced by the look at, and shake of, the hand as he left the pitch.
i never understood why he didn't play a Test on the 1957 tour. I saw him bowl against Lancashire that year - he was very impressive. in partnership with Roy Gilchrist he might have turned things round after Edgbaston.
A nasty piece of work. Here's a personal story: My dad played cricket in the Bradford League and Gilchrist bowled for a club called, I think, East Bierley. I was watching from the scorebox and saw Gilchrist bowl a fast beamer that hit dad in the chest. Later that evening in the clubhouse, I heard him remark to someone that he bowled them regularly, and aimed at the wicket keeper's gloves to get the beamer chest high.
Wes Hall never chucked. He was a gentleman who bowled very fast. There is an article written in the 60s "Bumper and a Crucifix". It says before he bowled a bouncer, he always touched the crucifix around his neck and said a prayer that it would not hurt the batsman in anyway. That's what the gentle giant was.
#Gilkrist or Griffith hit Contractor to injure his head in bowling? Gavaskar only started to protect his body from possible injury Many viewed such protection wasn't manly for a cricketer But, it was started to be followed by many players later on Jeff Thomson was the only bowler who deliberately hit players He said, "the hitting-body-sound of ball is music to my ears" He collided with Gilmour and got his shoulder dislocated He left the cricket scene after making it a dangerous zone? M V Venkataraman
With no radar gun, the only way to guesstimate the bowlers speed is by looking at how far the keeper is standing. In Hall's case (in this Video) it is not too far. So I'm guessing he was around 140-145 kmph.
Wes Hall can bowl well over 90mph you can't tell how quick someone is bowling by watching this old black and White footage on a slow flat pitch at the Oval he only bowled 5 delivery's and its the pitch which dictates how far back the keeper stands not just the speed of the bowling.
@@bonjourr100 : Can you paste a video link to your claim? A bouncer at 145kmph will go well over a keepers head if the keeper is standing very close. So I'll wait to see your claim (video link).
In those days ther ewas no limits forbumpers to be bowled He used bumpers to unsettle batsmen He used eamers often which our late bespectacled Pankaj Roy faced znd stood against this firmly Unsporting attitude Probably he was aiming at the Batsmen instead of at the Three Stumps6😢
No, I am fairly sure that was in 1976 when he came back at the age of 40, as England were desperate to find someone who was tough enough to withstand the pace barrage of Roberts, Holding, Garner and Croft.
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The English batsmen has never looked comfortable with short deliveries, even to this day, yes they do sometimes pull the short ball, but with closed eyes and a ridiculous nervous grimace. The MCC ruined Test cricket by changing the rules of short ball deliveries and how many opposition fielders can be placed on the boundary. That rule put a stop on the West Indies producing top class fast bowlers, why bother.
I just fail to understand why wes hall is said to have had the longest run iup in cricket history. You tube footage shows that hehad amuch shorter run up than marshall, holding and Imran. Why blow facts out of proportion? The footage speaksfor itself.
Wes Hall is - was in another English county. Can you imagine facing THAT? Fortunately the USA poor dears, bowl underarm. No offence my America. They know who they are.
@@anirudhsuresh4481 If he bowled 95 mph then after releasing the ball it would reach the batsman approximately around 0.4 seconds He's more 83 mph at best
No comparison to the modern fast bowler. Pretty average bowling compared to modern era - compare shoaib akhtar to this - it is shocking how people reminisce of the older fast bowlers where as the modern fast bowler is so much faster, fitter and stronger.
@lambodar singh I do, have you seen them bowl in person? do you have their speed recordings with the most modern measurements? Human athleticism has reached a new level, just watch the 100 meter race results from the sixties and now. Same deal. These fast bowlers of old are all glorified because the batsmen of those day and age didn't have their reflex game honed by video technology enough which they do now. Look at the awkward stances of most batsmen, with very little upper body strength and shitty bats - they are facing 88 miles per hour without bowling machine assistance in the nets.
@@bonjourr100 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NOZCht-zQN4.html watch this, does this look faster to you than the next video i will paste????
