Cricket DVDs

[courtjester]

What are some of your favorite cricket DVDs? I am a bit of a sucker for all-time teams and selections, so I really enjoyed Richie Benaud's Greatest XI.

I really enjoy (even though we lost) "The Fight For The Ashes", the 2005 series.

And I also like "Cricket in the 50s/60s/70s/80s"

 

[Gough]

John Arlott's Vintage Cricket was a beauty, don't know if it's available on dvd.

 

[courtjester]

I also remember seeing one a while back with some really old archive footage of Australian cricket, but I can't remember its name. It was really good.

It had stuff from the late 1800s onwards iirc.

 

[whats_at_stake]

There was this good documentary about the tied Test match between India and Australia.

Has there been one done about the 2001 Test series Eden Gardens game?

 

[Gough]

I also remember seeing one a while back with some really old archive footage of Australian cricket, but I can't remember its name. It was really good.

It had stuff from the late 1800s onwards iirc.

That would be the Cricket Archives, fascinating video.

http://www.musicshop.com.au/the-cricket-archives-dvd.html

 

[Tassieboy]

Tuffers duffers or something to that affect. 2003 world cup. Australia in thr 1999 World Cup. One on McGrath

 

[The Half Back]

Gilly's master batsman DVD

 

[Partridge]

What are some of your favorite cricket DVDs? I am a bit of a sucker for all-time teams and selections, so I really enjoyed Richie Benaud's Greatest XI.

I really enjoy (even though we lost) "The Fight For The Ashes", the 2005 series.

And I also like "Cricket in the 50s/60s/70s/80s"

Australia in the 70s was brilliant. Worth watching just for Chappell's observations about Bradman.

 

[trossa]

Ashes Glory: The 2006/2007 Ashes Series

 

[courtjester]

Australia in the 70s was brilliant. Worth watching just for Chappell's observations about Bradman.

His impersonation of Bradman is pretty funny.

"Aw, no son, we can't do that!"

 

[jo172]

And I also like "Cricket in the 50s/60s/70s/80s"

These are things of beauty.

Anyone see that Out of the Ashes doco on ABC the other week re the Afghanistan Cricket Team trying to qualify for the WC? Thought that was particularly well done.

 

[morri]

I have got only one set so far (I 'd like to extend it though) and it is the Ashes 2005 dvd set.(The English point of view)

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

As mentioned above, Ashes Glory and Cricket in the 50s/60s/70s/80s are absolute gems. One that I have I think is compulsory viewing is "Legends of Cricket - South Africa". It only runs for 50 minutes, but it highlights the careers of Graeme Pollock and Barry Richards.

Barry Richards is the best batsmen I've seen, and they tell me Pollock was even better

 

[Partridge]

As mentioned above, Ashes Glory and Cricket in the 50s/60s/70s/80s are absolute gems. One that I have I think is compulsory viewing is "Legends of Cricket - South Africa". It only runs for 50 minutes, but it highlights the careers of Graeme Pollock and Barry Richards.

Barry Richards is the best batsmen I've seen, and they tell me Pollock was even better

Yeah, I'm too young to have seen Richards, have very vague memories of him playing when WSC was on. I've heard some stories though that are incredible (my favourite being the "play with the edge of the bat" during his Hampshire days).

I saw enough of Pollock in that one dayer at the SCG around 1993-94 when he was fat and middle-aged to think he must have been very useful in his prime.

 

[worbod]

I have a VHS of highlights from the 1972 Ashes series, but I don't think it has been released on DVD yet. It runs for two hours, but I reckon they could easily have made it three.

Also, Brian Johnston's "A View From the Box" VHS is good viewing. Shows highlights of a great performance by eight well known cricketers. I think some of these are now on YouTube. I have, for instance, seen Mike Procter's 6-13 for Gloucestershire in 1977 posted there.

Would love to see a DVD collection of World Series Cricket footage.

 

[TheGreatBambino]

Can't believe it's nearly 2017 and I'm still recording test matches on vhs tapes

 

[ioppolo]

Can't believe it's nearly 2017 and I'm still recording test matches on vhs tapes

New Robelinda?

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

"Death of a Gentleman" is an absolute must to see. Very thought provoking.

Box set "ESPN Legends of Cricket" highlighting 25 of the greatest players in the game's history.

 

[TheGreatBambino]

New Robelinda?

I wish. Knowone on earth will ever get close to Robs collection. I'm actually starting to run out of vhs tapes, and room to put them all.

 

[FredLeDeux]

Yeah, I'm too young to have seen Richards, have very vague memories of him playing when WSC was on. I've heard some stories though that are incredible (my favourite being the "play with the edge of the bat" during his Hampshire days).

I saw enough of Pollock in that one dayer at the SCG around 1993-94 when he was fat and middle-aged to think he must have been very useful in his prime.

Saw the 19-y-o Pollock in Melbourne in the 1964 Test. He didn't make many, but he just looked different to everybody else.
Also Redders' 1st Test, he was dropped about 6 times in making 97.

Saw Richards playing in the Shield in 1970, he was pretty handy.
That same season he scored 325 in a day against WA's Dennis Lillee, Graham McKenzie, Tony Lock and Tony Mann.

We really missed seeing the best of some great SA players, especially these 2, but also blokes such as Eddy Barlow, Colin Bland, Dennis Lindsay, Mike Proctor, Clive Rice and Steven Cook's dad Jimmy.

 

[Gough]

My old man used to watch Bland practice his fielding at the St George's Sports Club in Salisbury back in the day, he still says he's the best he's ever seen.
That South African team of the mid 70s would have been amazing, yet another reason to despise Apartheid. Aggers made a doco back in the 90s called The Team that Couldn't Play which told the story of that lost generation of South Africans.

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

Yeah, I'm too young to have seen Richards, have very vague memories of him playing when WSC was on. I've heard some stories though that are incredible (my favourite being the "play with the edge of the bat" during his Hampshire days).

I saw enough of Pollock in that one dayer at the SCG around 1993-94 when he was fat and middle-aged to think he must have been very useful in his prime.

I was fortunate to bowl to Richards when I was a teenager, and it was incredible. As the ball was leaving the hand you could see Richards already moving to position to play the shot. Nothing seemed to hurry him. It felt as though he could take a puff on a cigarette, put it out, and then play the shot.

The flat batted pull shot between mid wicket and mid-on was an absolute gem. It gave an idea of how much time he had. The ball other batsmen were hooking behind square, or pulling just in front of square was being hit wide of mid-on by Richards. Pity we saw so little of him on the International stage. I think Don Bradman once remarked if ever there was a player who could have averaged over 100 in Test cricket, Richards was the man. Alas, we'll never know.

 

[TheGreatBambino]

I’ve recently been watching some old “England's summer of cricket” DVD Box sets. I own the 06,07,08,11,12 Sets (plus the 05,09,10/11,13,15 ashes DVDs)..

Would of been good if cricket australia released more dvds back in that period (besides the 06/07 & 13/14 ashes dvd sets) . A 2007/08 & 08/09 summer of cricket dvds would of been awesome. Recap the test series, then the Comm bank series aswell all the big stories of the summer.