Nope. I was wrong. Strangely he was in that comp. s**t, I reckon I could have bowled quicker than him as a kid.
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I suspect you were living in a different region and channel 9 allowed abc to show their coverage on ABC regional. Melbourne region only had that on channel 9 as far as I can tell.
Yep, Certainly was not on ABC in Melbourne that summer.
There are old tv guide sites online that show just on channel nine.
It was fun when they did have it on both channels , like they did for the footy too for most of the 1980's.
Only time I went to Adelaide Oval to see the cricket was the day Mark Waugh made his debut century. Man, it was a beautiful innings of shot making.
Michael Holding's 14 wickets versus England at The Oval in 1976. I included the first clip which shows Holding's first innings (8-92) as the lighting seems to be brighter at the beginning of the second clip which shows all 14 wickets.
More of Holding from the 1976 series. No wickets here but it's obvious why Brian Close called his autobiography "I Don't Bruise Easily". If you study the replay of the second delivery in this clip it looks as though the ball ricochets off the back of Close's head.
I love it. Must have been fastest era of bowling with Thommo and Holding around this time. Wish I was watching cricket in mid 70's to see it all.
Mikey getting some of his own medicine from Thommo in their time.
Amuses me he looks back at stumps to check what they look like..
he should know better than to look, only makes you feel worse.
Amuses me he looks back at stumps to check what they look like..
he should know better than to look, only makes you feel worse.
Holding made it look so easy. He just lopes in but he's moving very fast.
He is my favourite bowler of all time, though I have a soft spot for Johnson due to his mental frailties that he could overcome from time to time.
Holding has my favourite run up of all time and my favourite accent.
He'd be in my top 5 bowlers I seen and probably second quickest I seen.
Johnson might be in my top 20, not sure. He does not come to mind readily when think of best bowlers I seen. Like Starc when he off his game he actually was really poor. But his best was top notch stuff too.
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Bad Mitch really was a sight for sore eyes.
I think bowlers like that probably suffer a bit extra through their reputation because batsmen have the whole ‘this guy will give me some dross so I will
Belt it’ attitude.
At all levels of cricket this happens. You get bowlers who have that reputation of ‘he can bowl a good ball but he will give you plenty to hit’ and it becomes a bit self fulfilling and batsmen start to target them
I'd not consider Johnson the best by any means, possibly not even in the top 20 as you say, but I really liked watching him bat, bowl and field as you never knew when the superstar was going to appear.
yeah, he was an entertainer and if he wanted to be an allrounder he probably could have been. But then we probably would have missed the height of his 12 to 18 months of stellar bowling.
6/43 from Fanie De Villiers to win South Africa the test from nowhere. Also took 10 wickets for the match.
As a side note, Warne took 12 wickets for the match in a losing side.
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and Martyn ****ed up big time. Remember being so angry with him when batting with Craig McDermott and McDermott seemed to have to need to try to push things and Martyn was in his shell and creating more pressure on the team.
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For all of Australian's brilliance in the 90's and early 2000's we lost a fair amount of close ones. Straight off the top of my head there is the Adelaide 93 test, Sydney v South Africa, Pakistan passing us 9-down putting on 40 or 50 for the last wicket, ~8 runs v England with Steve Waugh not out that he copped a lot of heat for, The Kasprowicz dismissal in 2005, India passed us 8-down in that crazy 2001 series. That's half a dozen there. Bound to be a couple of other I missed.
Can't remember us winning too many 8 or 9 down, or by less than ~20 runs?
I'll dig up CricInfo later on.
Can't remember us winning too many 8 or 9 down, or by less than ~20 runs?
I'll dig up CricInfo later on.
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Not just the best West Indian fast bowler, but probably the best ever, and he could bat too.
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Greatest spell of fast bowling of all time in my opinion.
The greatest fast bowler of the last 30 years too.
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His very quick illness related demise is one of the saddest stories in sport.
If not the best ever, he's in the top 3. DK Lillee holds top spot for me but by a bee's dick to Marshall and Ambrose.
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Shane Bond was a jet.
His body stopped him from being an all-timer. Genuinely scary, very similar to Allan Donald with his searing pace, hostility and ability to put the ball on a line and length that made batting a nightmare.
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