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[stax on the mull]

Hadlee got his 1st of two test centuries in that game, after a 50 in the first test and 11 wickets in a 1 wicket win over the West Indies which gave NZ a 1-0 win in the series.

There had to be some animosity brewing, spilling over from the 1st test where the same umpire officiated. West Indies not happy with the home town umpiring.

I remember hearing Croft being challenged about this incident when had a stint on ABC as an expert commentator and he claimed there was a later inquiry where he was exonerated and it was deemed accidental.

Colin Croft shoulder charges umpire Fred Goodall — CricketMash

February 22, 1980. The start of what has gone down in history as the Croft-Goodall Test. After suffering from poor umpiring decisions for one-and-a-half Tests, Colin Croft ran in to bowl, and at the last moment veered away to crash into the back of umpire Fred Goodall. Arunabha Sengupta

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Haven't NZ had some weird umpires. There was that bloke Peter Plumley Walker who died from injuries inflicted in a bondage session with a sex worker and his body was found in a river after being thrown over a cliff.

Aust had Steve Randell so I guess we can't throw too many stones.

 

[Gough]

In what limited defence Croft has the Wndies were at the tail end of a long tour.

 

[Plugger35]

NZ had some dodgy umpires back in those days but most countries did back then which is why they switched to neutral umpires.

 

[sherb]

Hadlee got his 1st of two test centuries in that game, after a 50 in the first test and 11 wickets in a 1 wicket win over the West Indies which gave NZ a 1-0 win in the series.

There had to be some animosity brewing spilling over from the 1st test where the same umpire officiated. West Indies not happy with the home town umpiring.

I remember hearing Croft being challenged about this incident when had a stint on ABC as an expert commentator and he claimed there was a later inquiry where he was exonerated and it was deemed accidental.

Colin Croft shoulder charges umpire Fred Goodall — CricketMash

February 22, 1980. The start of what has gone down in history as the Croft-Goodall Test. After suffering from poor umpiring decisions for one-and-a-half Tests, Colin Croft ran in to bowl, and at the last moment veered away to crash into the back of umpire Fred Goodall. Arunabha Sengupta

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Haven't NZ had some weird umpires. There was that bloke Peter Plumley Walker who died from injuries inflicted in a bondage session with a sex worker and his body was found in a river after being thrown over a cliff.

Aust had Steve Randell so I guess we can't throw too many stones.

I've never bought the "accidental" explanation.

Croft wasn't the most even tempered cricketer and this incident was totally in line with his on-field persona.

Naturally he is going to try to play it down years after the event.

 

[sherb]

NZ had some dodgy umpires back in those days but most countries did back then which is why they switched to neutral umpires.

The sub-continent was famous for them.

Mind you, we were not exempt here in Australia either. England famously didn't get an LBW in the 6 Test series in 70-71 and Lou Rowan (one of the umpires in that series) in particular was more of a dictator than an umpire.

 

[stax on the mull]

I've never bought the "accidental" explanation.

Croft wasn't the most even tempered cricketer and this incident was totally in line with his on-field persona.

Naturally he is going to try to play it down years after the event.

Yeah, basically Croft's argument was that he could have steamrolled the umpire into the ground if he meant to do it deliberately.

I always remember him as bowling wide of the crease and suddenly he's coming in too close to the stumps. It doesn't look like he's just adjusting for being no-balled on the previous delivery.

 

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Adelaide Hawk

Some interesting shot selections in these dismissals.

 

[MisterMarcus]

I've never bought the "accidental" explanation.

Croft wasn't the most even tempered cricketer and this incident was totally in line with his on-field persona.

Naturally he is going to try to play it down years after the event.

If his natural run up was very close to the umpire then it might be more believable that it was an accident - only requires a tiny margin of misjudgment.

But you can see the previous balls, he's well wide of the ump. Seems hard to credit 'accidentally' being like a metre off your normal run-up.

 

[stax on the mull]

Javed Miandad runs out Rodney Hogg March 1979 1st Test Australia Vs Pakistan MCG. Hogg initially leaves for the pavillion then he gets called back but after a brief discussion it's confirmed that he's OUT so he uses his bat to destroy the stumps.




Hadn't seen this in colour before - although it's kind of washed out colour - but I do remember watching it on b/w TV at the time. This is in the first test of a controversial 2 match series where Pakistan played the Australian team made up of leftover players that weren't picked for World Series cricket - although most of players representing Australia in this game played again after the ACB and Packer settled their dispute. The series ended up being drawn 1-1.

There was this run out which happened in the 1st Test, followed up by more controversy in the 2nd test in Perth (where Kim Hughes captained Australia for the 1st time) with Alan Hurst's "Mankad" of Sikander Bakht and Sarfraz Nawaz appealing successfully for a handballed ball decision against Andrew Hilditch when the ball was thrown back to the bowler.

Australia were in a strong position twice in this test having Pakistan 6-99 on the opening day and then on the 5th Day chasing 382 to win they were 3/305 but lost their last 7 wickets for 5 runs.

Commentators are Drew Morphett and legendary Australian all-rounder Keith Miller, who I think had done some coaching with the Pakistan team and was added to the ABC commentary team at the time for his knowledge of their players - but tended to be a bit over the top in their support. Also had this very annoying habit of making predictions and saying that if he was wrong he'd "swim all the way to Pakistan".

 

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Javed Miandad runs out Rodney Hogg March 1979 1st Test Australia Vs Pakistan MCG. Hogg initially leaves for the pavillion then he gets called back but after a brief discussion it's confirmed that he's OUT so he uses his bat to destroy the stumps.




Hadn't seen this in colour before - although it's kind of washed out colour - but I do remember watching it on b/w TV at the time. This in the first test of a controversial 2 match series where Pakistan played the Australian team made up of leftover players that weren't picked for World Series cricket - although most of players representing Australia in this game played again after the ACB and Packer settled their dispute. The series ended up being drawn 1-1.

There was this run out which happened in the 1st Test, followed up by more controversy in the 2nd test in Perth (where Kim Hughes captained Australia for the 1st time) with Alan Hurst's "Mankad" of Sikander Bakht and Safraz Nawaz appealing successfully for a handballed ball decision against Andrew Hilditch when the ball was thrown back to the bowler.

Australia were in a strong position twice in this test having Pakistan 6-99 on the opening day and then on the 5th Day chasing 382 to win they were 3/305 but lost their last 7 wickets for 5 runs.

Imagine if Bigfooty existed in those days...the site might've shit itself with everything that happened in this match. Losing 7/5 to lose a match would've been too much for some posters to handle.

 

[stax on the mull]

Imagine if Bigfooty existed in those days...the site might've shit itself with everything that happened in this match. Losing 7/5 to lose a match would've been too much for some posters to handle.

Hoggy did something in the 2nd innings of this match as well that got people offside. Someone may remember, maybe he refused to take a run when being called through.

This series happened in the same summer following his Ashes debut vs England where he took 42 wickets but he kind of went from hero to villain pretty quick - although never ahead of Sarfraz and Javed who were public enemies 1 & 2.

 

[Rabish Binney]

Hoggy did something in the 2nd innings of this match as well that got people offside. Someone may remember, maybe he refused to take a run when being called through.

This series happened in the same summer following his Ashes debut vs England where he took 42 wickets but he kind of went from hero to villain pretty quick - although never ahead of Sarfraz and Javed who were public enemies 1 & 2.

It is interesting with Rodney Hogg.

National cricketing hero in the 1977/78 series with 41 wickets at 12. But was known to have a tendency to 'bail out' when the going got tough at times.

Comes across as a bit of a knob with some of the stuff he's said in the media over the years.

 

[sherb]

It is interesting with Rodney Hogg.

National cricketing hero in the 1977/78 series with 41 wickets at 12. But was known to have a tendency to 'bail out' when the going got tough at times.

Comes across as a bit of a knob with some of the stuff he's said in the media over the years.

Slight (reluctant) correction.

It was the 78/79 series against England. He didn't play in 77/78 against India (although both seasons saw the weakened Australian team playing).

Incidentally, the most notable debut, even ahead of Hoggy, to come out of 78/79 was Allan Border. In 77/78 it would have been Bruce Yardley. Who knows how long it would have taken for these three players to make the Aussie team if not for WSC.

 

[Rabish Binney]

Slight (reluctant) correction.

It was the 78/79 series against England. He didn't play in 77/78 against India (although both seasons saw the weakened Australian team playing).

Incidentally, the most notable debut, even ahead of Hoggy, to come out of 78/79 was Allan Border. In 77/78 it would have been Bruce Yardley. Who knows how long it would have taken for these three players to make the Aussie team if not for WSC.

Cheers Sherb, got my years mixed up.

I remember 77/78 well, Bob Simpson came out of retirement and it was the 1st year of WSC.

Needed picture in picture technology on the TV in those days (Test on channel 2; WSC on channel 9)

 

[stax on the mull]

Cheers Sherb, got my years mixed up.

I remember 77/78 well, Bob Simpson came out of retirement and it was the 1st year of WSC.

Needed picture in picture technology on the TV in those days (Test on channel 2; WSC on channel 9)

A lot of rural areas unfortunately weren't completely covered by the Channel 9 telecasts and some country areas only had Channel 2 coverage, so for some of us, those underdog Australian teams led by Simpson, Yallop, Hughes were all we could support. No world series cricket coverage.

Channel 9 had country TV station affiliates that would broadcast to some major regional areas but there were still a lot of rural areas where Channel 9 didn't cover.

In the late 1970's there were actually independent TV station operators in some country areas not aligned with the major city channels. I lived in Geraldton WA, which had a population of about 18,000 at that time and had a station called Channel 11, which didn't get Channel 9's broadcast, but other regional areas like Bunbury and Kalgoorlie probably would have. The story was similar in other states.

For all the benefits that Channel 9 brought to TV coverage of cricket there was a period of disenfranchised when Packer got the sole TV rights to broadcast cricket because his network couldn't reach some specific country areas. This was temporarily resolved in the 2nd year, and it might have been by Federal government policy (triggered by the incident I mention in the last paragraph) where the Packer network actually leased it's vision to the ABC to broadcast the Test cricket (but not 1 day cricket) to all the other regional areas not covered by Channel 9 - so these regional areas got Channel 9's footage without the ads between overs broadcast via the ABC, and with ABC commentators, presumably calling it off the screen much like the fake broadcasts we're use to today.

Not sure how many years this went on for, but eventually, as was the case in Geraldton, most of those little country tv stations around Australia that operated independently were bought by the major country station operators.

Same thing actually happened with Tennis. One year, I guess it must have been 1980, Malcolm Fraser was campaigning for reelection and stayed overnight in Geraldton when the Wimbledon final was on and the PM's wife was reported to be upset that she wasn't able watch the game, having found out rural areas didn't get the same TV coverage as city areas.