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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.

 

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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.

 

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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.

 

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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.

 

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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.

 

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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.