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[Kram]

Just watched Cricket Legends with Curtley Ambrose, never really seen him interviewed before but what a champ.

 

[PhatBoy]

Just watched Cricket Legends with Curtley Ambrose, never really seen him interviewed before but what a champ.

they don’t make them like him anymore.

I know Johnson had some surliness about him at times but I think everyone knew he was a fairly gentle guy. Starc is about as imposing as a male nurse.
Anderson is a cranky c*** but he’s slow and can’t hurt you. Morkel was gentle. Steyn was angry and fast I guess but also gave lots of interviews and seemed a pretty fun guy.

the closest I can think of to Ambrose’s kind of menacing mystery is maybe Shannon Gabriel - fast and always scowling, but his distinct lack of Ambrose’s considerable skill keeps him down a few rungs

 

[010203]

That game where Bruce Reid couldn't lay bat on ball for a whole over to cost Australia a win was comical. Australia needed two off the last over and went on to lose by one run. Anybody batting #11 for Australia today would have scored at least one run in that final over.

 

[tombomb]

Everytime i flick it on, Geoff Marsh is making another 40 off 90.

It is crazy that he got away with that for so long.

 

[Kram]

Never heard of Eddie Hemmings but a 41 year old offie getting a run is so England.

 

[Gough]

Ned Larkins on that tour as well. It would have improved the tour considerably socially but it didn't do much for the jolly old cricket.

 

[PhatBoy]

Never heard of Eddie Hemmings but a 41 year old offie getting a run is so England.

poor man’s John Embury

 

[corbies]

There are some real s**t boring periods in these early 90's matches at times looking back. It's not so much the lack of runs that does me it's the lack of boundaries at least trying to be hit combined with the fact the bowling team still has 5 on the boundary and don't even look like trying to take wickets.

 

[Kapow!!!]

Just watching Australia vs Pakistan at Adelaide oval in 92/93. Dean Jones gets a warning for backing up too far by the bowler (something he shouldn't have to do in my book) and then proceeds to back away during his run-up the very next ball he faces him.

I enjoy his after-dinner speaking and some of his yarns but bloody hell he's a twat

 

[smasha]

Anyone watch the great man Bill Lawry recently,channel 9 doco?

Will be a very sad day when he leaves us.

 

[Gough]

There are some real sh*t boring periods in these early 90's matches at times looking back. It's not so much the lack of runs that does me it's the lack of boundaries at least trying to be hit combined with the fact the bowling team still has 5 on the boundary and don't even look like trying to take wickets.

Early 90s was a pretty ordinary time for cricket generally, West Indies were on the wane, we were pre Warne, England was England, second half of the decade was spectacular but the first few years weren't great.

 

[Kram]

Loving these Australia A games, what a great summer that was.

Early 90s was a pretty ordinary time for cricket generally, West Indies were on the wane, we were pre Warne, England was England, second half of the decade was spectacular but the first few years weren't great.

Another elite nation in South Africa coming back kicked things off towards the middle of the decade.

 

[Gough]

Loving these Australia A games, what a great summer that was.
Another elite nation in South Africa coming back kicked things of towards the middle of the decade.

I saw South Africa play India in their first series back in 92 and it was total snooze fest.

 

[Kram]

I saw South Africa play India in their first series back in 92 and it was total snooze fest.

Wasn't Wessels and then Cronje two of the most dull captains going around at the time?

 

[Kram]

Wow what a cover drive Marto. Then has a brain melt hitting the next one in the air straight to a fielder. Ended up being a great but it took him time to get his head right for the game.

 

[Gough]

What made the 94/95 summer so good was that it was only the appetiser. The whole country then went sleep deprived during the West Indies tour.

 

[Kram]

Gatting on paper 37 years old but looked and played like he was 47.

 

[Kram]

Graeme Hick pwned getting bowled around his legs by Warne Peter McIntyre.

 

[KennyHuntersBlues]

No wonder the poms couldn’t make the finals
The Aus A batting lineup
Hayden
Blewett
Ponting
Bevan
Langer
Martyn

 

[DaRick]

Wasn't Wessels and then Cronje two of the most dull captains going around at the time?

Wessels definitely was.

Cronje was better (match fixing aside), but relied a lot on his coaching staff to guide him.

 

[Kram]

No wonder the poms couldn’t make the finals
The Aus A batting lineup
Hayden
Blewett
Ponting
Bevan
Langer
Martyn

It's funny that Blewett that played brilliantly in the A team before getting called up to the proper side and starting off well in Test matches, ended up having a pretty crap international career being particularly useless in ODIs.

 

[SleazySimon]

Cant believe how many chances Damien Martyn got compared to Brad Hodge.

Fair to say richie richardson was the wrong choice as captain for west indies.

 

[PhatBoy]

It's funny that Blewett that played brilliantly in the A team before getting called up to the proper side and starting off well in Test matches, ended up having a pretty crap international career being particularly useless in ODIs.

made centuries in his first two tests then soon after he made a huge score batting all day with one of the Waughs in SA, only made one more century in his career I think.

actually blewett would be one of my random nominees for the prettiest bowler thread. Looked like a natural even as a part timer. Could swing it too

 

[big_e]

Not sure if that's right. I remember his first odi v SA and he went berserk. I had never seen anything like it from an Australian opener in an odi until that point. Simpson was still coach and it was all very methodical, steady as she goes cricket. He never got an extended run at it and from memory even after the innings I mentioned he was dropped after another 3 or 4 games. Seem to remember a lot of rubbish mentioned like ODIs would affect his test cricket too much.

One of my all time favourite cricket stats is that Mark Taylor and Michael Slater have an almost identical ODI strike rates.

 

[SleazySimon]

Arjuna Ranatungas running between wickets