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Warnie has admitted that he was the hardest batsman to bowl at, picked him ever time!
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Warnie has admitted that he was the hardest batsman to bowl at, picked him ever time!
I remember buying a DVD called 'battle for the Tasman' presented by Ian Chappell feautring 6 classic ODI matches between Australia and New Zealand. The DVD contained a match from 1998 at the Adelaide Oval where Australia chased down just over 260 to win by three wickets with about 2 balls to spare. That match wasn't included in Fox Cricket's countdown from the 90's and for what it's worth, I think it should have been.
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That lineup could go out today and outperform the current team.No wonder the poms couldn’t make the finals
The Aus A batting lineup
Hayden
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Ponting
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His war paint really completed the look.
Alderman bowls Larkins around his legs lmao .
I wish we could watch 1977 to 1979 kerrie Packer cricket With Garth Le Roux and DK in same game
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Watched a classic ODI at the WACA where Jones got a century in a loss (Botham went berserk with the bat) and a spectator ran on the field to shake his hand when he got his ton.
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CA has also put some old complete matches up in YT.
I think this is a bit of a myth. After Dean Jones died I was watching a lot of the footage from that test and couldn't see any where Mathews was wearing a sweater though he was certainly daft enough to have done something like that. And I'd like to have seen Hawkeye and Snicko on that last wicket! Ump did himself a mischief getting the finger up so quick.
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Currently showing " Challenge Cup " games from Perth in '87.
Personally can't recall them being replayed ever.
Personally can't recall them being replayed ever.
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The 82'83 Gabba match between Australia and England, the one where Hookesy hits 22 off Bob Willis to win the match....Vic Marks has Greg Chappell absolutely plum LBW and Bill Lawry says "Its probably going down leg side"
True , as someone whose first taste of cricket, was World Series Cricket it does sound strange when someone that did not see it calls other games after WSC cricket as World Series Cricket too. I think the confusing comes about because after the WSG cricket ended in 1979, the Australian Cricket Board called the limited overs series games here, the World Series Cup series so some of the branding of WSC cricket that Packer created for his own cricket seasons at channel 9 in late 70's got used for the a few more years by the cricket board here as it was too sexy and successful to ignore and not use at the time.
I moved house recently and found some old cricket cards from after World Series Cricket ended from early 1980's for the one day series and branding of it still looked very much like the red, black and white colouring of WSC cricket from 1978 and 79.
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Kepler bowled nude balls. So did Boony.
Seen this game recently on youtube and curious to me it seems a 40 overs limited game. No Lillee or Holding so they must have both been injured. One of first times I ever remember seeing helmets worn. David Hookes was coming back from broken jaw and batting in something like a helmet for car racing...lol
I assume that season there was two international one day match series. 50 over series and 40 over series. They seemed to call this 40 over game International Cup as a title.
I assume that season there was two international one day match series. 50 over series and 40 over series. They seemed to call this 40 over game International Cup as a title.
Yeah, still stunned Boon or Wessels ever got to bowl. I think it was an experimental time when some captains still tried to pick a limited overs team with just four bowlers and try to make the other 10 overs up from the batsmen. If Greg Chappell or Allan Border not playing the other batsmen probably could not bowl but someone had to be tried if you were silly enough to not pick a 5th bowler in the 11.
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I too loved World Series Cricket very much back in the day although I first started watching cricket in 1974/75 when I was seven years old. But WSC won all us youngsters over although we still followed traditional cricket too.
As for calling later games WSC, it's similar to how Australian Rules football is now called AFL, which is ludicrous - it would be like calling the whole fast-food industry McDonald's or the airline industry Qantas. I even read an article referring to pre-1987 football as AFL which is nonsensicial and just historically wrong.
Watched a heap of these games in the winter and ODI cricket will never be the same. Up until about 15 years ago the best team played consistently. Bowlers would be on a rotation but generally speaking there was always a strong Australian team on the park. Players these days are happy to skip ODI matches to rest, that's the main reason crowds are nowhere near as big as the past.
