Richard Hadlee was amazing
Nasser gets a jaffer.
Len Pascoe vs Viv Richards. Len was mental.
And my particular favourite. This guy hardly played due to injury. I saw about 30 seconds of him bowling in 1995 and it stuck with me. I think he'd have been absolutely class if he'd not got injured. Another one to file with Mohammed Zahid.
Nasser gets a jaffer.
Len Pascoe vs Viv Richards. Len was mental.
And my particular favourite. This guy hardly played due to injury. I saw about 30 seconds of him bowling in 1995 and it stuck with me. I think he'd have been absolutely class if he'd not got injured. Another one to file with Mohammed Zahid.
Points arising:
ReplyDelete1. Never mind the bowling, the chirp from Hadlee was first rate. Giving it the 'come on Beef, play straight like this' then bouncing him was clearly too much for an intellectual like Sir Iron.
2. Hussain got enough jaffas in his career to open a fucking fruit stall. I saw him kippered by if anything a better ball from Paul Reiffel at Headingley in 1993 -- even on the replay it looked like he had off covered, yet the ball seemed to describe a semi-circular arc around it. Incredible.
3. Benaud's hair looks like a helmet from Star Wars.
4. Brian McMillan: Gerard Depardieu in whites.
1. Yes.
ReplyDelete2. Have a look at the 98 Windies tour on YouTube (I think it's that one). Absurd grubber. He also got a lot that just bounced enough to break his fingers.
3. Yes.
4. You know something? I think that's been perplexing me for years. THAT'S who it is. Thank you. And like Gerard, subject to the odd 'emotional' episode. Was it Shane Warne he threatened to make disappear?