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Who was commentating with David Darcy there?
"I've been watching since 1919"

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Who was commentating with David Darcy there?
"I've been watching since 1919"

Sounded like Bradman to me.

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Ashes to Ashes
Dust to Dust
if Lillee won't get you
Thommo must

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Ashes to Ashes
Dust to Dust
if Lillee won't get you
Thommo must

Awesome footage of Thommo there, some of which I've never seen before.

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Ashes to Ashes
Dust to Dust
if Lillee won't get you
Thommo must

Awesome footage of Thommo there, some of which I've never seen before.

The last sandshoe crusher where he tries to run out the batsman with the sore foot.
That is one SUPER FAST delivery.

The bouncer that hit the batsman who was carried off, I reckon it was the 75 world cup and the batsman was Duleep Mendis.

Here is an excerpt from that match.


After a nine-wicket drubbing by West Indies in their opening game, they headed south to take on Australia, and after being asked to bat, the Australians piled on 328 for 5. In reply, Sri Lanka reached 150 for 2 in the 32nd over, up with the clock and fighting hard. They had weathered Dennis Lillee and Jeff Thomson's opening salvos, but when the pair returned, it proved too much.

Sunil Wettimuny and Duleep Mendis were repeatedly struck on the body, with Thomson, steaming in from the Pavilion End, causing the most damage. Both batsmen were hit, but Mendis was laid out by a ball Alan Gibson in The Times described as "not a bouncer but a short ball aimed at the body". "I hit this bloke on the head," Thomson explained. "They were only little fellas so you couldn't call it a bouncer exactly."

Mendis was knocked out and fell down as if shot and, according to Thomson, as he was brought round, muttered: "Oh my God, I'm going" - a comment which he vehemently denies making - and left the field for hospital while Thomson was roundly booed.

The noise grew in Thomson's next over when he floored Wettimuny, who had already been hit sickening blows on the legs and body. In the previous over he had been struck on the instep, after which Thomson had offered a sympathetic observation. "Look, it's not broken you weak bastard. But if you're down there next over, it will be."

Sure enough, the first ball of Thomson's next over landed once more on Wettimuny's instep and he jumped around in agony. Thomson recalls that, egged on by his team-mates, he picked up the ball and threw down the stumps at the striker's end with the distressed batsmen out of his ground. "I jumped up and appealed," Thomson said. "No other bastard moved. They all sat or stood there with their arms folded. They'd done me stone cold."

"Wettimuny limped most of the way off," Gibson wrote, "but had to be picked up before he reached the pavilion." Both men were taken to hospital. Both were discharged the next day, but Wettimuny was forced to walk on crutches because of a damaged instep and Mendis missed Sri Lanka's last match with a lingering headache.

It was certainly an experience," said Mendis, before adding: "Although I don't remember too much about it." Wettimuny, meanwhile, recalled that on arrival at hospital he was asked who had injured him. "Thomson," he replied. A nearby off-duty policeman, unaware that he had been felled on the cricket field, walked over and asked: "Would you like to press charges?"

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A bit of a documentary style footage of crowd behaviour at the MCG in 1993/94:

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The 1996 World Cup semi finals - both memorable for different reasons (Australia's great fightback against the Windies and India's expulsion from the tournament in the other)

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Sarfraz Nawaz and that spell of bowling at Melbourne in 1979:

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Smithy that one is a cracker. haha the smirk that female has when she continues to talk is priceless

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Not sure what the first video is on in this link as it wont come up.

Anyone seen the Trott catch in a county game? Was fielding at short leg and caught in his pocket

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Proof that pretty much anyone can play in the world cup

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Not sure what the first video is on in this link as it wont come up.

On this page or page 1

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Here you go JAS

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ooooh thanks smithy

Dear old Johnners...what a loss he was.
Wasn't immune to the odd gaffe of his own either..

Among his other gaffes was:
“There's Neil Harvey standing at leg slip with his legs wide apart, waiting for a tickle”

when Neil Harvey was representing Australia at the Headingley Test in 1961

Bit scary seeing Aggers there and knowing he's only 1 year older than me

Regards
JAS

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The McGrath/Sarwan exchange:

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For years and years England was the home of the pitch invasion. Perhaps these two events finally forced their hand to get tougher on such incidents:

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You have to wonder what got into Kemar Roach here:

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Nice trick