Cricket

[roydo]

Cripes, he is still alive. 93 now.

 

[Toast]

Love the Viv Richards "Play who you want man, won't make a bit of difference" bit that sprung it's head up recently with BT Sport putting old school games on. Imperious stuff.

The 1990 series was boss.
Bbc1 had highlights late at night, great theme tune and everything.
Show presented by Tony Lewis, who later created the D/L method.
I watched the VHS of the series over and over, and recently found it during a house move and made it into a DVD.

Rob Bailey played in a few games, I saw him play at Wallasey once, he hit the ball the furthest I've ever seen a ball hit. The lad was huge.

 

[Toast]

Ambrose and Winston Bengamin also played Liverpool comp for Chester as young men.
Not a bad opening line up that like.

 

[roydo]

Ambrose and Winston Bengamin also played Liverpool comp for Chester as young men.
Not a bad opening line up that like.

The Lancashire league was a temporary home for Everton Weekes as well. Probably tons have passed through at various stages of their career.

 

[Toast]

The Lancashire league was a temporary home for Everton Weekes as well. Probably tons have passed through at various stages of their career.

I'm sure I've my shirt from a Lashings game in that league still somewhere.
Richie Richardson was playing for Wigan or something ?
Memory a bit vague though.

 

[Steve Wigan]

If you're entertained by Steve Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft on a Cricket pitch then you've got a pretty warped perception of entertainment.

That's unfair. Warner is a great entertainer, and Smith is one of the best technical batsmen currently playing.We all wallow in the nostalgic days of Viv Richards etc,...in fact I saw Brian Close play a memorable innings (think at OT?) when him and Cowdrey were hit all over the body by some very vicious Windies bowling...that would be some time in the 60s. Best innings I ever saw live was Javed Miandad getting a brilliant ton at The Oval....I had a day to spare before flying to the US,what s better than a day watching an artist at work?

 

[Walken]

Re ball tampering. The fuss over this created by the media and the excessive punishments to Smith and the others shows how out of touch with realiity the majority of dinosaurs who rule world cricket really are, and I agree with Shane Warne about this. Anyone who watches or who has played cricket knows that ball tampering goes on in every game virtually, at every level. OK, if you get caoaght doing it in a Test Match, a slap on the wrists is about the right 'punishment' but that's all. I hereby admit that in a SW Lancs Division Two game sometime in the 1990s against Standish Cricket Club, I picked the seam on the ball and delberately rubbed one side of the ball in the dust on the wicket. Got the ball to do a bit more off the pitch, and also produced one of the earliest examples of reverse swing !! Me bad. But then I didn't want to be in the small minority NOT doing it.
Let the three lads who have been banned get back to entertaining cricket fans, as soon as possible.

Had a word with the lancs league to get you banned

 

[Steve Wigan]

Ambrose and Winston Bengamin also played Liverpool comp for Chester as young men.
Not a bad opening line up that like.

I played with Roy Singleton, who kept wicket for Liverpool in the Comp in the late 50s. He told me once in a 'friendly' game that he clipped Roy Gilchrist for 4 first ball, and Gilchrist walked down the pitch to him, looked him in the eye and said 'I've got the colour of your cap, man.'
Middle stump out of the ground next ball.....

 

[Steve Wigan]

Cripes, he is still alive. 93 now.

You do realise we can work out who it is from that,don't you?
And I have done(EW?)...I saw him bat at OT in a TEst...found a fiver that day and three of us had a takeaway on the way home!
Same test, some wag in the crowd shouts 'Give yourself a bowl Captain Worral' Frank Worral duly puts himself on and concedes a lot in two overs. SAme shout from the crowd..'OK Captain Worral,take yourself off now'......

 

[roydo]

You do realise we can work out who it is from that,don't you?

Pretty sure I have mentioned it before anyrate. Your guess is?

 

[arminisgod]

The Lancashire league was a temporary home for Everton Weekes as well. Probably tons have passed through at various stages of their career.

Growing up as a kid I saw Donald, Richards, Steve Waugh, kapil dev and many more playing at nelson (where I was born). The last time we won the Worsley cup Craig McMillan was our pro.

Lancs league is a great league.

 

[Minimeister]

Re ball tampering. The fuss over this created by the media and the excessive punishments to Smith and the others shows how out of touch with realiity the majority of dinosaurs who rule world cricket really are, and I agree with Shane Warne about this. Anyone who watches or who has played cricket knows that ball tampering goes on in every game virtually, at every level. OK, if you get caoaght doing it in a Test Match, a slap on the wrists is about the right 'punishment' but that's all. I hereby admit that in a SW Lancs Division Two game sometime in the 1990s against Standish Cricket Club, I picked the seam on the ball and delberately rubbed one side of the ball in the dust on the wicket. Got the ball to do a bit more off the pitch, and also produced one of the earliest examples of reverse swing !! Me bad. But then I didn't want to be in the small minority NOT doing it.
Let the three lads who have been banned get back to entertaining cricket fans, as soon as possible.

Totally agree. Always wondered why the great bowlers in the 90's had there faces covered in suncream yet the fielders never bothered?

 

[Alan Whittle]

I remember when Hants had Gordon Greenidge and Malcolm Marshall in the same team, a few years after Andy Roberts was tearing up all comers.

 

[Toast]

I remember when Hants had Gordon Greenidge and Malcolm Marshall in the same team, a few years after Andy Roberts was tearing up all comers.

Christ, Marshall was quick.
RIP.

 

[roydo]

Totally agree. Always wondered why the great bowlers in the 90's had there faces covered in suncream yet the fielders never bothered?

Fred Trueman used the brylcream in his hair.

For younger viewers, he was Englands greatest bowler in his day, and Brylcream is probably called Wax Tastic or sommet these days.