Watch Vishwanath tame the WI fast bowlers! Yes, this is where you get to see his iconic 97 not out. Chandra, Bedi, Prasanna on top of their form. India win the match!!
i still remember one special thing about this test match. My father has prepared a short essay on this test match for me to participate in my school competeition. Later when i grow up and gain cricketing knowledge, i must say this is one of the best test matches, GR viswanaths 97 was probably one of the best innings played against WI pace attack by any indian
Sir pl note The Inning of 97 Runs among the best 1st 5Innings in History of ICC Cricket. 145yrs. Vishwanath Ji scored without Helmet against Hostile attack of West Indies Pace Battery. On Bowling Paradise Wicket.
GRV's 97 not out is one of the greatest knock in tests by an Indian , considering the high quality of pace attack and the kind of pitch it was . During this series, GRV dominated while SMG was injured . The phase from 1972 to 1975 was the glorious period of GRV. from 1976, SMG again started making huge runs and after that its history. SMG emerged as the greatest opening batsman while poor GRV faded after a poor 1982 series in Pakistan.... public memory is very short.. we should celebrate GRV
GRV's 97not out is easily the greatest innings by an indian, though ranked 37out of 100 by wisden.But remember only 3 of these knocks were under 100.Yes , comparisons are odious and VVS Lakshman's 281 is ranked higher, given team circumstances, but please keep in mind that while following on, the Aussie attack was tiring.At Chepauk, Andy Roberts bowling was the finest piece of pace bowling ever seen on indian soil.Also keep in mind that the remaining 10 batsmen put together dint equal GRV's score, and the 9th wkt stand realized over 50 runs. All in all, in the half century of watching test cricket with a passion close to religion, i rate this the greatest innings by an indian batsman. Pointed out that no protective gear those days.
I watched this match as a 12 year old.. We are from Karnataka, Bangalore.. My father could not get the tickets for Bangalore test match.. However he could manage tickets through his friend for this particular Madras test.. It was Vishy all the way.. Amazing match of cricket..
Man, I feel so betrayed. I have been dreaming of seeing this video for 25 years, just to see some shots from GRV's 97*, the greatest innings on Indian soil before that 281. Shame hardly 3 or 4 shots from him :(
1975 Pongal test at Chepauk was the first to have got telecasted by Doordharshan . We went to a nearby institute wherein they were keeping a black and white TV and huge crowd watched the test on TV...
I was one of the spectator of this match in the Chepauk stadium. G.R.Vishwanath made 97 not out in the first innings. I can not forget a moment when B.S.Chandrasekhar got out for a duck as he was the last wicket he went upto Vishwanath and said sorry for not giving company to get his possible century. Vishu said no problem to Chandra. Still l remember the gestures of both.
Watching Test matches in 1970s and early 1980s: many people took binoculars (no massive LCD scoreboards) and pocket transistors to the ground. We listened to radio commentary from the stands, for details of scores etc. Sometimes loudspeaker announcements requested fans to lower volume of transistors as the radio commentary was distracting players! If the game was in a boring phase, we could hear popular songs from the radios, and the players enjoyed it too (as Sunil Gavaskar admitted in his article on B.S Chandrasekar) No security checks (nobody heard of 'terrorism' those days), we went in as early as we want (sometimes even three hours before play started to get a good seat). Families came to the ground, often with huge stainless steel tiffin carriers for lunch! No floodlights, no helmets for batsmen, with some of the fastest bowlers in cricket history around: Andy Roberts, Mike Holding, Jeff Thomson, Dennis Lillee, John Snow, Bob Willis, all at their peak in the 1970s.
A fantastic cricket test, we were in 6 th standard, there was no tv only radio, our sister would tell us the score in the free time, we loved GRV, i was a Fan of him and chandrashekar, i watched bangalore test for one day i was glad to see LLoyd enter the field for the first time, in PRAJAMATHA kannada weekly all pictures were in Color
@Anil Narayanan sorry sir,only i had every photos pasted in a large book and had a good collections, the magazine worn out as years passed by i had a huge collections of HINDU paper and SPORTSTAR, All color photos
Presently I am reading Vishy's "Wrist assured" and at the exact period - 1975. Chapter" A shot at redumption". Thanks for the great job you are doing. Namaskaara 🙏😊
Silky Vishi - it's all about technique is what he told me when I asked him how he faced the fast bowlers so confidentiality - I met him in Manchester in 1974 - Engineer and Gavaskar were my great heros
Heard and read so much about this match and finally some priceless footage! This seems less of Vishy's 97* and more of Gaikwad's 80 in the second dig! May be, just may be there's more footage of Vishy's glorious strokeplay…...but It's amazing to think that India lost only very narrowly to this Windies side....credit to MAK's captaincy and Vishy's glorious batting!
Vishy's late cuts, square drives, flicks( leg glance) are unmatchable. Indeed it was an IMMOTAL INNIGS. When Chandra got out leaving Vishy not out on 97 brought tears in many eyes. I still remember the photo appeared in Hindu paper showing Vishy returning back to the Pavilion with Chandra surrounded by sportive West Indies players, who applauded till they reached Pavilion. The whole stadium stood up and gave the little master, a standing ovation. This knock of Vishy is worth more than a Century he missed and I wish there should be interviews with the team mates and West Indies players of that Madras Test about that knock. I am sure that Chandra will have the guilt/ regret feeling of not able to give stand to Vishy to complete his Century.
My father preapred a short essay for me having to describe a test match being watched on this famous test match win. And my father is a big fan of both Vishy and prasanna and quite exulted for a great performance from both. The innings of Vishy is still rated as one of the best test match innings against genuine fast bowling on the bouncy chepauk wicket
In those days Gundappa Vishwanath was called the Little Master . He was the master of the late cut and the square cut . Off the field a very unassuming and shy personality , but on the field as a batsman , very aggressive with style and grace !
I watched this match with a couple of my friends from school. We were 14 then. I can recollect Roberts bowling - hardly we could trace the ball in the initial overs. Vishy square cut that thundered past Roy Fredricks who was just scamping to collect it from point boundary. Gaekwad played a gritty knock. Engineer catch and stumping were talk of our MCC stand. The crowd however had a great liking for Lloyd and his team.
Viswanath's 97 not out in this match has been rated as one of the best innings ever played by an Indian. Andy Roberts was at his ferocious best and was "virtually unplayable" in both the innings. Vishwanath's brilliant stroke play in which he hammered 14 fours and took the fight to the enemy camp, remains a masterpiece which will be cherished forever particularly by those who were fortunate enough to witness it in the stadium. Its a pity that only a fraction of his batting footage is available in this video. Can I please request Mr. Galagalli to follow up with the Doordarshan authorities and make available the rest of batting. He will be doing a yeoman service to cricket lover's in India.
I've watched 83-84 series against the mightiest Windies and was petrified by watching Macko even on TV! I was a lil puzzled by some commentators and several Indian cricketers claiming that Roberts was faster and more dangerous in the newspapers of those days......I really wondered how could anyone be better than Macko! Roberts may be the first 'professor' fast bowler of great 4 pronged nuclear arsenal but Macko oh my.....scariest and most lethal of'em all!
Sankaran Krishna is a professor of political science at the University of Hawaii, in Honolulu.ASREMEMBERED BY THIS GREAT FAN I could barely sleep all night. My alarm was set for 6am and I rose about a minute before it went off. I was 15 years old, it was January 11, 1975, and Madras was abuzz. The beloved annual harvest festival, Pongal, was a day or two away, and cricket was in the air. On my study table - laden with books on trigonometry, physics and chemistry- lay a small booklet: a five-day ticket to the fourth Test between India and Clive Lloyd's West Indies, beginning in few hours' time at Chepauk Stadium. Unlike previous occasions, I did not have to share this Test with anyone - it was all mine. I lived and breathed cricket in those days. Like many, my interest in the game was inversely proportional to my ability at it. Despite trying very hard, it seemed impossible for me to get in line against that hard red ball on a zippy matting wicket, facing bigger schoolmates who could bowl seriously fast. My bowling was not so much military-medium as civilian-slow. And the best that could be said of my fielding was that it was safe. But I could - and did - fantasise about metamorphosing from a bespectacled and scrawny "substitute" into an athletic and swaggering allrounder. By 7:30am, armed with a tiffin-carrier, whose layers contained a breakfast snack, lunch, and a tea-time treat, I joined the serpentine queue to enter Chepauk Stadium. And once in, duly settled onto a thin white cotton thundu (towel) spread on the hard concrete rafters. After having lost the first two Tests, India had stormed back to win the third at the Eden Gardens, riding on a brilliant second-innings 139 by GR Viswanath. The elegant left-armer Bernard Julien quickly removed India's openers (Farokh Engineer and Eknath Solkar) but it wasAndy Roberts who wrought havoc. On a slow and turning pitch, he was fast and furious. One sequence was emblematic. The pink and portly Ashok Mankad pulled a bouncer to the square-leg fence. As Roberts turned at the top of his run-up for the next ball, the entire stadium knew retribution would be swift in coming. With just a floppy canvas hat for protection, Mankad looked the sitting duck he was. With the barest hint of extra effort, Roberts got the ball to rear off a good length and straight at Mankad's jugular. As the batsman frantically fought to get his bat up in time, the ball flew off the gloves in front of his face and looped gently into the palms of a waiting Roy Fredericks. I suspect Mankad was quite relieved to be walking back to the pavilion on his own two feet. It was barely after lunch and India were reeling at six down for 76. And soon thereafter were eight down for a little over a hundred; Roberts had grabbed six straight. His fielding station was right in front of my stand, and the sporting crowd cheered Roberts back to us after every successful over. He was reputedly the youngest of fifteen siblings. As we stared in awe at his impressive physique, the irrepressible wit of the Madras cricket fan surfaced: "Machan, if this is what No. 15 looks like, can you imagine how big the first one must be?" As the predictably furious bouncer arrived next, Vishy tucked his head down an inch or two into his barrel chest - the way a tortoise pulls back into its shell - and the ball whistled a hair's breadth above his blue-felt India cap When Bishan Bedi walked in to join Vishy, you sensed the end might be two balls away. And yet, over by over, the pair gritted it out to add over 50 runs. Vishy cornered the bulk of the action, and seemed to win most of the tactical games he and Lloyd played, from about the fourth ball of each over, to retain the strike. I remember one over by the bustling Keith Boyce in which Vishy hammered him for three boundaries, and an incredibly powerful square-cut drive off Roberts that singed the grass as it sped to the boundary. While others have rhapsodised about Vishy's innings that day, and talked of the many marvellous shots he played, 40 years later what I remember most vividly are two moments - both defensive. The first one followed the rasping square drive off Roberts that I just described. As the predictably furious bouncer arrived next, Vishy tucked his head down an inch or two into his barrel chest - the way a tortoise pulls back into its shell - and the ball whistled a hair's breadth above his blue-felt India cap. Vishy nonchalantly walked down the pitch to pat down a bump or two, seemingly oblivious to how close to serious injury he had been seconds ago. The second one was also to a ball by Roberts that reared off a good length. Vishy, on the back foot, behind the line, met the ball right in front of his chin, and - this is no exaggeration - it seemed to flow down the length of the dead-straight bat and drop like a blob of lead at his feet. You could hear an audible gasp from the crowd at what they had just seen. A ball travelling at what must have been in the high-80s or low-90s mph, hitting a bat and coming to an almost complete stop in a matter of a few feet. If you ever want a definition of technique, or the superhuman things Vishy could do with those wrists, this was it. In my mind's eye, I can see Roberts wryly smiling and shaking his head at Vishy, and the murmur of appreciation from the slip cordon. Of course, as everyone knows, Vishy was left stranded on 97 that day. Last man out was the genial Chandra, who gingerly ramped one from Roberts into Lloyd's capacious hands at slip. The two Karnataka stalwarts walked off, in conversation. I presume Chandra was apologising for not being able to hang around long enough for Vishy to get to that hundred, and the latter assuring him that it was perfectly all right and that he had done marvellously well to stick it out for as long as he had - about 40 minutes. Neither man ever placed much store in landmarks in any case. As they neared the pavilion, I cannot remember whether the West Indians slowed down to let Vishy lead them back in - or whether Andy Roberts with his 7 for 64 led them off. Talk about a tough choice. Fifteen-year-old schoolboys, even of the more bookish and introspective sort, cannot be counted on to appreciate the long-term significance of events that they witness. And yet I, like almost every one at Chepauk that day, knew I had seen something I would remember for the rest of my life.
Karsan Ghavri's backlift is hilarious ! If ever there was a 360 degree backlift, he had it. No wonder he was a day late on the one that knocked out his middle stump.
I can say Vishy always played game for country without any self ego. Still I say if he would have given better chances he would have more records in lesser and better ways. But Board curtailed every opperchunity because of his simplicity. and mildness. Under Bombayites
13.20 Solker (middle order batsman) opened with Engineer in II. innings!!!!!! brilliant captaincy by TIGER ,that made TOTAL in II innings 256 ; 66 more than I innings. which made WINDIES to be in pressure ,& WI lost by 100runs !!!!
Cricket was a game of gentlemen. Both spectators and players pay full respect towards it. In those days Cricket was not occupied by bullshit 20-20 or IPL.
At that time only Indian News reel was taken. No telecast or video taken. Don't think these news reels will be available. Only the I& B department has to be requested. I remember the commentators words - Mr Anandraj, in English.
Come on. G. Viswanath scored 97 not out in the first and Gaekwad scored 80 in the second and they were the backbones. Patudi was simply making the motions.
Thia is the fIrst test series i remember vividly ... Grv topscored i. Series wirh 595 runs.....century in calcutta 139 and 97 and 46 in chennai...gordon greenidge andy riberts and viv richards did their test debut in bangalore test the first ever international test played in chiinaswamy stadium. Remember keith boyce throw from deep to run out abid ali in bangalore test first innings to deny him 50 ...abid ali was runout for 49..the throw from boundary ended at non strikers end a direct hit from deep
Thanks for this upload. What Nostalgia! I saw this from 'A' Stand in Chepauk! Still vividly remember Chandra's googly knocking Greenidge's stump, Kalli getting body blows from Chandra's filpper, Andy Robert's towering sixes that went over the stadium roof, engineer's catch off Viv, and of course GRV's genius!
Just see the crowds...how decent and just clapping even for the opposition team also...unlike the present immatured crowd where they shout & yell for everything...even they dont clap also if an opposition batsman hits a four or six or even getting indian wickets when fielding...
Mr Sudhakar, good observations. Just look at the decent, cultured & sportive crowd, simply marvellous. They have been appreciating the opposition's performance as well, I salute them. Whereas today's crowd is not sportive it's become communal, thanks largely to communal politicians.
No Sudhakar please watch second match in this series ...there were flames since India didn't bat well and also a lady kissed a player running through pitch
I was just 12 then, living at a walking distance from MAC and alongwith my friends we went to the Stadium before the start of the match and Used to collect All those Advertising Caps Made with Cards and Elastic. We never had the money for buying tickets and cricket was the last priority for our families. Till noon we used to be near the stadium hearing loud Roars of the spectators for every boundaries or wickets!! On the Bells Road there was a tea shop and we listened to the commentary for sometime and came back home for lunch. On the fourth day after the match started, we four of us were standing near the Walajah Road entrance and looking at the possibility of sneaking into the stadium without tickets. Post Lunch, After an hour long wait, One of the Home Guards Who was responsible for checking the tickets at the gate let us inside and we ran like mad into the stadium and watched the last couple of hours of this match and the Winning wickets of India...!!! It was an unforgettable moments and experience of watching A Cricket Match live in a stadium at 12 years, that too without tickets!!!👍🥰😍
What a video - the first Test match I ever saw ! In that Chepauk ground is a little boy watching his first big cricket match. My father took me to that game, and memories are fresh as they were in 1975: the green bamboo cane chairs with arm rests we were sitting in the Pavilion terrace, the Dasaprakash cake-ice creams my father bought me, me jumping up and down on the chair, joining in the frenzied excitement of the packed crowd, I can still hear their roars as Gundappa Vishwanath (perhaps the greatest Indian batsman of all on fast pitches and difficult situations) tore apart the fiery Andy Roberts in the company of tailend batsmen. I must have been about 8 years watching Vishwanath's unforgettable magic with the willow, and I still remember one particular square cut (GR Vishwanath's trademark shot) that had the ball racing to the fence with such force that it actually overtook a West Indian fielder at deep cover running towards the boundary hoping to cut the ball!! The blue skies of the city then called Madras (now known by its original Tamil name of Chennai), the balmy January sunshine, the breeze from the Marina Beach of the Bay of Bengal just outside the ground, that afternoon when India had won the match - undying memories and unforgotten names: Solkar, Engineer, Ghavri, Vishwanath, Pataudi, Bedi, Chandrasekhar, Clive Lloyd, Greenidge, Fredericks, Andy Roberts.... Thank you, for uploading this video (more so as India's moronic public broadcaster DoorDarshan has destroyed so many memorable moments of Indian cricket / Indian history, by simply re-recording on their tapes that captured priceless moments of India!!) Big disappointment though that this rare recording barely has three or four defensive strokes from Vishwanath, when his strokefilled 97.n.o was perhaps one of the greatest Test match innings on Indian soil ever.
Alvin Kallicharan scored a fifty on that fourth day resisting India's win. A sharp throw (மாங்கா குறி) by Ashok Mankad, from square of the wicket ( it was a single stemp view) ran Kallicharan out. That gave real life to the Indian team. Many disputed it. I was watching the match from the B stand that is square of the wicket and Kallicharan was well away and has not reached the crease. It was clearly out. In the first Innings of WI, Viv Richards scored a fifty but in the second innings he fell to Prasanna's spin caught by the great wicket-keeper Farook Engineer in a fantastic way.
Jai Galagali Sir!! You are my God! How did you get this after 44 years? Finally I can prove to my kids that Viswanath was better than Kohli or Tendulkar or Dravid or Laxman
Millions of cricket fans were frantically searching for this video. At last they found it. We were in our early teens (school going). It was a Saturday and the whole town was preparing for Ponghal festivities. We were too young to follow the commentary on radio to which our elders glued, but still that did not deter our interest in it. Vishwanath hit a match winning ton in Calcutta and whole of India was expecting the same spirit to continue. A hotel near my house had a big radio with a speaker. A huge gathering was rejoicing the maestro's heroic innings. Some of them - in their twenties and good cricketers also - were talking about the famed square cut. People were shouting in joy when Bedi and Chandrashekhar were resisting the rampaging Roberts. The Ponghal celebrations coincided with India's best test victory till then. As years rolled by we came to understand what a scintillating innings Vishwanath played. Apart from the exploits of Vishwanath, Prasanna, Geakwad and Ghavri, what impresses us most is the decent behaviour of the crowd. They cheered the opponents also in the same breath. Fortunately jingoism was unknown to us then. A delightful match. Nostalgia, nostalgia and nostalgia.
Never knew this match existed on film. Thank you so much Mr Jai for the upload. Vishy's 97 not out is one one the best non century innings ever. It features in Wisden's 100 top innings of the century at No 37 if I am not mistaken. As some viewers have pointed out, sadly not much of his innings can be seen. His square cuts against Roberts and piercing the gaps in the packed off side field has been mentioned by all those who watched the innings live.
As per commentary on that day, Chandra said sorry to Viswanath as he could not hold on to his wicket. Chandra was out as the last man. Viswanath was last man not out at non striker end for 97. What a match !!! 10 Indian batsmen fell for total score of 77. Total score 190, 16 xtras, Viswanath 97 not out ...
There must have been some incredible shots in the second half of that knock if there's one that's better than that cover drive he blasted off Vanburn Holder at 4:58.
Sachin, Dravid, Gavaskar, Kohli and Ganguly may all have their own spots in the game of cricket. But, in my view, G R Vishwanath holds a very special spot in cricket, which, even the legendary Sir Donald Bradman can't dream of. I recall Ian Botham's observations about Vishy. "Every stroke of Vishy is a poem written with his bat. After you bowl a ball to him, just cross your fingers, close your eyes and pray to God that he makes a mistake".... In the Chepauk test match against West Indies with Roberts, Holding, Garner et al, his 97 not out is probably the best ever innings played in the entire history of cricket. With Chandrasekar as partner, he added 47 runs for the last wicket, in which Chandra's contribution was zero. He was denied his century, because, Chandra got out...!!
Slight resemblance only. But Prasanna was in a class of his own, a master of flight and turn. Nothing wrong in his bowling action, unlike Murali whose action is still debated. If Prasanna had played two decades later, he would have taken the maximum wickets. He was the best Off spinner India had.
I pity myself for not being born to see this masterclus by GR Vishwanath. Certainly the best innings ever played on Indian soil before the 2 hundred and eighty one
Look all Dhoni fans how great and agile Stumper Engineer was , the Superlative Catch to dismiss Richards and Flash Stumping of Lloyd , Really Superb Piece of Keeping Certainly a great match , this was the best Series of Vishwanath , great video I heartily apploud your hard work , superb keep it up
Better than Dhoni? I dont think so ...Engineer was good for his era but there is vast difference in fitness..all these old never even went for jog to keep fit or lifted weights to keep fit
@@addigi5598 Your Knowledge is too little , Engineer used to be considered the most Agile and Quick Wicket Keeper and He Played his last when he was 38 , He Scored the fastest Test Century and was selected For Rest Of The World Xl To Play against England and Australia for full 5 Test Tours and was selected by None Other Than DON BRADMAN , For Fitness they used to lap 5to10 Rounds of the Stadium and used Drills and Yoga , You certainly need to update yourself
@@jitendraprakash8117 remind me what did he win with India..did he ever win matches from a losing position..he had the worst and the most awkward looking position when wicket keeping against spinners...you have your opinion and I have mine...seen both of them in their playing days..Dhoni to me was the better player
@@addigi5598 I think I should not waste my time arguing u , but for your information he was always there when India won matches in those days and in the crunch and dire straits he used to destroy opposite bowling he used to score at about a run a minute in those days that's why he had the longest stint with Lancashire in English County Cricket , once in a Test he scored 45 in only 20 minutes with 7 fours and 2 sixes , he always used to bat like that , don't always try to undermine the Past Era players , I mentioned that he was selected twice by BRADMAN For world XI and if you think that BRADMAN was a fool then I have nothing to say , Engineer is picked as the WK Batsman in India's All Time Best Test XI By Hindustan Times Chosen by New and Old Former Test Cricketers And Ravi Shastri was one of them , I am sure you will always criticize even Sunny and Richards too Cricket to u seems to be of about say last 20 Years
I saw this match live - Vishy and Roberts were outstanding with Gaekwad playing a good support role. With regard to these videos, why does the camera pan to someone in the crowd exactly when a batsman is getting out? Happens too many times!
I was in the stands enjoying classic Batsmanship of Vishy against hostile fast bowling, particularly by Roberts between lunch and tea. It was a brilliant innings by a technically mastered batsman and one of the all-time great fast bowler. Please note no helmets in those days. I wish they should have full video of Vishy's batting 🏏👏
undoubtedly the finnest knock against such spine chilling fast ball attack! Vishy will always be remembered for Madras Test and those glorious innings he played elsewhere to enthral cricket lovers!
My first experience of watching a test match live...I was 13 then....unforgettable moments...starting early to reach the stadium from Santacruz....the crowd outside....the roar from inside....very vivid and cherished memories
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Many thanks to you Jai for uploading these priceless videos that have some footage of the genius Vishy. Sadly as mentioned by others, the journey of his first innings from 44 to 97 not out with strokes that have been written and spoken about so much has not been captured. In particular his square cutting and off side play on that day to find the boundary and farm the bowling despite Lloyd deploying fielders would have been a treasure to enjoy.
What a damp squib!! I've heard story after story about what a magnificent "fight fire with fire" innings that 97* was! Finally someone uploads video footage of the match and we see practically NOTHING from that innings....GRV hit 14 boundaries in the innings..how many did we see in this video? Even by 1975 standards, this was a poorly edited highlights package!
Thank you very much! I never thought I would get to see this footage. Viswanath played one of the greatest innings ever, but the editor of this video should have shown more of his batting, but he instead focused on all other batsmen who failed. Still I am very thrilled to see this video. Sincere thank you this channel owner!
Had the privilege to watch this test match. Match got over in 4days. Highlights of the match was incredible 97n.o by GRV and superlative fast bowling by Andy Robers. Thanks for uploading this match and bringing back so many fond memories ❤️
I am a Calcuttan. I witnessed Vishy on the rampage -- 50+ in the 1st innning and 139 in the 2nd. A historic win for India! I was 29 at the time and still can see it in my mind's eye. Thanks for uploading that video, too.
i still remember one special thing about this test match. My father has prepared a short essay on this test match for me to participate in my school competeition. Later when i grow up and gain cricketing knowledge, i must say this is one of the best test matches, GR viswanaths 97 was probably one of the best innings played against WI pace attack by any indian
Sir pl note The Inning of 97 Runs among the best 1st 5Innings in History of ICC Cricket. 145yrs. Vishwanath Ji scored without Helmet against Hostile attack of West Indies Pace Battery. On Bowling Paradise Wicket.
I did see that Inning as many as 5 Times.
GRV's 97 not out is one of the greatest knock in tests by an Indian , considering the high quality of pace attack and the kind of pitch it was . During this series, GRV dominated while SMG was injured . The phase from 1972 to 1975 was the glorious period of GRV. from 1976, SMG again started making huge runs and after that its history. SMG emerged as the greatest opening batsman while poor GRV faded after a poor 1982 series in Pakistan.... public memory is very short.. we should celebrate GRV
GRV's 97not out is easily the greatest innings by an indian, though ranked 37out of 100 by wisden.But remember only 3 of these knocks were under 100.Yes , comparisons are odious and VVS Lakshman's 281 is ranked higher, given team circumstances, but please keep in mind that while following on, the Aussie attack was tiring.At Chepauk, Andy Roberts bowling was the finest piece of pace bowling ever seen on indian soil.Also keep in mind that the remaining 10 batsmen put together dint equal GRV's score, and the 9th wkt stand realized over 50 runs.
All in all, in the half century of watching test cricket with a passion close to religion, i rate this the greatest innings by an indian batsman.
Pointed out that no protective gear those days.
I watched this match as a 12 year old.. We are from Karnataka, Bangalore.. My father could not get the tickets for Bangalore test match.. However he could manage tickets through his friend for this particular Madras test.. It was Vishy all the way.. Amazing match of cricket..
Vishwanath has played memorable innings in this test.This series has considerd west indies v/s vishwanath.Very pure gem is vshwanath
Gundapparanganathvishvanath,Gem of Indan Cricket
Great cricketer grace and style is another name of GRV my favourite ever
Surely, you have lit up our Sunday with this upload. Finally, we are able to view some bits of Vishy's famous 97*.
Man, I feel so betrayed. I have been dreaming of seeing this video for 25 years, just to see some shots from GRV's 97*, the greatest innings on Indian soil before that 281. Shame hardly 3 or 4 shots from him :(
1975 Pongal test at Chepauk was the first to have got telecasted by Doordharshan . We went to a nearby institute wherein they were keeping a black and white TV and huge crowd watched the test on TV...
Sir...how old are you at that time.
@@SUDMAA 9 years
Thanks a zillion for posting this rarest of diamond. But, unfortunately not much of Vishy’s great 97 n.o. is captured.
G.R.Viswanath was the most stylish and attractive Indian batsman to watch. His West Indian counter part was Alvin Kallicharan.
Hindi movie maker Subhash Ghai made two hit movies titled "Kalicharan" and "Vishwanath", with Shatrughan Sinha in lead roles.
I was one of the spectator of this match in the Chepauk stadium.
G.R.Vishwanath made 97 not out in the first innings. I can not forget a moment when B.S.Chandrasekhar got out for a duck as he was the last wicket he went upto Vishwanath and said sorry for not giving company to get his possible century. Vishu said no problem to Chandra.
Still l remember the gestures of both.
Watching Test matches in 1970s and early 1980s: many people took binoculars (no massive LCD scoreboards) and pocket transistors to the ground. We listened to radio commentary from the stands, for details of scores etc. Sometimes loudspeaker announcements requested fans to lower volume of transistors as the radio commentary was distracting players! If the game was in a boring phase, we could hear popular songs from the radios, and the players enjoyed it too (as Sunil Gavaskar admitted in his article on B.S Chandrasekar) No security checks (nobody heard of 'terrorism' those days), we went in as early as we want (sometimes even three hours before play started to get a good seat). Families came to the ground, often with huge stainless steel tiffin carriers for lunch! No floodlights, no helmets for batsmen, with some of the fastest bowlers in cricket history around: Andy Roberts, Mike Holding, Jeff Thomson, Dennis Lillee, John Snow, Bob Willis, all at their peak in the 1970s.
Donot forget imran khan and Sarfraz Nawaz
A fantastic cricket test, we were in 6 th standard, there was no tv only radio, our sister would tell us the score in the free time, we loved GRV, i was a Fan of him and chandrashekar, i watched bangalore test for one day i was glad to see LLoyd enter the field for the first time, in PRAJAMATHA kannada weekly all pictures were in Color
@Anil Narayanan sorry sir,only i had every photos pasted in a large book and had a good collections, the magazine worn out as years passed by i had a huge collections of HINDU paper and SPORTSTAR, All color photos
@@anilusha1652 can you upload the article in Hindu about Vishys great knock of 97not out ?
@@Badrn100 will try sir
Presently I am reading Vishy's "Wrist assured" and at the exact period - 1975. Chapter" A shot at redumption".
Thanks for the great job you are doing. Namaskaara 🙏😊
no helmets, no protective armour - real men playing cricket. the legends greenidge and richards began their test careers in this series
Silky Vishi - it's all about technique is what he told me when I asked him how he faced the fast bowlers so confidentiality - I met him in Manchester in 1974 - Engineer and Gavaskar were my great heros
Heard and read so much about this match and finally some priceless footage! This seems less of Vishy's 97* and more of Gaikwad's 80 in the second dig! May be, just may be there's more footage of Vishy's glorious strokeplay…...but It's amazing to think that India lost only very narrowly to this Windies side....credit to MAK's captaincy and Vishy's glorious batting!
Yes, Pataudi brought more to the side, than just his batting. A sense of self belief as well as infinite confidence in his spinners
Vishy's late cuts, square drives, flicks( leg glance) are unmatchable. Indeed it was an IMMOTAL INNIGS.
When Chandra got out leaving Vishy not out on 97 brought tears in many eyes.
I still remember the photo appeared in Hindu paper showing Vishy returning back to the Pavilion with Chandra surrounded by sportive West Indies players, who applauded till they reached Pavilion. The whole stadium stood up and gave the little master, a standing ovation. This knock of Vishy is worth more than a Century he missed and I wish there should be interviews with the team mates and West Indies players of that Madras Test about that knock.
I am sure that Chandra will have the guilt/ regret feeling of not able to give stand to Vishy to complete his Century.
Splendid test match cricket truly wonderful ❤
My father preapred a short essay for me having to describe a test match being watched on this famous test match win. And my father is a big fan of both Vishy and prasanna and quite exulted for a great performance from both. The innings of Vishy is still rated as one of the best test match innings against genuine fast bowling on the bouncy chepauk wicket
Though the 97* is epic, Vishy’s 46 in the 2nd innings was no less impressive and important.
India never lost a match in which Vishwanath has scored a century.
The role of Anshuman Gaekwad has been missed out,He scored 80 runs in the 2nd innings-was tp scorer
In those days Gundappa Vishwanath was called the Little Master . He was the master of the late cut and the square cut . Off the field a very unassuming and shy personality , but on the field as a batsman , very aggressive with style and grace !
I watched this match with a couple of my friends from school. We were 14 then. I can recollect Roberts bowling - hardly we could trace the ball in the initial overs. Vishy square cut that thundered past Roy Fredricks who was just scamping to collect it from point boundary. Gaekwad played a gritty knock. Engineer catch and stumping were talk of our MCC stand.
The crowd however had a great liking for Lloyd and his team.
Viswanath's 97 not out in this match has been rated as one of the best innings ever played by an Indian. Andy Roberts was at his ferocious best and was "virtually unplayable" in both the innings. Vishwanath's brilliant stroke play in which he hammered 14 fours and took the fight to the enemy camp, remains a masterpiece which will be cherished forever particularly by those who were fortunate enough to witness it in the stadium. Its a pity that only a fraction of his batting footage is available in this video. Can I please request Mr. Galagalli to follow up with the Doordarshan authorities and make available the rest of batting. He will be doing a yeoman service to cricket lover's in India.
Another brilliant upload keep it up
Thank you for giving this
I've watched 83-84 series against the mightiest Windies and was petrified by watching Macko even on TV! I was a lil puzzled by some commentators and several Indian cricketers claiming that Roberts was faster and more dangerous in the newspapers of those days......I really wondered how could anyone be better than Macko! Roberts may be the first 'professor' fast bowler of great 4 pronged nuclear arsenal but Macko oh my.....scariest and most lethal of'em all!
Who is Macko???
@@saviogomes4526 Malcolm Denzil Marshall….you probably know it already
@@Voltairec i never heard him called by that name and he wasn't exprrss fast like thommo lillee hogg
I did see this match and remember this day very well as it was a Makar Sankranti
Vishy won this test for India. Possibly the greatest test innnings ever that did not result in a ton.
Thank you very much Mr Jai G for this video
Genuine cricket
Wah wah...great memories indeed..!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I could barely sleep all night. My alarm was set for 6am and I rose about a minute before it went off.
I was 15 years old, it was January 11, 1975, and Madras was abuzz. The beloved annual harvest festival, Pongal, was a day or two away, and cricket was in the air. On my study table - laden with books on trigonometry, physics and chemistry- lay a small booklet: a five-day ticket to the fourth Test between India and Clive Lloyd's West Indies, beginning in few hours' time at Chepauk Stadium.
Unlike previous occasions, I did not have to share this Test with anyone - it was all mine. I lived and breathed cricket in those days. Like many, my interest in the game was inversely proportional to my ability at it. Despite trying very hard, it seemed impossible for me to get in line against that hard red ball on a zippy matting wicket, facing bigger schoolmates who could bowl seriously fast. My bowling was not so much military-medium as civilian-slow. And the best that could be said of my fielding was that it was safe. But I could - and did - fantasise about metamorphosing from a bespectacled and scrawny "substitute" into an athletic and swaggering allrounder.
By 7:30am, armed with a tiffin-carrier, whose layers contained a breakfast snack, lunch, and a tea-time treat, I joined the serpentine queue to enter Chepauk Stadium. And once in, duly settled onto a thin white cotton thundu (towel) spread on the hard concrete rafters.
After having lost the first two Tests, India had stormed back to win the third at the Eden Gardens, riding on a brilliant second-innings 139 by GR Viswanath. The elegant left-armer Bernard Julien quickly removed India's openers (Farokh Engineer and Eknath Solkar) but it wasAndy Roberts who wrought havoc. On a slow and turning pitch, he was fast and furious.
One sequence was emblematic. The pink and portly Ashok Mankad pulled a bouncer to the square-leg fence. As Roberts turned at the top of his run-up for the next ball, the entire stadium knew retribution would be swift in coming. With just a floppy canvas hat for protection, Mankad looked the sitting duck he was. With the barest hint of extra effort, Roberts got the ball to rear off a good length and straight at Mankad's jugular. As the batsman frantically fought to get his bat up in time, the ball flew off the gloves in front of his face and looped gently into the palms of a waiting Roy Fredericks. I suspect Mankad was quite relieved to be walking back to the pavilion on his own two feet.
It was barely after lunch and India were reeling at six down for 76. And soon thereafter were eight down for a little over a hundred; Roberts had grabbed six straight. His fielding station was right in front of my stand, and the sporting crowd cheered Roberts back to us after every successful over. He was reputedly the youngest of fifteen siblings. As we stared in awe at his impressive physique, the irrepressible wit of the Madras cricket fan surfaced: "Machan, if this is what No. 15 looks like, can you imagine how big the first one must be?"
As the predictably furious bouncer arrived next, Vishy tucked his head down an inch or two into his barrel chest - the way a tortoise pulls back into its shell - and the ball whistled a hair's breadth above his blue-felt India cap
When Bishan Bedi walked in to join Vishy, you sensed the end might be two balls away. And yet, over by over, the pair gritted it out to add over 50 runs. Vishy cornered the bulk of the action, and seemed to win most of the tactical games he and Lloyd played, from about the fourth ball of each over, to retain the strike. I remember one over by the bustling Keith Boyce in which Vishy hammered him for three boundaries, and an incredibly powerful square-cut drive off Roberts that singed the grass as it sped to the boundary.
While others have rhapsodised about Vishy's innings that day, and talked of the many marvellous shots he played, 40 years later what I remember most vividly are two moments - both defensive. The first one followed the rasping square drive off Roberts that I just described. As the predictably furious bouncer arrived next, Vishy tucked his head down an inch or two into his barrel chest - the way a tortoise pulls back into its shell - and the ball whistled a hair's breadth above his blue-felt India cap. Vishy nonchalantly walked down the pitch to pat down a bump or two, seemingly oblivious to how close to serious injury he had been seconds ago.
The second one was also to a ball by Roberts that reared off a good length. Vishy, on the back foot, behind the line, met the ball right in front of his chin, and - this is no exaggeration - it seemed to flow down the length of the dead-straight bat and drop like a blob of lead at his feet. You could hear an audible gasp from the crowd at what they had just seen. A ball travelling at what must have been in the high-80s or low-90s mph, hitting a bat and coming to an almost complete stop in a matter of a few feet. If you ever want a definition of technique, or the superhuman things Vishy could do with those wrists, this was it. In my mind's eye, I can see Roberts wryly smiling and shaking his head at Vishy, and the murmur of appreciation from the slip cordon.
Of course, as everyone knows, Vishy was left stranded on 97 that day. Last man out was the genial Chandra, who gingerly ramped one from Roberts into Lloyd's capacious hands at slip. The two Karnataka stalwarts walked off, in conversation. I presume Chandra was apologising for not being able to hang around long enough for Vishy to get to that hundred, and the latter assuring him that it was perfectly all right and that he had done marvellously well to stick it out for as long as he had - about 40 minutes. Neither man ever placed much store in landmarks in any case. As they neared the pavilion, I cannot remember whether the West Indians slowed down to let Vishy lead them back in - or whether Andy Roberts with his 7 for 64 led them off. Talk about a tough choice.
Fifteen-year-old schoolboys, even of the more bookish and introspective sort, cannot be counted on to appreciate the long-term significance of events that they witness. And yet I, like almost every one at Chepauk that day, knew I had seen something I would remember for the rest of my life.
Anil Usha
Thanks for sharing. I am in touch with Sankaran Krishna.
@@JaiGalagali super sir, it is like DREAM COME TRUE,HATS OFF TO YOU SIR, WONDERFUL JOB,
Looking for commentaries from AIR to listen back maharaja anand rao chakra pani etc please air post them
though one days are just arriving into the scene at that time, look at the crowd for test matches .. crazy
Karsan Ghavri's backlift is hilarious ! If ever there was a 360 degree backlift, he had it. No wonder he was a day late on the one that knocked out his middle stump.
Ah if Pataudi had played well in this series! Great work Jai bhai. My request is to find a video of Tiger's 203 notout. Please
I too was there somewhere in that crowd.
Great ,pl upload ind v eng 1984 test series with great spell of shibramkrishnan
Vishy 😍
SQARE CUT SQUARE CUT How quickly it crossed the ropes
Vishy Annagaru you are great batsman
Karan Ghavri's blacklift !!
Why DDI has not covered it properly as compare to PTV
My India is great
Disappointed not to see much of gundappa viswanath's innings in highlights
I can say Vishy always played game for country without any self ego. Still I say if he would have given better chances he would have more records in lesser and better ways. But Board curtailed every opperchunity because of his simplicity. and mildness. Under Bombayites
13.20 Solker (middle order batsman) opened with Engineer in II. innings!!!!!! brilliant captaincy by TIGER ,that made TOTAL in II innings 256 ; 66 more than I innings. which made WINDIES to be in pressure ,& WI lost by 100runs !!!!
Great actress savitri in stadium 8:48
Latha Mangeshkar ji 12:49
Cricket was a game of gentlemen. Both spectators and players pay full respect towards it. In those days Cricket was not occupied by bullshit 20-20 or IPL.
Mr jai please try to get the India vs Australia test match at chepauk, in 1969 when Australia were 24for 6 in the 2nd innings
At that time only Indian News reel was taken. No telecast or video taken. Don't think these news reels will be available. Only the I& B department has to be requested. I remember the commentators words - Mr Anandraj, in English.
no one do square cut and let cut like my fav visshy the great kanadiga
I was chepauk to witness vishy hit 97 notout
That time only runing comentry is the medium that time in Calcutta tv is not coming
Come on. G. Viswanath scored 97 not out in the first and Gaekwad scored 80 in the second and they were the backbones. Patudi was simply making the motions.
The epic test. Sadly not much of Vishy's first innings is captured..
Yes.Vishy's encounter against Roberts not captured
Yes I am greatly disappointed. Only two strokes of Vishy.
Mr jai please get the enhanced innings of Vishy
Not all the shots of Vishy have been captured
We didn’t have bowler like Kapil Dev otherwise we could have won the series against West Indies.
The match which we won only for vishys one man army fight
Hain Madras mein sweater kaise vaah toh garm weather hota hai
Didn't India surrender a test match to the West Indies just over a year later?
Please try to get an elaborated highlight which comprises of vishy's counter attack against Andy Robwrts
That era when men played cricket
Vijay merchant ko suna yaar
Thankyou youtube
I was sitting at the Rs 45 members stand! What a test. Thank you Jai Galagali
Which Stands??? What was the lowest and highest Tick cost??
Eager to know the price in 1975
Thia is the fIrst test series i remember vividly ... Grv topscored i. Series wirh 595 runs.....century in calcutta 139 and 97 and 46 in chennai...gordon greenidge andy riberts and viv richards did their test debut in bangalore test the first ever international test played in chiinaswamy stadium. Remember keith boyce throw from deep to run out abid ali in bangalore test first innings to deny him 50 ...abid ali was runout for 49..the throw from boundary ended at non strikers end a direct hit from deep
Why no Gavaskar in 1975..
Even I am surprised. How come the great debutant in 1971 (in the West Indies) was not in 1974 India Vs. WI (in India)?
Just a trivia: By the bye, GRV is the brother-in-law of SMG.
@@ramamanibalaji6343 yes of course, you are right 👍
SMG was injured and played only last match and scored 80 plus
Gavaskar was injured in that series. He came back in the last test match at Wankhede stadium in Mumbai
My late Father watched this match and remembered even till his last day, his favorite batsmen (G.R. Vishwanath), and his 97.No at Chepauk...
Thanks for this upload. What Nostalgia! I saw this from 'A' Stand in Chepauk! Still vividly remember Chandra's googly knocking Greenidge's stump, Kalli getting body blows from Chandra's filpper, Andy Robert's towering sixes that went over the stadium roof, engineer's catch off Viv, and of course GRV's genius!
Just see the crowds...how decent and just clapping even for the opposition team also...unlike the present immatured crowd where they shout & yell for everything...even they dont clap also if an opposition batsman hits a four or six or even getting indian wickets when fielding...
Mr Sudhakar, good observations.
Just look at the decent, cultured & sportive crowd, simply marvellous.
They have been appreciating the opposition's performance as well, I salute them.
Whereas today's crowd is not sportive it's become communal, thanks largely to communal politicians.
No Sudhakar please watch second match in this series
...there were flames since India didn't bat well and also a lady kissed a player running through pitch
@@akshayshetty5548 it was not the 2 Nd test but the 5 th test at the inaugural wankhede stadium,Mumbai(Bombay then)
@@abdullahmasood7993 yes agree
7th
I was just 12 then, living at a walking distance from MAC and alongwith my friends we went to the Stadium before the start of the match and Used to collect All those Advertising Caps Made with Cards and Elastic. We never had the money for buying tickets and cricket was the last priority for our families. Till noon we used to be near the stadium hearing loud Roars of the spectators for every boundaries or wickets!! On the Bells Road there was a tea shop and we listened to the commentary for sometime and came back home for lunch.
On the fourth day after the match started, we four of us were standing near the Walajah Road entrance and looking at the possibility of sneaking into the stadium without tickets. Post Lunch, After an hour long wait, One of the Home Guards Who was responsible for checking the tickets at the gate let us inside and we ran like mad into the stadium and watched the last couple of hours of this match and the Winning wickets of India...!!! It was an unforgettable moments and experience of watching A Cricket Match live in a stadium at 12 years, that too without tickets!!!👍🥰😍
What a video - the first Test match I ever saw ! In that Chepauk ground is a little boy watching his first big cricket match. My father took me to that game, and memories are fresh as they were in 1975: the green bamboo cane chairs with arm rests we were sitting in the Pavilion terrace, the Dasaprakash cake-ice creams my father bought me, me jumping up and down on the chair, joining in the frenzied excitement of the packed crowd, I can still hear their roars as Gundappa Vishwanath (perhaps the greatest Indian batsman of all on fast pitches and difficult situations) tore apart the fiery Andy Roberts in the company of tailend batsmen. I must have been about 8 years watching Vishwanath's unforgettable magic with the willow, and I still remember one particular square cut (GR Vishwanath's trademark shot) that had the ball racing to the fence with such force that it actually overtook a West Indian fielder at deep cover running towards the boundary hoping to cut the ball!! The blue skies of the city then called Madras (now known by its original Tamil name of Chennai), the balmy January sunshine, the breeze from the Marina Beach of the Bay of Bengal just outside the ground, that afternoon when India had won the match - undying memories and unforgotten names: Solkar, Engineer, Ghavri, Vishwanath, Pataudi, Bedi, Chandrasekhar, Clive Lloyd, Greenidge, Fredericks, Andy Roberts.... Thank you, for uploading this video (more so as India's moronic public broadcaster DoorDarshan has destroyed so many memorable moments of Indian cricket / Indian history, by simply re-recording on their tapes that captured priceless moments of India!!) Big disappointment though that this rare recording barely has three or four defensive strokes from Vishwanath, when his strokefilled 97.n.o was perhaps one of the greatest Test match innings on Indian soil ever.
you are lucky to watch it live
Alvin Kallicharan scored a fifty on that fourth day resisting India's win. A sharp throw (மாங்கா குறி) by Ashok Mankad, from square of the wicket ( it was a single stemp view) ran Kallicharan out. That gave real life to the Indian team. Many disputed it. I was watching the match from the B stand that is square of the wicket and Kallicharan was well away and has not reached the crease. It was clearly out.
In the first Innings of WI, Viv Richards scored a fifty but in the second innings he fell to Prasanna's spin caught by the great wicket-keeper Farook Engineer in a fantastic way.
Jai Galagali Sir!! You are my God! How did you get this after 44 years? Finally I can prove to my kids that Viswanath was better than Kohli or Tendulkar or Dravid or Laxman
True
Millions of cricket fans were frantically searching for this video. At last they found it. We were in our early teens (school going). It was a Saturday and the whole town was preparing for Ponghal festivities. We were too young to follow the commentary on radio to which our elders glued, but still that did not deter our interest in it. Vishwanath hit a match winning ton in Calcutta and whole of India was expecting the same spirit to continue. A hotel near my house had a big radio with a speaker. A huge gathering was rejoicing the maestro's heroic innings. Some of them - in their twenties and good cricketers also - were talking about the famed square cut. People were shouting in joy when Bedi and Chandrashekhar were resisting the rampaging Roberts. The Ponghal celebrations coincided with India's best test victory till then. As years rolled by we came to understand what a scintillating innings Vishwanath played. Apart from the exploits of Vishwanath, Prasanna, Geakwad and Ghavri, what impresses us most is the decent behaviour of the crowd. They cheered the opponents also in the same breath. Fortunately jingoism was unknown to us then. A delightful match. Nostalgia, nostalgia and nostalgia.
Kottu Sekhar
What a marvelous recap!
Never knew this match existed on film. Thank you so much Mr Jai for the upload. Vishy's 97 not out is one one the best non century innings ever. It features in Wisden's 100 top innings of the century at No 37 if I am not mistaken. As some viewers have pointed out, sadly not much of his innings can be seen. His square cuts against Roberts and piercing the gaps in the packed off side field has been mentioned by all those who watched the innings live.
As per commentary on that day, Chandra said sorry to Viswanath as he could not hold on to his wicket. Chandra was out as the last man. Viswanath was last man not out at non striker end for 97. What a match !!! 10 Indian batsmen fell for total score of 77. Total score 190, 16 xtras, Viswanath 97 not out ...
Watched this match at the YMCA Doveton in Chennai.Paid Rs.5 for the 5 days.those were the days
Nice to see this at last. It would have been nice to see all the strokes by Vishwanath from 44 to 97. That was what made that innings unique
There must have been some incredible shots in the second half of that knock if there's one that's better than that cover drive he blasted off Vanburn Holder at 4:58.
Million thanks to u, I have been waiting for this match , all these years
Sachin, Dravid, Gavaskar, Kohli and Ganguly may all have their own spots in the game of cricket.
But, in my view, G R Vishwanath holds a very special spot in cricket, which, even the legendary Sir Donald Bradman can't dream of.
I recall Ian Botham's observations about Vishy.
"Every stroke of Vishy is a poem written with his bat.
After you bowl a ball to him, just cross your fingers, close your eyes and pray to God that he makes a mistake"....
In the Chepauk test match against West Indies with Roberts, Holding, Garner et al, his 97 not out is probably the best ever innings played in the entire history of cricket. With Chandrasekar as partner, he added 47 runs for the last wicket, in which Chandra's contribution was zero. He was denied his century, because, Chandra got out...!!
Erapalli Prasanna's bowling action especially the run in is almost similar to that of Muthaiah Muralitharan.
My friend. Its vice versa
@@ummathyalavijayakumar7285 100% agreed
Slight resemblance only. But Prasanna was in a class of his own, a master of flight and turn. Nothing wrong in his bowling action, unlike Murali whose action is still debated. If Prasanna had played two decades later, he would have taken the maximum wickets. He was the best Off spinner India had.
Of course Vishy batted well . It was expected of him to bat well because he is the most technically sound batsman in the side. WOW!
This should be preserved for posterity , thank you. Vishy’s amazing 97 .
I pity myself for not being born to see this masterclus by GR Vishwanath. Certainly the best innings ever played on Indian soil before the 2 hundred and eighty one
Look all Dhoni fans how great and agile Stumper Engineer was , the Superlative Catch to dismiss Richards and Flash Stumping of Lloyd , Really Superb Piece of Keeping Certainly a great match , this was the best Series of Vishwanath , great video I heartily apploud your hard work , superb keep it up
Better than Dhoni? I dont think so ...Engineer was good for his era but there is vast difference in fitness..all these old never even went for jog to keep fit or lifted weights to keep fit
@@addigi5598 Your Knowledge is too little , Engineer used to be considered the most Agile and Quick Wicket Keeper and He Played his last when he was 38 , He Scored the fastest Test Century and was selected For Rest Of The World Xl To Play against England and Australia for full 5 Test Tours and was selected by None Other Than DON BRADMAN , For Fitness they used to lap 5to10 Rounds of the Stadium and used Drills and Yoga , You certainly need to update yourself
@@jitendraprakash8117 remind me what did he win with India..did he ever win matches from a losing position..he had the worst and the most awkward looking position when wicket keeping against spinners...you have your opinion and I have mine...seen both of them in their playing days..Dhoni to me was the better player
@@addigi5598 I think I should not waste my time arguing u , but for your information he was always there when India won matches in those days and in the crunch and dire straits he used to destroy opposite bowling he used to score at about a run a minute in those days that's why he had the longest stint with Lancashire in English County Cricket , once in a Test he scored 45 in only 20 minutes with 7 fours and 2 sixes , he always used to bat like that , don't always try to undermine the Past Era players , I mentioned that he was selected twice by BRADMAN For world XI and if you think that BRADMAN was a fool then I have nothing to say , Engineer is picked as the WK Batsman in India's All Time Best Test XI By Hindustan Times Chosen by New and Old Former Test Cricketers And Ravi Shastri was one of them , I am sure you will always criticize even Sunny and Richards too Cricket to u seems to be of about say last 20 Years
@@jitendraprakash8117 thank you for your post ...How old do you think I am?
I saw this match live - Vishy and Roberts were outstanding with Gaekwad playing a good support role. With regard to these videos, why does the camera pan to someone in the crowd exactly when a batsman is getting out? Happens too many times!
Sir...how old r u at that time...
Sudhakar R 16
I wasnt even born but this makes my day watching our superstars of olden times
I mean then ...
I was in the stands enjoying classic Batsmanship of Vishy against hostile fast bowling, particularly by Roberts between lunch and tea. It was a brilliant innings by a technically mastered batsman and one of the all-time great fast bowler. Please note no helmets in those days. I wish they should have full video of Vishy's batting 🏏👏
The magical music of timber meeting the leather....pure joy...wonderful upload👍
It is edited bro...
Just look at the way the West Indians aplaud Vishwanath. Cricket was really a Gentleman's game then
Viswanath played a gem of an innings. Many superb boundaries were not shown
undoubtedly the finnest knock against such spine chilling fast ball attack! Vishy will always be remembered for Madras Test and those glorious innings he played elsewhere to enthral cricket lovers!
My first experience of watching a test match live...I was 13 then....unforgettable moments...starting early to reach the stadium from Santacruz....the crowd outside....the roar from inside....very vivid and cherished memories
051)1960s-1970s The CRICKETERS who inspired the LAST GENERATION AND PRESENT GENERATION
TO TAKE UP CRICKET AS A CAREER- MATCHING THEM WITH NAMES OF TAMIL MOVIES..P1
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Nawab Narkali
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Oor Mariyadhai
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Adhu Oru Kanaa Kaalam
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Vaamanan
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Vallavan Oruvan
7) DURRANI-
Katha Nayagan
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Seema Raja
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Kai Kodukkum Kai
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Endrendrum Punnahai
11)KUNDHERAN-
Vettai
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Vidakkandan Kodakkandan
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Oar Iravu
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Andha Naal
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1.Nari Contractor- Dharmam Thalai Kaakkum
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Nawab Narkaali
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Manadhil Urudhi Vendum
4.Ajit Wadekar-
Thalai Vaasal
5.S. Venkatraghavan-
Thikku Theriyadha Kaattil
6.B.S.Bedi-
Yudhdham Sei
7.SM.Gavaskar-
Puthiya Sagaaptham
8. G.R.Vishwanath-
Avan Oru Chariththiram
9.Dilip Vengsarkar-
Amaithi Padai
10.Kapil Dev-
Avanthaan Manithan
11. K.Srikkanth-
Achchamillai Achchamillai
12.Ravi Sastri-
Naalum Therinthavan
13.M.Azharuddin-
Ethir Paarathathu
14.Sachin Tendulkar-
Naan Kadavull
15.S.Ganguly-
Aayiraththil Oruvan
16.R.Dravid-
Kalangarai Vilakkam
17.A. Kumble-
Ninaivirukkum Varai
18..M.S.Dhoni-
Ellame En Kairaasi
19. V.Sehwag-
Athiradi Padai
20.V.Kohli-
Sigaram Thodu
21.Rohith Sharma-
Manathai Thirudi Vittai
22.Ajinkya Rahane-
Vettri Mel Vettri
23.Suresh Raina-
Vasantha Kaala Paravai
24.Shikhar Dhawan-
Anubhavam Pudhumai
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Many thanks to you Jai for uploading these priceless videos that have some footage of the genius Vishy. Sadly as mentioned by others, the journey of his first innings from 44 to 97 not out with strokes that have been written and spoken about so much has not been captured. In particular his square cutting and off side play on that day to find the boundary and farm the bowling despite Lloyd deploying fielders would have been a treasure to enjoy.
What a damp squib!! I've heard story after story about what a magnificent "fight fire with fire" innings that 97* was! Finally someone uploads video footage of the match and we see practically NOTHING from that innings....GRV hit 14 boundaries in the innings..how many did we see in this video? Even by 1975 standards, this was a poorly edited highlights package!
Thank you very much! I never thought I would get to see this footage. Viswanath played one of the greatest innings ever, but the editor of this video should have shown more of his batting, but he instead focused on all other batsmen who failed. Still I am very thrilled to see this video. Sincere thank you this channel owner!
Had the privilege to watch this test match. Match got over in 4days. Highlights of the match was incredible 97n.o by GRV and superlative fast bowling by Andy Robers. Thanks for uploading this match and bringing back so many fond memories ❤️
I am a Calcuttan. I witnessed Vishy on the rampage -- 50+ in the 1st innning and 139 in the 2nd. A historic win for India! I was 29 at the time and still can see it in my mind's eye. Thanks for uploading that video, too.
Vishy w'll always be remembered for his Strokes on Gully and Covers area
This very inning played by Vishwanath considers on of the best inning ever played by him against the greatest pace battery.
Engineer was not out (1st innings )the Indian Express lens man captured it .Greenidege caught the ball after it touches the ground .