No wonder he had such an incredible average. Love his action. Didn't realise he had every delivery in the book, thought there was just a huge height factor that got him his wickets from him bowling back of a length but he was extremely accurate. (I'm only 20 lol this wasn't my era). Thanks alot for this upload man. As a young West Indian I'm not used to seeing a West Indian quickie being feared...sad. Cheers.
Said it before and I'll say it again, thank you SO MUCH for all your awesome uploads! I could(and probably have) literally spend all day on here watching this great footage. So, thanks a million Rob :)
I consider myself exceptionally lucky to have grown-up as a Somerset fan in the late 70's and early 80's and watching this great bowler in person. Not only that, but Sir Viv and Sir Beefy too - does it get any better than that? Cheers for this great upload.
@@paulmurray8922 me too . 1984 at edgbaston. He came out the dressing room to meet travelling fans whilst windies were batting. Me and my mate (both nine at the time) thought he was an actual giant
Not really! I starting supporting Hampshire from the early 70s who had the other great Richards(Barry) and three legendary West Indians Gordon Greenidge, Andy Roberts and Malcolm Marshall! - the good ol days😀
Incredible work to put this together Rob. The most unplayable bowler in my 40 years of watching cricket if not all time. No one got on top of the Bird.
Great video.. Really appreciate the time and effort you put in here..I look forward to seeing your upload every day. Forget star cricket showing XYZ victorious or so called great innings.. Cricket compilations such as these makes it worthwhile to ditch any cricket channel and enjoy the glory days. I know its a tough ask but mate if you find some time do post videos of long spells by holding and Roberts at full tilt.. I will be eternally grateful.
Great upload Roblinda....since my child hood despite being Pakistani,IAM an ardent supporter of windies ....used to heard stories of Garner n all from father n uncle... remember watching big bird live first time in 85 world series on TV.... Left watching cricket, exception to these videos,after windies lost of 96 semifinal against Australia.... literary burn Shane warn pic published in next day local sports daily.thanx again....for such laboursome effort
Having seen him play all his career, he is the most difficult bowler to play for any batsman I’ve seen in my lifetime. Ambrose is a close second. Marshall was incisive and more successful but when it came to unplayable, Garner reigned supreme. Garner is still rated the top ODI bowler and one of the very few bowlers with a sub 21 strike rate in tests.
@@MuhammadIamhardBrucelee Indeed Marshall was very late in the pecking order (scary ?) well uptill 1981..It was when Collin left for the controversial rebel tour to RSA and Marshall got a shot against India in Windies (late 82/early 83)..when Marshall truly come of age...Still he wasnt getting the new ball and only over the course of 12 months he was leading the Windies attack as the hitman Andy Roberts passed the baton to him Croft was brilliant bowler anyway..
@@kunalsingh3121 Maco made his debut against India in India at Bangalore when he was part of the B squad that toured India under Alvin Kallicharan because the A team under Lloyd was playing WSC in Australia. Marshall was unimpressive during the 78 debut tour mainly because the pitches were either flat or aided spin ( India had the spin trio back then). Marshall was an entirely different guy when they came back under Lloyd in 1983 and he terrorized the Indian batsmen. The first test at Kanpur, Marshall was unplayable and along with Holding, they wrecked India. That was the start of Maco who would go p on n to be the best pace bowler of the 80s decade.
Watching this, I cannot imagine how that generation of WI players must feel when they watch their current team. If you were to tell any boy or teenaged cricketer that WI were once the terror of the world, they would think you were joking, and you would lose face with them. Oh, my Garner and my Holding long ago, so long ago.
Excellent video sir. Thank you very much for all the effort that you put into this just so that test cricket fans could enjoy it. I join another one of your fans in requesting you to upload about an hour's worth of Holding's videos from the same series. Please...
Great upload! Saw this video only today because I had enough time to go through it in one sitting. Great bowler big bird even though he never made a statistical match impression as much as Marshall, Holding et. al. I can see why batsmen had such difficulty facing him. The man practically gave none of those standard pressure-relief balls to drive or flick that batsmen crave so much. Sreesanth, Johnson, Sharma, Siddle, Edwards and others need to sit down with a pen and paper and watch this video.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE can you do 1hr of Michael Holding wickets and bouncers. Has there ever been a more beautiful sight(except for if you were at the receiving end)
@robelinda - you are just BRILLIANT. for people like me not born in the seventies or eighties , hearing my elders speak about fearsome and awesome cricket, i would be envious. cheers mate!
The greatest bowling side there has ever been, and probably ever will be in the history of Test Cricket...Not a bad batting side as well!! Thanks for posting...Great memories.
Joel Garner presented a bat to my cousin at the SCG, 1979, Australia vs World XI Supertest. It was a muggy day and Joel, standing there awesomely tall with Larry Gomes, wipes his brow and sez: Ooh, it's bloody hot. Us kids spent the rest of the summer repeating that endlessly.
pls upload videos of kallicharran..could not find anything apart from the Dennis Lillee massacre. u r truly a godsend to us 70-'s and 80's cricket followers
Rob, which series is this from? And what incredible catching at slips from the WI... Holding, Roberts, Croft & Garner. Good grief. I've a lot of respect for the Aussies for scoring as much as they did in this series.
What a sight, watching him take off. His height was enough; he didn't need a long run up like Holding. Doesn't look like he bowled too many bad balls in his entire career. As a batsman, imagine the ball coming at you from 7 feet at 140 kph. :-)
When I was 16 years old my cricket hero was Dennis Lillee and In my mind I saw myself as "Lillee" however my nickname was "Joel" after JOEL GARNER. Much to my disappointment at the time. No disrespect just a child-like illusion :-) I remember running onto the Sydney Cricket ground to congratulate Joel after a game he played. I pat him on the back and as I did he turned around to face me and I never forget the look in his eyes glaring at me.......... BIG MISTAKE!
In my knowledge,the top 10 fast bowlers from West Indies :- 1.Joel Garner(a test bowling avg. of 20 and ODI bowling avg. of 18) 2.Malcolm Marshall 3.Curtly Ambrose 4. Michael Holding 5. Andy Roberts 6. Courtney Walsh 7. Wes Hall 8.Charlie Griffith 9. Colin Croft 10.Ian Bishop
@@amitjain11000 There's nothing special about it. Boon doesn't get in line, in fact he tries to run it down to third man which is ambitious to say the least. If he gets in behind it, it's easy to defend.
Hey Rob I got a quick question. From what you have seen did bowlers like Wasim and Waqar really get their hurt their stats due to bad fielding and dropped catches or is it just excuses made up by Pakistini fanboys to justify rating them above other great bowler like McGrath, Ambrose etc who have better stats. Your the only one I know that has clips from that long ago so I'm asking you.
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if there was a all time world XI cricket team, Joel Garner would be topping the list of pace bowlers. My other favorite bowlers - Imran Khan, Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis and Shoab Aktar from Pak Srinath, Kapil Dev, Manoj Prabhakar, Chetan Sharma from Ind
Probably Garner's Average in Bowling is the Best in Test and ODI History..who played at least 50 test..in odi his average is an Amazing 18 and in test itz just 20
A fine video of a fearsome great of the game. Would have loved to see the clips of him blowing away England in the 1984 test series. I had to sit through it as a 12 year old, watching my team crushed!
Michael Holding, Colin Croft, Andy Roberts, Joel Garner & Malcolm Marshall...5 of the most feared bowlers in cricket history
Dont forget Sylvester Clarke & Curtly Ambrose
Ian Bishop also.
Very often , it looked like men against boys !
Winston Davis and Wayne Daniel
Those were the great days of West Indies cricket. Such a pleasure to watch..
Golden days of west indies cricket... cricket at its best...
No wonder he had such an incredible average. Love his action. Didn't realise he had every delivery in the book, thought there was just a huge height factor that got him his wickets from him bowling back of a length but he was extremely accurate. (I'm only 20 lol this wasn't my era). Thanks alot for this upload man. As a young West Indian I'm not used to seeing a West Indian quickie being feared...sad. Cheers.
Said it before and I'll say it again, thank you SO MUCH for all your awesome uploads! I could(and probably have) literally spend all day on here watching this great footage. So, thanks a million Rob :)
I consider myself exceptionally lucky to have grown-up as a Somerset fan in the late 70's and early 80's and watching this great bowler in person. Not only that, but Sir Viv and Sir Beefy too - does it get any better than that? Cheers for this great upload.
I saw him as a kid and I still couldn't believe that anyone could be that big, LOL!
@@paulmurray8922 me too . 1984 at edgbaston. He came out the dressing room to meet travelling fans whilst windies were batting. Me and my mate (both nine at the time) thought he was an actual giant
Not really! I starting supporting Hampshire from the early 70s who had the other great Richards(Barry) and three legendary West Indians Gordon Greenidge, Andy Roberts and Malcolm Marshall! - the good ol days😀
Very accurate n fearsome fast bowling by JG. Great achiever as a fast bowler👌🏻.
The quality of slip catching was outstanding as well.
Incredible work to put this together Rob. The most unplayable bowler in my 40 years of watching cricket if not all time. No one got on top of the Bird.
Well in those days west indies had some of the finest fast bowler s o planet earth and some of teh best fielders to go with them .
Best average of anybody over 400 wickets
I could watch this all day... Joel Garner's bowling is a thing of beauty... and terror!
Absolutely.
Mm
Am not even familiar with some of these west indies players wow wow those were the days when they were the greatest.
Such a Fantastic Bowler Joel, often unplayable and impressively accurate and effortlessly skillful . A total pleasure to watch , difficult to play 💯
I don't often comment, but this 1h was so enjoyable I have to congratulate you on the idea. Need more of this - maybe Hadlee?
Dude, thank you so much for this video.
I know how much you do, but this video is just amazing, thanks so much Rob.
much love from the west indies.
Great video.. Really appreciate the time and effort you put in here..I look forward to seeing your upload every day. Forget star cricket showing XYZ victorious or so called great innings.. Cricket compilations such as these makes it worthwhile to ditch any cricket channel and enjoy the glory days.
I know its a tough ask but mate if you find some time do post videos of long spells by holding and Roberts at full tilt.. I will be eternally grateful.
Watching this never gets old! Thanks for what you do!
Thanks for uploading this video. Really terrific bowling by Joel garner. This West Indies cricket team is a Dream Team.
Great upload Roblinda....since my child hood despite being Pakistani,IAM an ardent supporter of windies ....used to heard stories of Garner n all from father n uncle... remember watching big bird live first time in 85 world series on TV....
Left watching cricket, exception to these videos,after windies lost of 96 semifinal against Australia.... literary burn Shane warn pic published in next day local sports daily.thanx again....for such laboursome effort
Joel Garner was an incredible bowler. Amazing angles and speed. Big bird
Having seen him play all his career, he is the most difficult bowler to play for any batsman I’ve seen in my lifetime. Ambrose is a close second. Marshall was incisive and more successful but when it came to unplayable, Garner reigned supreme.
Garner is still rated the top ODI bowler and one of the very few bowlers with a sub 21 strike rate in tests.
So many perfect unplayable deliveries. Big bird was brilliant!
Joel Garner, Malcom Marshall, Andy Roberts, Michael Holding were the battery of best bowling They will be remembered forever
You missed Colin Croft. Marshall’s rise was much later in 1982/83. Croft was the original 4.
@@MuhammadIamhardBrucelee Indeed Marshall was very late in the pecking order (scary ?) well uptill 1981..It was when Collin left for the controversial rebel tour to RSA and Marshall got a shot against India in Windies (late 82/early 83)..when Marshall truly come of age...Still he wasnt getting the new ball and only over the course of 12 months he was leading the Windies attack as the hitman Andy Roberts passed the baton to him
Croft was brilliant bowler anyway..
@@kunalsingh3121 Maco made his debut against India in India at Bangalore when he was part of the B squad that toured India under Alvin Kallicharan because the A team under Lloyd was playing WSC in Australia.
Marshall was unimpressive during the 78 debut tour mainly because the pitches were either flat or aided spin ( India had the spin trio back then).
Marshall was an entirely different guy when they came back under Lloyd in 1983 and he terrorized the Indian batsmen. The first test at Kanpur, Marshall was unplayable and along with Holding, they wrecked India. That was the start of Maco who would go p on n to be the best pace bowler of the 80s decade.
Watching this, I cannot imagine how that generation of WI players must feel when they watch their current team. If you were to tell any boy or teenaged cricketer that WI were once the terror of the world, they would think you were joking, and you would lose face with them. Oh, my Garner and my Holding long ago, so long ago.
Excellent video sir. Thank you very much for all the effort that you put into this just so that test cricket fans could enjoy it. I join another one of your fans in requesting you to upload about an hour's worth of Holding's videos from the same series. Please...
Great upload! Saw this video only today because I had enough time to go through it in one sitting. Great bowler big bird even though he never made a statistical match impression as much as Marshall, Holding et. al. I can see why batsmen had such difficulty facing him. The man practically gave none of those standard pressure-relief balls to drive or flick that batsmen crave so much. Sreesanth, Johnson, Sharma, Siddle, Edwards and others need to sit down with a pen and paper and watch this video.
Marshall,Roberts,Garner&Holding..the greatest fast bowling quartet ever.What blistering pace!class at it's best!!
Michael Holding bowling
Holding at the oval 1976 test match
Holding bowling to Jef Bocot kensenton Oval 1981
What?
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE can you do 1hr of Michael Holding wickets and bouncers. Has there ever been a more beautiful sight(except for if you were at the receiving end)
@robelinda - you are just BRILLIANT. for people like me not born in the seventies or eighties , hearing my elders speak about fearsome and awesome cricket, i would be envious. cheers mate!
The greatest bowling side there has ever been, and probably ever will be in the history of Test Cricket...Not a bad batting side as well!!
Thanks for posting...Great memories.
MAN OF RARE CLASS,GREAT TALENT!
Great fast bowling. Love the video !
If Godzilla were a fast bowler, he would be Joel Garner. So underrated but at the same time awe inspiring.
Joel Garner presented a bat to my cousin at the SCG, 1979, Australia vs World XI Supertest. It was a muggy day and Joel, standing there awesomely tall with Larry Gomes, wipes his brow and sez: Ooh, it's bloody hot. Us kids spent the rest of the summer repeating that endlessly.
We can't help but wonder how we moved from this to where we are today.
How many times did Garner bowl Bruce Yardley???... Sheesh! That's a video just on its own.
So many perfect unplayable deliveries. Big bird was brilliant!!
@70s80sWINDIES 3 months. 2 or 3 hours a day, to find the footage, and edit it together, and edit it all again for the smaller videos without replays.
Joel Garner was far and away my favourite WI fast bowler, the intimidation factor from his physical presence alone was enough to rattle top batsmen.
Cutter, yorker, bounce, seam movement whatelse Joel is ready to deliver. Great BB
All day I watching Garner,Holding
Possibly. Just watching Big Bird take off is a breathtaking sight in itself.
Thanks for this! Great upload !
The tall dark Prince 👑
@robelinda
GREAT VIDEO !!! Amazed at the time and effort you put in your uploads !!! BIG THANKS !!!
I still enjoy those great days of west indies cricket, a lover of west indies cricket then not now.
@ghabcdef The videos are from every match Garner played in Australia, in chronological order.
Fantastic compilation.... thanks!
God bless you, Robe...
pls upload videos of kallicharran..could not find anything apart from the Dennis Lillee massacre. u r truly a godsend to us 70-'s and 80's cricket followers
The great Joel Garner. Truly amazing bowler.
Thank you rob for this video
Rob, which series is this from? And what incredible catching at slips from the WI... Holding, Roberts, Croft & Garner. Good grief. I've a lot of respect for the Aussies for scoring as much as they did in this series.
WI legend bowler Sir Joel Garner is the most difficult bowler to score runs because of his height and pace with no smile on face after taking wickets
Joel garner was one of the greatest with a beautiful bowling action
This one is amazing Robe.Thanks yet again.
@AIMANALI I think out of the 30 Lillee videos ive uploaded there would be at least 20 mins of 70's footage there.
What a sight, watching him take off. His height was enough; he didn't need a long run up like Holding. Doesn't look like he bowled too many bad balls in his entire career. As a batsman, imagine the ball coming at you from 7 feet at 140 kph. :-)
@hardikvyas21 my greatest compilation, months of hard work, i need to sell it a bit, no-one gives a shit about it :-(
Fantastic, Rob. If you have it, how about an hour of Holding against the Aussies in the same matches?
Another Brilliant Upload Keep It up
we need more of this online, instead of the usual drivel
Especially Michael Holding in Australia 1979 WSC and test matches and 1982 WSC and test matches.
Great upload! Any other video footage (highlights) from this innings?
THAT IS A W E S O M E!!!!!!!!!
any chance of getting highlights of the Adelaide test 1981/82?? Thanks
great video mate, as always... keep up the good work.
No sledging, no confrontation, only destruction.
Great video. No words to describe
When I was 16 years old my cricket hero was Dennis Lillee and In my mind I saw myself as "Lillee" however my nickname was "Joel" after JOEL GARNER. Much to my disappointment
at the time. No disrespect just a child-like illusion :-)
I remember running onto the Sydney Cricket ground to congratulate Joel after a game he played. I pat him on the back and as I did he turned around to face me and I never forget the look in his eyes glaring at me.......... BIG MISTAKE!
Quite simply an epic upload...........no thanks are enough!
@lookwhoshere1000 Glad someone watched it!!!! One of the biggest fops ive uploaded.....should put IPL in the title.
@EricQuagmire Thanks, ENJOY1!
Amazing bowler amazing fielders and wicketkeepers.
In my knowledge,the top 10 fast bowlers from West Indies :- 1.Joel Garner(a test bowling avg. of 20 and ODI bowling avg. of 18) 2.Malcolm Marshall 3.Curtly Ambrose 4. Michael Holding 5. Andy Roberts 6. Courtney Walsh 7. Wes Hall 8.Charlie Griffith 9. Colin Croft 10.Ian Bishop
GANESH don’t forget PATRICK PATTERSON . He was the fastest of the lot.
Great bowling
Dream team great days of cricket
David Boon trying to play Garner with a guard outside his leg stump at 22.00 - what a numpty
Amazing delivery, lot of pace by the way wicket cartwheeled,
Must be 90+ mph. From a 6’ 8’’ bowler, very intimidating
@@amitjain11000 There's nothing special about it. Boon doesn't get in line, in fact he tries to run it down to third man which is ambitious to say the least. If he gets in behind it, it's easy to defend.
Guess how I'm going to spend time in the next world...
just keep on watching cricket of 70s 80s 90s era all day all night...
Dude thanks for this!
Nobody hits joe. Enough said
@bulltiger18 Hah! Dont you know about the bird? EVERYBODYS HEARD THAT THE BIRD IS THE WORD! b b b bird bird bird....
Bruce Yardley giving the bowl back to the bowler after he is clean bowled. What a sportsmanship in those days.
players back then were more mindful of those thigns
I saw Joel Garner at Holborn Station in 1995. He walked pass me to the end of the plastofrm. He was very tall and broad.
awesome bowling
Hey Rob I got a quick question. From what you have seen did bowlers like Wasim and Waqar really get their hurt their stats due to bad fielding and dropped catches or is it just excuses made up by Pakistini fanboys to justify rating them above other great bowler like McGrath, Ambrose etc who have better stats. Your the only one I know that has clips from that long ago so I'm asking you.
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Absolute terror, good length rearing up to chest height
this bowling combo was most ferocious one in cricket history...garner, marshall, roberts or holding & croft
Superstar! The one and only Big Bird!
@ghabcdef "which series is this from?"
The first wickets would be from the '79/80 series, the first 'official' series after World Series Cricket.
Yes he was my favourite::: remind me of my days playing against school boy cricket at kirkvine against steths
Quite a handful for Greg Chappell was Big Bird, unplayable yorkers and bouncers from good length
would definitely look like to see the thunderstorm bowling Malcolm Marshall.
if there was a all time world XI cricket team, Joel Garner would be topping the list of pace bowlers.
My other favorite bowlers -
Imran Khan, Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis and Shoab Aktar from Pak
Srinath, Kapil Dev, Manoj Prabhakar, Chetan Sharma from Ind
@@sting281 no Glenn Mcgrath ?
@@sting281 yeah I totally understand that , but it felt little odd that u included Johnson and Kapil but forgot McGrath
I thank you sir.
does anyone know the speed garner use to bowl at? was it in the 130s? i know the other 3 of the 4 horsemen were genuine pacers in the 140s
Probably Garner's Average in Bowling is the Best in Test and ODI History..who played at least 50 test..in odi his average is an Amazing 18 and in test itz just 20
Those days of West Indies are gone.
The old players feel ashme while the enjoy the present game.
A fine video of a fearsome great of the game. Would have loved to see the clips of him blowing away England in the 1984 test series. I had to sit through it as a 12 year old, watching my team crushed!
@lookwhoshere1000 Because Mike Holding is poetry in motion.
All-time great bowler
Imran khan smashed him 3 consecutive sixes.
If only there was some magic way to transfer some of this to Jason Holder.
#BRILLIANT👍🤔