One of the best things to come out of the packer series was it gave us the chance to see bob taylors craftsmanship and technique behind the wicket 2:16:46
GDay Fred, do you by any chance have the 5th Test of this series at the Adelaide Oval? I just remember going to that game as a kid and I remember Rick Darling being resuscitated by John Emburey after being hit. Darren M has all the other Tests from 78/79 but not the Adelaide Test. Cheers
Other England players like Alan Knott and John Snow were playing WSC, too. Australia were fielding a second or third XI in this series, though some of this team did play for Australia after the rapprochement.
Only Hogg and possibly Yallop would have made a full Australian team. Border debuted a couple of Tests later. Greig, Snow, Knott and Underwood missing for England with WSC.
This is interesting stuff. I would have watched most of this as a kid on school holidays. Hurst and Hogg (and to an extent Dymock) bowled well. It was in batting, fielding and keeping that Australia struggled. When McLean drops that chance off Hogg at around the 47 minute mark you can see his footwork is horrible - his left leg starts going away from the ball, then he lunges back to the right but he's there too late and grasses it. He would have been better off leaving it to Cosier. Marsh would have gobbled it up. England were close to full strength and were far too good. When Australia's WSC players were back the following year they comfortably beat basically the same England team, but the games were much more competitive.
I don't understand why they had the camera coverage from behind the batsman on strike. Very hard to see where the impact of the ball is...whether it's bat or pad?😮😮😮
That's just the way coverage was back then and had been for years. Channel 9 in Australia in their coverage pioneered the use of a main camera behind the bowler at each end which is now standard. Channels like the BBC used to have a camera at the far end as you looked on the screen but it would only be used if there was a wicket or an appeal.
Nice to see Peter Toohey doing what he was good at.
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Nice upload thanks. Amazing to see they had front on cameras but still only showed the action from one end.
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According to Cricinfo, Boycott scored 77 off 337 balls with only one 4!
and that was all run!
i thought it was a single with 3 overthrows lol
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One of the best things to come out of the packer series was it gave us the chance to see bob taylors craftsmanship and technique behind the wicket 2:16:46
GDay Fred, do you by any chance have the 5th Test of this series at the Adelaide Oval? I just remember going to that game as a kid and I remember Rick Darling being resuscitated by John Emburey after being hit. Darren M has all the other Tests from 78/79 but not the Adelaide Test. Cheers
Just watching Arkle Randall walk to the wicket and take guard. What an eccentric.
Smashing first over from your Geoff there. He even played along by pretending to be bothered by a couple of balls from Hogg
Boycott and Brearley added 38 runs in the 1st innings off the equivalent of 32 6 ball overs - proper cricket!!
Were Thompson, Lillie, Marsh etc all not in the team due to joining Kerry Packers Cricket Circus? Grieg as well?
Correct although its possible Greig may have been finished as far as England was concerned by 78/9
Other England players like Alan Knott and John Snow were playing WSC, too. Australia were fielding a second or third XI in this series, though some of this team did play for Australia after the rapprochement.
Thommo was banned,later joined WSC
Only Hogg and possibly Yallop would have made a full Australian team. Border debuted a couple of Tests later. Greig, Snow, Knott and Underwood missing for England with WSC.
Bob Simpson was the original Australian test captain when the regulars joined WSC.
36:40, "Get him out for God's sake" 😂
Still remember that weird synth intro music like it was yesterday!
Not sponsors crap to look at like today, brilliant.
Believe it's the voice of Alan Mcgilvray
Youre wrong, McGilvray was on radio only. That voice is Norman May
@shanejbackx Oops. Sorry. I know that he was on ABC Radio
This is interesting stuff. I would have watched most of this as a kid on school holidays. Hurst and Hogg (and to an extent Dymock) bowled well. It was in batting, fielding and keeping that Australia struggled. When McLean drops that chance off Hogg at around the 47 minute mark you can see his footwork is horrible - his left leg starts going away from the ball, then he lunges back to the right but he's there too late and grasses it. He would have been better off leaving it to Cosier. Marsh would have gobbled it up. England were close to full strength and were far too good. When Australia's WSC players were back the following year they comfortably beat basically the same England team, but the games were much more competitive.
They had cameras at both ends but only normally showed play from one end. How quaint.
I don't understand why they had the camera coverage from behind the batsman on strike. Very hard to see where the impact of the ball is...whether it's bat or pad?😮😮😮
That's just the way coverage was back then and had been for years. Channel 9 in Australia in their coverage pioneered the use of a main camera behind the bowler at each end which is now standard. Channels like the BBC used to have a camera at the far end as you looked on the screen but it would only be used if there was a wicket or an appeal.
Thanks MK
Possibly this gives a batsman point of view. Front end camera is now standard and speaking for myself I can only enjoy the game that way.
Listening to Boycott batting was a sure way to send me off to sleep
If Bob Willis was batting at 9 then that was a very long tail for England.
Not exactly Bazball but great stuff....
Rather watch paint dry than G Boycott
Wow ABC opening credits is abysmal. Absolute shite lol
What a theme tune!
@@MrDunkiep Reminds me of the sort of theme used for schools and colleges TV programmes: Intermediate Geography - Irrigation and the Nile Delta.
Come on its not THAT good
I loved it.
Thank God the Great Late Kerry Packer took the TV rights off them.