Depends if you're talking about England cap as a whole - ie ODI or just test cap! The last Derbyshire cricketer to represent England was Scrimshaw in 2023 but the last test cricketer was Dominic Cork whose last cap was in 2002!!
Alan Border’s first serious runs in test cricket, 50+ and 45 in the second innings, and good recovery by England. Great to see this, thanks for posting!
I have always thought Geoff Miller's off spin was underrated. He took his test match wickets at a much better average than the man who was usually his main rival for a place in the England team, John Emburey. He was a more accomplished batsman than Emburey too.
When you have Dymock, Hogg, Higgs and Hurst coming in as 8, 9, 10 and 11 you know you’re in trouble. And Higgs at number 10 just shows Hurst’s capability!
Wood's needless run out cost Oz. He was going well, although a little flighty, until then, 44-odd for 1. Oz were in all six games but Eng took the bigger, vital moments well.
Don't follow cricket anymore but this series was so disappointing. Aust could not convert a single test into a win when they had every chance to win the series.... Great effort by the Poms !
@@JP1234815 Lillee & Alderman took 80+ wkts but why Oz chose Beard who didn't play any Tests or ODIs I'll never know! Waste of a tour place, when they could have picked another pace bowler on seaming pitches for the 1st 4 Tests.
@@peterwoodhouse4314 In '81 they lost Lawson & Hogg injured early in the tour. Thomson was in England playing for Middlesex but he got injured as well. Pascoe was injured & unavailable to tour. They selected Bright as the spinner ahead of Yardley & Higgs, who both had much better seasons in 1980-1. Hence why they plucked Whitney from literally nowhere to play in the tests although they could've sent for Dymock or Walker. Hughes had to bowl Alderman & Lillee until they dropped which accounted for England getting off the hook a couple of times. Greg Chappell was also a handy change on seaming wickets but, obviously, he didn't go. The Aussies had a lot of bad luck on that tour exacerbated by the disharmony in the team.
Not many helmets generally back then. To me (and I might be wrong) the helmets only really came in late 80s/early 90s Especially against the West Indies.
Nostalgia. Can't remember Derbyshire 's last England player,, and here we had three, all featuring.
Depends if you're talking about England cap as a whole - ie ODI or just test cap! The last Derbyshire cricketer to represent England was Scrimshaw in 2023 but the last test cricketer was Dominic Cork whose last cap was in 2002!!
The biggest star of Derbyshire is undoubtedly bob taylor mr immaculate
Alan Border’s first serious runs in test cricket, 50+ and 45 in the second innings, and good recovery by England. Great to see this, thanks for posting!
I have always thought Geoff Miller's off spin was underrated. He took his test match wickets at a much better average than the man who was usually his main rival for a place in the England team, John Emburey. He was a more accomplished batsman than Emburey too.
Lovely catch by Lord Botham taking the wicket of Hogg.
When you have Dymock, Hogg, Higgs and Hurst coming in as 8, 9, 10 and 11 you know you’re in trouble. And Higgs at number 10 just shows Hurst’s capability!
Wood's needless run out cost Oz. He was going well, although a little flighty, until then, 44-odd for 1. Oz were in all six games but Eng took the bigger, vital moments well.
Those first 2 sentences probably described half of his innings
Wood was run out in quite a few Ashes tests if I remember
What about the dozen plus catches dropped?
Pity that the final interview was clipped.
But great cricket! Attacking *and* defensive spin bowling. Sublime!
Don't follow cricket anymore but this series was so disappointing. Aust could not convert a single test into a win when they had every chance to win the series.... Great effort by the Poms !
Same as '81!! They had England in trouble in 5 of the 6 tests played that year.
@@JP1234815 Lillee & Alderman took 80+ wkts but why Oz chose Beard who didn't play any Tests or ODIs I'll never know! Waste of a tour place, when they could have picked another pace bowler on seaming pitches for the 1st 4 Tests.
@@peterwoodhouse4314 In '81 they lost Lawson & Hogg injured early in the tour. Thomson was in England playing for Middlesex but he got injured as well. Pascoe was injured & unavailable to tour. They selected Bright as the spinner ahead of Yardley & Higgs, who both had much better seasons in 1980-1. Hence why they plucked Whitney from literally nowhere to play in the tests although they could've sent for Dymock or Walker. Hughes had to bowl Alderman & Lillee until they dropped which accounted for England getting off the hook a couple of times. Greg Chappell was also a handy change on seaming wickets but, obviously, he didn't go. The Aussies had a lot of bad luck on that tour exacerbated by the disharmony in the team.
The one thing I noticed from watching this test is that commentators were no good at seeing inside edges?
watching now you realise just how terrible umpires were back then.
You realise how terrible having only one camera at one of the ends was back then as well.
The fielder was lucky he didn't impale himself on the railings at 3.25.
Soft hats at silly mid-off
Not many helmets generally back then. To me (and I might be wrong) the helmets only really came in late 80s/early 90s Especially against the West Indies.
They weren't great batters