Great images in cricket.

[Rabish Binney]

Yep I read some stories about Gilchrist as well, Manny Martindale was another very early one with a reputation for being a bit of a batsman hater. I think Gilchrist might have been a bit of a bastard in general???

Patterson was frighteningly fast and with more discipline and less injuries to bishop they could have forced a real quartet out of those two and Walsh and Ambrose longer into the 90s: Bishop was a beautiful bowler and he himself was regarded as being the quickest in the world for a while, along with Donald, Patterson and Waqar at around the same time but yeah back injuries got him at his peak.

They are still trotting them out in terms of the specimens: they are never short of guys who can bowl at 140+, realistically in the last 5 years they should have almost always been fielding a pace attack or Gabriel, Joseph and Roach, two of whom can bowl at or close to 150, and the other of whom used to before his car accident.

It’s just the quality of them which has dropped off

Yes, he was a nasty person off the field. Once held a hot iron to the face of his wife severely burning her. Was sentenced to 3 months probation which raised some eyebrows as to the leniency of the sentence.

Gilchrist grew up in a very poor area of Jamaica and had a very hard life as a child. As it follows, he took an attitude to life and to the cricket field and basically just wanted to kill any batmen he was bowling to.

Dennis Atkinson was his captain on an Indian tour and had warned Gilchrist many times to stop bowling beamers for fear of severely hurting an Indian batsman (they weren't great players of pace bowling in the 50's and 60's). This only served to make him bowl more intimidatory deliveries. At the end of an over, Atkinson told him that it was all over and Gilchrist was ordered to get on the fist plane home, effectively ending his test career then and there.

 

[PhatBoy]

Yes, he was a nasty person off the field. Once held a hot iron to the face of his wife severely burning her. Was sentenced to 3 months probation which raised some eyebrows as to the leniency of the sentence.

Gilchrist grew up in a very poor area of Jamaica and had a very hard life as a child. As it follows, he took an attitude to life and to the cricket field and basically just wanted to kill any batmen he was bowling to.

Dennis Atkinson was his captain on an Indian tour and had warned Gilchrist many times to stop bowling beamers for fear of severely hurting an Indian batsman (they weren't great players of pace bowling in the 50's and 60's). This only served to make him bowl more intimidatory deliveries. At the end of an over, Atkinson told him that it was all over and Gilchrist was ordered to get on the fist plane home, effectively ending his test career then and there.

That’s a man with an anger issue

 

[The Passenger]

#greatmemesincricket

Spoiler: Swears

 

[Cleavy]

 

[Cleavy]

 

[big_e]

Geoff Lawson having his jaw broken. From the 1989 Channel Nine Cricket Yearbook.

 

[troybe]

The sublime action of DK bowling at the MCG in 1981

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

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The sublime action of DK bowling at the MCG in 1981

Has Lillee ever said what it was technically about his original bowling action that caused his stress fractures?

Or what he changed when he came back?

 

[troybe]

Has Lillee ever said what it was technically about his original bowling action that caused his stress fractures?

Or what he changed when he came back?

Nothing specific is explained about the biomechanics of changes to his action but it was more about rehab and strengthening the back muscles and small changes to his action.

 

[Cleavy]

asked the Bing AI to create "Pakistan cricketers are upset about the decision review system in the cricket match versus Australia" and this is one of the images it gave me... our team is very old!

 

[troybe]

Is that Duncan Sharpe?

 

[frankrizzo]

Has Lillee ever said what it was technically about his original bowling action that caused his stress fractures?

Or what he changed when he came back?

The Dennis Lillee Rehab: A Case Study

Given the fast pace of modern cricket and the short recovery time at the disposal of modern cricketers, the number of injuries that young fast bowlers are diagnosed with is staggering. And, lumbar …

drdeepakhiwale.wordpress.com

that sort of program would have been cutting edge back and obviously something he had to seek out himself as boards didnt really bother with that sort of stuff until 20+ years later.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

 

[Cleavy]

28 years ago today...

 

[western royboy]

28 years ago today...

Was there…pure magic…got to speak to him about it many years later, truly enlightening

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Pakistan team touring Australia in the 70s.
Mushtaq Mohammad, Intikhab Alam and Javed Miandad

 

[010203]

Sir Donald Bradman got the honour of meeting Viv Richards in Adelaide in 1981

 

[Rabish Binney]

The Dennis Lillee Rehab: A Case Study

Given the fast pace of modern cricket and the short recovery time at the disposal of modern cricketers, the number of injuries that young fast bowlers are diagnosed with is staggering. And, lumbar …

drdeepakhiwale.wordpress.com

that sort of program would have been cutting edge back and obviously something he had to seek out himself as boards didnt really bother with that sort of stuff until 20+ years later.

As I understand it, he asked for financial help from the ACB (as it was at the time) to assist with the treatment and rehab expenses & they refused to assist.

Lillee then asked Richie Benaud to draft a letter on his behalf asking for help but I'm not sure what the outcome was. Lillee got a job working at a car yard in Perth and I always assumed this was to help pay his bills as his match / contract income was so poor (stand to be corrected)

 

[Rabish Binney]

Peter Sleep in the middle? Greg Dyer next to Tim May with Mike Valetta at the back.

AB making sure the sponsorship deal with XXXX gets maximum exposure.

 

[Rabish Binney]

Sussex bowler George Garton.

No chance of a caught and bowled......

 

[dogs105]

Peter Sleep in the middle? Greg Dyer next to Tim May with Mike Valetta at the back.

AB making sure the sponsorship deal with XXXX gets maximum exposure.

Mervyn Hughes
Craig McDermott
Allan Border
Dean Jones
Geoff Marsh
David Boon
Peter Sleep
Bob Simpson
Bruce Reid
Steve Waugh
Greg Dyer
Mike Veletta
Tim May
Errol Alcott

????

Would that be circa 1986 or 1987???

 

[dogs105]

Mervyn Hughes
Craig McDermott
Allan Border
Dean Jones
Geoff Marsh
David Boon
Peter Sleep
Bob Simpson
Bruce Reid
Steve Waugh
Greg Dyer
Mike Veletta
Tim May
Errol Alcott

????

Would that be circa 1986 or 1987???

That was the 12 for the first test In Brisbane, December 1987.

I was at an aquatics camp in year 7, and coming home on the bus listening to it on the radio!!

 

[dogs105]

That was the 12 for the first test In Brisbane, December 1987.

I was at an aquatics camp in year 7, and coming home on the bus listening to it on the radio!!

Plugger35 would remember the 3rd test, when brave Mike Whitney was clearly not plumb lbw in the final over!

 

[Rabish Binney]

Plugger35 would remember the 3rd test, when brave Mike Whitney was clearly not plumb lbw in the final over!

Don't remind him Dogs, he'll bring up the underarm........

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

12 January 1972
Australia v World XI played at the Sydney Cricket. Triumph for Australian bowler Kerry 'Skull' O'Keeffe as world batsman Graeme Pollock goes for a duck, caught by John Inverarity. O'Keeffee jumps in celebration in front of umpire Tom Brooks. Rod Marsh and Ian Chappell run to congratulate the bowler.