Allan Border 127* Australia v West Indies 1984/85 World Series Cup
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2011
- Allan Border's highest One Day International (ODI) score and one of the all-time great innings against the West Indies 'Bodyline' attack of Joel Garner, Malcolm Marshall and Michael Holding. Also includes footage of Wayne Phillips and Geoff Lawson.
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I've watched a lot of cricket and Allan Border is still my favourite player. He almost single-handedly dragged Australia out of nowhere by dint of sheer will. This innings exemplified that.
Aussie legend and this was one of the greatest ODI innings of all time, against the might of the windies, on real pitches and fields.
Absolutely, Incredible knock. Allan Border had a great technique. This was his day and had a few chances. David Hookes was exciting to watch apart from Deano. I can Remember this game and Geoff Lawson bowled Viv Richards for a duck, an inswinging yorker.
Absolutely true...after watching these RUclips videos now finally I understood why entire Australia considers him the greatest...
Dread to think where Australian cricket would have been in the 80's without this man.
Alan Border is the cricketer I admire most. He captained through and era where australia was on the scrap heap. Time and time again he would go to the crease verging on a massacre only to dig out an innings and pull the team back into the game. He should have been Knighted for what he did in that era of australian cricket. High run scorer and great average. Did it all virtually unassisted !
People wouldnt agree, but to me Border is Australia's greatest batsman since Sir Don Bradman & the greatest skipper since Warwick Armstrong.
I think you might be right. We were a terrible side back then, and he had to do so much. A wonderful player, made runs everywhere and against everyone. It was nice to see him have some success too as the side developed into a formidable team.
not a great tactical or even demonstrative skipper, Ankit, but definitely a leader in his way and his batting bravery is 2nd to no one.
as an old school Australian cricket follower I love AB with a rare purity :-)
@@chemistryset1 Who could afford to go on strategic adventures with amateurs at disposal !!!! The fact that Border's bat spoke for his captaincy solidifies his legend to even greater heights. Personally, I find AB to be a far better skipper than the overrated lot of Imran Khan and Steve Waugh.
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You're right in his early years as Captain but he became a very good Captain in his later years.
@@roygbiv6010 Even with only these resources, Border took Australia to nearly the 1st rank in ICC rankings. The only resource Border could genuinely count on........ was HIMSELF, the best batsman of his era. He stayed there, Boon/Taylor/Waugh would follow-in. Else, it was GAME OVER for Australia.
Facing Garner, Jolding and MArshall wearing a cap...smashes a massive century...aussie legend.
Jesus, that first delivery of Garner's that clearly fucks up Border's ribs illustrates everything you need to know about AB - what an Aussie hero.
I remember watching this on TV. Absolutely brilliant!
I had just started year 8 at high school, so only saw the windies run chase at night. Should have seen the back half of Border's innings, but being on a dairy farm, had to help milk the cows straight after school.
I was lucky enough to be there that day on the famous SCG HILL. One of the best ODI knocks of all time.
Toughest and most determined batsman I ever saw. No great stylist but so effective.
AB got better and better as his career went on. Was an outright champion at the end... rock solid, dead eye in the field, great hands, played all the shots and valued his wicket...and brought the team together... yes, he played in an era when we were up against it..
This innings he was playing a lot of shots virtually off the stumps, and they were splendid. What an eye Allan Border had.
What a treasure this vedios is, great battle between bat and ball, great commentary and insane crowd. Great vedio for people like me who born in the late 90s and early 2000s. Absolutely loved it!
Border waiting and watching the ball onto the bat. You didn’t have to do to much with the West Indians fast bowling. Legend!
I grew up watching Border, he and Dean Jones were my favorite players. How good to score a century against the West Indian bowlers of the 1980s, they had probably the best ever bowling attack, certainly when it comes to fast bowling. A joy to watch
AB almost single handedly turned Australia from easy beats to the best in the world by the time he handed the captaincy to Mark Taylor. Led by example. And he did this during the Windies domination and their feared fast bowling attack. This innings a very good example. Glad its preserved on the internet.
Legend. Played against a plethora of great players from other teams.
AB was a true gutsy cricketer with an incredible eye. Sometimes I forget how amazing he was
In 1970s Gavaskar took on West Indies pace battery. In 1980s it was Border. These two have scored most runs against the most lethal fast bowling attack spread over 2 decades. Great batting.
Mate, with all due respect to Gavaskar, he scored a lot of his runs against the WI when they still had plenty of spinners and fewer fast bowlers, such as in 1971. WI didnt assemble an outright pace attack till the 2nd half of the decade.
Ian Ghose Windies didn't have spinner in 1971 series in matches when Sunny Gavaskar scored 774 runs in 4 test matches, unsurpassed in 1970s and 1980s. Taylor scored more in 6 test matches, but not against such bowling attack.
Only three of Gavaskar's 13 tons against the west indies came in the post wsc era when they had their terrifying four pronged pace attacks. Early 1970s, Clive Lloyd actually opened the bowling on occasions.
@@Bernie8330 Clive loyd was not around when sunny scored 774 runs in 4 years in West indies
@@ass09tube Clive Lloyd was around from 1968 until 1985.
People say he wasn't an elegant batsman, but he was still very entertaining to watch. He could play all the shots.
Wow..what a knock...that too in front of Garner,Holding & Marshall that too without helmet..man this take some courage...probably counted as a greatest knock of the 80's ...
I've been watching cricket for well over 30 years now and AB...aka "Captain Grumpy" was the best Aussie captain I have seen. Steve Waugh and Mark Taylor were good and had good records....but Border was tough as nails and didn't take shit from anyone, team mate or not.
I agree mate.
I'm 36, and have been simply hooked to cricket since the 85/86 season, so I grew up on Border, and seen every captain since. Ponting was a great leader, Waugh was a leader of men, Clarke stood in their shadow, Taylor was good, but Border was the best! I'll never forget him setting McDermott straight on the field.
Allan Border is the greatest batsman of the 80's. He dominated the the best fast bowlers ever to play the game. Marshall, Garner, Holding, Roberts, Croft, Ambrose, Hadlee, Kapil Dev, Imran Khan, Wasim Akram, Allan Donald. Sure Viv Richards was brutal but he at times faced some real pie-chuckers. Allan Border faced the best of the best, that is why he is THE best !
DownUnderThunder666 Couldnt agree more. No batsman in the 80s dared to stand up against Marshall, Imran Khan, Garner, Hadlee or Ian Botham, but Border scored centuries against all. Quite easily, Australia's greatest batsman since Sir Don Bradman, several notches above Greg Chappell, Neil Harvey & Steve Waugh.
He didn't dominate the west indies bowlers but he did average a minute fraction less than 40 against them, which is outstanding given that he only ever played them when they had near unplayable ferocious attacks. If you played 31 tests in total, say in the 1920s and 30s and averaged 39 you would be remembered as a very good player, and yet this is the number of tests Border played against the invincible west indies attack for such an average. It has become a bit of a cliche but also factor in the lesser bats and more dicey pitches compared to today. He was the first player to play 150 tests and retire with an average of 50, and only a small hand full have managed such a feat since.
Bernie8330 He didnt dominate coz in his prime, Australia was by far at its weakest elb. You can't afford to be flamboyant when the Chappells have retired & David Boon, Dean Jones & Steve Waugh have just entered international cricket. It's true Border averaged only 39 against the West Indies, but in the West Indies his average was 53 compared to just 34 in Australia.
@@Timberwolf1992 I like you more and more haha - I see you have much respect for AB - I have had a few sporting heroes over the years, but AB really stands up as a great fighter and a very humble, unassuming guy off the field.
@@Bernie8330 agree with what you've said re: Border's record against the Windies - and yet despite the West Indies being the benchmark of their era, they were not the be-all and end-all - Border also managed to negotiate sub-continent wares, Hadlee and a tricky Kiwi contigent and regularly stood up in Ashes tests too. A great champion of Australian cricket.
I remember watching this whole innings in its entirety when I was 13 years old border was tough as nails Wayne Phillips also played well against the West Indies
Gee Ritchie Benaud
Tony Grieg and Tony Cosier dead (love 80s cricket).
Malcolm Marshall as well sadly too
Can remember coming home from school in 1985 on a hot Qld summer day and turned the tv on to see this masterpiece. It was a change from seeing the windies thrash Australia in the test matches. One of the rare poorer performances of the windies in the field. McDermott knocked over Viv and Australia wrapped up the game. Unfortunately the aussies lost the 2nd final after posting 270 odd.
i was 16 at this time watching this match on tv AB was giving it back to the windies his drives and cut shots were awesome that day that symonds bat mustve had a bloody good middle the way the ball was hitting the ropes
That was hell of a Cricket, indeed.
Good old days back then have a look at most of the blokes in the crowd and wonder why this place has the highest death rate of skin cancer in the world not a shirt on most of them it was just something I notice but back then you didn't give it a thought
It’s good we’re more sunsmart, but we’re also less masculine today. Those blokes in the crowd look fit, unlike today’s ‘Morrison bloke.’
Border's finest ODI knock.
border 's best knock ..all shots of his were classics - came against the deadliest fast bowling unit .
Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any youtube clips of Border's peerless batting in the Carribean in early to mid 1984.
And Wayne Philips 120,plenty of sixes.
@@roybennett6330 Yeah that 120 came off only 192 balls.
It was his record that stood for years!
Remarkable knock..
Once a rookie was searching the term "COURAGE" in cricketing dictionary. The result displayed was ALLAN ROBERT BORDER.
Lovely sound of leather on willow.
"There was a ton of excitement up here in the commentary box" said Richie
The Windies made the mistake of getting Kepler Wessels out. If they'd left him in and kept bowling at his legs they could have kept the run rate down.
KW was a good test batsman but his unorthodox technique made it easy for bowlers to pin him down and prevent him from scoring freely, which was a problem in ODI.
Can someone please explain how they had the scoreboard technology to celebrate a milestone at 6:07? I'm astounded as I'm nearly certain that it's something I first noticed in the mid 90s as computer technology had barely begun in the mid 80s! And there's boundary ropes as well!
We had electronic scoreboards but they were hard to read in the sun. A lot of traditionalists moaned about them. You don't need much MB to run a scoreboard.
Sydney was the first electronic scoreboard and only one to this point in time. Sydney also occasionally had boundary ropes in those days due to drainage problems around the perimeter of the fence vicinity. Perth had one monster boundary roped off to make all boundaries even at that particular ground in this era.
@@Bernie8330 cheers thanks
Sydney got its electronic scoreboard for the 1983/84 season and they had ropes for 3 seasons 1982 to 1985 only a fraction inside the fence due to drainage issues
Captain of Captain's post-World Series Cricket.
A very decent bowler too.
Border only made 3 ODI centuries in 273 appearances. He averaged 30.62 with a S/Rate of 71. Also took 73 wickets at 28.36.
I remember when Kepler Wessels started playing for South Africa and the media gave him a hard time.
upload Allan Border's 205 test runs innings.
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I remember it too!
along with steve waugh
Compare this great century to any of the garbage played in the last decade on featherbed pitches, with tiny boundaries and you understand why people scoff at so called 'great' players of today.
well said I don't even watch cricket anymore, they ruined it. the 80s- 2000s was the era i grew up watching. Real men and real cricket.
Imagine a windowlicker like David Warner playing against this Windies attack I doubt he'd manage to get it of the center square
Who won this match🤗
Suddenly ... I feel like a Tooheys.
How bad was the ground feilding back then
Not as bad as how you spelt it.
It wasn't bad, but the much higher standard today, which sees many more runs saved through desperate ground fielding, not to mention far more promising innings terminated by freakish catches, in my mind, does negate all these put downs of contemporary batting champions such as 'bigger bats' 'shorter boundaries' ad nausea .... I have been watching cricket since 1981.
And Australia went on too win the Match Border was Captain
Well done mr border
haha Joel Garner's appeal
Wasn't that run out at 4:47..! Why didnt anyone appeal! It wasn't a fumble
Bails were off before Viv had the ball in his hands.
ha ha ha, learn the rules before you comment dude
no it wasn't. he got an ODI century against India in 1980/81.
Kepler Wessels 11(51) 😳
Kepler Wessels played for Australia than South Africa but he is a South African .
The great West Indies team was the most entertaining there ever was, but I still reckon the great Australian team that followed it would have beat them. They didn't like when teams fought back against them, whereas the Aussie team loved a scrap when the occasion demanded it.
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Actually Wayne Phillips was a good batsman but one of the worst keepers ever for Australia.
Making him put on the gloves was a detriment to his career
Phillips was awesome to watch was really the only one to make regular runs apart from border
SW was a tough bastard yes, and a great captain and player..AB was better, just..
SW's stupid hubris led Australia to lose the Calcutta test of 2001. Border wouldn't have asked india to bat again. He would have grinded them out of the game and the series.
Where do you think SW learned to be a tough bastard, he followed the example of his Captain.
See border could be exciting and brilliant and not capt grumpy and saving Australia
Gutsiest cricketer to ever played the game.
Kepler Wessels played for Australia than South Africa but he is a South African .
Kepler Wessels played for Australia than South Africa but he is a South African .
Wessels became a bit of a liability in one day matches. His first movement was his front foot across towards the off side and his bat was behind his leg. Fast bowlers soon worked out that if they bowled at leg stump they could make it difficult to score and he would use up a lot of deliveries for not many runs.