Love watching this. Been trying to find the 1977 series for years. Its special to me because we were watching from Australia. The sign on the fence with the union jack on it and the names Peter ,Steven,Austin,Joyce on it was done by my grandfather and nanna who you can see sitting behind the sign. You can see it clearly at 14.03. It was a message to us in Australia. I am the Peter in that sign and Steven is my brother and also our parents names. Someone on the radio in Australia mentioned the sign and Dad went into channel 9 studios and a newspaper came to our home and did a small story on it .Thanks for posting. Cheers
Yes, they put the 72, 75, 81 and 85 on vhs but left out the 1977 series. Some great players and some of them have left us, Willis, Greig, Wooler and now Underwood. Great days.
Oh to be in England now that 1977 is here. Ah well, we can look back and only wish that England was still the way it was in 1977. There's so much we miss.
That waa, perhaps, the best day's cricket that I can recall. Greg Chappell showed flawlessly how to do it, while Deady was so on a pitch that could be batted on. Great Captaicy by Brearly and a great team effort through-out the English side. Sublime! Thank-you! Happy days!
Greg Chappell was a great batsman. He averaged 53.86 in test cricket but in the highest standard cricket of all -WSC- (which for some unknown reason, are not included in official statistics) he scored five hundreds in 14 Supertests and a total of 1415 runs at 56.6 average. In all, he missed 24 Test matches during his exile from official cricket. He dominated Roberts, Holding , Garner and Croft in the West Indies in 1979 scoring over 600 runs. When official tests resumed for him that next November , he scored 74 and 124 v West Indies in Brisbane. No wonder the WI pace greats unanimously regarded him as their biggest foe.
I grew up in Kent, UK and spent many hours watching the relentless way in which 'Deadly' Derek Underwood wore down the defences of even the most obdurate batsman. I only twice saw Underwood so intimidated by the ability of the batsman he was bowling to that he had no answers. Those batsmen were Greg Chappell and Viv Richards. Both, on their day, had the ability to hit him through the leg side against the spin at will. Both were batsmen of the highest class.
I remember Richards battered Underwood out of the 1980 test series in England, immediately after the end of the Packer era. It was such a rarity to see that happen to Underwood and as I recall he didn't play many more test matches after that.
My only remaining school friend once survived 4 balls in the final over from Chris Old. Highlight of his life...mainly because the young Chris Old was quite annoyed at not finishing off the tail ender.
Those on drives and hooks from Greg Chappell! He's top shelf amongst batsmen all time! Always feared him when he played us Kiwis. He always looked in control!
Sad to see that footage and reflect that Woolmer, Willis, Underwood and Greig are no longer with us. From an England perspective that was a great series but it has to be said that it came against the poorest Australian side I've ever seen tour England. There was no Dennis Lillee, Thompson was struggling with injury and with the obvious exeption of Greg Chappell the batting line up was very weak, given that the great Doug Walters always had a terrible record in England.
Just realised that this is the great Greg Chappell who ordered his brother Trev to...... you know the rest....Even the good guys can make mistakes I guess but 43 years later I'm still seething.
Love watching this. Been trying to find the 1977 series for years. Its special to me because we were watching from Australia. The sign on the fence with the union jack on it and the names Peter ,Steven,Austin,Joyce on it was done by my grandfather and nanna who you can see sitting behind the sign. You can see it clearly at 14.03. It was a message to us in Australia. I am the Peter in that sign and Steven is my brother and also our parents names. Someone on the radio in Australia mentioned the sign and Dad went into channel 9 studios and a newspaper came to our home and did a small story on it .Thanks for posting. Cheers
Hello Peter, glad you enjoyed and thank you for watching. Stay healthy, DARREN
Cool story!
Thanks for that.....have you got the story all documented and archived for the grand children?
Yes, they put the 72, 75, 81 and 85 on vhs but left out the 1977 series. Some great players and some of them have left us, Willis, Greig, Wooler and now Underwood. Great days.
Oh to be in England now that 1977 is here. Ah well, we can look back and only wish that England was still the way it was in 1977. There's so much we miss.
Yes, both countries out, but for a lot more than a duck.
That waa, perhaps, the best day's cricket that I can recall. Greg Chappell showed flawlessly how to do it, while Deady was so on a pitch that could be batted on. Great Captaicy by Brearly and a great team effort through-out the English side.
Sublime! Thank-you! Happy days!
Greg Chappell was a great batsman. He averaged 53.86 in test cricket but in the highest standard cricket of all -WSC- (which for some unknown reason, are not included in official statistics) he scored five hundreds in 14 Supertests and a total of 1415 runs at 56.6 average. In all, he missed 24 Test matches during his exile from official cricket. He dominated Roberts, Holding , Garner and Croft in the West Indies in 1979 scoring over 600 runs. When official tests resumed for him that next November , he scored 74 and 124 v West Indies in Brisbane. No wonder the WI pace greats unanimously regarded him as their biggest foe.
And how was he against Hadlee and NZ when he wasn't instructing his brother to bowl underarm?
I grew up in Kent, UK and spent many hours watching the relentless way in which 'Deadly' Derek Underwood wore down the defences of even the most obdurate batsman. I only twice saw Underwood so intimidated by the ability of the batsman he was bowling to that he had no answers. Those batsmen were Greg Chappell and Viv Richards. Both, on their day, had the ability to hit him through the leg side against the spin at will. Both were batsmen of the highest class.
I remember Richards battered Underwood out of the 1980 test series in England, immediately after the end of the Packer era. It was such a rarity to see that happen to Underwood and as I recall he didn't play many more test matches after that.
My only remaining school friend once survived 4 balls in the final over from Chris Old. Highlight of his life...mainly because the young Chris Old was quite annoyed at not finishing off the tail ender.
Greg Chappell was class personified...
Yep!
One of the best inning played by great Greg Chappelle
Those on drives and hooks from Greg Chappell! He's top shelf amongst batsmen all time!
Always feared him when he played us Kiwis. He always looked in control!
Yes truly great. Btw when NZ came over to england in 1983 commentator jim laker said how martin crowe reminded him of a young greg chappell.
Sad to see that footage and reflect that Woolmer, Willis, Underwood and Greig are no longer with us. From an England perspective that was a great series but it has to be said that it came against the poorest Australian side I've ever seen tour England. There was no Dennis Lillee, Thompson was struggling with injury and with the obvious exeption of Greg Chappell the batting line up was very weak, given that the great Doug Walters always had a terrible record in England.
Bob woolmer at silly point no helmet just a cap!!!
12:43 Yikes! No helmet... that's possibly even scarier than Holding to Close the year before.
Wish there was more footage...loads of cricketers that footage is rare.. O'Keefe, Robinson,Davis,Malone..etc
One of THE great innings played by Chappell
Blue skies in Manchester with some shirts off and some hot bowling from Bob and the boys (amazing to have had such days before "Climate Change").
As a Kentish Man, it was great to see Deadly, Knotty and Bob Woolmer, but all the names brought back many cricket memories.
Admire those batsmen batting without helmets against genuine pace...
Don't think McCosker was all that confident facing Willis at times
Funny, that, when you consider what Willis had done to McCosker in the Centenary test a few months earlier.
@08:58 The great Richie Benaud..
Video quality was better.
Fielders didn't dive much in the olden days...
The Amiss effort was laughable.
The fielding was indeed lousy compared with today. The wicket-keeping wasn't though...
Wow Chappell really showing his class here against some quality bowling
England playing two spinners? In a home test? Gosh, whatever next! (And tony Greig bowling a sort of spin as we;ll.)
Have a look at Ritchie's haircut....if you can call it that.
D. M mordecai Thx
Just realised that this is the great Greg Chappell who ordered his brother Trev to...... you know the rest....Even the good guys can make mistakes I guess but 43 years later I'm still seething.
R.W.Marsh the 70's Bairstow couldn't catch or bat