I remember the story Max Walker talks about poor Richie having to climb up a windy ladder to get to the commentary box, and poor kids having to fetch them coffees. What a great era for the game
That was at the Adelaide Oval when the Ch.9 commentary box was a makeshift box up on scaffolding at the Cathedral End in the days before the Bradman Stand was built at the River or City End in 1990 to replace the old Creswell Stand. The new Bradman Stand had a then modern cricket commentary box built in. At Footy Park the only commentary boxes were at the top of the covered Members Stand where for cricket they actually had a side on rather than straight down the pitch view.
Great to see lefties Dirk Tazelaar who came close to playing for Australia and Harry Frei, the late blooming quick in action. Plus Bishop showing the kind of shots that excited Richie and company and had him as fringe Aussie player for a few seasons. Flipper Phillips was trying to mount an international comeback that never happend as apparently the Selectors wrote him off for criticising them when he was dropped. Great vid Lawrie - thanks for posting.
I remember this season well as a kid because of the orange fluro ball experiment. It took what 30 odd years for a fluro ball to once again make an appearance in a cricket match! Thanks for the rare upload!
Footy Park is a similar size to the Adelaide Oval in how its configured here. Fence to fence at Footy Park was 177 metres long and 142 metres wide. Unlike Adelaide Oval there was a distinctive slope from the centre to the boundary which was all to do with drainage (Football Park and the general West Lakes area was actually built on a swamp). There were only 3 venues at the time in Adelaide that had lights. Norwood Oval, which wasn't suitable for cricket (if you thought Adelaide Ovals old square boundaries were short.....Norwood Oval was almost 20 metres narrower). There was also Thebarton Oval which did play host to grade cricket and had lights, and of course Football Park. Adelaide Oval wouldn't get permanent lights until 1997. At this time, Footy Park was deemed the only one who's lights were up to TV broadcast standard.
Thanks for the upload Lawrie. Only the first session of this match was shown on tv live when I watched this. Not even a highlights program was broadcast at night of this game Do you have any McDonald cups matches from 79-80 or 81-82 by any chance mate?
Just looked up some of the players. Considering the good accounts of themselves they gave in this game, tough on Twible, Broad and Mainhardt that they never played at pro level again - all still aged between 26 and 30 too. What happened?
Was this the first day/night game played in Adelaide. Also if I remember correctly the orange ball experiment only lasted a couple of seasons before they went back to the white one
I remember the story Max Walker talks about poor Richie having to climb up a windy ladder to get to the commentary box, and poor kids having to fetch them coffees. What a great era for the game
That was at the Adelaide Oval when the Ch.9 commentary box was a makeshift box up on scaffolding at the Cathedral End in the days before the Bradman Stand was built at the River or City End in 1990 to replace the old Creswell Stand. The new Bradman Stand had a then modern cricket commentary box built in.
At Footy Park the only commentary boxes were at the top of the covered Members Stand where for cricket they actually had a side on rather than straight down the pitch view.
Great to see lefties Dirk Tazelaar who came close to playing for Australia and Harry Frei, the late blooming quick in action. Plus Bishop showing the kind of shots that excited Richie and company and had him as fringe Aussie player for a few seasons. Flipper Phillips was trying to mount an international comeback that never happend as apparently the Selectors wrote him off for criticising them when he was dropped. Great vid Lawrie - thanks for posting.
I remember this season well as a kid because of the orange fluro ball experiment. It took what 30 odd years for a fluro ball to once again make an appearance in a cricket match! Thanks for the rare upload!
RIP David Hookes, Tony Greig, Richie Benaud, Max Walker
Shane Warne, Dean Jones, Rod Marsh..
Footy Park is a similar size to the Adelaide Oval in how its configured here. Fence to fence at Footy Park was 177 metres long and 142 metres wide. Unlike Adelaide Oval there was a distinctive slope from the centre to the boundary which was all to do with drainage (Football Park and the general West Lakes area was actually built on a swamp).
There were only 3 venues at the time in Adelaide that had lights. Norwood Oval, which wasn't suitable for cricket (if you thought Adelaide Ovals old square boundaries were short.....Norwood Oval was almost 20 metres narrower). There was also Thebarton Oval which did play host to grade cricket and had lights, and of course Football Park.
Adelaide Oval wouldn't get permanent lights until 1997.
At this time, Footy Park was deemed the only one who's lights were up to TV broadcast standard.
Dirk Tazelaar deserved to play for Australia.
Thanks for the upload Lawrie. Only the first session of this match was shown on tv live when I watched this. Not even a highlights program was broadcast at night of this game Do you have any McDonald cups matches from 79-80 or 81-82 by any chance mate?
Pity there wasn’t more cricket played at Footy Park, would’ve been good during the redevelopments of AO
Does anybody know why they played it football park in this game instead of the Adelaide oval??
Adelaide Oval had no lights, Football Park was the ONLY venue in the State with lights at the time.
@@FeminismDebunked There was also Norwood Oval don't forget.
@@voltfootybut no cricket pitch.
And its a hole.
Now a days every ball bowled down the leg is wide.
Brilliant! How good was that? Great post. Fantastic days.
Just looked up some of the players. Considering the good accounts of themselves they gave in this game, tough on Twible, Broad and Mainhardt that they never played at pro level again - all still aged between 26 and 30 too. What happened?
They could have made the uniforms a bit more distinct!
Was this the first day/night game played in Adelaide. Also if I remember correctly the orange ball experiment only lasted a couple of seasons before they went back to the white one
I wonder why they used orange ball for these games. Should have played with the white ball just like the world series games.
Whoever came up with the 🍊 orange ball was a total buffoon.
@@andrewking4885 No doubt about that!
no shit i was there i was 12 with my uncle