Genuine pace and movement. Line and length. It's all there. Fred Trueman is the yardstick for modern bowlers. Perfect action, and incredible stamina. And never injured. And look at his opponents. Frankie Worrell, Garry Sobers, Conrad Hunt. That's the A-Team right there. Imagine Fred playing teams like Zimbabwe and Afghanistan then? He'd have been the first to 500 easily. Top ten ever. Without a doubt.
I have had the enormous privilege of facing Fred Trueman in a match. He played for the MCC against my public school and I was very fortunate to be selected for the 1st XI, which was unusual as I normally captained the 2nd XI. By then, he was past his fastest but he still was a fearsome bowler who swung and seamed it viciously. I lasted about a dozen balls and I hardly hit any. When they batted, he hit me twice over the pavilion, though I got 3 wickets in the end. He was also very pleasant and unassuming after the game and signed as many autographs and posed for as many pictures as we wanted. I still have some. But I threw away the one of my off stump cartwheeling backwards, though. One of the greatest cricketers of all time.
@@Bernie8330 Difficult to judge because of the quality of the film, and angle of the cameras etc. Bear in mind that by the time these matches were played Fred had been a professional cricketer for nearly 15 years and a test cricketer for around a decade so wasn't the fearsome fast bowler that reduced the Indians to four wickets down for no runs on his debut.
@@Bernie8330 That's party because he had the reputation of being a bad tourist, falling out with the MCC establishment and not being selected. Also England didn't tour every year in his day.
I remember when I was about 10 years old and in the members watching a test match between Australia and England when Fred Trueman walked up to the boundary and called us over and gave us ten bob to go and get him a six pack of Melbourne Botter and Australian beer. I remember we said to him that we were too young to buy the beer, so he signalled the guy selling the beer at the kiosk to sell us his beer. At the end of each over we gave him a beer and he kept on bowling faster and cleaned up the Australian team that day.. He also gave us the change for the beers, it really made our day.. What a great and funny and nice guy off the field.
What a heartwarming story❤. You are blessed to have witnessed the sport as it was back then. I wonder what you think of what has become of the game these days.
I love his style - just before the delivery, as he passes the bowler's wicket, he's almost perfectly sideways on to the batsman, his ball hand is back at about 4 o'clock and his left had is at about 10 o'clock and then there's a windmill of arms and the ball comes shooting out. Jeff Thompson has a similar style, but he almost seems to be free from gravity for a moment of time as he glides past the umpire... Met Fred once, long after he'd retired. Good grief, that man could swear.
Good description Benj. He sure did swear and was funny in an abrupt sort of style. Freddie was on a "sports" panel of different athletes at a dinner once and he told a story about losing some fingers (I think it was fingers) and every second word was a curse or swearing. Seemed to be appropriately done in that gravelly Yorkshire (?) blather too.
That side-on slinging action was reminiscent of Jeff Thomson. Looks to be not much slower than Thommo too (at his peak definitely the fastest bowler I ever saw - and I've seen all the other contenders for "fastest ever" since then).
Thankyou for this i never saw him. bowl. To getbgood batsmen playing nervous strokes, he was obviously very fast. Express 145 k plus at times. Marvelous
I saw Freddie's 300th. I drew the fielder's position on the back of my ticket. Boycott's 100th 100 at Headingly. Brian Close lived next door when he was doing his National Service at Catterick Camp, Yorks. It's a tragedy to me that Test Match cricket is not free to air in TV. Young boys, as I was, lived those matches out in the garden
Don't forget that this is film was taken in 63 and 64 when Fred was 32 and 33 and past his prime. There's nothing from the early/mid 50's. By this time he had cut his run-up from 19 paces to 12 which cost him some speed but gave him even more control. Even so when the first technology was created for measuring the speed of bowlers in 1963, when Fred was 32, he still clocked 92/93 mph and the only other bowler to go over 90 mph was Wes Hall. Tyson, Lindwall, Miller and Adcock had all retired by then. Also with all of his experience that he had gained by then he would bowl to the conditions which didn't always mean bowling flat out.
I was ten years old watching this on B&W telly in 1963. My Dad played for a local team in Yorkshire and he was a great admirer of Freddie Trueman, he said Fred was good at moving the ball through the air and on line & length he could hit a threepenny bit - which is how they used to practice :). Great days when sport wasn't big business.
Anyone see the cameo Trueman did in Dad's Army? He was way past his prime (1970) but the camera angle as he bowled the single ball required for the story showed the speed and athleticism of a top class fast bowler as he reached the crease.
'DAD'S ARMY' is what the press referred to ray illingworth's side that toured australia in 70 /71, until john snow introduced the aussie batsmen to the concept of having 'a new un ripped'. it may well have been one of the very first england tours in cricket having started to take over from the MCC, in the mid 90's england players were taking the field in bacon and egg trimmed sweaters in NZ. they look a hell of a lot better than the cheap red muck they don today, which at least should be red and blue.
I have great respect for this bowler.He used to bowl outswinger from the edge of the crease as well as from close to stump also as all bowlers generally do.while bowling this type of outswinger,it was very hard to read his outswinger n straight ball.Batsmen were so scared n confused that they used to leave the ball which was in the line of their stumps considering it as outswinger n loose their stump.
Fred used to bowl a 1000 overs in a season, would Jimmy Anderson or Stuart Broad have taken so many test wickets if they had to take that sort of workload? If Fred had been wrapped up in cotton wool like they have been and played as many tests as they have imagine the wickets he would taken! He was the best in my view, 307 wickets in 67 tests, and 2300 wickets overall in first class cricket. 20 years leading the attack for Yorkshire, they don't build them like Fred anymore!!
@proud white christian he played first cricket for 20 seasons and took 2304 first class wickets, in first class cricket he bowled over 99000 deliveries divide by 6 and you get 16500 overs!!
One significant statistic of Fred's test career was his strike rate (balls per wicket) of under 50. I don't think any other bowler who has taken 300+ test wickets matches that.
Dennis Lillee used to play all the Sheffield Shield matches between the tests matches. They were a different breed back then. The ABC used to play Trumans records on the radio, he wad hilarious.
@@crispinaske8293 so was I! Heck, it was the late seventies/early eighties when Radio Rentals were still around that I figured it out for myself, around eleven to thirteen years old, I can't remember exactly, but it was in that time slot😅😅
4:32 It's proper Cricket when you're able to admire even the fall of your own team's Wicket. I personally just enjoy watching good fall of Wickets most of the time when watching Cricket.
@@cquilty1 Yes it's quite possible. But the commentator saying "there's someone who admires him even though it's the other side" makes me think it could be genuine.
Those were the days: beautiful bowling action, no bowler hysterics, batsmen eager to get off when out, Fred having to do up his sleeve every ball, terrible camera work, women with funny hats on, kids with shorts and ties......
WOW! No " high fives " , no hugs and " hoorahs ". No shirts looking like a billboard. Great cricket days. Sitting on the grass watching a sporting contest uninterrupted by constant reviews. Happier days. 😊🇬🇷
I remember listening to Freddie Truman commentate on tv in Australia in the very early days of post World Series Cricket. His co commentator was a very new to the job, Tony Greig. The conversation turned inevitably to how things were done “in my day” as all ex player commentators inevitably do at some point. Truman said something about his own career and Greig had a joking jibe to the effect not remembering any of it because he was too young, implying that Truman’s deeds were ancient history. Quick as a flash, Truman, in his Yorkshire accent dryly replied: “Just look in the record books, son. It’s all in there”. You could hear all the other off air commentators pissing themselves (as I bet so was Greig) at the great man putting the youngster firmly back in his place.
You cant imagine any batter now congratulating a bowler on a milestone like that, let alone being the first one to shake his hand before any teammates, in an Ashes match as well!
Fred did a bit of stand-up comedy when he retired as well as getting a few quid in clubs doing reminisces and anecdotes. Most of us have heard them but wonder if 2 famous on field quips of his were true? First was a new young nervous Aussie batsman in his first test opening the gate to go to the crease. Fred, fielding nearby, said, "Don't bother closing t'gate lad you'll be back in two minutes!" And the other famous one was when he was captaining his beloved Yorkshire against the hated Lancashire in a final. Lancashire needed a 4 to win. The batsman hit a ball and it went straight between a fielder's legs to the boundary. After the game he apologised to Fred, "Sorry boss, I should have kept mi legs together." "Neah lad", said Fred, "Your mother should have kept hers together!" Probably apocryphal especially the second one. Sure you've all heard them before but he was a funny bloke. 😂
Fred's wicket taking average in tests was only just over 21 which makes him one of the greatest bowlers of all time. The best bowler I've seen in my time watching the game was Malcolm Marshall - Fred can't be too far behind him.
No 'going upstairs' for the video review. The batsman accepted the Umpire's decision. Very little overtly congratulating of the bowler/fielder when a wicket is taken either. That was, after all, their job. Fred was one of England & Yorkshire's bowlers. I remember my Dad being furious when he (Fred, not my Dad) was dropped from the England side. A time when the Selectors had their favourites when it came to team selection - if you were popular you were in, if not then you stood no chance however good you were.
How much quieter the whole deal was amongst the players of yesteryear. No great displays of emotion, telling the batsman to F off, etc. Just work hard and what appears to be respect for the opposition. Refreshing to see, actually.
Ah...so many cricketing memories. I recall Ray Lindwall bowling for Australia against Gloucestershire back in the day and he seemed to employ a similar run-up to the wicket but with a straighter-arm delivery, a bit like a javelin thrower.
i saw Fred bowling for Yorkshire when the aussies came to Bramall Lane in Sheffield. He bowled their opener first ball. Since then I have had 5 siamese cats, all of which have been named Fred.
Watching this footage of good old fashioned sportsmanship and no carrying on like a pork chop makes cricket look so much enjoyable.Instead of now wishing it would hurry up and finish for football season to start.
Fred Trueman introduced me to the Yorkshire version of the Australian 'dummy spit". He was out here in the Great Southern Land, doing some commentary work. In one match he called, there was a sudden blow up out on the field with some player going to market over something he didn't like. Fred made the dry-as-dust remark about this as, "Ello, 'e's chooked teddy out t' cot!" I nearly dropped me beer laughing!
Wonderful stuff - and did you notice, no gaudy advertisements on the pitch, none on the players, no ugly stickers on the bats, stumps and so on. Okay, helmets look ugly as well, but they are for safety. I would certainly want one, if not a suit of armour. And as others have said, no sledging, no dissension, no ugliness, no schoolboy histrionics every time a wicket goes down. And how nice on Fred's 300th test wicket that the first to congratulate him was the Aussie batsman he'd just dismissed.
I'm afraid nearly every sport has been affected by money. Become a star in sport, and you can make a fortune in sponsorship deals and TV appearances. Not much room for gentlemanly sportsmanship these days.
What a contrast to today! No great triumphalism on taking a wicket, some applause of course and congratulations but not the sort of behaviour you see today. Then the batsman he's just dismissed shaking his hand has he made his way back to the pavilion.
1963. 7 years old going on 8... I thought Freddie was the best and wanted to bowl just like him. Copied his style, the run and that hop, unfortunately my ambition outweighed my talent and I managed to achieve absolute mediocracy as a bowler, good, but nothing to write home about. It's great to see him again, thank you for posting.😁👍👍👍👍👍
The back foot no-ball rule helped him, as he was able to drag and then release the ball feet further up the pitch than is allowed these days with the front foot trule.
In his career there were over 30 Tests from when Fred made his international debut to his international retirement where he was fit to be selected but the English selectors decided to choose someone else. 🤷♂️
Were those 30 tests in England or overseas? 229 of his 307 test wickets were in England. Seems he was even more of an English conditions specialist than James Anderson.
@@Bernie8330 He was a great bowler in Australia too. Had he been an Australian, bowling on their fast wickets, he would have been the first fast bowler to reach 400 test wickets.
Fred was selected for only four overseas tours during his career. The ones he didn't go on represented a lot of missed opportunities. He wasn't always in good odour with the stuffed-shirts at the MCC, notably Gubby Allen, who could never get over the fact that Fred was a better paceman than he'd ever been.
At one time in the 1950's my dad took me to see a cricket match and watch Fred Truman bowling. From time to time dad would put his hands over my ears should anyone drop a catch off Fred's bowling, yes, Freddie did use some choice words in those days.
he's undoubtabley learn't it from Brian Sellers the yorkshire captain when fred started, they said you could hear Sellers effing and blinding in the crowd when a catch was dropped.
Why is the keeper standing so close to the stumps? I mean I've heard Freddy was really quick. Or was he medium fast like Terry Alderman and Glenn Mccgrath?
The old cameras tended to give a shortened view. Watch how many steps the WK takes to get up to the stumps. But generally McGrath pace except for the first season or two.
i imagine quicker than alderman, perhaps quicker than mcgrath. the tracks were uncovered, and would not have the bounce of today BUT would have more leteral movement, swing may have been increased by damp rising out of the wicket. sawdust for the run up and delivery stride were very much of that day.
yorkshire aren't strong, last time i looked at the table they were bottom of the second division. and after the so called restructuring of the club, i hope they never win another game, and YES i'm a yorkshiremen, absolute disgrace what has happened.
Genuinely great bowler. One of the finest medium pacers the game is seen. Made up for his lack of speed (look how close the keeper and slips are standing) with guille and skill.
Also. I cannot quite make out what it is but the frame rate is jumping too much so at normal speed it looks like a chuck. But at 0.25 speed it's clear its wrist movement.
After taking his 298th and 299th test wickets in successive balls, Fred was on a hat-trick for his 300th .... but then the lunch-break intervened, and some of the momentum was lost.
Fantastic to see the Aussie batsmen shaking Fred's hand after his 300th test wicket. Now that is cricket!
Yes it is. Imo the modern Australians became so competitive it killed the gentleman aspect out of the game.
Just seen most of the Australian team congratulate Zac Crawley on his 189 in the fourth Test in July 2023.
@@Bluepilled-c5tever heard of bodyline?
@@stewartdavies929 no
Amazing to see no histrionic celebrations after every wicket. And no helmets or other excessive padding!
Wonderful sportsmanship. No questioning every decision, or rejoicing as if they had won for lottery.
Genuine pace and movement. Line and length. It's all there. Fred Trueman is the yardstick for modern bowlers.
Perfect action, and incredible stamina. And never injured. And look at his opponents. Frankie Worrell, Garry Sobers, Conrad Hunt. That's the A-Team right there. Imagine Fred playing teams like Zimbabwe and Afghanistan then? He'd have been the first to 500 easily.
Top ten ever. Without a doubt.
vjnat94 It’s not a popularity contest.
I have had the enormous privilege of facing Fred Trueman in a match. He played for the MCC against my public school and I was very fortunate to be selected for the 1st XI, which was unusual as I normally captained the 2nd XI.
By then, he was past his fastest but he still was a fearsome bowler who swung and seamed it viciously. I lasted about a dozen balls and I hardly hit any. When they batted, he hit me twice over the pavilion, though I got 3 wickets in the end.
He was also very pleasant and unassuming after the game and signed as many autographs and posed for as many pictures as we wanted. I still have some. But I threw away the one of my off stump cartwheeling backwards, though.
One of the greatest cricketers of all time.
Geoffrey boycott copied
Lone Star ... I don't see any genuine pace ... I see James Anderson pace.
@@Bernie8330 Difficult to judge because of the quality of the film, and angle of the cameras etc. Bear in mind that by the time these matches were played Fred had been a professional cricketer for nearly 15 years and a test cricketer for around a decade so wasn't the fearsome fast bowler that reduced the Indians to four wickets down for no runs on his debut.
Not just the first Englishman to 300 test wickets, the first man ever.
Must have also been the first bowler ever to take 200 wickets in his own country. 229 of his 307 wickets were in England.
@@Bernie8330 That's party because he had the reputation of being a bad tourist, falling out with the MCC establishment and not being selected. Also England didn't tour every year in his day.
Thanks, I was racking my brains to think who got there before him.
Someone had to be... someone had to be first to take one... first to be one, first to get 50 etc etc...
Aggregates are always a function of how many Tests you play. They didn’t play many Tests annually before the 50s.
I remember when I was about 10 years old and in the members watching a test match between Australia and England when Fred Trueman walked up to the boundary and called us over and gave us ten bob to go and get him a six pack of Melbourne Botter and Australian beer. I remember we said to him that we were too young to buy the beer, so he signalled the guy selling the beer at the kiosk to sell us his beer. At the end of each over we gave him a beer and he kept on bowling faster and cleaned up the Australian team that day.. He also gave us the change for the beers, it really made our day.. What a great and funny and nice guy off the field.
What a heartwarming story❤. You are blessed to have witnessed the sport as it was back then. I wonder what you think of what has become of the game these days.
Great story. Fred a real gent, always played hard and fair. John Arlott did a great biog "Fred - Portrait of a Fast Bowler"
I love his style - just before the delivery, as he passes the bowler's wicket, he's almost perfectly sideways on to the batsman, his ball hand is back at about 4 o'clock and his left had is at about 10 o'clock and then there's a windmill of arms and the ball comes shooting out. Jeff Thompson has a similar style, but he almost seems to be free from gravity for a moment of time as he glides past the umpire...
Met Fred once, long after he'd retired. Good grief, that man could swear.
Good description Benj. He sure did swear and was funny in an abrupt sort of style. Freddie was on a "sports" panel of different athletes at a dinner once and he told a story about losing some fingers (I think it was fingers) and every second word was a curse or swearing. Seemed to be appropriately done in that gravelly Yorkshire (?) blather too.
Oh what a!shame he swore. I thought he was the most gorgeous looking man when he was younger. I would have cured him of swearing!! Heh.
Lol
@@janebrown1706 Well it sounds like that would have been a challenge you would have enjoyed!
That side-on slinging action was reminiscent of Jeff Thomson. Looks to be not much slower than Thommo too (at his peak definitely the fastest bowler I ever saw - and I've seen all the other contenders for "fastest ever" since then).
Probably the first time I've ever seen footage of Fred bowling. Great looking action, nice and side on. He was sharp too, moved the ball both ways.
He was a lot sharper before these clips. In the 50s he was rapid.
This was when he was in the twilight of his career and bowling fast medium swing and seamers, in his heyday he was seriously fast.
Wonderful to see such gracious Aussie batsmen.
I only heard about Freddie but now I watched him in action.Even today he would hv been deadly on any wicket.Simply great.Thanks for this video.-Love.
remember uncovered wickets in those day, it got wet, it seamed
Thankyou for this i never saw him. bowl. To getbgood batsmen playing nervous strokes, he was obviously very fast. Express 145 k plus at times. Marvelous
A truly great fast bowler.
Fred rolled his sleeve up every ball ,legend
Great opportunity to see Trueman.
Thanks
It is so nice to see how the team responds.
Look how quickly the batsmen walked when they knew they were out!
Yes, back in the day. No arguing with ump.
Yep
It started early on...as a child you joined a cricket club and you were told that,when the umpire told you that were out ...you were out! a
They were truly Gentlemen unlike the thugs these days . Cricket 🏏 is no longer a gentleman sport .
@@drsmart0078 what rubbish.
My hero as a kid!! Thanks for posting!😄
It’s a totally different game to day. I had the privilege of seeing him bowl.
Classic action and knowing how good he was.
I saw Freddie's 300th. I drew the fielder's position on the back of my ticket. Boycott's 100th 100 at Headingly. Brian Close lived next door when he was doing his National Service at Catterick Camp, Yorks. It's a tragedy to me that Test Match cricket is not free to air in TV. Young boys, as I was, lived those matches out in the garden
Don't forget that this is film was taken in 63 and 64 when Fred was 32 and 33 and past his prime. There's nothing from the early/mid 50's. By this time he had cut his run-up from 19 paces to 12 which cost him some speed but gave him even more control. Even so when the first technology was created for measuring the speed of bowlers in 1963, when Fred was 32, he still clocked 92/93 mph and the only other bowler to go over 90 mph was Wes Hall. Tyson, Lindwall, Miller and Adcock had all retired by then. Also with all of his experience that he had gained by then he would bowl to the conditions which didn't always mean bowling flat out.
Good point!
Absolutely! Well said...
have you seen a speedometer work in a late 50's early 60's car, it's all over the place.
I doubt he was 92 mph at 32. Possibly only Shoaib Akhtar could bowl that fast at 32, and he had all the modern training at his disposal
NOPE, not a chance in hell he was bowling over 90mph. The guy would have been high 70s at best.
Richie Benaud was a great cricketer and commentator too. Trueman had a beautiful, loping action.
The batsman shaking Trumans hand having just got out is proper sportsmanship
I was ten years old watching this on B&W telly in 1963. My Dad played for a local team in Yorkshire and he was a great admirer of Freddie Trueman, he said Fred was good at moving the ball through the air and on line & length he could hit a threepenny bit - which is how they used to practice :). Great days when sport wasn't big business.
Anyone see the cameo Trueman did in Dad's Army? He was way past his prime (1970) but the camera angle as he bowled the single ball required for the story showed the speed and athleticism of a top class fast bowler as he reached the crease.
No I haven't. Worth checking out?
Yep, Sgt Wilson bagged an unbeaten 81
'DAD'S ARMY' is what the press referred to ray illingworth's side that toured australia in 70 /71, until john snow introduced the aussie batsmen to the concept of having 'a new un ripped'.
it may well have been one of the very first england tours in cricket having started to take over from the MCC, in the mid 90's england players were taking the field in bacon and egg trimmed sweaters in NZ. they look a hell of a lot better than the cheap red muck they don today, which at least should be red and blue.
I have great respect for this bowler.He used to bowl outswinger from the edge of the crease as well as from close to stump also as all bowlers generally do.while bowling this type of outswinger,it was very hard to read his outswinger n straight ball.Batsmen were so scared n confused that they used to leave the ball which was in the line of their stumps considering it as outswinger n loose their stump.
What a smooth, beautiful bowling action.
not smooth
yup, very much so.
@@dogaredeemer2711 who was smoother then?
@@davec8730 Malcolm Marshall. Alan donald. Darren gough.
@@davec8730 his action has so many jerks and stops and you call it smooth. if thats smooth than bumrah and fanir de villiers is smoother
Richie Benaud was such a legend, for a sec I thought the opening clip was him presenting in the 60s
And he got a pair in the first part of the video, and was paying tribute to the man who did him.
I was born on the last day of Richie Benaud's last test match as a player. He was the best TV cricket commentator by far.
Show's Richie's professionalism to show a highlight reel in which he gets a pair.
Fred used to bowl a 1000 overs in a season, would Jimmy Anderson or Stuart Broad have taken so many test wickets if they had to take that sort of workload? If Fred had been wrapped up in cotton wool like they have been and played as many tests as they have imagine the wickets he would taken! He was the best in my view, 307 wickets in 67 tests, and 2300 wickets overall in first class cricket. 20 years leading the attack for Yorkshire, they don't build them like Fred anymore!!
I'd like to believe you're talking about practice sessions
@proud white christian he played first cricket for 20 seasons and took 2304 first class wickets, in first class cricket he bowled over 99000 deliveries divide by 6 and you get 16500 overs!!
@@thomascullimore9693 plus 2500 overs in tests
One significant statistic of Fred's test career was his strike rate (balls per wicket) of under 50. I don't think any other bowler who has taken 300+ test wickets matches that.
Dennis Lillee used to play all the Sheffield Shield matches between the tests matches. They were a different breed back then.
The ABC used to play Trumans records on the radio, he wad hilarious.
1:23 Brian Close looks like a middle-aged dude in 1963. Amazing to think he was called up to face the WI quicks in 1976!
Great to see Richie Benaud. The best.
I remember watching him take his 300th wicket while on holiday in Cornwall, on a black and white pay as you go tv that took 6d pieces.
Fantastic.
I used to have a way of sliding the money out of the box with a knife but you couldn't do it on every model. 🤗🤗
@@oleggorky906 I was far too young and innocent for anything like that.
@@crispinaske8293 so was I! Heck, it was the late seventies/early eighties when Radio Rentals were still around that I figured it out for myself, around eleven to thirteen years old, I can't remember exactly, but it was in that time slot😅😅
4:32 It's proper Cricket when you're able to admire even the fall of your own team's Wicket.
I personally just enjoy watching good fall of Wickets most of the time when watching Cricket.
Nikhilesh Surve
It's highly unlikely the footage is in order.
@@cquilty1 Yes it's quite possible. But the commentator saying "there's someone who admires him even though it's the other side" makes me think it could be genuine.
Great bowler. The lack of celebration is noticeable... more stoic times...
Spot on
Those were the days: beautiful bowling action, no bowler hysterics, batsmen eager to get off when out, Fred having to do up his sleeve every ball, terrible camera work, women with funny hats on, kids with shorts and ties......
WOW! No " high fives " , no hugs and " hoorahs ". No shirts looking like a billboard. Great cricket days. Sitting on the grass watching a sporting contest uninterrupted by constant reviews. Happier days. 😊🇬🇷
Love how the batsmen immediately walk in those days, instead of looking around for an excuse.
"I wouldn't say he hated batsman, just that he intensely disliked them." That's a phrase that's pure Benaud.
No lengthy reviews, no sledging, no excuses about pitches - just the game with bat and ball.
The most obvious thing is how promptly the batsmen walk when dismissed
I remember listening to Freddie Truman commentate on tv in Australia in the very early days of post World Series Cricket. His co commentator was a very new to the job, Tony Greig. The conversation turned inevitably to how things were done “in my day” as all ex player commentators inevitably do at some point. Truman said something about his own career and Greig had a joking jibe to the effect not remembering any of it because he was too young, implying that Truman’s deeds were ancient history. Quick as a flash, Truman, in his Yorkshire accent dryly replied: “Just look in the record books, son. It’s all in there”. You could hear all the other off air commentators pissing themselves (as I bet so was Greig) at the great man putting the youngster firmly back in his place.
Short leg with no helmet or shin pads.. brave boys in those days.. great action from Fred 👍
You cant imagine any batter now congratulating a bowler on a milestone like that, let alone being the first one to shake his hand before any teammates, in an Ashes match as well!
Fred did a bit of stand-up comedy when he retired as well as getting a few quid in clubs doing reminisces and anecdotes. Most of us have heard them but wonder if 2 famous on field quips of his were true? First was a new young nervous Aussie batsman in his first test opening the gate to go to the crease. Fred, fielding nearby, said, "Don't bother closing t'gate lad you'll be back in two minutes!" And the other famous one was when he was captaining his beloved Yorkshire against the hated Lancashire in a final. Lancashire needed a 4 to win. The batsman hit a ball and it went straight between a fielder's legs to the boundary. After the game he apologised to Fred, "Sorry boss, I should have kept mi legs together." "Neah lad", said Fred, "Your mother should have kept hers together!" Probably apocryphal especially the second one. Sure you've all heard them before but he was a funny bloke. 😂
When the classy Benaud says something it worth listening to.
Fred's wicket taking average in tests was only just over 21 which makes him one of the greatest bowlers of all time. The best bowler I've seen in my time watching the game was Malcolm Marshall - Fred can't be too far behind him.
Notice how the fielders didn't go into hysterics at the fall of a wicket. (even the 300th).
And the Aussie batsmen should his hand.
what a gorgeous action
Saw Fred play at Bradford Park Avenue
Great video
Great memories looking back☺
Brian Johnson appealing in the commentary box!🤣
No 'going upstairs' for the video review. The batsman accepted the Umpire's decision. Very little overtly congratulating of the bowler/fielder when a wicket is taken either. That was, after all, their job. Fred was one of England & Yorkshire's bowlers. I remember my Dad being furious when he (Fred, not my Dad) was dropped from the England side. A time when the Selectors had their favourites when it came to team selection - if you were popular you were in, if not then you stood no chance however good you were.
The excited person was the commentator!
Finest bowling action ever!
How much quieter the whole deal was amongst the players of yesteryear. No great displays of emotion, telling the batsman to F off, etc. Just work hard and what appears to be respect for the opposition. Refreshing to see, actually.
Ah...so many cricketing memories. I recall Ray Lindwall bowling for Australia against Gloucestershire
back in the day and he seemed to employ a similar run-up to the wicket but with a straighter-arm delivery,
a bit like a javelin thrower.
i saw Fred bowling for Yorkshire when the aussies came to Bramall Lane in Sheffield. He bowled their opener first ball. Since then I have had 5 siamese cats, all of which have been named Fred.
Watching this footage of good old fashioned sportsmanship and no carrying on like a pork chop makes cricket look so much enjoyable.Instead of now wishing it would hurry up and finish for football season to start.
A great cricketer ❤
Fantastic bowling action
Cool. A young Derryk Murray got to keep to Hall and Griffiths as well as Roberts, Holding, Garner and Croft.
Freddie Tru(man)ly ,simply
Classic bowling!-Love.
His action described by sir donald bradman as the perfect action
Would have liked to have seen Fiery Fred's wickets in his debut Test against India (Headingley 1952) when he reduced them to 0-4 in their 2nd innings.
Fred Trueman introduced me to the Yorkshire version of the Australian 'dummy spit". He was out here in the Great Southern Land, doing some commentary work. In one match he called, there was a sudden blow up out on the field with some player going to market over something he didn't like. Fred made the dry-as-dust remark about this as, "Ello, 'e's chooked teddy out t' cot!"
I nearly dropped me beer laughing!
Wonderful stuff - and did you notice, no gaudy advertisements on the pitch, none on the players, no ugly stickers on the bats, stumps and so on. Okay, helmets look ugly as well, but they are for safety. I would certainly want one, if not a suit of armour. And as others have said, no sledging, no dissension, no ugliness, no schoolboy histrionics every time a wicket goes down. And how nice on Fred's 300th test wicket that the first to congratulate him was the Aussie batsman he'd just dismissed.
I'm afraid nearly every sport has been affected by money. Become a star in sport, and you can make a fortune in sponsorship deals and TV appearances. Not much room for gentlemanly sportsmanship these days.
And no rainbow colours on the stumps!
you pay their wages then without sponsorship, dreamer.
Look at his foot prints . The mark of a good bowler
What a contrast to today! No great triumphalism on taking a wicket, some applause of course and congratulations but not the sort of behaviour you see today. Then the batsman he's just dismissed shaking his hand has he made his way back to the pavilion.
Absolutely Graeme, no high fives, hugging, or dissent from the batsman.
@@rugbydad678 Some of that hugging! Have they forgotten that children will be watching?
T20 isn't sport - it's show business.
@@a.jamesstretton3813 And not very good at that.
1963. 7 years old going on 8... I thought Freddie was the best and wanted to bowl just like him. Copied his style, the run and that hop, unfortunately my ambition outweighed my talent and I managed to achieve absolute mediocracy as a bowler, good, but nothing to write home about. It's great to see him again, thank you for posting.😁👍👍👍👍👍
I remember seeing his 300th at the time on telly in the UK - I think it was live, but it may have been on the news. It was 60 years ago...
No hugging of the bowler or loud shouts by team mates. Batsmen putting bat under the arm and marching off before umpires finger goes up!
My boyhood hero along with Jimmy Greaves.
The back foot no-ball rule helped him, as he was able to drag and then release the ball feet further up the pitch than is allowed these days with the front foot trule.
No hugging or leaping or even smiling?
Most excited person was the commentator!
Celebrations after the wickets is more like a dot ball.
The batsmen congratulating him as well. That's how the game should still be played.
Remember all those games went to a couple,Fiery Fred was to me the most fearsome bowler cricket ever had,yes I’m from Yorkshire !
'fearsome' are we talking the fear of getting out, or fear of being hit with the ball?
Those were the days!!
Loved the celebrations ZERO just a slap on the back 👍👍👍👍👍👍
Ball wasn't passed to umpire in those days!
His bowling action was sweet
Freddy didn’t need the ridiculously long run-ups of other fast bowlers. Great bowler and sportsman.
I love Neil Hawke congratulating Trueman on his 30th wicket. Nowadays, he'd probably insult him obscenely. Cheers, Steve Waugh!
You’re talking rubbish.
I wonder what his speed gun reading would be, around 90mph?
In his career there were over 30 Tests from when Fred made his international debut to his international retirement where he was fit to be selected but the English selectors decided to choose someone else. 🤷♂️
Were those 30 tests in England or overseas? 229 of his 307 test wickets were in England. Seems he was even more of an English conditions specialist than James Anderson.
@@Bernie8330 they only toured every other year so most of those he was not selected for would have been home tests.
@@Bernie8330 The best English fast bowlers, were often 'rested ' for overseas tours in 1950s, apart, usually, from tours of Australia.
@@Bernie8330 He was a great bowler in Australia too.
Had he been an Australian, bowling on their fast wickets, he would have been the first fast bowler to reach 400 test wickets.
Fred was selected for only four overseas tours during his career. The ones he didn't go on represented a lot of missed opportunities. He wasn't always in good odour with the stuffed-shirts at the MCC, notably Gubby Allen, who could never get over the fact that Fred was a better paceman than he'd ever been.
At one time in the 1950's my dad took me to see a cricket match and watch Fred Truman bowling. From time to time dad would put his hands over my ears should anyone drop a catch off Fred's bowling, yes, Freddie did use some choice words in those days.
he's undoubtabley learn't it from Brian Sellers the yorkshire captain when fred started, they said you could hear Sellers effing and blinding in the crowd when a catch was dropped.
From reading the comments it seem quite a few Australians have commented about Fred's action.
One reason Dennis Lillee ended up taking so many test wickets was that at one point when not doing so well, he sought advice from Fred - and got it!
Why is the keeper standing so close to the stumps? I mean I've heard Freddy was really quick. Or was he medium fast like Terry Alderman and Glenn Mccgrath?
The old cameras tended to give a shortened view. Watch how many steps the WK takes to get up to the stumps. But generally McGrath pace except for the first season or two.
i imagine quicker than alderman, perhaps quicker than mcgrath.
the tracks were uncovered, and would not have the bounce of today BUT would have more leteral movement, swing may have been increased by damp rising out of the wicket.
sawdust for the run up and delivery stride were very much of that day.
Extremely fast an even more accurate
When Yorkshire is strong, England is strong. RIP fiery Freddie.
yorkshire aren't strong, last time i looked at the table they were bottom of the second division. and after the so called restructuring of the club, i hope they never win another game, and YES i'm a yorkshiremen, absolute disgrace what has happened.
The loveliest bit for me is Neil Hawke, having been caught out, shaking his hand. Now an Aussie would no doubt sledge him. More gentlemanly game.
i think in the current series the ausies have shown more 'class' than the england players have.
Good strategy. Transferring hair oil from his hair to the ball. Love F.S.
quite possibly.
Genuinely great bowler. One of the finest medium pacers the game is seen. Made up for his lack of speed (look how close the keeper and slips are standing) with guille and skill.
When cricket was played by cricketers who played, not for money or fame but for the game of cricket.
In additon to being a brilliant bowler he was a hilariosly funny public speaker.
the names here all legends
4:00 ??? chuck ?
4:26 ?
Watch it at 0.25 speed. He's definitely got a delayed action with wrist movement. It's not a chuck
Also. I cannot quite make out what it is but the frame rate is jumping too much so at normal speed it looks like a chuck. But at 0.25 speed it's clear its wrist movement.
@@theuberindian3988 Yes, at 0.25x playback speed it does look like a bent wrist at both times but in normal speed it certainly looks suspicious.
Are u stupid or what
He bhagwan.!what a firy action!
After taking his 298th and 299th test wickets in successive balls, Fred was on a hat-trick for his 300th .... but then the lunch-break intervened, and some of the momentum was lost.
Notice how the batsmen walked without waiting for the umpires to call out.