There was very little media coverage post match in those days. In a rare interview after the 1956 massacre Laker spoke of his brief stop at an Inn near Manchester. "I stopped and had a cup of tea and a sandwich while watching myself on television replays," he said. "No one in the room recognised me which was good after taking those 19 wickets."
Utterly amazing performance, I remember Jim Laker as having a brilliant voice for test cricket, deep and mellow, I was born after his incredible feat, but a true legend - thanks Jim 👍🇬🇧
This feat is yet to be broken after a lapse of 68 years. Only Anil kumble did 50 percent by taking 10 wickets against Pakistan in Delhi n 1999.People who witnessed this golden Test match are luckiest. Remember Lakers did this against a mighty very strong batting lineup of Australia. Thanks for loading this golden clip.
Brilliant bowling !! Australia were caught on a spinning deck but Laker was ruthless and so accurate.Tony Locke,who got the other wicket was no slouch in the Test arena,with longevity and wickets ( left arm spinner).
An astonishing feat that will surely never be equalled. Looking at Jim's body language, it was as if he was playing a knockabout village match rather than am Ashes Test. Such a modest and humble chap, and someone who probably felt a bit embarrassed at all the adulation this incredible performance merited.
The days when tour matches were played and were regarded as important. Attracted big crowds and were competitive.Then the counties started to put out weakened teams. Then they were scrapped altogether
@@besserman1Just before we had Bradman's famous Invincibles who weren't defeated in England. Club games versus Tourists was next level to Tests in England. In Australia the good Sheffield Shield sides used to give the Pommy tourists a bit of hurry up at times !!
In 1989 I spoke to Burt Flack who had prepared the wicket. I asked whether he had instructions on the preparation? He said headquarters told him to take the grass off it, he said , I went one better and took the dirt off it! Lovely man ,legendary groundsman at Old Trafford.
Background music is odd. Also, no mention that the groundsmen at Headingley & Old Trafford were ordered to produce dry, dusty pitches to suit England after Australia won at Lord's due to their pace attack.
Why? England had Trueman, Tyson and Statham. Their pace attack was better than Australia's, who, after Crawford broke down, only had the ageing Miller.
@@johnnicholson956 At the time of the Old Trafford test, Miller was aged 36 and Ray Lindwall 34. Ron Archer was only 22. Ken Mackay (aged 30) could bowl military medium but wasn't used, I guess for obvious reasons. Neither Pat Crawford (22) nor Alan Davidson (27) played in that match. On the England side, Statham was 26. Neither Trueman (25) nor Tyson (26) was selected. Trevor Bailey was 32. Of the spinners playing, Laker was aged 34, Lock 27, Ian Johnson 38 and Richie Benaud 25. From memory this was also the match where the selectors recalled The Rev David Sheppard and he rewarded them by scoring a century. There's an anecdote when Sheppard (in another match) put down a sitter in the slips and the distraught bowler sought consolation from Fred Trueman who remarked "Don't be surprised, David only puts his hands together on Sundays".
It couldn't ever be beaten!! Test bowlers have to be the best now and most attacks are balanced so that bowlers all chime in for wickets - look at Starc,Hazelwood,Cummins and Lyon !!
Because it was nothing bigger than a club match, Australia and England was very much the same country back then.The standard of the game too was very low, umpires were unprofessional and players were cheating.
It’s one thing for a bowler not to over celebrate taking a wicket but it’s almost as if Laker was furious at picking up wickets. At one point one of the dismissed batsmen walked of and jauntily threw his bat into the air while Laker looked really enraged. Taking the final wicket which gave him the match figures of 19 for 90 would have been the final straw for Laker and no doubt he went home and vandalised his own house in fury.
@@AsadAli-jc5tg not sure you'd find many agreeing... Cowdrey, May, Bailey, Evans, Harvey, Benaud, Miller, Lindwall, etc etc etc... Some of the greats of Test cricket. I think a cut above club sides!
R. Hadlee could have done ten in an innings, but he would have had to drop a catch to do it. Je said he actually thought about it as the ball was in the air, but knew he couldn't deprive Evan Gray of his first test wicket. 19 in the match tho. Extraordinary.
How great to see players just shaking hands instead of all the ridiculous antics nowadays when a wicket falls. Just look at Broad sprinting round the field like a greyhound. The players will soon be pulling their shirts of like the pathetic footballers when they score a goal.
9:14 - get those cricket whites higher up to your barrel chest, jim!! I bet he had a lovely old chug on his pipe after his 19 wickets did jim. Fair play.
Interesting to see how batsmen that were out walked off quickly ... maybe to help hide their shame. Today they just hang around and walk off very slowly as they have no shame.
At the end of an innings the groundsmen used to tidy up the creases with an old fashioned broom. On the second day, mid afternoon, there were even worse dust clouds than in the Old Trafford Test against the West Indies in 1950. Unique. You hardly saw it in the county game there, and only in those two Tests. Apparently some Old Trafford grandee had ordered an extra shaving of the pitch on the first morning. Cowdrey and Richardson opened on an almost grassless surface. If Ian Johnson had won the toss........
Can't beleive it. Everybody in the video is no more apart from Neil Harvey. Warne gone too unexpected and too soon. A fortnight before his death I saw this video and thought Neil and Warne are the only ones alive from this video....
Harvey and Warne are 4 decades apart.Warne might not have been born when this Test match took place.Harvey did reasonably well in the Test if my memory goes right.I followed it up through A.I.R.commentary.
Apparently he stopped off at a pub on the way home had a half and a sandwich. It came on over the radio about lakers achievement. Nobody recognised him .....different times .
Yep, only two match hauls of 16 or more in Ashes matches: Laker with 19 and Massie with 16 (on debut). In other Tests there's one 17-for (Sydney Barnes) and two 16-fors (Narendra Hirwani, on debut, and Muttiah Muralidaran).
@@flamingfrancis Yes, and as you may remember, Narendra Hirwani beat that by one run (16-136) on *his* debut, on a raging bunsen in India. But neither he nor Massie ever hit those heights again.
Re Laker's ball that bowled Neil Harvey..... John Bracewell bowled Allan Border with an almost identical delivery in Sydney in 1985. (See ruclips.net/video/ZJaHJpAA2J4/видео.html at around 35:35)
Aussie batters going backfoot to full length off spinners - cannot fathom why they did not go front foot to the pitch of the ball and play with soft hands.
Money actually began to spoil the game much sooner. Television was already having an impact upon live audiences even when this game was played. Television, undoubtedly, was what enforced covering upon English pitches, although it was clear to most observers that covered pitches were rigged against spin bowlers (Trevor Bailey himself and David Green said that quite clearly between the 1980s and 2000s). If you watch the game, the ball spins or appears to spin incredibly fast compared to anything observed today under fully covered pitches. Reading 1980s Wisdens voraciously in the 1990s, I always assumed that Lloyd’s and Richards’ West Indian sides of the 1980s would have had no chance of beating Laker and Lock under the conditions prevailing in 1956 (of course excluding the second test where their fast bowlers certainly would have triumphed easily).
He would have thought about it but as I remember the Windies bowlers didn't need any extra incentive to tear into opposition batsmen.Imran was some cricketer and was good with the bat!!He is remembered,among other things,for teaching NSW bowlers how to bowl reverse swing in his stint for the State.
I seem to remember that in Australia's second innings Lindwall had trouble fastening the gate on his way out and a voice in the crowd, said 'Never mind lad, you can shut it on your way back, a couple of minutes makes no odds' and Lindwall laughed. There was humour in Cricket those days. When Rowe and Greenidge were butchering the bowling in a test versus the West Indies late on Friday evening a man in the crowd who had come in to watch the last hour, very much a professional gentleman looked at his watch and said 'I must go for the bus' a West Indian put his hands on hiis shoulders, and turned him round, and said 'Don't bother man all the bus drivers are here!'
.....and Ray Lindwall was some fast bowler!!He and Keith Miller were a fearsome combination. Miller was quick with an awesome bouncer and caused the great Len Hutton to backpedal and step on his stumps in one Test !! Lindwall had a great outswinger and was quick with his rhythmic action.
You can ONLY rely on 'taking the piss' when you are NOT the genius everyone is talking about. Is it true the bowler who had 6 x 6's taken off his over in a county game by Gary Sobers said to him: "Remember I go into the record books with you!!."??
@@JimMcCrudden-w6gI'll bet big money ( not the house though) that it never happens again !!First the wicket and the fact that Test attacks of all nations have a balanced attack and all bowlers chime in for their share - maybe Bumrah for India gets more than his share at the moment but 19 in a TEST!!I'll bet against that forever !!
It may have been, but other teams did such much more in later years, for instance the West Indies did it in the 1985/1986 series to make it easier for their pace battery, and Pakistan made deliberately spin-friendly pitches two seasons later.
It still takes skill to get those wickets, and Locke was just as good and only got one wicket during the whole test match , the same can be said of Derrick Underwood at the Oval in 1968 and took 7 wickets to draw the series at 1-1 against Australia, and Headingley in 1972 to retain the Ashes , and not forgetting Lords in 1974 where he took 13 wickets on another turning pitch, but you need the skill to take those wickets ……. Jim Laker , Tony Locke and Derrick Underwood where fantastic test match spinners for England, the past is gone and the present is for the moment baz ball……
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@@hyena131 Mate ignore him. Typical Indian fan. When Indian spinners do well, it's talent. When foreign spinners do it it's ball tampering. Just idiots. Ruin the fun of cricket
@@cquilty1 😂😂😂😂 was proven beyond reasonable doubt that he was not chucker as per extensive tests analysis in world renowned biomechanics laboratories not only in Australia but also in the UK and also by video evidence using thousands of footages 😂😂. . So majority goes by scientific evidence not by white Australian policies or few white man's preference over performance based on skin tone😂😂
@@warsil3735 Here is an exert from Murali's profile on the widely respected ESPN cricinfo: "Perhaps no cricketer since Douglas Jardine has polarised opinion quite like Muthiah Muralidaran. For the believers, he's among the greatest to ever spin a ball. For the doubters, he's a charlatan undeserving of the game's greatest records, responsible for changes in the laws that they think have legitimised throwing." Still doubts linger over the chucker Murali:) As for your "So majority goes by scientific evidence not by white Australian policies or few white man's preference over performance based on skin tone", this is what many would consider hate speech/racism (I did not mention skin tone or race and nor do I see a need to) and clearly reveals your anger, impotence and lack of height. And of course we all know this type of race related rage and anger nearly always comes almost exclusively from the sub-continent, and your RUclips account can be terminated for this. Sad really.
@warsil3735 "Muralithatan has boweled far bertter unplayable ballscampared ro lsker or warne", you babble. Huh?? Some friendly advice - spend more time learning the basics of written English in lieu of being so hate filled and obsessed with nationalism. Trust me - you'll be much happier:) PS. This video has *N-O-T-H-I-N-G* to with Warne. But your racism, hate, rage and anger makes you bring him up. *LOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!!!!*
What about the " Gatting Ball ",the great Shane Warne. I know that's ony one example but no one will beat that !! Mike Gatting was a great batsman !! A horse in Victoria was even named after that ball - "The Gatting Ball ".That bend the elbow issue still worries me with Murali.I know he was a brilliant bowler but they changed the rule a bit didn't they ?I saw Col Eager no ball Ian Meckiff out of Australia's attack when Richie Benaud was captain of Aus.
As a kid I loved listening to Jim Laker’s commentary.
Thankyou Richie! Dayvittt Gower taking strike.
A proper gentleman, who was modest to the hilt, and a great commentator of the game too. A complete legend.
I could listen to Richie all day. RIP friend.
Vale !! Great cricket captain, irreplaceable commentator !!
There was very little media coverage post match in those days.
In a rare interview after the 1956 massacre Laker spoke of his brief stop at an Inn near Manchester.
"I stopped and had a cup of tea and a sandwich while watching myself on television replays," he said.
"No one in the room recognised me which was good after taking those 19 wickets."
Very interesting!!
Utterly amazing performance, I remember Jim Laker as having a brilliant voice for test cricket, deep and mellow, I was born after his incredible feat, but a true legend - thanks Jim 👍🇬🇧
What a fabulous video. Thank you so much!
Incredible feat, but a very humble man and a great commentator.
This feat is yet to be broken after a lapse of 68 years. Only Anil kumble did 50 percent by taking 10 wickets against Pakistan in Delhi n 1999.People who witnessed this golden Test match are luckiest. Remember Lakers did this against a mighty very strong batting lineup of Australia. Thanks for loading this golden clip.
Have no doubts. This will never be replicated.
Unplayable.
Brilliant bowling !! Australia were caught on a spinning deck but Laker was ruthless and so accurate.Tony Locke,who got the other wicket was no slouch in the Test arena,with longevity and wickets ( left arm spinner).
Remember watching the Laker Test live.
Absolutely hated the background music, Jim laker what a legend.
agreed - totally inappropriate arty rubbish
Very memorable very special for all , players spectators and fens all over the cricketing world.
An astonishing feat that will surely never be equalled. Looking at Jim's body language, it was as if he was playing a knockabout village match rather than am Ashes Test. Such a modest and humble chap, and someone who probably felt a bit embarrassed at all the adulation this incredible performance merited.
Fantastic!🎉 Jim Laker! 🙏 🤲 🎉❤ 🏏
Alan oakman is my granddad and i miss him so much xx
I hadn’t realised he’d already taken 10 wickets in an innings against the Aussies earlier in a tour match.
Incredible.
The days when tour matches were played and were regarded as important. Attracted big crowds and were competitive.Then the counties started to put out weakened teams. Then they were scrapped altogether
I had not known that either.
I used to love Jim Laker’s commentary and Frank Tyson’s too...both very knowledgeable....👍👍👍
@@besserman1Just before we had Bradman's famous Invincibles who weren't defeated in England. Club games versus Tourists was next level to Tests in England. In Australia the good Sheffield Shield sides used to give the Pommy tourists a bit of hurry up at times !!
A great Yorkshireman who never played for Yorkshire, much to my regret.
In 1989 I spoke to Burt Flack who had prepared the wicket. I asked whether he had instructions on the preparation? He said headquarters told him to take the grass off it, he said , I went one better and took the dirt off it! Lovely man ,legendary groundsman at Old Trafford.
Great insight, Bubbles
The surprising thing is at that time cricket was very very slow, but still people used to come in large attendance.., that shows love for sports
400 in one day is hardly slow. It was slow when survival was the agenda like Close and Boycott vs Liilee and Thompson
Excellent Enterprising Endeavour 👍
50 years from 1956. ☺️ That was a good era.
What an iconic match....
Background music is odd. Also, no mention that the groundsmen at Headingley & Old Trafford were ordered to produce dry, dusty pitches to suit England after Australia won at Lord's due to their pace attack.
Why? England had Trueman, Tyson and Statham. Their pace attack was better than Australia's, who, after Crawford broke down, only had the ageing Miller.
@@johnnicholson956 Read history. The English told the Aussies that, after Lord's, they wouldn't get another pitch like that.
@@johnnicholson956 At the time of the Old Trafford test, Miller was aged 36 and Ray Lindwall 34. Ron Archer was only 22. Ken Mackay (aged 30) could bowl military medium but wasn't used, I guess for obvious reasons. Neither Pat Crawford (22) nor Alan Davidson (27) played in that match. On the England side, Statham was 26. Neither Trueman (25) nor Tyson (26) was selected. Trevor Bailey was 32. Of the spinners playing, Laker was aged 34, Lock 27, Ian Johnson 38 and Richie Benaud 25.
From memory this was also the match where the selectors recalled The Rev David Sheppard and he rewarded them by scoring a century. There's an anecdote when Sheppard (in another match) put down a sitter in the slips and the distraught bowler sought consolation from Fred Trueman who remarked "Don't be surprised, David only puts his hands together on Sundays".
Always one who has something nasty to say. Can't just accept brilliance.
@@peterfrazer1943 which bit is nasty, pal?
A record that will not be beaten for a long long time.
…and if it is it will only be by one wicket !
It couldn't ever be beaten!! Test bowlers have to be the best now and most attacks are balanced so that bowlers all chime in for wickets - look at Starc,Hazelwood,Cummins and Lyon !!
The background music is a recording of Tony Lock wailing!
Compare the reactions from all players to reactions today. Laker looks almost unconcerned.
That's right... There would be never ending high-fives, aeroplanes, running about, whooping, etc etc etc...
Wonder if he was man of the match?? 🤔🤣
@@handyvickersHow dare they😡
Because it was nothing bigger than a club match, Australia and England was very much the same country back then.The standard of the game too was very low, umpires were unprofessional and players were cheating.
It’s one thing for a bowler not to over celebrate taking a wicket but it’s almost as if Laker was furious at picking up wickets.
At one point one of the dismissed batsmen walked of and jauntily threw his bat into the air while Laker looked really enraged.
Taking the final wicket which gave him the match figures of 19 for 90 would have been the final straw for Laker and no doubt he went home and vandalised his own house in fury.
@@AsadAli-jc5tg not sure you'd find many agreeing... Cowdrey, May, Bailey, Evans, Harvey, Benaud, Miller, Lindwall, etc etc etc... Some of the greats of Test cricket. I think a cut above club sides!
Remove the background music as it does not suit the clip
Absolutely
@@rahulbuddhadev8976 Yes, there's no use of any music in this video.
R. Hadlee could have done ten in an innings, but he would have had to drop a catch to do it.
Je said he actually thought about it as the ball was in the air, but knew he couldn't deprive Evan Gray of his first test wicket.
19 in the match tho. Extraordinary.
All the great's have gone now R.I.P to all 🏏😢
Add Warne too 💔
Harvey's still alive
JL a legend , the batsmen had no clue , the foot work, barely there , playing spin was a mystery back then.
Strange picture at 3.14, considering Tony Lock bowled slow left-arm.
It was gentle men's game. But today its no more,
How great to see players just shaking hands instead of all the ridiculous antics nowadays when a wicket falls. Just look at Broad sprinting round the field like a greyhound. The players will soon be pulling their shirts of like the pathetic footballers when they score a goal.
9:14 - get those cricket whites higher up to your barrel chest, jim!! I bet he had a lovely old chug on his pipe after his 19 wickets did jim. Fair play.
Interesting to see how batsmen that were out walked off quickly ... maybe to help hide their shame. Today they just hang around and walk off very slowly as they have no shame.
These days there would be endless referring up to the TV umpire....
At the end of an innings the groundsmen used to tidy up the creases with an old fashioned broom. On the second day, mid afternoon, there were even worse dust clouds than in the Old Trafford Test against the West Indies in 1950. Unique. You hardly saw it in the county game there, and only in those two Tests. Apparently some Old Trafford grandee had ordered an extra shaving of the pitch on the first morning. Cowdrey and Richardson opened on an almost grassless surface. If Ian Johnson had won the toss........
My only brother was at Old Trafford to see Jim Laker take his final few wickets in his 10 wicket haul....
Can't beleive it. Everybody in the video is no more apart from Neil Harvey. Warne gone too unexpected and too soon. A fortnight before his death I saw this video and thought Neil and Warne are the only ones alive from this video....
Harvey and Warne are 4 decades apart.Warne might not have been born when this Test match took place.Harvey did reasonably well in the Test if my memory goes right.I followed it up through A.I.R.commentary.
In local cricket I once took 9-32. My team mate says he wished he had purposely dropped the catch he took for the last wicket 😣
Congratulations!!Huge effort in any cricket context!!
Apparently he stopped off at a pub on the way home had a half and a sandwich. It came on over the radio about lakers achievement. Nobody recognised him .....different times .
From memory the next highest ashes haul was bob massie with 16.
Narendra Gidwani also took 16 wickets in a Test Match.
Hidwani for Gidwani.
@@krishnansubramanian8955 in the ashes lol.
Yep, only two match hauls of 16 or more in Ashes matches: Laker with 19 and Massie with 16 (on debut). In other Tests there's one 17-for (Sydney Barnes) and two 16-fors (Narendra Hirwani, on debut, and Muttiah Muralidaran).
Laker took 19 Kumble took 14 and Aijaz Patel took 15 wickets
Nopes. Ajaz also took 14.
Hedley Verity took 15 against Australia, Lord's 1934, and Wilfred Rhodes took 15 several years earlier. Both slow left-arm bowlers from Yorkshire!
Bob Massie 16-137 in his debut Ashes Test, Lord's 1972
@@flamingfrancis Yes, and as you may remember, Narendra Hirwani beat that by one run (16-136) on *his* debut, on a raging bunsen in India. But neither he nor Massie ever hit those heights again.
@@flamingfrancis I think he only played 5 tests in total
Don't see anyone beating that. Even in club cricket I don't see it happening after 12 years old👏👏👏👏
Re Laker's ball that bowled Neil Harvey..... John Bracewell bowled Allan Border with an almost identical delivery in Sydney in 1985. (See ruclips.net/video/ZJaHJpAA2J4/видео.html at around 35:35)
Who was not out in the 2nd innings?
Whose wicket did Laker cannot capture in the 1st innings?
Ian Johnson was not out.
Jimmy Burke was the wicket Laker did not take in the first innings.
A great achievement but Laker would be the first to admit the pitch was a major factor in his record.
And it was !! But he still had to get the wickets like a golfer has to get the ball in the hole,!!
I find the over celebrating and berating of the umpire appalling. So pleased we have moved on from this behaviour.
What a contrast to Baz Ball in 2023 !
jim laker 19 wickets in 1956 test v Australia.
Great video - shame about the screaming banshee background cacophony.
who were the commentators?
Brian Johnston was certainly one.
what a stupid music background. Get rid of it............
Lock was a leg spinner not a finger spinner.
What an odd choice of music that doesn’t suit the video at all. It’s the sort of music you have when opening an artery! 😳
What about Narendra Hirwani?
WHO.
Aussie batters going backfoot to full length off spinners - cannot fathom why they did not go front foot to the pitch of the ball and play with soft hands.
Actual cricket then played.After1985 money spoiled the game
Money actually began to spoil the game much sooner. Television was already having an impact upon live audiences even when this game was played. Television, undoubtedly, was what enforced covering upon English pitches, although it was clear to most observers that covered pitches were rigged against spin bowlers (Trevor Bailey himself and David Green said that quite clearly between the 1980s and 2000s). If you watch the game, the ball spins or appears to spin incredibly fast compared to anything observed today under fully covered pitches.
Reading 1980s Wisdens voraciously in the 1990s, I always assumed that Lloyd’s and Richards’ West Indian sides of the 1980s would have had no chance of beating Laker and Lock under the conditions prevailing in 1956 (of course excluding the second test where their fast bowlers certainly would have triumphed easily).
Hope Imran didn't regret that beamer to Lloyd when he himself had to bat against Holding, Roberts & Marshall later! LOL!
He would have thought about it but as I remember the Windies bowlers didn't need any extra incentive to tear into opposition batsmen.Imran was some cricketer and was good with the bat!!He is remembered,among other things,for teaching NSW bowlers how to bowl reverse swing in his stint for the State.
I seem to remember that in Australia's second innings Lindwall had trouble fastening the gate on his way out and a voice in the crowd, said 'Never mind lad, you can shut it on your way back, a couple of minutes makes no odds' and Lindwall laughed. There was humour in Cricket those days. When Rowe and Greenidge were butchering the bowling in a test versus the West Indies late on Friday evening a man in the crowd who had come in to watch the last hour, very much a professional gentleman looked at his watch and said 'I must go for the bus' a West Indian put his hands on hiis shoulders, and turned him round, and said 'Don't bother man all the bus drivers are here!'
Thankyou !! So different from humour now.Remember " Yabba " on the Hill at the SCG.
.....and Ray Lindwall was some fast bowler!!He and Keith Miller were a fearsome combination. Miller was quick with an awesome bouncer and caused the great Len Hutton to backpedal and step on his stumps in one Test !! Lindwall had a great outswinger and was quick with his rhythmic action.
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A lot Of Cricketers played n won da Cup but never & ever Unforeseeable The greatest Oldest more beautiful Lords playground Of Shapes 👍💪👌✍👈
what?
Enjoyable video. Silly, meaningless music.
Uncovered pitches and the captain tells the groundsmen what sort of pitch he wants
The groundskeeper would be arrested for match fixing if he prepared a wicket like that these days.
Nonsense , the home team can prepare the wicket in any way they choose as long as it’s not dangerous
basically an amateur sport back then, 8 ball overs no barmy army 😁
Bloody awful music!
01:55 LORDS the usual england graveyard, stop playing at the museam.
Oh no, it rained in Manchester. What are the chances of 5hat ever happening again?
"It promised to be a turning wicket .."
Meaning: Right Groundsman, produce a bunsen or find another job...
You can ONLY rely on 'taking the piss' when you are NOT the genius everyone is talking about. Is it true the bowler who had 6 x 6's taken off his over in a county game by Gary Sobers said to him: "Remember I go into the record books with you!!."??
Ted Laker Yorkshireman...'nuff said...
Ted Laker? I think you mean his brother, Jim!
So Colin McDonald was not a walker then :)
🙌
To say, 'It'll never happen again', is stupid.
To say "To say, 'It'll never happen again', is stupid" is stupid.
How much would you bet it will never happen again?
@@JimMcCrudden-w6gI'll bet big money ( not the house though) that it never happens again !!First the wicket and the fact that Test attacks of all nations have a balanced attack and all bowlers chime in for their share - maybe Bumrah for India gets more than his share at the moment but 19 in a TEST!!I'll bet against that forever !!
Wicket was unplayable..
The wicket was doctored.
It may have been, but other teams did such much more in later years, for instance the West Indies did it in the 1985/1986 series to make it easier for their pace battery, and Pakistan made deliberately spin-friendly pitches two seasons later.
Doctored wicket, pure and simple. Great bowler? Too funny.
It still takes skill to get those wickets, and Locke was just as good and only got one wicket during the whole test match , the same can be said of Derrick Underwood at the Oval in 1968 and took 7 wickets to draw the series at 1-1 against Australia, and Headingley in 1972 to retain the Ashes , and not forgetting Lords in 1974 where he took 13 wickets on another turning pitch, but you need the skill to take those wickets …….
Jim Laker , Tony Locke and Derrick Underwood where fantastic test match spinners for England, the past is gone and the present is for the moment baz ball……
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Laker would pull out the seam..so its no big feat
amit gokhale
What are you getting at/inferring?
Even if that was true, he still had to land the ball in the right place, and did so, 19 times.
Talking out of your arse mate.
@@hyena131 Mate ignore him. Typical Indian fan. When Indian spinners do well, it's talent. When foreign spinners do it it's ball tampering.
Just idiots. Ruin the fun of cricket
Muralithatan has boweled far bertter unplayable ballscampared ro lsker or warne😂
@warsil3735
But Murali was a chucker - everyone knows that:)
@@cquilty1 😂😂😂😂 was proven beyond reasonable doubt that he was not chucker as per extensive tests analysis in world renowned biomechanics laboratories not only in Australia but also in the UK and also by video evidence using thousands of footages 😂😂. . So majority goes by scientific evidence not by white Australian policies or few white man's preference over performance based on skin tone😂😂
@@warsil3735
Here is an exert from Murali's profile on the widely respected ESPN cricinfo:
"Perhaps no cricketer since Douglas Jardine has polarised opinion quite like Muthiah Muralidaran. For the believers, he's among the greatest to ever spin a ball. For the doubters, he's a charlatan undeserving of the game's greatest records, responsible for changes in the laws that they think have legitimised throwing."
Still doubts linger over the chucker Murali:)
As for your "So majority goes by scientific evidence not by white Australian policies or few white man's preference over performance based on skin tone", this is what many would consider hate speech/racism (I did not mention skin tone or race and nor do I see a need to) and clearly reveals your anger, impotence and lack of height.
And of course we all know this type of race related rage and anger nearly always comes almost exclusively from the sub-continent, and your RUclips account can be terminated for this.
Sad really.
@warsil3735
"Muralithatan has boweled far bertter unplayable ballscampared ro lsker or warne", you babble.
Huh?? Some friendly advice - spend more time learning the basics of written English in lieu of being so hate filled and obsessed with nationalism.
Trust me - you'll be much happier:)
PS. This video has *N-O-T-H-I-N-G* to with Warne. But your racism, hate, rage and anger makes you bring him up.
*LOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!!!!*
What about the " Gatting Ball ",the great Shane Warne. I know that's ony one example but no one will beat that !! Mike Gatting was a great batsman !! A horse in Victoria was even named after that ball - "The Gatting Ball ".That bend the elbow issue still worries me with Murali.I know he was a brilliant bowler but they changed the rule a bit didn't they ?I saw Col Eager no ball Ian Meckiff out of Australia's attack when Richie Benaud was captain of Aus.
Bowled laker 👍👍