What a match. What a performance.
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Quizz: 8 for 84, but that wasn't all.
2020-04-16 15:22:33
2020-04-16 21:21:03
In reply to Casper
need more clues
2020-04-16 22:51:48
In reply to Casper
Michael Holding at the Oval in 1976 ?
2020-04-16 23:50:17
In reply to Benjie
8-92 and 5-57 Holding at the Oval
2020-04-17 00:08:17
In reply to Casper
Malcolm Marshall in 1984? Scored more than 40 batting one handed?
2020-04-17 03:29:20
In reply to Dukes
need more clues
Good try Benjie and Dukesie. In the age of the internet, I can't make it too easy.
I thought I gave sufficient clues. Your mention of Holding was a good stab. Close but no cigars.
Even you should know 8-92 is not 8-84.
8 for 84 "but that wasn't all". There lies the clue.
Holding's 8-93 and 5-57, meant you were going down the right track. Now, there a clue for you.
Keep trying guys and gals.
2020-04-17 04:06:27
In reply to Casper
Bob Massie took 8-84 and 8-53 at Lords in an astonishing match.This was later matched by Hirwani who took 8-61 and 8-75 against the West Indies more than a decade later.
2020-04-17 04:10:01
Murali also took 8 wickets in each innings at the Kennington Oval in 1998
2020-04-17 14:48:51
Attaboy Dukesie.
That was a helluva performance by Bob Massie.
Massie rolled over the England batsmen in that Lord's Test match almost as though he was using a tractor rather than a sphere of hard red leather. Although that game rates definitely as the most memorable match in which he has ever played - his first Test - he doesn't list it as necessarily his best bowling. Rather he inclines to the game between Australia and the Rest of the World in Sydney in the 1971-72 season, when he believes he got himself a trip to England by taking seven for 76 in 20.6 overs. It was just prior to this that Gary Sobers had played his astonishing innings of 254 in the third international in Melbourne, a match in which Dennis Lillee took eight wickets and Massie himself took three. He believes that it was important that he came back in the next fixture to grab those seven wickets, one of which was Sobers', dismissed by a perfectly pitched offcutter that moved away from the left-hander.
Most pictures of Bob Massie in action show him with his index and second finger behind the ball in delivery, emphasising that, for much of the time, he is technically doing the right things as regards swing bowling. But, like Dennis Lillee, his Western Australian and Australian bowling partner, Massie pays full tribute to the experience he gained in English conditions, which he believes helped him to any success he had on the 1972 tour. "There's no question that, for my style of bowling in England, line and length is the absolute key. I found when I got over there against the top class players that, as soon as you drop the ball anywhere near short of a good length, they put it away either through the cover point area or tuck it away off their pads. I think that is the main thing I learned from the tour, you have to select a spot on the pitch where you want the ball to land and aim at it constantly.
My time with Kilmarnock helped me enormously to adjust to English conditions on the Australian tour and it could hardly have been better experience than to play on the soft wickets in the Scottish League".
Most pictures of Bob Massie in action show him with his index and second finger behind the ball in delivery, emphasising that, for much of the time, he is technically doing the right things as regards swing bowling. But, like Dennis Lillee, his Western Australian and Australian bowling partner, Massie pays full tribute to the experience he gained in English conditions, which he believes helped him to any success he had on the 1972 tour. "There's no question that, for my style of bowling in England, line and length is the absolute key. I found when I got over there against the top class players that, as soon as you drop the ball anywhere near short of a good length, they put it away either through the cover point area or tuck it away off their pads. I think that is the main thing I learned from the tour, you have to select a spot on the pitch where you want the ball to land and aim at it constantly.
My time with Kilmarnock helped me enormously to adjust to English conditions on the Australian tour and it could hardly have been better experience than to play on the soft wickets in the Scottish League".
2020-04-17 16:11:15
Does anyone know if the ICC recognizes the matches played during the Kerry Packer series as bona fide first class matches.
2020-04-17 16:54:04
In reply to Benjie
The answer is NO.The reason is that it was not sanctioned by any member board of the ICC.All the Rest of the World matches played as substitute tours e.g 1970 in England with England vs Rest of the World and 1971-72 Australia vs Rest of The World are recognized as first class matches.
2020-04-17 19:37:01
In reply to Dukes
Ok, but surely the ICC has the power to now sanction these matches. There can be no disputing that these were matches of the highest quality played by the best players of that era. At the very least, World series cricket should be given first class status. I would encourage some of the players of that period to lobby for the change.
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