When I was playing, 50 over cricket hadn't been heard of let alone 20 oversSo you would have sucked 12 overs out of a T-20 innings for one scoring shot!!
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Yeah I lasted one season as a junior, that was enough for me lol. Was better with a round and oval ballWhen I was playing, 50 over cricket hadn't been heard of let alone 20 overs
Cricketers hand eye coordination is another level. And probably a few more levels as well.
I remember seeing Graham Yallop around 1980 on the first hole at Ringwood Golf Course, so going back a bit, and the first then was like 285 metres. This dude nearly drives the first hole, just a little to the right but about 250-255 easily. About 30 metres from the pin. Amazing!!
Me and my mates were jumping all over the place
Yallop was a good bat, was he a left hander at golf too?Yeah I lasted one season as a junior, that was enough for me lol. Was better with a round and oval ball
Cricketers hand eye coordination is another level. And probably a few more levels as well.
I remember seeing Graham Yallop around 1980 on the first hole at Ringwood Golf Course, so going back a bit, and the first then was like 285 metres. This dude nearly drives the first hole, just a little to the right but about 250-255 easily. About 30 metres from the pin. Amazing!!
Me and my mates were jumping all over the place
Wow, Allot would make Boycott look like Viv Richards.
The decision might of already been made, but there was a 1st class match, Vic vs WI at Sale Oval where Dean could have presented a case for selection. He got out for a duck. He also struggled to keep his eyes open at the local "nightclub" Ringers at 3:00am in the morning he was due to bat for his test career.
Man, I can't 100% remember that part. Maybe a right hander which added to our excitement knowing he batted left in cricket. Think that was the first time I'd come across someone playing another sport "opposite handed" from their main sport.
That was the time and era left handedness was not encouraged in really anything and all golf courses were designed for right handers and they got into people's heads that you had to play golf right handed, not left handed. David Graham grew up playing golf left handed, showed some ability and they told him you won't get anywhere playing that way. Switched to the right at 14 and at age 16 he was a pro!
Then many years later along comes Mickelson and he made the left cool
I was there too, Hoggard bowling wide outside off stump didn't help Gilly while he was going for the fastest ever test century, even though Gilly didn't know it at the time.
Got a mate who still bleeds about Gilly's 100, he had to leave early and go to a wedding.
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I was also at the Waca when Chris Gayle smashed a rapid fire test century. Unlike the sixes Gilly hit for his ton, most of Gayle's sixes were at the end where I was sitting, awesome hitting.
Legends Month: Gayle's blazing WACA hundred
West Indies skipper Chris Gayle hammers one of the fastest hundreds in Test history, including one six on the roof of the WACA, against Australia in 2009
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U guys all from WA or go watch cricket around Oz a bit?
(Starting to sound like the day DK Lillee rang through the Windies before stumps, took 3 wickets and Windies were 4-10 at stumps). And we're up from about 3-5,000 who were there that late in the day to about 300,000 now claiming they were there
I was not there!!
Part of the the 300,000 though From Wa, but used to do every day of both the Waca and Mcg test, and a couple times I did 3 tests in the same summer.U guys all from WA or go watch cricket around Oz a bit?
(Starting to sound like the day DK Lillee rang through the Windies before stumps, took 3 wickets and Windies were 4-10 at stumps). And we're up from about 3-5,000 who were there that late in the day to about 300,000 now claiming they were there
I was not there!!
That's awesome
When our Test team were all from WA as well 
still stuck on doing MCG Tests here. Just one Ashes test at the Gabba 2013 (was working in Brizzy at the time). Need to do the Adelaide day-nighter.
I was at a mate’s place at the time. We settled in to watch the day’s play. He watched the start of Gilly’s innings then had to go upstairs to give his toddler son a bath and put him to bed. Said he would be back soon. When he came back down he apologised he took so long, his son wouldn’t go to sleep. He asked me what he missed. I replied “ History”
Gayle was criticised for going home to be with his ill mother between the Adelaide test and the Perth test.
His brutal 100 at the WACA was a, shut the **** up, to everyone who criticised him for leaving the tour, I loved it.
Wow, tests in 3 states. I was going to say I've only ever been to a test at the MCG, then I remembered, I went to a day of a test at Wanderers in Johannesburg. And what a day, Steve Waugh and Greg Blewett were in all day, we didn't lose a wicket. All the South African supporters stirring at the start of the day was very quiet by the end of the day, I wasn't the most popular person there.
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