Players from Yesteryear you'd love to see play Twenty20

[LostDoggy]

Re: Players from Yesteryear you'd love to see play Twenty20

Who ever gets to bat against Glen Trimble and Chris Matthews.

[LostDoggy]

Re: Players from Yesteryear you'd love to see play Twenty20

I would love to see the Don play it just to see wether he could adapt.

Mate, he scored 300 in a day at Test level

I think he might have managed

Along with:

Colin Milburn
Cammie Smith
G Pollock
The Big Ship (although not many singles)
R Kanhai
C Lloyd
K Barrington

[Twodogs]

Re: Players from Yesteryear you'd love to see play Twenty20

Lance was a massive hitter as was Clive Lloyd and Rod Marsh could hit a ball or two

I saw him hit DK Lillee for 6 with a one handed swat over square leg at the MCG once. The next ball Lillee bowled at him bounced three times before it got to him and G Chappell asked him what he thought he was doing. Lillee said "**** him-if he isnt going to bat properly then I'm not going to bowl properly"

[ledge]

Re: Players from Yesteryear you'd love to see play Twenty20

I saw him hit DK Lillee for 6 with a one handed swat over square leg at the MCG once. The next ball Lillee bowled at him bounced three times before it got to him and G Chappell asked him what he thought he was doing. Lillee said "**** him-if he isnt going to bat properly then I'm not going to bowl properly"

Now how would a captain like G Chappell react to that?
That would have been gold to see.

[Sockeye Salmon]

Re: Players from Yesteryear you'd love to see play Twenty20

Mate, he scored 300 in a day at Test level

I think he might have managed

Along with:

Colin Milburn
Cammie Smith
G Pollock
The Big Ship (although not many singles)
R Kanhai
C Lloyd
K Barrington

Ken ****ing Barrington??? WTF???

Didn't he bat through an entire day and make about 40? I remember seeing him bat on ABC2's Late Night Legends and batted like Chris Tavare on Valium.



Ted Dexter was a ripper, though! He had a dip.

[LostDoggy]

Re: Players from Yesteryear you'd love to see play Twenty20

Ken ****ing Barrington??? WTF???

Didn't he bat through an entire day and make about 40? I remember seeing him bat on ABC2's Late Night Legends and batted like Chris Tavare on Valium.



Ted Dexter was a ripper, though! He had a dip.

One of the greatest players to ever play the game. Had a Test average in the high 50's and against Australia 60+

Great players like Barrington, Boycott and Lawry whilst being slow in Test cricket, modified their style to score runs quickly in limited overs games and would have no trouble hitting boundaries on 20/20 pitches with field restrictions. Similar to Hodge who scores most of his runs by boundaries rather than hitting over the top

[lemmon]

Re: Players from Yesteryear you'd love to see play Twenty20

One of the greatest players to ever play the game. Had a Test average in the high 50's and against Australia 60+

Great players like Barrington, Boycott and Lawry whilst being slow in Test cricket, modified their style to score runs quickly in limited overs games and would have no trouble hitting boundaries on 20/20 pitches with field restrictions similar to Hodge who scores most of his runs by boundaries rather than hitting over the top

Lawry started as quite a flowing left handed shot maker who scored reasonably quickly before deciding to bunker down and let his partner play the big shots.

[Twodogs]

Re: Players from Yesteryear you'd love to see play Twenty20

Keith Stackpole.

[The Coon Dog]

Re: Players from Yesteryear you'd love to see play Twenty20

Another Victorian Simon in Simon Davis would be an impressive T20 bowler.

As long as he didn't have to bowl to Ian Botham.

[westdog54]

Re: Players from Yesteryear you'd love to see play Twenty20

I remember reading about a bloke from the late 1800s called George Bonnor, whose batting technique essentially involved hitting the ball as hard and as far as possible. He also won a bet with a passenger on a ship to England that he could throw a cricket ball 100 yards.

Reckon he wouldn't have minded it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bonnor

[Twodogs]

Re: Players from Yesteryear you'd love to see play Twenty20

I remember reading about a bloke from the late 1800s called George Bonnor, whose batting technique essentially involved hitting the ball as hard and as far as possible. He also won a bet with a passenger on a ship to England that he could throw a cricket ball 100 yards.

Reckon he wouldn't have minded it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bonnor

He didnt just throw it 100 yards, he did it the moment he stepped off the boat at Cairo or Southampton or whever without warming up at all.


He was a strange puppy that Bonner, he developed a phobia about one of the English slow bowlers (Peel I think) and kept himself and his roommate awake all night before one innings against him playing imaginary shots and bellowing "Cop that Peel!" and such like. I cant help thinking he would have been a lot better off just sleeping.

[westdog54]

Re: Players from Yesteryear you'd love to see play Twenty20

He didnt just throw it 100 yards, he did it the moment he stepped off the boat at Cairo or Southampton or whever without warming up at all.


He was a strange puppy that Bonner, he developed a phobia about one of the English slow bowlers (Peel I think) and kept himself and his roommate awake all night before one innings against him playing imaginary shots and bellowing "Cop that Peel!" and such like. I cant help thinking he would have been a lot better off just sleeping.

It was Southampton.

Good to know even in the early days there were blokes who thought fine strokeplay and finesse were overrated.

[Twodogs]

Re: Players from Yesteryear you'd love to see play Twenty20

It was Southampton.

Good to know even in the early days there were blokes who thought fine strokeplay and finesse were overrated.

And sleeping evidently...



Australia had a policy of picking a 'hitter' in their teams in the days before covered wickets. The theory was that if the wicket deteriorated really badly then all the finesse in the World wasnt going to help as much as someone who could just smash across the line and get runs quickly. Percy McDonnell was another one.

[Missing Dog]

Re: Players from Yesteryear you'd love to see play Twenty20

Imran Khan comes to mind and Kapil Dev