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I joined the Army in 1978. Sent to Londonderry (by post in a 2nd class delivery!) in 1979. Missed all this. Some details over the operational net from the Ops Room. Thanks to WO2 Bronco Lane. They don’t make WO2s like that anymore.

Great days. The year of Botham's arrival!

Glad that I was present at the ground now turned 97 age. what a match it was.

England won the series 5 - 1 without playing particularly well.

With modern bats people like Sir Donald, Jack Hobbs George Headley and a whole host of others would have had even better records. How many of these shots shown here would have gone for 4 or 6 with modern equipment.

shows how stupid the west indian later order batters were from murray downwards - all they had to do was a single to get viv back on strike. but brearley's catch ala kapil (83) - or was it the orther way around. and viv's catch off botham - insane - only he couldve done that

Someone said "poetry in motion". Well, it's a gross understatement

This video is like gold. Geoff Arnold was very unlikely with those back to back dropped catches. He was magnificent. Dennis Lillee was really menacing. That was a harbinger of great future success.

Must say never heard if Craig Saergeant what happened to his career?

England batted too long declared too late, but called game off 30 mins from stumps? Hardly a winning approach

So day 1 was 85 overs bow I ed, question is were they 8 ball overs ? 680 balls, equivalent to 113 6 ball overs?

STEELE looked like a decent bat, wonder if he had p l ayed in an era with helmets, how good he may have been,looked relaxed and confide n t

Are you any relation to Aaron from Torfaen

Top top player I remember well, NFFC

Miandad would have used his bat to push Snow away

Was a great match. Richards & Clive Lloyd led the batting revival. Those were the days when the West Indies had without doubt the most effective speed bowling attack. Holding was such an athletic, rhythmic, fast bowler, Andy Roberts more precise & fast, Joel Garner quick with unusual action able to deceive the batsman in anticipating the delivery type because of his height. Formidable fast bowlers. Dominated both Test matches & one- day matches during that epoch.

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the only reason i watched england play in this era... D.I. GOWER. class oozing out of every pore... thank you for the memories.

It is clear that he pushed Gavaskar intentionally .

and they say cricket is "gentlemans" game

First FA Cup Final I watched. I was a neutral and seemed to remember City being the better side.

West Indies was conquered in cricket world between 1948-1996. Sir viv. Richards & clive Lloyd were The greatest ever players in 150 years cricket history & west indies was The greatest ever cricket team between 1970-1985 in 150 years cricket history, remember it ❤❤❤. Australia never deceive west indies in cricket world cup final, remember it also 😊.

West Indies was conquered in cricket world between 1948-1996. Sir viv. Richards & clive Lloyd were The greatest ever players in 150 years cricket history & west indies was The greatest ever cricket team between 1970-1985 in 150 years cricket history, remember it ❤❤❤. Australia never deceive west indies in cricket world cup final, remember it also 😊.

Quality cricket of the past

Geoff Boycott was in his 40th year here and facing a round the wicket attack from Michael Holding that was both quick and vicious. You can say what you like about Boycott (and many have), but he was brave. He was still the wicket that bowlers prized the most. England never lost a test match in which he scored a hundred

Tufnell was class

Should be punished for throwing like that

Boycott was LBW

State of the pitch and the players just got on with it .

Knott was utterly brilliant. Taylor, in my view, his better by the absolute least of all possible margins. I think of Knott as Phil Bennet, but Taylor - he was Barry John. Of course, given the choice, you would always pick Knott over Taylor because Knott was almost a Test Match batsman in his own right. Taylor was determined, but by no means an international batsman.

There are moments in the BBC's TV coverage here where the single camera appears to be perched on a tall building some miles from where the cricket action is happening!

One of the third class bowler

I'd given up on this. The Aussies had one down, and I thought I'd do some gardening (biggest mistake in my life). Came back for a cuppa and the Aussies were five down... What DID I miss...

Peter West, who commentates here, was the cricket anchorman on the BBC throughout the years I was growing up and becoming interested in cricket. His voice sounds very plummy and old-fashioned to my ears now. I would never have thought this at the time. Times change!

Nice to see the bats and stumps not plastered with adverts.

It is only looking back now that you realise how awful, even outdated, the BBC's test match cricket coverage was and how much better it was being done elsewhere at the time (Channel 9 & WSC for example). The camera work was very static and seemingly from some considerable distance away! Cricket fans always deserved better. Thank God, in time, we got it!

Boycott was LBW Umpire saved Him

Boycott was out

The fact that not one City player went over to Hutchinson to sympathise with him shows just what a different breed of footballer existed then. Now it would be counselling sessions and given a month off to get over it!!

Futile effort by snow to divert the concentretion of greatest opener in the world

Greavsie was just wonderful - I was actually at that last game shown - it was against Newcastle and you just caught a glimpse of a very young Steve Perryman in the aftermath. It was around 1970 when I was fourteen years old. COYS.

Incredible talent! That turn and chip over the keeper in the box was outstanding! Although a liverpool fan I grew up in the era of hoddle in the 80s. Incredible time.

Who is the rather rotund English player?

My favourite Gilly story - an irate support phoned up the manager Bill Nicholson to complain that he had seen Gilly coming out of a nightclub at 3am and what kind of example was that to be giving people ?! - When Bill Nicholson grilled Gilly about this - Gilly replied " No, he's got that wrong boss - I was going into the club at 3am !" - You've gotta love the guy !

Watch the arrogant snow pushing Gavaskar and throwing the bat such arrogant English cricketers were at that time

Coulda shoulda been NINE.

He laid on more balls than Fiona Richmond.

Where would England have been without Boycotts tenacity and frequently against real quickies lots of guts,

In those pre-helmet days, the attitude towards bouncers at tailenders was different. These days you accept the odd short one to a tailender, but back then you were considered a bit of a cad and a bounder if you did it. That's why Greig's bouncer to Lillee at the start of this video got Lillee so fired up.

Days when real cricket fans went to lords and not corporate Johnnie's...