Superb! Thank-you! In the course of this I realised a number of things: the class and colour aspects of unity and tension in the Commonwealth. Second how close are Essex and Kent (Wat Tyler and all that, accents, vision). Odd that.
Not sure if people remember, but Gooch scored another hundred (123) in the second innings of his 333 test (mainly thanks to Azharuddin's amazing double hundred in India's first innings, and Kapel Dev's four sixes to avoid the Indian follow on. My dad was at Lords when Azhar scored those runs. He was so drunk when he got home - very unlike him - that he said he thought he'd seen Azhar and his twin brother both score double centuries and get out at exactly the same time to a similar delivery. He wondered if that had ever happened before. Then he passed out on the sofa under my mother's very disapproving eye.) Those 456 aggregate runs in one test match scored by Gooch remains a world record in 2019.
Azhar never scored a double century in his test career. His best was 199 and yes at Lord's that say he scored 121 which he scored in just lil more than a session about 174 mins faced 111 balls and hit 22 fours. But yes his game that day bewitched and mesmerized the spectators that day.
@@Deira854Didn't Ravi Shastri play? He was the second batsman to hit six sixes in an over. It was an Indian domestic match and the bowler was a fellow left arm spinner called Tilak Raj. I was fifteen at the time (five years previously).
splendid spectacular 333 phew and 333 is my favourite number 666 use to appear a lot but now 333 often appear goochie supernice guy super cricket player
Test cricket was much better back then in terms of knowing what series you were playing and when. Plus most summers, we would play a 5 test series against one country. Or 6 if it was the Ashes.
In those days, professional cricketers were poorly paid - they didn't even dream of the riches that today's players can benefit from - so when they were offered relatively huge sums to play in South Africa, one can understand their decision to go there - but, and its a big but, their decision does leave a foul taste in the mouth given the appalling regime that governed SA at th time - also notable that great players like Botham and Gower refused to go - good on them
Great player, always did his best was a privilege to be at lord,s in 1990 when he made that triple century.
Superb! Thank-you!
In the course of this I realised a number of things: the class and colour aspects of unity and tension in the Commonwealth.
Second how close are Essex and Kent (Wat Tyler and all that, accents, vision). Odd that.
Gooch, Gower, Gatting.. played superb cricket in 80's for England.
Not sure if people remember, but Gooch scored another hundred (123) in the second innings of his 333 test (mainly thanks to Azharuddin's amazing double hundred in India's first innings, and Kapel Dev's four sixes to avoid the Indian follow on. My dad was at Lords when Azhar scored those runs. He was so drunk when he got home - very unlike him - that he said he thought he'd seen Azhar and his twin brother both score double centuries and get out at exactly the same time to a similar delivery. He wondered if that had ever happened before. Then he passed out on the sofa under my mother's very disapproving eye.)
Those 456 aggregate runs in one test match scored by Gooch remains a world record in 2019.
Azhar never scored a double century in his test career. His best was 199 and yes at Lord's that say he scored 121 which he scored in just lil more than a session about 174 mins faced 111 balls and hit 22 fours. But yes his game that day bewitched and mesmerized the spectators that day.
ludocrat lovely story, thanks
Great days lovely memoirs.
I remember Gooch hitting 333 against India when I was just twenty. He was born exactly seventeen years after my mother!
Haha. He was around for a while
@@Deira854Didn't Ravi Shastri play? He was the second batsman to hit six sixes in an over. It was an Indian domestic match and the bowler was a fellow left arm spinner called Tilak Raj. I was fifteen at the time (five years previously).
7:16 “Gooch, Stone hit 171 in 20 overs blitz"
This was back in 1990, long before T20 was even a thing, and they managed to do that!
splendid spectacular 333 phew and 333 is my favourite number 666 use to appear a lot but now 333 often appear goochie supernice guy super cricket player
Test cricket was much better back then in terms of knowing what series you were playing and when. Plus most summers, we would play a 5 test series against one country. Or 6 if it was the Ashes.
Very good player
In those days, professional cricketers were poorly paid - they didn't even dream of the riches that today's players can benefit from - so when they were offered relatively huge sums to play in South Africa, one can understand their decision to go there - but, and its a big but, their decision does leave a foul taste in the mouth given the appalling regime that governed SA at th time - also notable that great players like Botham and Gower refused to go - good on them
That's true, compared to today's players, but imagine how little they were getting paid before Packer and World Series Cricket.
290 huge total how times have changed