Walter Hammond - A Cricketing Great
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- Опубліковано 30 лип 2024
- Walter Hammond was one of English cricket's all-time greats. A prolific batsman, a fine bowler, and a genius in the slip, he also loved the high life and had a reputation as a bit of a ladies' man. Focusing on his many sporting achievements, but also looking at the conflict between his personal and professional life, this documentary uses archive footage and interviews with those who knew him to tell the story of the man in full.
When documentary makers told a story with a beginning, a middle and an end, without flashy gimmicks aimed at people with the attention span of a three year old.
Yeh, a lot of documentaries these days seem obsessed with Christopher Nolan-ing the timeline of the subject. It can be an interesting dramatic technique every so often, but often becomes a tedious and confusing trope.
As an Australian supporter, I can say that this guy was the consummate all-rounder. People say that Miller and Sobers were the best. It may surprise many people that his Test record was immeasurably superior to Miller and only slightly inferior to Sobers. He opened both the batting and the bowling with great success in international cricket and has long been regarded as possibly the greatest slip fielder of all time. Would love to have seen him in this era of 20/20 cricket. The best of the best
Your words capture the man beautifully, and what a fine trio of cricketers, all incomparable. I think what needs to be remembered about Hammond is that he played well beyond his use by date which had an adverse affect on his statistics. Hammond before the war was by far the best batsman of the three, in my opinion better than Sobers in his prime. These are extraordinarily high standards.
No sorry. Rubbish! He was as great a batsman as Sobers and a considerably better batsman than Millar, but he didn't compare to Millar as a bowler and certainly wasn't as good a bowler as Sobers either. True about his fielding. However, he was in the great batting all-rounder class who was under bowled probably. Even so, look at his test record. If I remember correctly, 80 odd wickets at 37. That's more in the Steve Waugh kind of class, and he was medium to medium quick to. Similar again to Waugh, as opposed to being quick. Brilliant all-rounder? Yes! In the Sobers or Millar class as an all-rounder? No! He was nevertheless one of the greatest batsmen of all time! One of the greatest slip fielders of all time to.
Yeah but Phil Tufnell was a better spinner.
Watching those Zulus dance was mindblowing when you think it was only fifty years after the battle of Rorkes Drift and the defeat at Isandlewhana.
shaka zulu, electric ooga-booga
Charlie Barnett as peppery as ever, although an admirer Hammond the cricketer. In his biography of Hammond, David Foot's comments about "Charles" are enlightening, including Barnett's involvement with this documentary.
Thank you, nice to see this footage of my grandfather. Didn’t know much about him
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Peter West with pipe in hand... legendary presenter. Note that they didn't bother to mention that only 'amateur' players were allowed to captain England until the 1950s; this documentary was made in 1987, so I think it deserved a brief explanation.
Thank you for the upload. I love documentaries like this. The older the better.
Glad you liked it! My channel has plenty of other old cricket documentaries which you might also enjoy.
Thank you for uploading.
Such a great player.
Oddly overlooked in the Bodyline series and in the TV series.
Thanks for this
Many thanks, it was great to see footage of WH. I have read about him but words are just words.
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Glad you enjoyed it! Don't miss the many other old cricket documentaries on my channel.
How Cool. My relation. When he toured New Zealand he caught up with my Great Grandfather also named Walter Hammond
Loved it!
His speaking voice comes as a bit of a surprise, higher pitched than I imagined and also sounding like he must of had elocution lessons.
Peter West in his element.
Much appreciated.
You're welcome John. I hope you liked it.
Nice!!
The greatest cricketer ever
Im sure Sobers, Richards and Bradman to name but three would disagree
@@dlamiss Nobody competes with his bowling catching and fielding. Least of all his batting. The man was a phenomena. Easily the greatest cricketer of all time.
@@thenazarite2444 I think you will find most of his peers would suggest Sobers was a better cricketer but I accept its all about opinions...
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A sadly overlooked genius.
Yep. I put a question into Geoffrey Boycott about him and he spoke for 10 minutes about him. My favourite cricketer.
John Best - well, not overlooked by “ Boyks” at least !👍
Charles Barnett clearly disliked Walter Hammond, and his contributions to this documentary strike a rather sour note.
Enjoyed watching this, yes he was a fine cricketer, with a great record. But comparing the older game to the modern one: they played on uncovered pitches so probably had to hone their batting skills, but the bowling seemed to be not as fast and aggressive as todays (with the exception of bodyline in 1932-33).
I didn’t understand why his fellow cricketer was talking about brown eyes being better than non brown eyes. Is that a thing?
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Think how many more tests he would have played and runs he woild have scored if not for the second world war, he might still hold the English run scoring record.
Could also be said about Hutton and Compton
The Greatest #XI of All Time
1 Jack Hobbs
2 Len Hutton
3 Don Bradman (Cap.)
4 Sachin Tendulkar
5 Viv Richards
6 Gary Sobers
7 Adam Gilchrist (W/K)
8 Shane Warne
9 Wasim Akram
10 Malcolm Marshall
11 Sydney Barnes
12th : W.G Grace.
Substitutes:
( George Headley , Brian Lara , Imran Khan , Muttiah Muralitharan , Dennis Lillee )
Manager :- Sir Frank Worrell .
I don't think Sydney Barnes would object to not getting the new ball in a side like that one!
Viv Richards is in 41st position as a test batsman based on stats. He might get into the third or fourth team but you are letting his prowess as a one day player colour your judgement. Sobers, Headley and Weekes are not just better than Richards ; they are much better. And that's just the West Indians!
@@colddiesel If Viv Richards was a selfish batsmen he could of averaged 60 easily he gave his wicket away on so many occasions. Stats meant nothing to free flowing stroke makers who take risks.
WG Grace wouldn't bother turning up if he knew he was going to be 12th Man.
1.JACK HOBBS 2.BARRY RICHARDS 3.KUMAR SANGAKKARA 4.DON BRADMAN 5. WALLY HAMMOND 6. GARY SOBERS 7. ADAM GILCHRIST 8.WASIM AKRAM 9. MALCOLM MARSHALL 10. SHANE WARNE (CAPT) 11. SYDNEY BARNES
Wally wouldn't have survived DRS at 2:52!
I second the thanks. #better than bradman.
As an all round player, he 'was' better than Bradman, quite frankly.
Hammond was a very useful bowler, and was probably the best fielder in history. A genuine all rounder.
Who just happened to average 60 with the bat! He was a very good football and tennis player as well. A man of many m,any talents.
@@lonestar6709 and a good golfer. He had the lot really.
Kashmir willow better than Emglish willow!!!! Funniest thing I've heard in ages.😀😀😀😀😀
Hammond was miles better than Bradman, who was a complete coward against fast bowling and benefited from biased umpiring in Australia.
So what about the numerous hundreds Bradman scored in England