Cricket - England Batting Legends
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- Four of England's greatest batsmen of the modern era.
Graham Gooch
Geoff Boycott
David Gower
Ian Botham
Footage from BBC
If you're wondering why the sound and pictures are out of sync, it's because the original audio was "Soul Limbo" but I had to do an audioswap due to a copyright claim. I just chose The Fall because I like them.
@briffitt99 I did watch him - very happy memories of the 1977 Ashes test when he got his 100th hundred. Studying for my O levels as I remember. Watched Botham, Gooch and Gower too. Great stuff. Cricket + The Fall - perfection!
The most brilliant thing about these four is their contrasting styles - Gooch's stand-and-deliver economy of movement, Boycott's stability and impeccable balance, Gower's elegant arcs and Botham's outrageous extravagance.
A more modern foursome of equivalents could be found in theory - Trescothick for Gooch, Cook for Boycott, Vaughan (or if a left-hander required, Butcher) for Gower, Flintoff for Botham - but none of them are as good.
Very enjoyable - thank u for posting.
was at edgbaston on the saturday that gower and tim robinson both made big scores against the aussies in 1985 gower was sublime that day
Oh to be able to go back in time and watch Boycott bat in a Test match again...
Great video
gower would be the one i'd most like to watch
i saw david gower get his 213 highest but beefy was the one who hit em out the park!
You have a point Caspar but we could do with someone now who could manage to stay in long enough to avoid us getting all out in less then 150 runs - makes me almost nostalgic for the old git.
where"s Ian Bell lol!!!
nice vid shame about the sound track would be a lot better if you could hear the shots
Shame they didn't all score a few more runs between them in that era. Might have saved us some severe embarrassment in the 80s, for instance. Especially in '80, '82, '84, '86, '87, '88 and (worst of all) '89. And that's just at home.
They were great (and Botham was and always shall be my hero) but they weren't that great.
What's that music? Certainly not Booker T!
@BartBassist I agree with you but I disagree with Cook, maybe Strauss, Cook is good but I think he's still learning the game.
i have all their autobiographies
No Alastair Cook?
Gower had a mass of natural talent but didn't use it all the time which was annoying.
I'd watch Botham again if I had the chance. He destroyed bowlers . One of the best shots i've seen is not shown on this video but was in the 118 against the ozzis.
He pulled alderman through mid on for 6 , making him look like 2nd rate part time bowler.
Beefy's batting could be pure magic and theatre.
10 out of 10 for the footage. 0 out of 10 for the music.
@Imrankniazi I voted for Thorpe over KP in Team of the Noughties, purely because he can save the team's ass, purely because he could bat with the tail, could get centuries.. the only thing KP would do there would possibly be a fill-in bowler but he'd never protect the tail, he'd go on his own.. But KP is a good player, on his day.
There are so many modern-day English batsmen better than Ian Botham.
Thorpe, Robin Smith,Atherton, K P, Vaughan, and Strauss all deserve to get in ahead of Beefy. He had a great 6 years with bat and ball, but was really inconsistent and ordinary after that. And even at his best, he never matched these men I mentioned purely as a batsman.
Omission of Thorpe, in particular, is sacrilege. Have you Englishmen no gratitude towards him? How many times did he save your asses during the 90s?
W G GRACE????....NO?
what a dreadful sound accompanyment, denoting a mentality of childish vulgarity..
Utterly fails to do justice to the grace and historyof the sport.
This is what happens when technology is let loose into the hands of the mediocre.