4:53 You can clearly hear David Gower swearing like a trooper in the commentary box. It seems the 1990s commentary audio bled into the 1976 audio during a rainbreak.
Agreed, when you consider they had Test players; Willey, Steele, Mushtaq, Sarfraz, Larkins & Bedi in their ranks. But then Lancs also had Test players; Lloyd, Engineer, Hayes, Wood & Lever. John Dye on his day (such as this day was) could be quite a handful. I've batted against him after he retired from 1st class cricket and even as an over 45 year old player he could make the ball move prodigiously.
One of the biggest upsets of all time, minnows Northants against the one day kings of that era. John Dye, legend, that ball won us the final. 45 minutes of Engineer and he would have made a great start for Lancashire. Dye also hit Wood on his hand and he couldn't bowl. Sarfraz putting in a short leg to catch Pilling. Oh what great memories.
@@stephendines1936 forgot about that. I remember my dad being given a bottle of champagne in the early 70's and he put it in the top cupboard until we won a trophy. He opened it when we got back from Lords. I was a few weeks of 13 and my brother a couple of weeks of 17. My brother died by Abington park bandstand 4 days before his 17th birthday. Last picture of him was at the county ground waiting to board the coaches, being tall his head was overlooking a banner "mushtag's mighty men" which got printed in the chron. The kids with the banner were my school teacher's kids.
You can hear Gower and the 1995 commentators in the background here. Someone hasn't switched off their mics properly! 4:53 Gower: "They can't fucking see you dozy pillock!!!"
I wondered what that racket was - sound bleeding in from another recording on the same tape, I thought. But you're right. You can hear Ritchie and I think Jack Bannister as well. Hilarious.
David Hughes’s assault on Bedi was similar to the way he went after Mortimer in the semi final against Gloucestershire at Old Trafford in 1971. There was another less well remembered (and I can’t remember the details either) event when he also hit around 20 in the last over of a John Player game not long after the Gloucester game. I saw it on TV when BBC2 used to broadcast a whole game on a Sunday afternoon.
@@graemestarkey7524 True; back in the day he wasn't good enough to be ahead of Phil Edmonds, never mind Derek Underwood, in the left-arm spinning hierarchy.
@@graemestarkey7524 David's List A bowling average 23.55 (at a time when he was bowling to the likes of high class overseas stars). His batting average was 20.55 - usually batting at the end of an innings when the slog was on. He hit 11 Half centuries - highest score 92 not out - again at a time of high quality overseas players and death bowling specialists - ie Joel Garner and the other West Indians and South Africans etc. His record, which stretched 23 years, is a pretty good one - actually much better than some spinners who did represent England in ODI's during the 70's and 80's!!
9:35 Richie Benaud talks here about the BBC's 'special camera' when the only thing that is special is that the BBC has actually got 2 cameras, one at each end !
Something which was rare back then and even rarer today; an Indian (Bishen Bedi) and a Pakistani (Mushtaq Mohammad) shoulder to shoulder on the same team.
@@kevinhiggins910 For the first 40 overs of a Gillette cup match it was rather like watching a county championship game. There were no restrictions on bouncers, wides were the same as 1st class cricket and no free hits too. It was revolutionary to go into a game without 2 spinners and there were less attempts to hit sixes and more emphasis on trying to score off every ball (not always successful!!) in the last 5-7 overs.
David Steele always lofted his attacking shots into the air on the legside - technical deficiency of his I've noticed before. Didn't roll his wrists over the ball to keep it down and it cost him here and indeed he should have been caught at deep long leg prior to that.
If not for that late thrash, Lancs less than 3 an over! Pretty grim for a one day game. The 3 sixes Hughes scored in the last over is more than 6 overs worth of scoring for the rest of the team.
No Clive Lloyd? I thought the W.Indies tour had finished by then - he obviously didn't go back to Lancs for the last few games of the season. It might have been a very different match if he'd been playing.
Does anyone have full BBC highlights of northants v Somerset in the 1979 Gillette cup final ? Also the b&h 1982 semi final at trent bridge between Lancashire and Nottinghamshire please ?
Do you have any county highlights yourself? Especially from that era? I have the 79 Final highlights but I got it from someone else so I'm not posting it on youtube.
Paul P I don't have any highlights myself but I wish I could of taped loads of games years ago,that's why i liked the cricket when it was on the BBC whenever it rained they always showed the highlights of matches from the 70's & 80's, I was a big Somerset fan when I was younger that's why I wanna see the 79 Gillette final it was the first competition they ever won
4:52 '...I can't f*****g see you dozy pillock...'
4:53 You can clearly hear David Gower swearing like a trooper in the commentary box. It seems the 1990s commentary audio bled into the 1976 audio during a rainbreak.
Bishen Bedi great bowler and wonderful action. That was a very strong Northants team.
Agreed, when you consider they had Test players; Willey, Steele, Mushtaq, Sarfraz, Larkins & Bedi in their ranks. But then Lancs also had Test players; Lloyd, Engineer, Hayes, Wood & Lever. John Dye on his day (such as this day was) could be quite a handful. I've batted against him after he retired from 1st class cricket and even as an over 45 year old player he could make the ball move prodigiously.
I remember being pretty miffed when neither David Steele nor Peter Willey didn't make the tour to India that winter.
Peter Willey definitely should have gone. Batsman and spinner all rounder.
Both should have gone, awful selection
One of the biggest upsets of all time, minnows Northants against the one day kings of that era.
John Dye, legend, that ball won us the final. 45 minutes of Engineer and he would have made a great start for Lancashire. Dye also hit Wood on his hand and he couldn't bowl. Sarfraz putting in a short leg to catch Pilling. Oh what great memories.
Minnows? We were runners up in the county championship that season as well.
@@stephendines1936 forgot about that.
I remember my dad being given a bottle of champagne in the early 70's and he put it in the top cupboard until we won a trophy.
He opened it when we got back from Lords. I was a few weeks of 13 and my brother a couple of weeks of 17. My brother died by Abington park bandstand 4 days before his 17th birthday. Last picture of him was at the county ground waiting to board the coaches, being tall his head was overlooking a banner "mushtag's mighty men" which got printed in the chron. The kids with the banner were my school teacher's kids.
@@saintdave4980 Really sad to hear that.
Yes, it's always been a mystery to me why John Dye only bowled 7 overs (for only 9 runs) in that game - he looks like a very good bowler.
4 players from India and Pakistan -- Mushtaq, Bedi, Engineer And Sarfraz .
This is the first time I've heard Harry Pilling's name mentioned on UA-cam without it being preceded by 'Little'.
You can hear Gower and the 1995 commentators in the background here. Someone hasn't switched off their mics properly!
4:53 Gower: "They can't fucking see you dozy pillock!!!"
I wondered what that racket was - sound bleeding in from another recording on the same tape, I thought. But you're right. You can hear Ritchie and I think Jack Bannister as well. Hilarious.
That doesn't sound like Gower's accent.
That days are beautiful...
Thanks for those invented cricket . Thans for who started country cricket ...
My first ever trip to Lords as a 17 year old
David Hughes’s assault on Bedi was similar to the way he went after Mortimer in the semi final against Gloucestershire at Old Trafford in 1971. There was another less well remembered (and I can’t remember the details either) event when he also hit around 20 in the last over of a John Player game not long after the Gloucester game. I saw it on TV when BBC2 used to broadcast a whole game on a Sunday afternoon.
If David Hughes was playing today he'd be playing for England's ODI team no doubt!
I doubt it.
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Not good enough in either bowling or batting
@@graemestarkey7524 True; back in the day he wasn't good enough to be ahead of Phil Edmonds, never mind Derek Underwood, in the left-arm spinning hierarchy.
@@graemestarkey7524 David's List A bowling average 23.55 (at a time when he was bowling to the likes of high class overseas stars). His batting average was 20.55 - usually batting at the end of an innings when the slog was on. He hit 11 Half centuries - highest score 92 not out - again at a time of high quality overseas players and death bowling specialists - ie Joel Garner and the other West Indians and South Africans etc. His record, which stretched 23 years, is a pretty good one - actually much better than some spinners who did represent England in ODI's during the 70's and 80's!!
‘Our special camera at the Nursery End’.
I know! 😂😂😂 the BBC had to sack half a dozen tea ladies to afford it!
Thank you for uploading this. I enjoyed watching it thoroughly
John Dye should have played for England - he looks a fierce bowler and doesn't go for many runs.
I thought that as well.
I saw John Dye bowling for Kent against Essex. He was a great bowler with really low bowling averages if I recall correctly.,
Back when a bowler clapped a batsman hitting a 6 off his bowling...
Willey opened the batting, despite Larkins and Cook bothe being in the side. Interesting...
Was nice to watch, but not a specially memorable game. But some well-known names in those teams of old!
9:35 Richie Benaud talks here about the BBC's 'special camera' when the only thing that is special is that the BBC has actually got 2 cameras, one at each end !
Something which was rare back then and even rarer today; an Indian (Bishen Bedi) and a Pakistani (Mushtaq Mohammad) shoulder to shoulder on the same team.
And safraz nawas
Or even Sarfraz Nawaz!🙂@@roystonhesketh3987
Don't suppose anyone has the highlights of the 1981 NatWest semi between these two teams?
Fantastic win for Northants
Blimey, that Northants left arm pie thrower had a bit of excess timber..
Was Bumble playing?
darkarts59 Yes.
David Lloyd was captain for Lancashire in this match.
Yes.
That’s him being bowled by Bedi 8.37.
Coming in at 3:05
Crazy how slow the scoring rate is
Notice the field, 2 slips, gulley and 2 short legs. Also full boundary
Yeah, 14 maidens!
They played orthodox shots then, no reverse sweep and scoop shots.
@@kevinhiggins910 There were some weird bowling actions in the 1970s
@@kevinhiggins910 For the first 40 overs of a Gillette cup match it was rather like watching a county championship game. There were no restrictions on bouncers, wides were the same as 1st class cricket and no free hits too. It was revolutionary to go into a game without 2 spinners and there were less attempts to hit sixes and more emphasis on trying to score off every ball (not always successful!!) in the last 5-7 overs.
Show matches of Kent after 1970.
Please.
David Steele always lofted his attacking shots into the air on the legside - technical deficiency of his I've noticed before. Didn't roll his wrists over the ball to keep it down and it cost him here and indeed he should have been caught at deep long leg prior to that.
If not for that late thrash, Lancs less than 3 an over! Pretty grim for a one day game. The 3 sixes Hughes scored in the last over is more than 6 overs worth of scoring for the rest of the team.
Peter Lee playing for Lancashire was the player born in Northamptonshire in the entire match.
No Clive Lloyd? I thought the W.Indies tour had finished by then - he obviously didn't go back to Lancs for the last few games of the season. It might have been a very different match if he'd been playing.
Overseas players were not allowed to do that then. Contracts were awarded for the full season or not at all, the laws were changed a few years later.
Bob Ratcliffe looks like a club bowler
That's crazy Nirmal Nanan is my uncle
didn't realise Willey started that early
He was 27 then .
Does anyone have full BBC highlights of northants v Somerset in the 1979 Gillette cup final ? Also the b&h 1982 semi final at trent bridge between Lancashire and Nottinghamshire please ?
Do you have any county highlights yourself? Especially from that era? I have the 79 Final highlights but I got it from someone else so I'm not posting it on youtube.
Paul P I don't have any highlights myself but I wish I could of taped loads of games years ago,that's why i liked the cricket when it was on the BBC whenever it rained they always showed the highlights of matches from the 70's & 80's, I was a big Somerset fan when I was younger that's why I wanna see the 79 Gillette final it was the first competition they ever won
so it was J Abrahams of lancashire who wore helmet first time in cricket.time 6,01
Lol. I do believe that's his hair sir.
I think Kerry Packer must have been watching J Abrahams batting with afro afro hairstyles and got the idea to introduce the batting helmets.Lol...
You can hear Ritchie talking to Jack Bannister Geoff Boycott and David Gower in the background whilst commentating in 1976.
David Gower was 19 and completely unknown in 1976. Whatever is in the background, it is not commentary on this match by David Gower.
World class Bishen far too good for Bumble