I was glued to my TV set that summer, it was an amazing series. Dominic Cork was a very underrated cricketer in my eyes, did not have express pace, but had a lot of heart and sass about him. The 33 he made @ Lords to get us home was brilliant. Gough, White, Caddick and Mike Atherton also had a good series as well, even though Athers had a very bad back by this stage of his career.
I watched this live and it really broke my heart seeing West Indies spiral downwards in the series after beginning so well in Edgbaston. They lost embarassingly in Headingley too and will have lost in old Trafford too if not for a majestic Lara hundred. Such a sad end to the incredible career of the great Curtly Ambrose.
No matter how bad they got, they always seemed to beat England in the Caribbean!! They were our bogey team in away series for a number of years. We won one series in the Caribbean in I don’t know how many years. In 2004 when we were building up for the 2005 Ashes and Harmison took 7-12.
Oh, I loved it when finally the boot was on the other foot! After all those years of drubbings and looking early on in that series as if we were heading for another one after losing the first Test, the second one ended up being a draw and then England never looked back, winning the last three and bowling the mighty West Indies our three times for under a hundred during that winning stretch! It was like manna from heaven after having reached the promised land, even if I am mixing and matching all those old scriptures, lol! Still, I was surprised by how suddenly the downward spiral seemed to come for them. Within a year they were being whitewashed 5-0 in South Africa, Australia gave them a 5-0 soon after that, England whitewashed them 4-0 at home about three years after this and then went and won 3-0 over there. Even Lara’s 400 seemed like an empty gesture because it was in a dead rubber and by batting for so long they forfeited the chance of winning a consolation Test, just for Lara’s own personal glory, even if it was a mighty feat.
@@oleggorky906 agreed. I remember the ‘ blackwashes ‘ of the 1980’s!! 5-0 a couple of times in test series including a absolute mismatch in the Caribbean in 1985/86. We slowly started getting closer to them, starting in the Caribbean in 1990, when we won the first test and should have won at least 1 more if bad weather and West Indies time wasting hadn’t scuppered our chances. Then we drew the home test series in 1991, 2-2, which was the last series for Richards, Dujon , Greenidge and Marshall.
@@alanhowe7659 Not their fault. England adopted a policy of just blocking out Ambrose and Walsh at this point. The problem they had is those two couldn't bowl all day, and the backup bowling was much much easier.
In the early 2000s, England had a fairly effective if not devastating seam attack in Caddick, Gough, Hoggard and Cork. It's just their misfortune the Australian batting line-ups they faced in this period was too good for any kind of bowling and deprived them of retaking the Ashes till 2005 or so. But against other top notch sides like RSA and pak, it came in pretty handy.
Yeah, and the commentary sounded very biased since they did not even check the dismissals critically again. The bowling was very good no doubt but I think they batted terribly
Some glimpses of Clive Lloyd's 1975 World Cup final hurricane, the famous Viv Richards 189*, a Jimmy Anderson tribute video with a compiliation of his Lord's wickets, Sunil Gavaskar's knock of 188 in the bicenetary match and last but not the least, some very old clips featuring Sir Don Bradman and his famous Australian team...
I used to work about 15 minutes away from home. I left work with the Windies 5 wickets down. I was looking forward to enjoying the rest of the days play thanks to the BBC coverage. Got home, grabbed a beer and assumed it was raining as there was no play. I had missed THAT over from Caddick.
Only Ambrose and walsh bowled well throughout this match. There was no supporting bowler and that's why Windies lost the match. There were no other experience bowler except Walsh and Curtly Ambrose. These were 80s bowler.
Such an important test match for England. In many ways, this was a momentous victory for them considering they were, officially, the worst team in the world at that time having lost a home series against NZ the previous summer. They had also lost their home series against Oz and Pak and hardly won anything away. They started this series with a pasting in Edgbaston and had they lost this one, it is likely they would have lost the series and England may have never become a force again in test cricket. They had not beaten WI in a test series anywhere since 1969. This victory, against an albeit waning WI side, was the turning point for the series as they dominated the next 3 tests and won 3-1. They wouldn’t lose as much a test against WI at home till 2017 and even won a series against them away in 2003-2004. So, kudos and many thanks as an England fan to Messrs. Cork, Caddick, Gough, and Vaughan for this spectacular turnaround.
Ramprakash opening and Knight and Stewart down the order? No wonder England were in a mess back then. Poor batsmen never seemed to able to settle into defined roles
Venkat made a whole bunch of apalling decisions against the West Indies batsmen in that test match. England did bowl brilliantly but there seemed to be virtually no benefit of the doubt for the W.I. batsmen.
@Kenneth - It did seem that way. I come from the same town as Venkat and all of us hold in very high regard both as a player and umpire. But it seemed Grifith, Wavell Hinds, Jimmy Adams and Chanderpaul all got grubbers in the second innings! I also recall WC Semifinal 1996 when Venkat kept putting his finger up in a flash to give Warne a number of LBWs when WIndies were cruising. Looks like Venkat may have squared up atleast half the shockers Bucknor gave against India (or was it just retribution with interest?)
I could never understand Bucknor. Sometimes he would make the most wonderful decisions, followed by an awful decision. For the first few years of his career as an umpire he was brilliant. He wouldn’t get better after that though!!
Sir Brian Charles Lara 95 vs England in 2nd Test, Birmingham, Jul 29 - Aug 1 2004, West Indies tour of England. most beautiful master class inning he ever played in English Soil. i really wish to see that inning in full HD quality. he hit 15 fours. last 8 boundary were heart sooooothing.
People always take the Mickey out of England for being bowled by WIs for 45..But everyone forgets the 54 triumph over WIs and at headingly England defeated WIs inside two days...What goes around comes around
Wow. Yeah I remember watching this game live What a match it was. It was West indies who should have won this though. England scored something like 20 runs for the last wicket. with the attack and the kind of form that that bowling attack was in, the windies should've won this.
He did but I know what you mean. He was a great fast bowler. I remember a test match in Australia when he bowled about 5 or 6 no balls in an over but that was very rare.
I was glued to my TV set that summer, it was an amazing series. Dominic Cork was a very underrated cricketer in my eyes, did not have express pace, but had a lot of heart and sass about him. The 33 he made @ Lords to get us home was brilliant. Gough, White, Caddick and Mike Atherton also had a good series as well, even though Athers had a very bad back by this stage of his career.
Darren Gough bowling action looking so beautiful 😍😍😍😍😍
Walsh and Ambrose 🥰
And Hinds batting 🔥🔥🔥
I watched this live and it really broke my heart seeing West Indies spiral downwards in the series after beginning so well in Edgbaston. They lost embarassingly in Headingley too and will have lost in old Trafford too if not for a majestic Lara hundred. Such a sad end to the incredible career of the great Curtly Ambrose.
No matter how bad they got, they always seemed to beat England in the Caribbean!! They were our bogey team in away series for a number of years. We won one series in the Caribbean in I don’t know how many years. In 2004 when we were building up for the 2005 Ashes and Harmison took 7-12.
Umpiring was very poor against West indies in that series
Venkat made a whole bunch of apalling decisions against the West Indies.
Oh, I loved it when finally the boot was on the other foot! After all those years of drubbings and looking early on in that series as if we were heading for another one after losing the first Test, the second one ended up being a draw and then England never looked back, winning the last three and bowling the mighty West Indies our three times for under a hundred during that winning stretch!
It was like manna from heaven after having reached the promised land, even if I am mixing and matching all those old scriptures, lol!
Still, I was surprised by how suddenly the downward spiral seemed to come for them. Within a year they were being whitewashed 5-0 in South Africa, Australia gave them a 5-0 soon after that, England whitewashed them 4-0 at home about three years after this and then went and won 3-0 over there. Even Lara’s 400 seemed like an empty gesture because it was in a dead rubber and by batting for so long they forfeited the chance of winning a consolation Test, just for Lara’s own personal glory, even if it was a mighty feat.
@@oleggorky906 agreed. I remember the ‘ blackwashes ‘ of the 1980’s!! 5-0 a couple of times in test series including a absolute mismatch in the Caribbean in 1985/86. We slowly started getting closer to them, starting in the Caribbean in 1990, when we won the first test and should have won at least 1 more if bad weather and West Indies time wasting hadn’t scuppered our chances. Then we drew the home test series in 1991, 2-2, which was the last series for Richards, Dujon , Greenidge and Marshall.
One of the best test matches fast bowling pair of Ambrose and Walsh
...who lost!
@@alanhowe7659 Not their fault. England adopted a policy of just blocking out Ambrose and Walsh at this point. The problem they had is those two couldn't bowl all day, and the backup bowling was much much easier.
I remember so well that humid and hazy Friday afternoon.
One of the best test played at lords
Ambrose and Walsh were so, so good.
The old-school rolling scoreboard graphics were a nice touch!
From 169-1, WI were 152-19!
In the early 2000s, England had a fairly effective if not devastating seam attack in Caddick, Gough, Hoggard and Cork. It's just their misfortune the Australian batting line-ups they faced in this period was too good for any kind of bowling and deprived them of retaking the Ashes till 2005 or so. But against other top notch sides like RSA and pak, it came in pretty handy.
Caddicks action when he was in rhythm 😊
Adams dissmisal is ridiculous hit outside the off stump
England bowled beautifully in the second innings but they got some help from the umpires too. Adams' dismissal was especially atrocious!!
It was - so was Griffith's. Clear daylight between bat and ball.
Even Chanderpaul's... Venkat had a shocker
Yeah, and the commentary sounded very biased since they did not even check the dismissals critically again. The bowling was very good no doubt but I think they batted terribly
Ambrose & walsh 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Pak bowled out West Indies on just 53 runs in Faisalabad test in 1986 at that time West Indies were the strongest team
What highlights from Lord's would you like to see?
Are world cup matches highlights possible?
Some classic odi matches
Always expecting such classic test matches...especially ashes and against South Africa
Some glimpses of Clive Lloyd's 1975 World Cup final hurricane, the famous Viv Richards 189*, a Jimmy Anderson tribute video with a compiliation of his Lord's wickets, Sunil Gavaskar's knock of 188 in the bicenetary match and last but not the least, some very old clips featuring Sir Don Bradman and his famous Australian team...
Lord's Test, Ashes 2009
Please ?
Umpire was like every appeal is out
Damn those days 🥺 🥺
The man I love to see bat most of all is Sherwin Campbell. Second and third Brian Lara and Vivian Richards
This was last series of Ambrose and Walsh played together
Yet they were still taking all the wickets
After so much disappointment it was wonderful to see England reclaim respect
Watched this in pub , great bowling
I used to work about 15 minutes away from home. I left work with the Windies 5 wickets down. I was looking forward to enjoying the rest of the days play thanks to the BBC coverage. Got home, grabbed a beer and assumed it was raining as there was no play. I had missed THAT over from Caddick.
Was it still on the BBC then?? Or had it changed to Channel 4??
I think it had changed to Channel 4 as the crowd were holding up the 4 cards and it was the Channel 4 logo.
Did you find some football or something to watch while having the beer
Parts of all 4 innings in one day on the 2nd day of this test match.
OLD GOLD
Only Ambrose and walsh bowled well throughout this match. There was no supporting bowler and that's why Windies lost the match. There were no other experience bowler except Walsh and Curtly Ambrose. These were 80s bowler.
Such an important test match for England. In many ways, this was a momentous victory for them considering they were, officially, the worst team in the world at that time having lost a home series against NZ the previous summer. They had also lost their home series against Oz and Pak and hardly won anything away. They started this series with a pasting in Edgbaston and had they lost this one, it is likely they would have lost the series and England may have never become a force again in test cricket. They had not beaten WI in a test series anywhere since 1969. This victory, against an albeit waning WI side, was the turning point for the series as they dominated the next 3 tests and won 3-1. They wouldn’t lose as much a test against WI at home till 2017 and even won a series against them away in 2003-2004. So, kudos and many thanks as an England fan to Messrs. Cork, Caddick, Gough, and Vaughan for this spectacular turnaround.
Ramprakash opening and Knight and Stewart down the order? No wonder England were in a mess back then. Poor batsmen never seemed to able to settle into defined roles
Look at those shots the West Indies played in the first innings. You don’t see batting like this in Test Cricket anymore
Yes and thank god for that. That kind of batting was why they were bowled out for 54.
Venkat made a whole bunch of apalling decisions against the West Indies batsmen in that test match. England did bowl brilliantly but there seemed to be virtually no benefit of the doubt for the W.I. batsmen.
@Kenneth - It did seem that way. I come from the same town as Venkat and all of us hold in very high regard both as a player and umpire. But it seemed Grifith, Wavell Hinds, Jimmy Adams and Chanderpaul all got grubbers in the second innings! I also recall WC Semifinal 1996 when Venkat kept putting his finger up in a flash to give Warne a number of LBWs when WIndies were cruising. Looks like Venkat may have squared up atleast half the shockers Bucknor gave against India (or was it just retribution with interest?)
I could never understand Bucknor. Sometimes he would make the most wonderful decisions, followed by an awful decision. For the first few years of his career as an umpire he was brilliant. He wouldn’t get better after that though!!
Ramps was his own worst enemy imho. Knight was never a good call for test cricket, but Walsh and Ambrose were magnificent.
Another Brilliant Upload Keep It Up
I think in a good side, Gough would have been remembered as a legend
Sir Brian Charles Lara 95 vs England in 2nd Test, Birmingham, Jul 29 - Aug 1 2004, West Indies tour of England.
most beautiful master class inning he ever played in English Soil.
i really wish to see that inning in full HD quality.
he hit 15 fours.
last 8 boundary were heart sooooothing.
Ambrose batting at 8 might be the longest tail ever
Umpires were against West Indies this whole series.
Yes some bad decisions were made, but the WI were poor for the most part of the series.
In the next test, West Indies were bowled out for 61
The next test was drawn. It was the 4th test that the WI got bowled out for 61
14:04 not out
Excellent stuff.
They had to do it the hard way though! 95-1, half way there, then....
GREAT CRICKET 🏏🌹
Please upload Lords test England v Zimbabwe 2000
S.Chander paul ,,J.Adams re not out .... Bad decision by umpire
People always take the Mickey out of England for being bowled by WIs for 45..But everyone forgets the 54 triumph over WIs and at headingly England defeated WIs inside two days...What goes around comes around
Great Game thriller
Venkat had a shocker. Some absolutely terrible calls here!
So,tougz 😱
3 wickets wrongly given for WI,, if there was review game would have been very different
Venkat : so, so bad. You were always in the game when he was umpiring…
Atherton & Vaughan won the match for England other wise they would have been bowl out around 100
Nah, it was the WI atrocious batting. They went from 160-1 to 269 all out and batted even terribly in the second innings.
WI❤❤❤
8:27 150 test match wickets for Ambrose?? He’d made a lot more than that at the time of this test match.
150 test wickets against England I think they meant mate.
@@lawro04 no problem mate thanks for the info. I wasn’t sure if that’s what they meant. 👍👍
Yeah he must have had around 400 by then
2 years on from your comment and I’d noticed the same thing! Must have mentioned 149 against England in comms but skipped I guess
Why was Curtly Ambrose batting so high in the first innings?
Wow. Yeah I remember watching this game live
What a match it was. It was West indies who should have won this though. England scored something like 20 runs for the last wicket. with the attack and the kind of form that that bowling attack was in, the windies should've won this.
KL Rahul Scored 101 of 150 in 3-day warm up match 😍.
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Sir Curtley Ambrose did not bowl a bad ball in his entire career
How is this possible
He did but I know what you mean. He was a great fast bowler. I remember a test match in Australia when he bowled about 5 or 6 no balls in an over but that was very rare.
@@mrkipling2201i bet the no balls were still lethal
@@anweshchatterjee7595not really but he was playing with an injury. So we'll let him off!! 😂
Past players must be crying at the way the Windies have fallen 2024 team is so poor
There were atleast 4 awful decisions given in the 2nd innings to WI. And some biased commentary not even critically checking the dismissals at all.
Forgot how bad nick knight actually was
West indies batted poorly in the second innings
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Many wrong decisions by the umpires
Adams was very unlucky with that LBW, pitched outside, hit outside and was going to miss off by about 4 inches.
cricket was great but damn was it unfair..how on earth was chnaderpaul and adams ever out in the second innings ?? ROBBERY always
I think west Indies lost 3 nil
Yes
3-1
They won the 1 test
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Lousy umpiring though
why no hooper ?????????????????
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Really bad batting by West Indies in their 2nd innings here - shameful really
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Mike Atherton was such a bad cricketer.