I love the way Snow doesnt even react when he has taken any of the wickets - even the 7 fer. Just walks away. That is actually very menacing. Greatest English fast bowler i have ever watched.
Paul Godman Nothing like the high fives with all the team, hugging, picking up c these days. Maybe there was an occasional hand shake then. Love the way the bowler raises the ball to the crowd now when getting 5 wickets.
Just come across this as John Snow was my hero as a youngster and the reason i have always supported Sussex even though i have never lived there ! Great action and an almost spiteful attitude to batsmen but what a bowler. And none of these showing off "look at me" antics whenever a wicket is taken in those days. As with football, back then it was primarily sport for all and not the glitzy show-biz money machine of nowadays. Great days John Ford
...what an economical action...with a ball delivery that must be comparable to..Andy Roberts..in potential pace and explosive rise off the pitch and skiddish quick when going for the stumps.Thanks for posting one of the great Pace Bowlers.
That was John Snow. He got the good batters out. The Aussies always said, that his quiet menace, really got under their skin. I think he'd get a game in most sides.
Snow was very good indeed and very fast. He tends to get overlooked to a degree, as he was never part of a fast bowling partnership, eg Lillee and Tommo, Holding and Roberts, etc
That’s a really good point. Other England fast bowlers of that era coming to mind are Shuttleworth, Lever, Geoff Arnold, Price. And as you say Snow &? isn’t a phrase.
@@paulgodman7939 In those days, the gin and tonic sodden old buffers of the English TCCB preferred gallant, polite losers to prickly, aggressive winners.
Snow had a reputation of being a rebel and had scant regard for the cricketing authorities, he realised that bowling fast in tests and county cricket , no central contracts then, would take a toll on his body. He then bowled well within himself in county games and bowled full out when it mattered in tests. A thoroughbred. Brilliant control, able to lift a ball on a full length into the heart of a batsman. Also a master of swing and seam. Bowled in the mid to late eighties with a quick delivery at ninety.
@@StephenMarxistplayer He was acknowledged as the difference between the two sides in the 1970/71 Ashes series where Illingworth got the best out of him. Australia rejoiced in disbelief when Snow was left out of the 1974/75 series as ,like you say, he had ‘upset the establishment.’
I love the way Snow doesnt even react when he has taken any of the wickets - even the 7 fer. Just walks away. That is actually very menacing. Greatest English fast bowler i have ever watched.
Paul Godman Nothing like the high fives with all the team, hugging, picking up c these days. Maybe there was an occasional hand shake then. Love the way the bowler raises the ball to the crowd now when getting 5 wickets.
Back then it was more like boxing! Man vs man and no sledging!! The ball did the talking !!
He was probably working on his poetry
Just come across this as John Snow was my hero as a youngster and the reason i have always supported Sussex even though i have never lived there !
Great action and an almost spiteful attitude to batsmen but what a bowler. And none of these showing off "look at me" antics whenever a wicket is taken in those days. As with football, back then it was primarily sport for all and not the glitzy show-biz money machine of nowadays. Great days
John Ford
...what an economical action...with a ball delivery that must be comparable to..Andy Roberts..in potential pace and explosive rise off the pitch and skiddish quick when going for the stumps.Thanks for posting one of the great Pace Bowlers.
Just hearing Richie Benaud makes me feel better.
Richie Benaud was the Morgan Freeman of cricket
That was a fine array of batsmen he was dismissing as well in those two performances.
That was John Snow. He got the good batters out. The Aussies always said, that his quiet menace, really got under their skin.
I think he'd get a game in most sides.
Snow was very good indeed and very fast. He tends to get overlooked to a degree, as he was never part of a fast bowling partnership, eg Lillee and Tommo, Holding and Roberts, etc
That’s a really good point. Other England fast bowlers of that era coming to mind are Shuttleworth, Lever, Geoff Arnold, Price. And as you say Snow &? isn’t a phrase.
Yes. It was thought at the time that he would combine in the long term with Bob Willis, but his career was cut short by injury I believe.
And he was constantly in trouble with the authorities. His book "Cricket Rebel" is fantastic.
@@paulgodman7939 Just bought that book off Ebay,can't wait to read it.
@@paulgodman7939 In those days, the gin and tonic sodden old buffers of the English TCCB preferred gallant, polite losers to prickly, aggressive winners.
Man he had a quick fire action, Allan Donald's and Dale Steyn's were kinda similar
Looks like a great bowler s combination of macgrath and dale steyn.
Gleason didn't fancy that at all.
Was lucky enough to be at Hove when Snow bowled Sobers for a duck in '66
wow he is quick.... no wonder Imran learnt a lot from him
Snow had a reputation of being a rebel and had scant regard for the cricketing authorities, he realised that bowling fast in tests and county cricket , no central contracts then, would take a toll on his body. He then bowled well within himself in county games and bowled full out when it mattered in tests.
A thoroughbred. Brilliant control, able to lift a ball on a full length into the heart of a batsman. Also a master of swing and seam. Bowled in the mid to late eighties with a quick delivery at ninety.
@@StephenMarxistplayer He was acknowledged as the difference between the two sides in the 1970/71 Ashes series where Illingworth got the best out of him. Australia rejoiced in disbelief when Snow was left out of the 1974/75 series as ,like you say, he had ‘upset the establishment.’
Who came here after watching Anand Ranganathan
Me 😅😂
The commentary is so restrained - but not as restrained as the on-field wicket-taking celebrations!
Indeed, what would they make of today's high fives, hair ruffling, hugging and backside slapping , ha ha!?
Trouble was Snow needed good management and captaincy - two things consistently lacking in English cricket.
How quick was he
On average probably 84-88. Quickest ball early 90s.
Quick enough, apparently.