Those were the days... Great pace attack... Great bouncers... Great courageous batsmen. I was a kid and I registered a 70-100 runs partnership whenever Desmond Haynes and Gordon Greenidge walked out. The best opening pair of all times.
So that was Haynes's 6th ODI hundred (to that point in his career) as the commentator Tony Cozier said. It was also his 4th in 5 matches against Australia (3 in 4 matches in the one day series on the west indies tour in early - mid 1984 and this was the first match of the world series cup when the west indies subsequently toured Australia in 1984-85. Of the other 2 of the 6 to that point in his career, one was on his ODI debut, also against Australia in early - mid 1978 when Australia toured the carribean. So 5 of his first 6 ODI tons were against us - talk about favourite opposition.
Desmond Haynes was a fantastic player. Youngsters don't know bout this guy. Many young Windies players should look at his footwork. Look at the footwork to play the shoots thru the off side.. Later on in his career he had a more open stance and played with a lot of craft. He was spectacular vs Wasim and Waquar in 1993 Test series.......
As a bajan, I cannot tell you how proud I felt when these two came out. When one was on form, the other would anchor and when they were both on form, it was trouble
Yes and also the small size of the bat. Now a days the batsmen use a very thick bat and do not apply much force. I am pretty sure that most of the batsmen of post 1990 era could not achieve higher average if they used lighter and thinner bats.
well if the players of these days like Kohli Root Smith and others who r called run machines and have batting average 50plus both in ODIs and Tests has to play on the grounds with this long boundries and with bats of that time i think their batting averahe would drop to 41 or 42 in test and 31 to 32 in ODIs or soon they might be kicked outts teams for not performing
@@gasperagacy LOL....you can't underestimate their talents without even seeing their performances... Do you think Viv Richards is mad to say "I see myself in Virat Kohli".
@@rohanyeole6520 well if u think Kohli and Sharma r run machine or so is Steve Smith than ask them to use bats of 80s and face the speed and rules of 80s and ask them to play first class cricket as player till mid 90s and before used to play. U will find them worn out in no more than 2 or 3 years. Coz that time there was no restriction on bouncer and beamers, stitches of the balls used to be thick so that it used to swing till 50 to 60 overs. Sir I. A. V. Richards used to play 34 matches of 4 days and atleast24 matches of 40 overs 50 9vers and 60 overs in an English county season plus used to play first class cricket in Caribbean than international Test and ODIs than touring matches, so in an years he used to play for 250 to 300 days of cricket. Now just think if present day cricketers can do that? Today cricketers r no more than a club dancer, whoever pays can see them dance,
No bro. Long boundaries make the match less intersting which inturn reduce revenue for Cricket board. My uncles and their friends were crazy fans during 90s and 2000s. Now they only watch t20I matches and ipl and as its more entertaining than two other formats and also its consumes less time to watch. Thats how cricket has become nowadays & I think its best for business and worse for fans...
In that era , first 15 overs was everything, win or loss decided there. Both teams send their best batsman and bowlers first up. One of the main reasons why WI was so powerful back then was due to this man, Desi his nick name, always gave WI a good start. Saw off the dangerous pace bowlers and thrashed the part time bowlers.
Desmond Haynes 💎 He was in the class of his own ! First player to hold 17 ODI 100s & 8000+ ODI Runs records for a very very long time, until Saeed Anwar scored 18 ODI 100s & M Azharuddin surpassed 9000+ ODI Runs. Haynes was simply awesome, well ahead of his time 👌🏻👍
I understand your argument, viv would have had a field day in the modern era, these days it’s about big scores and plenty of boundaries for entertainment, maybe the value of land where these stadiums were located means smaller grounds as well
@@priyanshuchoudhary8319 See without seeing anything you're underestimating their talent... Sir Viv Richards Himself said that he see himself in Virat.
O' boy, what's that. A 100-meter boundary or something?. Haynes ran 4 runs twice in a single match. Now I get why the ODI's have a par score of 300 in modern cricket. The reason, 65-meter boundaries.
MCG is a very, very large playing surface with long boundaries, primarily because of its use as an Australian Rules football stadium. Back in 1985 it was home ground to VFL/AFL clubs Richmond, Melbourne and North Melbourne and it hosted finals matches plus the Grand Final each year.
Desmond Haynes legend.. him and Gordon Greenige were a great opening duo.. That WI side was the best.. I actually got to see them at the GABBA in Brissy. Malcolm Marshall was my idol since i was a pace bowler 👍🏾
I once smacked a ball back at desmond that hard and low it near nuff broke his right hand he bowled a bit when he played at blackhall north east england years ago i got a fifty that day for north durham as a teeny ..he came into dressing room after shook my hand saying well batted you hit it hard man i was only 19 ish always remember that sunday in a cup tie .
I think this is what cricket means. I think partially India helped to destroy the go of this ball game introducing little grounds, introducing batsman who do not care about the techniques and finally hop in to the ICC chairmanship. According to the performance as a nation which executed two finals and being runner up one time Windies have more right to this as they were the giants of this game. Somehow introducing the T20 destroyed the beauty of this game. Those were the days even there was a game for 180 runs. But today even 350 might not be sufficient. And always these rules change once every four years considering the venue of the world cup to bring these destroyers to get into the far distance in the tournament. So if I could, I'd love to step back this wonderful and beautiful times when every country played their best to preserve the game. Some faught harder to disprove the statement "cricket by chance". By means of that Windies, South Africans were best fighters....
What a fine player he was , can remember watching him score a test century after this at the SCG in 1988/89 season..played spin beautifully that day.He was equally effective player at both one dayers and test matches
@@HoratioFitzbastard Thanks for your reply which I posted 4 years ago. Roy was very wristy player., with no helmet pulling and hooking the fast bowler is a treat to watch.
Cricket needs to go back to those golden days.icc must make big boundaries fast bouncy wickets.2 bouncers per over be made must.doosra reverse swing should be encouraged.bowling actions like murli harbhajan shoib akhtar ajmal bret lee must b encouraged if bowlers have deformities in arm. Bowling must b strong to make cricket exciting competitive.
Aus is by far historically the best cricketing nation with a take no prisoners attitude. The rest of the cricketing world is jealous of this fact and they seem to take great pleasure when Aus lose. Very sporting. I am not referring to Pommy banter either as they really are good sports in the main
It was quite a common thing for the west indies team batters to take four runs by running Inspite of fielders stopping the ball with in the field. They had the best coordination while running between the wickets.
I see many here, many people seems finding it difficult to digest that today's batting era... Late 20th Century was dominated by bowlers...so what's the problem if Batsman are dominating initial 21st century? Batsman used to adjust themselves in the bowlers era...now its time for the bowlers to adjust.
Can you imagine a batsman in this era behaving like Haynes at 3:56, letting the umpire decide whether he got an edge for his century without trying to influence him?
It's become political and soft. Not many injuries from sliding into the fence and it looked spectacular. Classic cricket from the early 80s with Kepler Wessels still playing for Oz.
Desmond Haynes, what a class player he was
full length boundaries, classic Australian grounds, thin cricket bats and yet the real West Indies kicking ass
Those were the days... Great pace attack... Great bouncers... Great courageous batsmen.
I was a kid and I registered a 70-100 runs partnership whenever Desmond Haynes and Gordon Greenidge walked out.
The best opening pair of all times.
Desmond Haynes was a great batsman on his day and a lovely person I was privileged enough to meet him twice and he was fantastic
You are lucky 👍👍👍
truly one of greats.
So that was Haynes's 6th ODI hundred (to that point in his career) as the commentator Tony Cozier said. It was also his 4th in 5 matches against Australia (3 in 4 matches in the one day series on the west indies tour in early - mid 1984 and this was the first match of the world series cup when the west indies subsequently toured Australia in 1984-85. Of the other 2 of the 6 to that point in his career, one was on his ODI debut, also against Australia in early - mid 1978 when Australia toured the carribean. So 5 of his first 6 ODI tons were against us - talk about favourite opposition.
Desmond Haynes was a fantastic player. Youngsters don't know bout this guy. Many young Windies players should look at his footwork. Look at the footwork to play the shoots thru the off side.. Later on in his career he had a more open stance and played with a lot of craft. He was spectacular vs Wasim and Waquar in 1993 Test series.......
great batsman indeed. he and carl hooper were the only two batsmen in the world who played wasim and waqar's huge inswingers with incredible ease.
Looks like the boundaries are in a different state to where the pitch is 😂
Australia is a big country!
Sir.vivian Richards without helmet used to hit sixes in those grounds ...
It's at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG).
Modern day cricket they have brought in the boundaries with ropes and advertising board which have advantage batsmen
West Indies 1975 -1990 best team ever in the history of cricket
bcoz that time other team were not good...from 90s international cricket graced with great players
Best opening pair ever
Not better than modi and shah
@Cool Kid I love it, U2 same blood
Late 80s, early 90s, Haynes was #1 on the list of most odi centuries. Surpassing even the great viv Richard.
Yes, he held that till 98 (17 odi centuries) when Sachin broke that record vs zim
I did not know that! What a feat for an opening batsman!
Viv pushed down himself from no.3 slot for Richie which obviously take away several tons...In general Viv was street ahead of anyone in his era..
@@kunalsingh3121 Correct Sir.
Now that is some hammering- what a aggressive player Haynes was
Those were the days WI used to take the skin out of Aussies!
Out of every team.
less of aussies and more of pommies.
They ate the Aussies for lunch back then!
What a wonderful innings,complete domination
As a bajan, I cannot tell you how proud I felt when these two came out. When one was on form, the other would anchor and when they were both on form, it was trouble
I loved the Windies coming out to Australia back then, Viv being my favorite player.
Legend🏏,got me hooked on the game when he played for Middlesex...🚥 London N15 🇲🇺🚥
Can you imagine what Desmond Haynes would do to this T20?
These tiny boundaries and manicured pitches? He'd absolutely humiliate the format.
how big the boundary line was..boon running running and running...
Yes MACHI, we Indians should learn, apart from sir ji and captain no body runs, they ran after girls
Yes and also the small size of the bat. Now a days the batsmen use a very thick bat and do not apply much force. I am pretty sure that most of the batsmen of post 1990 era could not achieve higher average if they used lighter and thinner bats.
well if the players of these days like Kohli Root Smith and others who r called run machines and have batting average 50plus both in ODIs and Tests has to play on the grounds with this long boundries and with bats of that time i think their batting averahe would drop to 41 or 42 in test and 31 to 32 in ODIs or soon they might be kicked outts teams for not performing
@@gasperagacy LOL....you can't underestimate their talents without even seeing their performances...
Do you think Viv Richards is mad to say "I see myself in Virat Kohli".
@@rohanyeole6520 well if u think Kohli and Sharma r run machine or so is Steve Smith than ask them to use bats of 80s and face the speed and rules of 80s and ask them to play first class cricket as player till mid 90s and before used to play.
U will find them worn out in no more than 2 or 3 years. Coz that time there was no restriction on bouncer and beamers, stitches of the balls used to be thick so that it used to swing till 50 to 60 overs.
Sir I. A. V. Richards used to play 34 matches of 4 days and atleast24 matches of 40 overs 50 9vers and 60 overs in an English county season plus used to play first class cricket in Caribbean than international Test and ODIs than touring matches, so in an years he used to play for 250 to 300 days of cricket.
Now just think if present day cricketers can do that? Today cricketers r no more than a club dancer, whoever pays can see them dance,
if DESMOND HAYNES played till year of 2000, he would've created lots of record in World Cricket like JAVED MIANDAD & SACHIN TENDULKAR.
They should put the boundaries back to where they used to be, short boundaries have ruined the game.
at least cricket australia should have had sense enough.
No bro. Long boundaries make the match less intersting which inturn reduce revenue for Cricket board. My uncles and their friends were crazy fans during 90s and 2000s. Now they only watch t20I matches and ipl and as its more entertaining than two other formats and also its consumes less time to watch. Thats how cricket has become nowadays & I think its best for business and worse for fans...
Always loved Desmond haynes...
Great stroke maker and great running between wickets
McG
Desmond Haynes 🙌🙌🙌 Respect Sir
In that era , first 15 overs was everything, win or loss decided there. Both teams send their best batsman and bowlers first up. One of the main reasons why WI was so powerful back then was due to this man, Desi his nick name, always gave WI a good start. Saw off the dangerous pace bowlers and thrashed the part time bowlers.
sometimes even thrashed the dangerous bowlers like lawson.
Desmond Haynes 💎 He was in the class of his own !
First player to hold 17 ODI 100s & 8000+ ODI Runs records for a very very long time, until Saeed Anwar scored 18 ODI 100s & M Azharuddin surpassed 9000+ ODI Runs. Haynes was simply awesome, well ahead of his time 👌🏻👍
What a player. My dad talks about him, Greenidge and Sobers a lot.
Your Dad must be around my age.. I was born in 71' the West Indies cricket team back in the 80's was the best
When the West Indies were a great side, I miss these days :-(
u saw them from afganistan!
Me too. I still root for them, hoping for a comeback
Super display of correct cricketing shots by a real legendary batsman
He was lovely to watch.
And tony coziers commentary was always quality.
Never seen him play. Thanks for the upload. His play might suit even in the modern T20 era.
Man these clips from 80s by cricket Australia are far better than the clips of 21st century from subcontinent.
that is only because of wsc and channel 9.
90% of the modern day sixes were out on those grounds. And then they show stats of modern cricketers 😂😂😂.
I understand your argument, viv would have had a field day in the modern era, these days it’s about big scores and plenty of boundaries for entertainment, maybe the value of land where these stadiums were located means smaller grounds as well
@@catlikepizzagaming8280 nah!! It's not about cost. Current grounds are overall bigger. Just the playing field is smaller
@@priyanshuchoudhary8319 not in my country
@@priyanshuchoudhary8319 See without seeing anything you're underestimating their talent...
Sir Viv Richards Himself said that he see himself in Virat.
That doesn't mean anything significant other than some similarities with virat.
Once in my childhood about desmond sir that great player👍👍 ,,,,, I miss u papa ji😢
O' boy, what's that. A 100-meter boundary or something?. Haynes ran 4 runs twice in a single match. Now I get why the ODI's have a par score of 300 in modern cricket. The reason, 65-meter boundaries.
MCG is a very, very large playing surface with long boundaries, primarily because of its use as an Australian Rules football stadium. Back in 1985 it was home ground to VFL/AFL clubs Richmond, Melbourne and North Melbourne and it hosted finals matches plus the Grand Final each year.
Powerful batting line up and great bowlers which helped WI to win several matches..
2:35 you couldn't hit that any better. It went off like a gun. What a sound!!
Haynes has run at least couple of 4s here and we don't see anymore of that in modern day cricket
So mindblowing and amazing performance,really unforgettable
One of the finest hitter ..Watching in 2024
Desmond Haynes legend.. him and Gordon Greenige were a great opening duo.. That WI side was the best.. I actually got to see them at the GABBA in Brissy. Malcolm Marshall was my idol since i was a pace bowler 👍🏾
upload Desmond Haynes 152 runs odi innings & 184 runs test innings.
This is an innings of the highest class - against the Australian attack too. What a batsman.
mcdermott was a class act that debut season. lost everything in the next.
@Lats Niebling lawson was the most accurate aussie fastie back then.
Beautiful color and beautiful sound
that was the wsc.
Thanks Cricket Australia team for this wonderful cricket channel and it's content.
I once smacked a ball back at desmond that hard and low it near nuff broke his right hand he bowled a bit when he played at blackhall north east england years ago i got a fifty that day for north durham as a teeny ..he came into dressing room after shook my hand saying well batted you hit it hard man i was only 19 ish always remember that sunday in a cup tie .
Love memory
At his peak, Haynes was unarguably the world's best ODI batsman. A classic strokemaker.
I think this is what cricket means. I think partially India helped to destroy the go of this ball game introducing little grounds, introducing batsman who do not care about the techniques and finally hop in to the ICC chairmanship. According to the performance as a nation which executed two finals and being runner up one time Windies have more right to this as they were the giants of this game. Somehow introducing the T20 destroyed the beauty of this game. Those were the days even there was a game for 180 runs. But today even 350 might not be sufficient. And always these rules change once every four years considering the venue of the world cup to bring these destroyers to get into the far distance in the tournament. So if I could, I'd love to step back this wonderful and beautiful times when every country played their best to preserve the game. Some faught harder to disprove the statement "cricket by chance". By means of that Windies, South Africans were best fighters....
What a fine player he was , can remember watching him score a test century after this at the SCG in 1988/89 season..played spin beautifully that day.He was equally effective player at both one dayers and test matches
Greatest ODI Batsman I saw!
What a beautiful innings - what great shots. Cricket is too easy today with small boundaries and big bats
Could you upload Roy Fredricks 169 at Perth in the 74-75 series.
Waiting forever for that iconic knock.
@@PraveenKumar-sr6ne don't know if you're the PK of Indian cricket, but you do seem a quintessential purist.
The tapes were destroyed in a flood I believe.
@@HoratioFitzbastard
Thanks for your reply which I posted 4 years ago. Roy was very wristy player., with no helmet pulling and hooking the fast bowler is a treat to watch.
3:36 Almost killed the wicketkeeper
thats a world class batting❤❤
Cricket needs to go back to those golden days.icc must make big boundaries fast bouncy wickets.2 bouncers per over be made must.doosra reverse swing should be encouraged.bowling actions like murli harbhajan shoib akhtar ajmal bret lee must b encouraged if bowlers have deformities in arm. Bowling must b strong to make cricket exciting competitive.
Sachin Tendulkar and Desmond haynes both are my favourite opener
Des Haynes was a resolute batsman, could stay at wicket for long hours dropping the anchor.
RIP Mr. Cozier
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Most underrated west Indian batsman I think... ❤️
His batting is so eye pleasing. Those flicks.. aah! That flair!
A great batsmen.
Thanx for uploading
Desmond Haynes my child hood hero
Haynes was the most important member of Great Windies. It's his retirement that saw Australia crowned as unofficial World Champions in 1995
It was selectors that stupidly left him out in 95
even lawson got sticked around. such was the talent of haynes.
Bat speed.....amazing
what went wrong with DESMOND HAYNES that he didn't played for WEST INDIES in wc 1996 & after the year of 1996 ?
Proper boundaries then...not like today. Prefer those times...proper cricket
Another Brilliant Upload Keep it up
GREAT BATTING 👌❤️ FROM 🇮🇳
Run scoring seems difficult..longer boundaries?? Slower outfield?? But haynes manages to smack the ball all over the park.
Grounds so big they running 4 singles with ease
Real boundaries.... Wow maybe 100 metres...
Majestic! The only word
Aus is by far historically the best cricketing nation with a take no prisoners attitude. The rest of the cricketing world is jealous of this fact and they seem to take great pleasure when Aus lose. Very sporting. I am not referring to Pommy banter either as they really are good sports in the main
producers of very good pace bowlers. lilly, pascoe, lawson, hogg, mcdermott, mccurdy, davis, campbell, alderman, rackemann.
Complete dominance
all of the threes are boundaries no wonder batsmen had it easy these days
please full series match upload
That what you call boundaries not the school cricket boundaries you have today
It was quite a common thing for the west indies team batters to take four runs by running Inspite of fielders stopping the ball with in the field. They had the best coordination while running between the wickets.
This is the biggest ground ever seen
Iam missing this type of cricket
only on the classic footage now
I see many here, many people seems finding it difficult to digest that today's batting era...
Late 20th Century was dominated by bowlers...so what's the problem if Batsman are dominating initial 21st century?
Batsman used to adjust themselves in the bowlers era...now its time for the bowlers to adjust.
In those times ground dimension seems to be bigger if u notice the first shot of haynes on off side covers.... Nowadays it's all about batsman
gods at work...
Can you imagine a batsman in this era behaving like Haynes at 3:56, letting the umpire decide whether he got an edge for his century without trying to influence him?
Class and technique is not enough here, You have to be a strong fella to score big in this kind of boundary.
Wow look at the size of those grounds...
Seeing the crowd it seems like a world cup of nowadays
Big boundaries. These days probably 30% less. What a showbiz cricket has become :(
It's become political and soft. Not many injuries from sliding into the fence and it looked spectacular. Classic cricket from the early 80s with Kepler Wessels still playing for Oz.
Huge grounds and real cricket
1:55 Future South African captain.
who?
Look at the boundaries 😳
Shot at 1:01 is not by Haynes. It was Greenidge.
Batsman used to 4 runs by running between the wicket before ball race towards the boundary line..
Marvellous knock that!
When batsman used to make 4 runs by running
How hard was to to score those days.
Look how big is the boundary
Question - the all run fours, do they count as boundaries and get listed under 4s on the score card?
Listed as runs and not boundaries.
Listed as fours! But not boundaries
as runs
Damn man how long is the boundari line😮
Sometimes it's look like ground is small ball is reaching to the boundries very fast
Dimensions of the ground are twice as of today’s dimensions