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Things unlikely to be seen again?
- Thread starter Dan..Dan..Dan..Dan
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Dan..Dan..Dan..Dan
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The thread suggested things that we wouldn't see again. Are suggesting FTECB have ever demonstrated common sense?
Silly Point
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The traditional Lord's One Day Cup final
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Mr Redknapp
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A nation gripped by The Ashes on free TV 
How many on here fell in love with the game after '05.. fortunately it was about '93 for me ha
How many on here fell in love with the game after '05.. fortunately it was about '93 for me ha
Silly Point
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It was some random series against the Windies or NZ or something around 03/04 for meA nation gripped by The Ashes on free TV
How many on here fell in love with the game after '05.. fortunately it was about '93 for me ha
TheRey
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I couldn't stand cricket before 05. I'd come home from school, me poor dad sitting watching the cricket, and me and me sister would tell him to turn it off!A nation gripped by The Ashes on free TV
How many on here fell in love with the game after '05.. fortunately it was about '93 for me ha
05 I just fell in love with the game. Went out and bought a cricket set from Toys R Us, and that whole summer every boy down my street who'd be out till nightfall playing football spent every day playing cricket, trying to be Freddie Flintoff. Following year I went to my first cricket game, year after that I joined a team for the first time.
Gutting that younguns now don't get that same exposure.
Silly Point
Striker
Can't pinpoint the exact moment but Certainly around that time. Remember deciding we had no chance against the aussies after reading up on recent history and didn't really bother after the first Test which we lost, until the last one and suddenly realising we were winning. Fortunately I have more sticking power these days. 2009, after my dad finally caved in and got Sky, was the first series I watched properlyIt was some random series against the Windies or NZ or something around 03/04 for me
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Mr Redknapp
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You're a whippersnapper in comparison mate
Watched it since about 93 and the first season i really remember was the SAffers in '98 and Tuffers bowling out the Aussies the previous year. Test Cricket was the first sport I fell in love with must have been a strange 8 year old watching it
Dan..Dan..Dan..Dan
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I vividly remember watching the 1977 series v Australia and being in the barber's getting my hair cut when Boycott got his 100th hundred. Didn't understand the significance of Kerry Packer to whom they were all referring at the time.You're a whippersnapper in comparison mate
Watched it since about 93 and the first season i really remember was the SAffers in '98 and Tuffers bowling out the Aussies the previous year. Test Cricket was the first sport I fell in love with must have been a strange 8 year old watching it
Mr Redknapp
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You probably needed another haircut by the time he finished his innings
yep Packer changed the game, literally
The first is an interesting call when you consider that more than half the treble centuries ever made in test cricket have been scored in the 21st century.
The Red Telephone
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Old fart here....I have vague memories of Zaheer scoring a double century against England in 1971 but my first real memory of watching a Test Match on the Beeb was in 1972 when Bob Massie of Australia took an astonishing 16 wickets at Lords.
The following year, as a 9 year old, I discovered the wonders of TMS with the likes of John Arlott, Johnners, Alan Gibson, a young CMJ and Blowers, Fiery Fred and Trevor Bailey summarising and the close of play report from EW Swanton....a long, long time ago.
The following year, as a 9 year old, I discovered the wonders of TMS with the likes of John Arlott, Johnners, Alan Gibson, a young CMJ and Blowers, Fiery Fred and Trevor Bailey summarising and the close of play report from EW Swanton....a long, long time ago.
Bungo Bill
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Starting at 10.30am and finishing in near darkness! Been watching a few from the 80s and 90s on YouTube recently.
mackembhoy
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Bowling conditions have been much better for the second half of this century, technically players are worse too due to how much white ball impacted the game.
David Warner in 2019 is the only one in the last 8 years. Only two others in last 10 both in 2016.
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