Solid example for Hard time create strong people. Now that's opposite for current SL team

Ajantha Mendis Career started with India. And Indian Batsmen End His Career Also...

The things we took for granted.

Johnson was fucked up by the Australian bowling coach who changed his action after dominating in SA for his Ashes debut in England. He was told "you won't swing it in England if you don't get your wrist behind the ball." But Johnson wasn't swinging it. He was getting drift! His slinging action generated revs which at that pace caused ball movement through the air. That's always been my theory, but regardless. What moron coach changes a young bowlers action leading up to an Ashes series?! It destroyed him.

8:30 FARKEN FEEEEED HIM MITCHYYYY

Edgbaston proved the big difference maker. Bowling first was the first colossal fuck up but even despite that they got within a couple of runs. I think had Aus got those runs the fight in England would have deflated completely.

Very nicely put together. Thank you very much.

Outstanding job with the channel mate

Mendis was just so hard to pick when he started you can tell by them swatting late and getting bowled. Taking 70 test wickets 150 odd ODI wickets and over 300 first class wickets makes him a great bowler in my books and he will be remembered for coming onto the scene and taking lots of wickets quickly and bamboozeling a lot of batters.

He was quick and nasty. Superbly fit and backed up by Australia's best tactical captain, his figures speak for themselves - 36 wickets @ 14 odd n wickets that weren't all that bowler friendly.

He was something different ❤

Thanks for making these videos, as a young adult Aussie realising my love for cricket, it's awesome to relive this heritage of greatness.

Fantastic piece mate! great effort 👍

Timing of your videos can never go wrong , you make one video on 1999 ODI world cup right before the 2023 ODI world cup we all know how that tournament pan out for Aussies, and you made this video just before BGT and the series ends in 3-1 for Aussies, IDK why I feel as if you are predicting future base on the past instances

Great video dude, subbed

Great video

The only thing is, yeah by 2011 we were well into the next era.

England were absolute fuckwits during this series. We have not forgotten. Come to Melbourne. Bay 13's going to have a fuckin field day.

GARRRRY!

Ask anyone in Pakistan and 9 times out-of 10, their favourite team other than our own, is the West Indies. I think it's been like that since the days of Clive Lloyd. In the 80's, one of the ways we recognised that we'd become a decent team was that we gave them a tough time. A popular group, The Benjamin Sisters, actually released a song about the fight coming up in a tour by the Windies in 1986 or maybe 87. And then there's the sophisticated West Indian understanding and articulation of how cricket was a vehicle of anti-colonial sentiment for brown and black peoples from the 1920s onwards, led by CLR James.

David deserved it. We just lacked the grit necessary for Test cricket in that era.

Moral of the story, Mike Hussey was and remains a a cricket legend

Great story telling. Was expecting a compilation type video but enjoyed this format.

they need a player in middle order who can play with responsibility both in odi and test keep Bau Webster in team over Marsh he looks so effortless and compose to me even on hardest surface he is not like other players who through their wickets with wrong shot selection

Bro I’m hooked on this channel. Good to see an Aussie with such a quality presentation. Good on you boss.

Honestly can watch your videos all day, well presented and spoken. So much re search behind these videos! Legend !!

Thanks. Great saga well told.

Mate you are a wonderful presenter. Keep it up!

As a Proteas fan, I see what you went through. I, like many others, was dreading the retirements of AB de Villiers, Hashim Amla, Faf du Plessis, Dale Steyn and Morné Morkel. They all retired within 3-4 years. Now, we have been rebuilding for half a decade you could say and in the time we have made it to the 2023 CWC SF, 2024 T20WC Final, and now we're in the Final of the 2025 WTC. I am optimistic for the future of SA Cricket, especially Test Cricket

Great video and commentary i have subscribed to your politeness

16:50 wasn't that the famous Steve Waugh moment when he told Gibbs: "You just dropped the World Cup mate" or am i mistaken?

I quite enjoyed Pups book, got it for a chrissy present 10 years ago now!

Watching this after the 24/25 BGT series against India, Boland is literally just unlucky to be in the era of Australia's current bowling lineup.

11:52 “green tinge”, shows Green

There is going to be another reckoning in our test squad soon I'm afraid. Potentially even more damaging than the Langer/McGrath/Warne retirements... Khawaja is 38, Lyon is 37, Smith, Boland and Starc are 35, Hazlewood is 34 and Carey is 33. They are MASSIVE names that will all be retiring over the next few years. The only player from this list I see making it past next year's Ashes is Carey. That leaves Cummins, Head and an out of form Marnus as your only experienced leaders.

Good video man, subbed. You look a heap like a younger version of my cousin. Classic.

For me, this series happened in the shadow of our disgraceful "performance" in the 99 WC final. The best team we have ever sported, and they threw away that match. I couldn't support my own team until the redemptive years of Misbah and Younis, more than a decade later. But hats off to the courage and fight shown by Nasser Hussein, Atherton, Stewart, Thorpe and Trescothik in difficult circumstances. They laid the foundations of the resurgence of English cricket after the chronic failures of the 90s.

Very calm storytelling in spite of the subject being close to your heart. Nice job!

Enjoyed this so much. My thanks to you.

Respect to Mendis from India He did break my heart when i was a kid 😢 but i love his performance as a cricket fan❤

18:39 the pitch woke up and chose violence

McGraths line and length was perfection his whole career

That era had a brilliant Australian team, a team full of match winners. And a captain who always looked in control, even if he was coming apart on the inside. He knew that his team was winners. And somehow, like magicians, they could pull a wicked or a run out of their hat.

Eer no - the greatest ODI ever played is Eng NZ 2019 final and it is unarguable. It was the final. It was tied. It went to the super over.- which was tied. Eng won by boundaries scored.

I was there that day.

Fantastic VDO Bro....

Here we go again

Bevan is an absolute legend. The fastest between wickets, accuracy throwing the ball, and bowling... He deserved to be a Test Cricket legend

Ironically the merry go round of spinners found a gem and now legend in steve smith