1979-80 1st Test Match Cricket at Perth Australia v England - Full Highlights

Boycott 99 not out

[@markh9749]

Alan Border's batting was stubborn, nuggety, flinty and highly productive. He played the percentages well, knew his own game inside out and made runs when it mattered. He is one of the Aussie batsmen I have most admired in my years of watching and following cricket.

[@jameshope398]

Can't get over how slim Botham is there

[@ianjones3568]

And very accurate too.

[@marktaylor6491]

Botham or Boh-tham?

[@marktaylor6491]

Had Botham had Stoke's attitude towards training and fitness, he would have taken 500 test wickets.

[@mrh1096]

@@marktaylor6491 botham is far better than stokes

[@marktaylor6491]

@@mrh1096 Talent wise, without question. The problem is professionalism.

[@nickhughes2284]

"It could have been thompsons wicket if he had nt bowled so short and with a lack of common sense" . You ve got to love Benaud. I miss him more than I ever thought I would.

[@shaundgb7367]

Lillee's bowling action is a thing of beauty. Funny to see his earlier videos in the early 70's and he was more like a wild horse coming into bowl in those times. I guess the injury to the back was why he changed it.

[@graemealexander8804]

In 1972, Lillee was close to 100mph.

[@Jojpjjpkpjpjpjjpjjjlnohiguvu]

Recall reading that he decided to streamline his run up as he remodeled his action after his injury. He also mentions that he was inspired by the smoothness and lack of effort in Michael Holding’s run up.

[@sentimentalbloke185]

He changed his approach to the crease & delivery stride after working with Austin Robertson Snr, who was world professional sprint champion. He taught Lillee had to achieve a more ergonomic run in to conserve energy & give better control without losing pace/bounce. Robertson's son, Austin Jnr, was Lillee's manager & one of the key guys in founding World Series Cricket.

[@ianjones3568]

36:47 Lillee c Willey b Dilley, always gets a laugh 😂😂

[@TomMarvan]

49:37 Underwood c Wiener b Dymock also makes one chuckle.

[@markh9749]

Derek Randall was a highly unlikely candidate to open the batting in a test match and he proved this here. He had neither the technique nor the temperment to go in at the top of the order. Always a nervous starter, and having made a duck in the first innings, Randall was extremely jittery when he took guard in England's second innings and it showed!

[@VCT3333]

A young Ian Botham, or as the Desis say Mr. Iron Bottom.

[@stevebrindle1724]

Lillie caught Willy bowled Dilly! Sounds like a nursery rhyme! 😀

[@Wally-H]

Great bowling by the Aussies, Dymock in particular. One or two English batsmen too scared to get in line with Lillee and Thomson's bowling - this is the mental effect playing at Perth against fast bowlers can have. Must give praise to Boycott though - some of these Aussies were very scathing in their comments about the way he used to bat - Ian Chappell in particular always speaks about him in derisory terms, saying they never worried about him as he didn't score runs but without his contribution here in the second innings, England wouldn't have put up any sort of fight at all. Very unlucky not to get his hundred.

[@AlunThomas-mp5qo]

I think you have your dates mixed up, Boycott's hundredth hundred had already been scored at Headingley in 1977. The Aussies DID worry about Boycott, he was the one they most wanted to get out. You can see that from the tantrum Marsh had at Trent Bridge when Randall sacrificed his wicket rather than let Boycott be run out.

[@vantheman1238]

Geoffrey Boycott was a great opening batsman who was rated incredibly highly by the West Indies of the late seventies and early eighties. Boycott scored hundreds against Roberts, Holding, Garner, Croft and Marshall. Boycott also scored hundreds against Australia. Lillee, Thomson, Pascoe, Walker, Lawson, Alderman and Hogg. Boycott scored hundreds against all these bowlers in his late 30’s and early 40’s which is incredible.

[@user-vp3vs6ey3r]

Noticeable how much less lethal Thommo was compared to his 1975 series against the same opponents, following the effects of his shoulder injury. Of course being 5 years older probably contributed too.

[@mikelewis1436]

Derek Randall's amazing fielding obviously saved England many runs, yet his Test match batting record was erratic despite a few big scores - off the top of my head I don't think his average came anywhere near those of the much-maligned Fletcher and Amiss, batsmen who played a similar number of Tests albeit a few years previously...

[@nyosito]

39:02 That looked like a Woody Allen sketch --- Fred Trueman

[@zabaleta66]

Back when Botham could sling it.

[@rogerc1310]

Do you have the 2nd and 3rd tests of this series against England?

[@51kmanj23]

20:49 look at how umpire is standing

[@cupidstunt22]

Will Bobis

[@simonboland]

11:00 the aluminium bat saga. Lillee throws his bat like he's a spoilt child given out in backyard cricket.

[@markh9749]

At the end of this test match Dennis Lillee got the two teams to sign a pile of his aluminium bats. Mike Brearley signed and added "Good luck with the sales !" Lillee never sold a single bat, of course. The bat was subsequently ruled illegal. If Lillee still has those bats in his garage they must be worth a fortune now !

[@Wally-H]

@@markh9749 The funny thing is, Brearley has admitted in interviews since that there was absolutely no evidence the bat was making the ball go out of shape. He said they only complained about it to wind him up! Clearly, it worked but when you look at the pace he bowled, not necessarily to England's advantage 😆

[@andrewksadventures]

Funny how it's illegal in stuffy cricket rules but ok in baseball!

[@pmam1968]

@@markh9749 I remember our school had one in the sports equipment shed (it never got used in games). It felt smaller and lighter than a regular bat. It was like waving a wand. Yes, they're probably collector's items now.

[@saleemkirmani5583]

Is this from the 3 test match series that Australia won 3-0?

[@paulharper9870]

yep

[@saleemkirmani5583]

@@paulharper9870 Thanks.

[@vantheman1238]

The MCC decreed before the tour that the Ashes were not at stake. Good move seeing as the Aussies won three nil 😂

[@saleemkirmani5583]

@@vantheman1238 Yes, I clearly remember that. England knew they would lose.

[@markh9749]

@@vantheman1238 England played the Aussies in 1979-80 as a favour to the Australian Cricket Board (ACB) and as part of the settlement between the Board and World Series Cricket (WSC). Australia hosted Windies as well as England in 1979-80 and the two tours overlapped. No Ashes contest has ever been less than 5 tests, or been held in conjuction with a tour by another test playing nation. To have put the Ashes up for contest in 1979-80 would have devalued the Ashes as a sporting event. The MCC was right not to put the Ashes up for contest for this reason. Had they been contested then, of course, the better side in 1979-80 - Australia - would have fully deserved to regain them after England's win in Australia in 1977-8.

[@noor51kmanj26]

3:57

[@fritzhenning1]

Can't they pronounce Botham properly.

[@churchofgod4016]

a blurry waste of time

[@Wally-H]

Without people uploading their old video recordings of these matches, they wouldn't be on here at all. Personally I can put up with it. If you can't, don't watch it, nobody forced you to!

[@lewisgreen2957]

Nothing wrong with the picture, thanks to the bloke who posted it..

[@graemealexander8804]

OPSM?

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