1999 England v New Zealand - TEST SERIES REVIEW

[@Bahnz1985]

Should've won this 4-0, if we hadn't choked in the first test and been denied by rain in the 3rd. Still one of the best results by New Zealand cricket in the post-Hadlee era. With Cairns, Nash, Fleming, Astle, McMillan, Vettori, Allot and Twose this was one of the very best New Zealand teams.

[@techBuffy]

Swinging Days Dream - Nash, Doull, Allot, Cairns, O'Connor.. All cracking swing bowlers. Backed up by Vettori, Astle and Twose

[@the90skid79]

Andy Caddick a Kiwi playing for England and Rodger Twose an Englishman playing for New Zealand playing against each other what an instant.

[@jithukrish4491]

Caddick was born to English parents

[@ThurstonWatt]

SO gutted that injuries took Geoff Allott away from us, during his prime - absolutely untouchable during the 1999 World Cup.

[@Imrankniazi]

This was possibly Cairns' best series as a bowler. When fully fit and bowling well, he was a marvelous sight. Beautiful high-arm action, lot of seam movement and bounce and an amazing slower ball. Too bad, his lack of fitness thwarted any sort of prolonged rhythm.

[@johndejong8822]

One of NZ's greats, but his legacy is forever tarnished

[@Paleos1000]

Dion Nash - another NZ player whose career was ruined by injuries.

[@ahogg5960]

@Kartik Kale Probably injured again...he had a terrible run with injuries. Can you imagine a fully fit Doull, Bond, Nash and Cairns bowling line up all the way through the 90s and 2000s? They would have been very handy indeed! Throw in Geoff Allot - oh what might have been!

[@garethhughes4657]

@@ahogg5960 O'Connor, Butler, latterly Milne and even Vettori had back injuries. All bowlers you've named were exceptional. Bond without doubt the biggest loss.

[@subzero221075]

It's refreshing to hear the sincerity from both teams and genuine mutual respect for every player's abilities. All in all a great series to watch and it's an honour to say I have played alongside or against several different players from both sides in NZ and England.

[@3amPaternal]

Caddick never lost his Kiwi accent.

[@jithukrish4491]

Ya 😊

[@techBuffy]

Nash was unplayable in late 90s. Tendulkar mentioned him and Razzaq the most difficult bowlers that he faced. And other one on his last was Cronje. Here Sachin mentioned his weakness.

[@jacobburtonswfc]

This series dropped England to bottom of world rankings, took 12 years to get to the top

[@humanbeingpritam4771]

Absoultly england was the worst team in 99 both in odis and test but bounce back in 2000 against caribeean by 3_1 srilanka 2_1 and pakistan 1_0 become no 1 in 2011 england although a poor team but knows how to bounce back like early exit in 2015 wc cup but bounce back to become one of the strongest team in odis and lift 2019 wc cup

[@mrkipling2201]

This series wasn’t the worst thing to happen to England. It meant that we had to change things including introducing the young players who were on the fringes of the test squad. Which put us on the way to winning the Ashes in 2005.

[@Haberdager]

Great video. I'm an Englishman but this series got me into cricket aged 11. The fact this was my introduction probably explains why I'm so phlegmatic about English defeat.

[@vindaisatossermini2]

3:12 I swear Mark Ramprakash got more jaffas than any other batsman in cricket, ever

[@WillF48]

14:00, 20:10 Cairns slower ball yorker 35:47 Vettori perfect arm ball

[@schrutebuck88]

A classic Rob upload of a classic series from a classic era. Thanks for everything you do, mate. Also here's to Jack Bannister presenting the series summary. A class commentator and class act. I was also stunned to hear a grab from Tubby Taylor's post-match interview, (around 18:40), "anyone who thinks Test Cricket is dead is a fool". Even then, they were saying it. I'm long since officially sick to death of all these Test doomsayers that have had their knives out year after year, and even more, decade after decade. Every year at least a few pundits and writers muse about Test cricket in terms of certain impending demise and doom. 26 years ago it was being said, well before T20 was ever heard of, and yet here we are in 2023 only a few weeks away from the start of the most exciting and anticipated Ashes series since 2005, with both England and Australia's squads contrasting in styles but both loaded with class. Ashes aside, love and appreciation and hunger for Tests and red ball cricket is out there for anyone to see. Yes, obviously there's the growth of the IPL and talks of a myriad of short format franchises plus maybe year round player contracts coming soon, and some players will no doubt become white ball mercenaries, I'd say mostly those past their prime wanting to cash in while they still can, or also rans not talented enough to become class red ball players. No one outside the country of whatever franchise they sign for will really care, let alone follow their career. Some will perform, some wont, and it'll be musical chairs and more instantly forgotten matches. More broadly, after these proposed series are established it'll become clear sooner or later that only a select few apart from the IPL and the BBL will be at all viable to survive long term. The majority will come and then go bust, as the CPL and Stanford did. And all the while, Test and red ball cricket remains and will remain. And still played, watched, listened to, and followed, and in the hearts of cricket lovers young and old all over the world, just as it has for 150 odd years 🏏 So how about it cricket pundits, commentators, journalists, and players past and present? How about you stop jumping at the chance to predict the death of Test cricket every chance you get and face the fact that while change over time is inevitable, the longest form is going nowhere. And how about actually championing that, as you all should and have a responsibility to the game to do. A rant dparked by a decades old interview grab of Tubby. That makes two pieces of Tubby gold now, along with the immortal, "Jitsu, Straya's favourite air", as Billy Birmingham turned those classic adverts into. In sum, let's all do what Rob does, and just fucking love Test cricket past, present and future.

[@Prodigy_Fan]

Shows how far we'd sunk when Aftab Habib was getting a game for England in those days.

[@Paleos1000]

Not often the Man of the Series for both sides is born in NZ.

[@ejazmohammed3943]

After 22yrs NZ finally beat Eng in England

[@mrkipling2201]

If only Alex Tudor hadn’t been injured in the 2002/03 ashes. I think he would have been that really quick bowler that we needed for a few years.

[@TheForge10]

"Darren Maddy's announced himself " lol yeah for a total of 3 tests,

[@OTPChargers]

Great stuff Rob, I really do get totally absorbed in your videos, they are bloody brilliant. Especially love the 80s stuff, anything involving NZ I lap up (as a Kiwi). Keep uploading! Until our win against Aussie a few days ago, this was our most recent finest test hour.

[@TheForge10]

uhhhhh Parore shouldering arms and being bowled middle stump. Nice one Adam,.

[@starmersbarber]

I remember this well- England's nadir. I reckon that Cairns slow ball to embarrass poor young Reid was the turning point in the whole series. It's amazing how poor England were as a test team, despite having a number of decent performers. I guess they also had a few turkeys!!

[@ahogg5960]

+Gazza Pocket You got to ask yourself what on Earth they were thinking in that last Test with Tufnell, Mullaly and Giddins as 9, 10 and Jack. Surely they could have come up with something better!

[@georgehayes3494]

A Hogg the first choice bowling attack was probably Gough, Caddick and Tudor, all of them are people you would back to get you a quick 30 at least, but Gough and Tudors injuries hampered both the bowling and the batting

[@Imrankniazi]

@Bahnz1985 Over-reliance on Cairns was an issue for New Zealand cricket. You can see clearly when he is firing with bat and ball, it suddenly looked a different side. That, to me, is not a great way of building a side. Nash and Doull were good bowlers but could never find that consistency. I was really disappointed in the way Tuffey couldn't blossom into a world-class bowler. That would have given the side a good core to build victories on.

[@TheForge10]

NZs last series win for many a season back inn 1999. Hopefully under McCulluim NZ has turned a corner. Got the bowlers and batsman now to win test series. In the past NZ has to select many players who were not international quality but NZ just didn't have any one else.

[@millsyinnz]

Doesn't help that a lot of key players were out with injury a lot.

[@jmorrison230582]

Mullally batting at #9 FFS

[@peterboyd7304]

really good cricket from both sides.two good teams.

[@garrymcdonald5456]

Cairns batting at 9, damn can't that was a good tail, nash at 10 was always capable of getting a 100.

[@stanley8125]

Very good swing bowling by both the sides.

[@mezykin]

my first ever test series at 9 years of age. it's hard to imagine such a series of relatively low scores nowadays.

[@mangeshinde]

Mez Hossain such low scorers are real joy to watch than today's run feasts, isn't it?

[@mezykin]

@@mangeshinde absolutely!

[@stuartelleray]

Thanks for uploading this, its excellent! Where did you get this video from?

[@ajs41]

Probably recorded it on VHS from TV. I did that with most England cricket in the 1990s, although a lot of it ended up getting recorded on top of sadly.

[@TheRooster94]

Tufnell, Mullally and Giddens as tailenders...OH GOD LOL

[@Levin-ey1bu]

Especially when compared to Harris and Verttori (3rd test) who were no. 10 and 11 for NZ! Both virtually allrounders!

[@bowlingaz]

@@Levin-ey1bu Chris Harris' appalling test record with the bat remains a mystery to me. I loved how he was described as a spin option :D

[@theeviltwaz]

Love the shot at 27.04. How many people can punch the ball off the back foot down the ground for four?

[@lifegoals9528]

Thorpe should never be forgiven for denying Tudor his hundred. A really selfish act. Yet when his pal Hussain needed 5 for a ton he blocked an end to make sure he got there. A truly selfish sod.

[@mynameismark25]

God I love 90s sport, so much talent, but none of the sport science. Always thought it was strange when both reed and Stewart played.

[@robertbradshaw5281]

What about butter and Bairstow

[@msv7856]

100% agree. I was at this match as a 9 year old and it was truly terrible how Thorpe was hitting 4s and running 2s when Tudor only needed another 10 or so. I honestly wish nothing good on Graham Thorpe for that.

[@mrkipling2201]

That was the problem with English cricket back then when they said that Alec Stewart’s place was under threat. Too much chopping and changing.

[@Siddharth19111]

Nathan Astle my favorite

[@joshforde698]

Mullally-Tufnell-Giddins at 9-10-11, proper tail.

[@umairaslam8623]

cairns the man behind this series wik

[@yatinkulkarni3790]

Hey Rob, do you have two back to back ODI hundreds from Matthew Sinclair at Sharjah triangular series in 2001? Pls upload if you have it.

[@millsyinnz]

This was the last time NZ played a 4 test series.

[@TheSinnical]

Nadir of England cricket.... the way they climbed up the ladder was amazing though....till 2006...until Australia put the in their place AGAIN :)

[@99ariyaratnamj]

Back when New Zealand could win test matches....

[@ajs41]

They're doing pretty well now. I might go to watch the test final at Lords this year between NZ and India.

[@hardtarget803]

fast bowler mulally spinner tufnell 🤔

[@johnnyreginald9131]

David Graveny appears drunk every time he talks.

[@mrkipling2201]

Probably is!!

[@mezykin]

33:40 Ed Giddins

[@twright1983]

Probably the worst England side in history

[@humanbeingpritam4771]

Now also follow the same routine

[@eddielasowsky7777]

When I see the likes of Hussain and Atherton babbling about Ashes cricket i turn off. Gower, Botham and Strauss have authority in winning Ashes series home and away, but those two need to hush!

[@georgehayes3494]

eddie lasowsky just because they came up against the greatest side in living memory shouldn't mean that their achievements should be ignored. I expect the sides Australia had in the early 80s would've struggled against a fully fit England side of mid to late 90s. Especially considering that in 1997 England put up a huge fight against a side that didn't have space for Hayden all series and Ponting for some of it

[@humanbeingpritam4771]

Athethron is pathetic as a batsman

[@kevinstoneham1245]

I actually didn’t watch this series and can’t remember why now, given I had watched all of them since 84. Glad I didn’t.

[@ayoungperson3408]

New Zealand won mainly by luck. They always got the better batting conditions whereas England batted under overcast conditions mostly.

[@SuperDecdog]

Lol England were terrible

[@msv7856]

The first test here didn't show how Graham Thorpe was hit a couple of boundaries and ran a couple of 2s (which the crowd booed) when Tudor only needed another 6 or 7 for his 100 and he never got it! It was all Thorpe's fault. Even the NZ bowler bowled a pie at the end to try and get him a 6 but only went for 4 and ended on 99 not out. I wonder if that bad gesture has stayed with Thorpe for the rest of his life? He's a piece of shit. Btw I'm a white English guy who was there on that 3rd at Edgbaston in 1999. I was 9 at the time!

[@ruleyramundo]

Thorpe 🤮

[@tejas2620]

Rubbish England

[@TheForge10]

Still rubbish now. UIs there a worse ODI captain than little lost sheep Eon Morgan ?

[@robertbradshaw5281]

Lol

[@mrkipling2201]

Hmm........