Ashes 1978-79 4th Test Day 5 England win

[@jeffberesford480]

Nostalgia. Can't remember Derbyshire 's last England player,, and here we had three, all featuring.

[@JP1234815]

Depends if you're talking about England cap as a whole - ie ODI or just test cap! The last Derbyshire cricketer to represent England was Scrimshaw in 2023 but the last test cricketer was Dominic Cork whose last cap was in 2002!!

[@stevef9530]

Alan Border’s first serious runs in test cricket, 50+ and 45 in the second innings, and good recovery by England. Great to see this, thanks for posting!

[@nyosito]

When you have Dymock, Hogg, Higgs and Hurst coming in as 8, 9, 10 and 11 you know you’re in trouble. And Higgs at number 10 just shows Hurst’s capability!

[@lameduck3630]

Lovely catch by Lord Botham taking the wicket of Hogg.

[@peterwoodhouse4314]

Wood's needless run out cost Oz. He was going well, although a little flighty, until then, 44-odd for 1. Oz were in all six games but Eng took the bigger, vital moments well.

[@guitarstevehobbs]

Those first 2 sentences probably described half of his innings

[@terranceparsons5185]

Wood was run out in quite a few Ashes tests if I remember

[@TheManwithaview]

What about the dozen plus catches dropped?

[@johncourtneidge]

Pity that the final interview was clipped. But great cricket! Attacking *and* defensive spin bowling. Sublime!

[@Inverted.surfer]

Don't follow cricket anymore but this series was so disappointing. Aust could not convert a single test into a win when they had every chance to win the series.... Great effort by the Poms !

[@JP1234815]

Same as '81!! They had England in trouble in 5 of the 6 tests played that year.

[@peterwoodhouse4314]

@@JP1234815 Lillee & Alderman took 80+ wkts but why Oz chose Beard who didn't play any Tests or ODIs I'll never know! Waste of a tour place, when they could have picked another pace bowler on seaming pitches for the 1st 4 Tests.

[@sentimentalbloke185]

@@peterwoodhouse4314 In '81 they lost Lawson & Hogg injured early in the tour. Thomson was in England playing for Middlesex but he got injured as well. Pascoe was injured & unavailable to tour. They selected Bright as the spinner ahead of Yardley & Higgs, who both had much better seasons in 1980-1. Hence why they plucked Whitney from literally nowhere to play in the tests although they could've sent for Dymock or Walker. Hughes had to bowl Alderman & Lillee until they dropped which accounted for England getting off the hook a couple of times. Greg Chappell was also a handy change on seaming wickets but, obviously, he didn't go. The Aussies had a lot of bad luck on that tour exacerbated by the disharmony in the team.

[@nathanhowland196]

The one thing I noticed from watching this test is that commentators were no good at seeing inside edges?

[@zapbrannigan000]

watching now you realise just how terrible umpires were back then.

[@Eleventhearlofmars]

You realise how terrible having only one camera at one of the ends was back then as well.

[@TheManwithaview]

The fielder was lucky he didn't impale himself on the railings at 3.25.

[@anthonyyates2309]

Soft hats at silly mid-off

[@alanprior7650]

Not many helmets generally back then. To me (and I might be wrong) the helmets only really came in late 80s/early 90s Especially against the West Indies.

[@aldershot5100]

They weren't great batters