Australia v England 1978 2nd Test Perth

[@absoluteb22]

Nice to see Peter Toohey doing what he was good at.

[@geoffreyking4515]

One of the best things to come out of the packer series was it gave us the chance to see bob taylors craftsmanship and technique behind the wicket 2:16:46

[@agr7879]

Great upload👍

[@MrDunkiep]

Just watching Arkle Randall walk to the wicket and take guard. What an eccentric.

[@sarahjackson1860]

Thanks for the upload 👍 According to Cricinfo, Boycott scored 77 off 337 balls with only one 4!

[@kieronperry8693]

and that was all run!

[@vernrussell99]

i thought it was a single with 3 overthrows lol

[@Waseemashraf1979]

Another Brilliant Upload Keep It Upp

[@emmyssport2176]

GDay Fred, do you by any chance have the 5th Test of this series at the Adelaide Oval? I just remember going to that game as a kid and I remember Rick Darling being resuscitated by John Emburey after being hit. Darren M has all the other Tests from 78/79 but not the Adelaide Test. Cheers

[@pmam1968]

They had cameras at both ends but only normally showed play from one end. How quaint.

[@odetteswann7694]

Still remember that weird synth intro music like it was yesterday!

[@pmam1968]

This is interesting stuff. I would have watched most of this as a kid on school holidays. Hurst and Hogg (and to an extent Dymock) bowled well. It was in batting, fielding and keeping that Australia struggled. When McLean drops that chance off Hogg at around the 47 minute mark you can see his footwork is horrible - his left leg starts going away from the ball, then he lunges back to the right but he's there too late and grasses it. He would have been better off leaving it to Cosier. Marsh would have gobbled it up. England were close to full strength and were far too good. When Australia's WSC players were back the following year they comfortably beat basically the same England team, but the games were much more competitive.

[@DavidKRoebuck]

Smashing first over from your Geoff there. He even played along by pretending to be bothered by a couple of balls from Hogg

[@Sreeprayag]

Believe it's the voice of Alan Mcgilvray

[@shanejbackx]

Youre wrong, McGilvray was on radio only. That voice is Norman May

[@Sreeprayag]

@shanejbackx Oops. Sorry. I know that he was on ABC Radio

[@JP1234815]

Boycott and Brearley added 38 runs in the 1st innings off the equivalent of 32 6 ball overs - proper cricket!!

[@butzee]

Were Thompson, Lillie, Marsh etc all not in the team due to joining Kerry Packers Cricket Circus? Grieg as well?

[@dlamiss]

Correct although its possible Greig may have been finished as far as England was concerned by 78/9

[@pmam1968]

Other England players like Alan Knott and John Snow were playing WSC, too. Australia were fielding a second or third XI in this series, though some of this team did play for Australia after the rapprochement.

[@garrywarren8748]

Thommo was banned,later joined WSC

[@davidpollard4051]

If Bob Willis was batting at 9 then that was a very long tail for England.

[@barrycowan3134]

Wow ABC opening credits is abysmal. Absolute shite lol

[@MrDunkiep]

What a theme tune!

[@yacsem]

@@MrDunkiep Reminds me of the sort of theme used for schools and colleges TV programmes: Intermediate Geography - Irrigation and the Nile Delta.

[@johntate5722]

Come on its not THAT good

[@odetteswann7694]

I loved it.