Captain Grumpy not Happy With Deano 1992

[@iracingaussie]

About this time of year from 1990 to 2000 we would be fixated to our TV screens until bed time, watching a classic 50 over run chase, with a very even battle with bat and ball, compelling stories, a tri-series at stake and a run chase of sub 260… What happened to our brilliant game and those balmy evenings. Those magnificent navy blue uniforms of those little Sri Lankens, to quote Tony Greig

[@mattayres5147]

Agreed 👍 Fast food cricket has taken over the TV screens .

[@mattayres5147]

‘He’s very tall for an Indian ‘ Thank you Tony 🎉😂

[@meghanvasant]

😂

[@oinkooink]

Fair comment by Tony.

[@siddwhiz]

Ridiculous as always

[@iracingaussie]

Ha ha reminds me of when he venomously defended Singh for monkeygate and said the Aussue players should of just kept it on the field. Bless Greig

[@oinkooink]

@@iracingaussie They should have. And they also shouldn't have thrown a hissy fit over being called anything.

[@Johnny_Thunder]

The glory days of cricket before t20 ruined it. The crowd, the players, the commentary. Classic times.

[@2inthepink1inthestink11]

exactly

[@mgr001]

absolutely. am guessing the last two Test matches (won by WI & Eng) will be memorable for years to come. Go, Test cricket.

[@2inthepink1inthestink11]

t20 is like soccer getting rid of the off side rule completely change the game just so a few more gaols can be scored, its like baseball making pitchers pitch a softball instead of a baseball and bring in the field 30 meters so they can hit more home runs. Cricket..... lets make the pitch as flat as a tack, give the batters big bats, make the ball not swing much, let the good bowlers only bowl 4 over so they can get many out and bring in the boundaries 30meters and make all the fields stay in the 30 meter circle so that can get more runs and only bowl 20 overs so that if you go out it doesnt really matter. what a joke! this why test matches now go for few days if its a "good one"

[@mgr001]

@@2inthepink1inthestink11 in all fairness, T20 beats taking valium... I last about 5 seconds before nodding off.

[@mattayres5147]

100%

[@iracingaussie]

Gosh Steve Waugh was a world class medium pace swing bowler. What an allrounder in the early 90s

[@joshlock4627]

Yeah, Steve stopped bowling due to his back . Knew his little brother , Danny (Dean was the other mid brother - played 1st class cricket ) He told me , mark and Steve learned bowling to stay in the game - “if they screw up batting, they can take wickets , later” When mark started NSW - he opened the bowling Med /fast and batted about 8/9 . That’s why Steve got picked first - he could bat . Mark then worked on his batting for a couple winters in England with Steve Mark changed to off spin after about 20 tests Ahh the Panania driveway Steve and Marks first cricket game - both got ducks . Great tennis / soccer players too They worked with Harry Solomon’s cricket shop - Kingsgrove Sports Store Harry’s bat was the Symonds Tusker . Notice 80s nearly all NSW players started out with the Symonds - even AB (before the Duncan Fearnley)

[@iracingaussie]

@@joshlock4627 wow thats brilliant info mate, did not know most of that

[@chasindigo]

​@joshlock4627 Mark Waugh changed to off spin for the 96 world cup.

[@mgr001]

and, Steve wasn't even the best in his family. Kidding. Just imagine the IPL price tag for "Mr Steve Waugh"

[@robwaterson6063]

They could never pick his slower ball too.

[@mgr001]

2:37 No, no, no. Not the Alan Border DOUBLE tea-pot handle stance! Poor Deano.

[@WAFootyHub]

😁

[@bradthurkle7217]

Hahah yep you know it lol 🤭. God love him ❤️

[@mgr001]

@@bradthurkle7217 I hope he's going OK - he was the epitome of a cricket fighter, IMO.

[@davemclean3899]

😂😂😂😂

[@bradthurkle7217]

@@mgr001 yes indeed he was 👍

[@Daveymallon]

Jones was an amazing fielders. One of the best ever but even the best put them down.

[@joshlock4627]

Agree , brilliant - on the ground . He later admitted himself, he did struggle at times with the high white ball at night - he dropped a few. But did catch most that went his way . He played his home cricket on the big MCG - no ropes . His ground fielding was amazing . His speed between deep square leg around to long on wax amazing . He was one of the first of using your fast men as outfielders - not just your tired bowlers (other than fine leg / 3rd man for the change bowler)

[@Daveymallon]

@@joshlock4627 he also has probably the greatest throwing arm in cricket history. 9/10 he will throw it over the stumps from the boundary of the MCG. Year in year out game after game id watch him throw from the outfield and Healy never had to move more than a footstep if that. Never saw it before him or since. Even the white ball, he didn’t drop hardly any. But as i said even the greatest hands put them down from time to time, its the law of averages.

[@jagobbin2]

Good to see other people are uploading this stuff now after roeblinda2 got shut down

[@MemesWW2]

Wow they must be p1ssed. Were probably making a living off their channel.

[@KieranShort]

Shut down, what?

[@joshlock4627]

AB nearly sent McDermott home in England whilst fielding

[@CJArnold-hq3ey]

Whatd you say? McDermott - nothing

[@joshlock4627]

As a cricket historian. Dean Jones was an amazing out ground fielder. But he wasn’t safe as a bank under the high white ball at night . He did drop more than the average outfielder should . Every player drops a catch, but Dean wasn’t the safest under the king high white ball at night . He was brilliant covering deep square leg to long on During the day he was 100%

[@jarrodr779]

I’m pretty sure this was also the same match where Steve Waugh dropped a sitter of a caught and bowled with Border right next to him. Border dropped down to his knees with Greigy saying “Border will shoot himself” 😂

[@abhoyable]

How many matches we lost during that era, I remember this match too we lost

[@arjunprabhu6742]

Must have been frustrating for the Indian viewers to watch Ravi Shastri bat in that era !

[@srikantshankar7595]

Mr Arjun,.... Not at all. Ravi Shastri had a specific role in the Indian team and he played it to a nicety. He was part of the team in the mid and late 1980s....carries a lot of nostalgia for a lot of us.... Gavaskar, Srikkanth, Mohinder Amarnath, Vengsarkar, Azharuddin, Shastri and Kapil Dev.... That was our batting order. Along with Mohinder he used to be our Mr reliable, man for a crisis. So, no frustrations at all....

[@fellowgoodie]

tell me about it 🙂

[@Realist839]

@@srikantshankar7595 - What role did Ravi Shastri have?! thats right, waste all the quickfire batting advantage gained by Srikkanth!

[@asimzafar8296]

India won the World Championship of Cricket in 1985 in Australia, and Ravi Shastri was adjudged player of the tournament

[@victor256in]

1.43: Ravi Shastri- E 11 th man kaun hai re- bewda la re baba ! 😂

[@sugarnads]

Never understood the selectors fascination with tom moody

[@chasindigo]

Much like Cam Green now.

[@merwyndsouza19]

​@@chasindigo yeah no wonder why he scored 174* vs NZ in NZ while batting with Josh

[@mikespearwood3914]

What happened to Rob Moody (robelinda2) these days? He rarely uploads any more.🙁

[@WAFootyHub]

His channel got cancelled by some douchebag from Bangladesh. He posts on twitter now.

[@mikespearwood3914]

@@WAFootyHub That's a bloody shame. I've never been interested in twitter...but might have to have a look.

[@mikespearwood3914]

@@WAFootyHub Just saw he has his own website as well.👍

[@priyer74]

@@WAFootyHub how is that possible?

[@gzeuskraiste]

​@@priyer74copyright strikes

[@anwarahmed7123]

Ravi Shastri was a pretty good batsman. Had big shots as well. Can't understand why he played so slowly at times. Did he do it on purpose to make India lose , as he was not made the captain and his junior Azharuddin got the job !!!

[@AlokSingh-tg7hd]

It was such a pain to watch shastri bat like this eating balls after balls .

[@jeremygeduldt936]

Nothing 😜😛 goes on in the North of Australia I think 🤔 🏏 cricket team Northern Australia Gladiators & 🏉 rugby team Darwin Samurais this teams should be established for the North down under ..

[@vernrussell99]

How rediculous from Border , everyone drops catches , and Deano rarely missed them.

[@gattingbowledwarne]

I remember a test in India where jones was on the way to a big score.it was a million degrees and jones was really fatigued. He wanted to go off, so border said fine, get off, and that he would get a Queenslander on, the implication being that jones was soft, and that a qlder would be tough enough to get the job done. I think the queenslander in question was Greg fat cat Ritchie. Jones decided to stay on. I assume it wasn’t a particularly polite discussion.

[@vernrussell99]

I remember it too, I remember Deano saying he was suffering from cramps so bad , and he should have come off . Fat cat Richie would have only lasted an hour and would have gotten out before that anyway . Jonsie was the opposite of soft

[@gattingbowledwarne]

@@vernrussell99 Ritchie was no where as good as Jones, and I’m a Queenslander too. Here’s another jones story… my mate’s a lawyer, and many years ago his him and lawyer friend were at gambaros in bris for a liquid lunch. Jones was there with a woman who apparently wasn’t his wife. They were all over each other. My mate’s mate was really pissed, and thought it would be appropriate to go over and say hello. He sat down next to the girl, tapped her on the shoulder and excitedly told her she was making out with dean jones. All the restaurant heard it. Can’t remember how the whole story resolved itself. I remember that time as when we started to claw back to being a respectable team again.

[@vernrussell99]

@@gattingbowledwarne thanks for the story ive never heard that one . I guess Jonsey was a bit of a star back then so a bit of bad behaviour wasnt so uncommon

[@nathansmart1532]

That Dropped Catch cost us the Match and AB knew that Straight away.Now you know why Dumb Ass. 🍑

[@zodiac6968]

The young 18 year old. is there any other kind? Tony Greig, one of the worst commentators i have ever heard.

[@srikantshankar7595]

Mr Zodiac.... There will be very few who will agree with you, Infact none at all, I am quite sure. Tony Greig was a brilliant commentator, and what he said there is called qualifying his statement.... to put stress on the fact that the player, Sachin Tendulkar in this case, is playing at such a high level at such a young age.

[@zodiac6968]

@@srikantshankar7595 Couldn't give a fat-rat's clacker if people agree with me or not, i have never valued people's opinions on such matters, Greig was always shooting off his mouth before engaging his brain "it's a four, it's a six, no it's not it's out" as the great Ritchie Benaud once said "a commentator's job is to add to what the viewer is seeing on the screen" don't waffle on with drivel.

[@fellowgoodie]

tony greig about ravi shastri, "very tall for an indian" 🙂, his comments are all borderline.

[@gorgen23]

Hahah it’s never great being alone with an opinion 😂

[@MegaBadseed]

It’s not that serious dude. How about developing a personality.

[@jamiewilliamson3161]

Border would have done even better as captain if he wasn't such a demanding angry little man. He often wasn't good with the public either!

[@Realist839]

Ravi Shastri shamelessly celebrating 50 runs in 101 balls....smh

[@mikespearwood3914]

That was the era (to be fair) they played in: skinny bats, huge boundaries etc.

[@user-uw6di5sc5y]

Greig. One career too many for a South African.

[@jeremyking5860]

It’s sad that you have to watch re-runs to get your cricket fix each summer. Fucking 20-20 and crappy test matches has ruined the game. Add to listening to tossers in the commentary

[@GKV963]

Shasthri scored 50 off 105 balls. India scored 105 runs from 34 overs. Such a poor batsman he used to be. Worthless

[@jagobbin2]

Back in those days I think there was only 14 in the touring squad and they had to play both the tests and the one dayers. Same with Geoff Marsh and Mark Taylor opening the batting.

[@pn074]

You must clearly be a lockdown kid to not know how cricket was played back in the day 😂