HAMPSHIRE v SURREY NATWEST TROPHY FINAL LORD'S SEPTEMBER 7 1991 ROBIN SMITH GRAHAM THORPE

[@KevinHiggins-p8h]

Great match. Waqar was a great acquisition for my team Glamorgan whose golden era was just about to start.

[@chrismanners2554]

I'd forgotten how slowly teams scored in the early stages of 60 overs innings. Used to be really tense watching it. Great stuff. Proper cricket!

[@carnalea2424]

The idea was not to lose early wickets of course. A score of 300 from 60 overs was regarded as extremely difficult to beat. Cricket has speeded up so much that a team now would expect to get 400+ from 60 overs.

[@terranceparsons5185]

Well both sides crawled along at 2 an over for the first 30 overs, so these games were like 20 20 games with a long warm up phase.

[@terranceparsons5185]

Once they upped the tempo in the last 10 overs to 5 an over, Jim Laker would say "Surrey fairly rattling along now" or similar😂

[@terranceparsons5185]

​@@carnalea2424 so why not aim to score the difficult to beat 300 runs off 50 overs and have a 10 over thrash to get to 380?

[@stephenholmes1036]

Proper cricket not slogging

[@paulframe85]

Robin Smith was a fantastic batsman

[@carnalea2424]

The Judge

[@ryanwebb5082]

Best average of any ENG batsman in the 90s and got dropped for no reason

[@ahmedshakib3883]

I remember Shaun Udal , he was a handy off spinner , I remember watching a test match in Srilanka and another test match was going on it was between India and England , Freddie Flintoff was the captain and in the final test , England had to win and I remember Shaun Udal took 4 wickets , the test match in Srilanka , Sanjay Manjrekar was on commentary and he was crying like a little child. Shaun got out Tendulkar .Thank you shaun for that wonderful memory .

[@skillip2471]

great game, thanks for the upload. i love watching one day county cricket

[@marketches1974]

Love watching the old Lords Finals.

[@terranceparsons5185]

David "Gnasher" Ward, 43 off 36, a man before his time.

[@deputysheriff5994]

Waqar at his quickest just before his back injury which lessened his delivery leap and dropped his arm!Mind you he could still crank it up to 157 kmph after his back injury!Hell he bowled at 145 kmph when he was about to retire!And most important a clean athletic action without any "hyperextension "of the elbow!

[@CosmicGoat-d3o]

True. Once he dropped his arm, inswingers with old ball to left handers became very rare.

[@alanprior7650]

We at Hampshire were so lucky yo have the Smith brothers,David Gower and Shaun Udal around this time. Today( 25th May 2024) Hampshire are taking Surrey apart in the County Championship.

[@sosayweall7290]

England reached ODI World Cup finals in this period, but once other nations caught up the TCCB and ECB became stale, reactive or downright obstructive. We should have played the domestic OD cup tournaments to World Cup fielding restriction rules, in coloured clothing. But no, we used the OD side as a feeder for the Test side, didn't mirror the World Cup format and fell further behind. Gosh it was awful. I think we were still playing domestic ODI's in white clothing up until about 1997? And we only reached the Super 8's in one WC because it wasn't the Super 6's. But once the stale, muddled thinking lifted we became a joy to watch and won under Eoin Morgan.

[@chrismanners9091]

I think the last ODI in whites was 1998, v South Africa. Yeah, we were terrible post 92. I can only think of Neil Fairbrother in that period who was in as a one day specialist.

[@jamieread880]

I remember that 1993 Final between Warwickshire and Sussex. Classic

[@dmmordecai7984]

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[@andyclarke2076]

God bless Ben hollioake gone far too soon. A fitting tribute to him

[@niroshan7521]

Fantastic upload please do upload some of these County Cricket matches

[@talhanaeem4364]

First two balls of Waqar shows the pace at which he used too bowl pre 92 injury. If looseners are so quick imagine what comes later.

[@TheCinderellaman10]

Indeed just look at waqar high jump and use of the front arm, post injury he remodelled his action and less jump, dropped his front arm and more slingy with the older ball, but still had extreme pace when he bent his back

[@chrismanners2554]

Ooh wow. Not seen this since I watched it live. ESPN Classic was great.

[@matthewlawrenson3628]

Peak Tony Midleton this. Put into the side after the retirement of Chris Smith, he did very well for about 2 years, then fell away horribly. Peak Robin Smith too. I think we all know what happened in the 5 years after this.

[@terranceparsons5185]

Dont you love the way they build up some players. Monte Lynch for example. Just the sort of stroke player you need. 10 off 11 balls. Meh.

[@sfwplant]

Mark Nicholas at the end doing a John Terry about 30 years before it WAS a John Terry.

[@Wally-H]

11.09 fans giving Alec Stewart a nice send off 🤣

[@MichaelJordan-yy1sr]

Amazing Thorpe’s prowess as a batsman didn’t translate into coaching ability - well with England’s batting group maybe that’s hard!

[@HHM706]

Also he’s as thick as a plank

[@randyschwaggins]

Ward's teeth were something else

[@terranceparsons5185]

Gnasher!

[@carnalea2424]

I think Hampshire were almost the last county to finally reach a Lord's final (1985 v Derbyshire?). They had some great players in the 70s (Barry Richards, Jesty, Roberts) but kept losing semifinals.

[@pauljohnson4539]

The most notable semi-final loss was the 1977 B&H Cup against Gloucestershire with Mike Procter's hat-trick.

[@terranceparsons5185]

Nice to see a bastman run out by yards being given out without referring to the third umpire.

[@terranceparsons5185]

Hampshire 100 up in a glacial 29 overs, a full 10! overs quicker than Surrey!

[@terranceparsons5185]

96-1 off 36 acceptable in a one day game! Why England never won the one day World Cup until 2019?

[@simontroop]

Have you found the West Indies V Australia Test and ODI Series in 1990-91?

[@oshea900]

They are already up... Just search up Wind Up The Windies for the ODI highlights. I do also have the VHS releases on both series if you wish to email me. [e-mail]

[@terranceparsons5185]

240 off 60, but they only had 30 after 20, must have like watching paint dry

[@LJW1912]

This seems ridiculously slow to me haha

[@HHM706]

Tony Murphy no where near fast enough

[@rogermccann5477]

Terry run out at 25:31

[@buttbadar3847]

lovely stuff uploader thank you so much really enjoying proper cricket no village stuff💯👌🔥🔥👍🔔🔔🔔 many thanks from Harrow.