Funny Cricket Stories: David Lloyd vs Jeff Thomson Ashes 74/75

[@surya_iverson]

"Can you take the pain away and leave the swelling" 😂😂 5:18 Bumble is a LEGEND!

[@dennispicone6801]

Don't know anyone that doesn't love him. His knowledge of the game, when he's serious is second to none. 😊

[@hamisharnold8745]

"Can you take the pain away and leave the swelling?" 🤣

[@TheJonkerr7]

How good is that? Heard it a million times, and still cracks me up!

[@Wally-H]

The great thing is, every time he tells the story he adds something or changes it in a funny way. You can only do that if you have the ability to be spontaneously funny.

[@jimog66]

"Bumble" should be declared a National Treasure in England. Even when he's trying to be serious in the commentary box he's still bloody hilarious and leaves VERY experienced co-commentators in stitches making it hard for them to keep things serious. An off-the-field cricketing legend!

[@guyosborn615]

If anyone DARE'S ost an unlike - be prepared for retaliation. Brilliant

[@357HFC]

@@guyosborn615 as an Aussie, to me he, is a National Treasure, Great Cricketer as well. LANCASTRIAN!

[@iamtheeggman2026]

@@357HFC but no test cricketer

[@robertcottam8824]

@@iamtheeggman2026 So fucking what?

[@dennispicone6801]

Englands answer to Skull. 😊

[@adsdynamic9219]

David the ever humorous man, one can't forget his wonderful voice behind the microphone 🎤

[@gidgeecoals]

That is one of the funniest commentries of a sporting event I have ever seen. Still wiping the tears from my face.

[@iandaniel2153]

What a yarn and what a generation of story tellers

[@Ingens_Scherz]

We invited (for a modest fee ;) Bumble to be the guest speaker at our club dinner 30+ years ago when I think he was still an umpire. And guess what? He told exactly the same story! Had us all in absolute stitches of course - that and his many other hilarious tales and impressions. He was great - and really lovely too. Stayed for the whole meal although he was the picture of parsimony when it came to the grog (unlike us!).

[@toursanxterme11]

both thomo and bumble are my absolute favorites love these guys!!!

[@mikeplatts2603]

David Lloyd is an absolute one off, he should be given an honour, love him and miss him greatly.

[@Drinckx2]

David Lloyd is excellent as a raconteur with a stand-up comedian's timing. The quality and timing of his words are superior to the quality and timing of his batting but then, he had to do something when he was younger. Every batsman that faced Lillee and Thompson during the 1974/5 ashes series should have got a medal for bravery.

[@alfie8472]

Yes, not even wearing a helmet either. Thommo before he did his shoulder was the fastest bowler I ever saw.

[@Fuzcapp]

Ditto - every batsman who faced the West Indies in the eighties.

[@NigelRudyard]

Perfect, especially the Fiery Fred impression.

[@williamrouse862]

Bumble, love yer to bits. Thanks.

[@prahladkumar7891]

"Can you take the pain away and leave the swelling...?!?" 😅🥺😢😅😂😂😁😁 Oh! Classic David Bumble Lloyed... What a legend..!! 👏👏🥺

[@stratocaster1986able]

Greatest Cricket story ever told.

[@yatinbhat]

Bumble... the best story teller.....absolutely hilarious..!!!

[@Fuzcapp]

The bit he left out, was before the tour Lloyd is reputed to have said, "That Thomson - I could play him with me plonker!" And then he set about proving it.

[@johnderrick4082]

Classic - brings tears to the eyes

[@Fuzcapp]

Brings tear to his eyes as well ...

[@locky601]

Crying my eyes out, unreal clip

[@ant13665]

40+ years on, and i still wince every time i see that delivery.

[@silmarienprince3137]

Tbf,Thomo can be very funny. I have heard him speak quite well . Just here ,he's taken a back step to Bumbles brilliance.

[@TRUMP20Z4]

yep, a smart man!

[@sherlock747]

Bumble...What a classic! lol

[@pauliejay4161]

He knows how to tell a story :-)

[@fjbutch]

Very good !! Great sense of humour....

[@AM-257]

"it might hit the bat" ROFL!!!

[@racox28]

Great Monologue from Bumble

[@wheeloflife17]

RIP Tonny!

[@dorjon6121]

Don't rub 'em, Bumble . . . Count 'em!

[@tombutleruk6270]

"..they were socially unacceptable these things, but they had been in your kit bag for a month, it stunk , they were horrible."

[@Wally-H]

I was playing a local league game back in the 1990's when this exact same thing happened to a team mate. The opposition's opening quick hit our guy right in the knackers, just like Lloyd gets it here and he was also wearing one of those useless protectors which split and cut his bollocks up badly. By that time most players weren't stupid enough to wear them but this guy didn't have his own box so he'd pulled the old protector out of our old colts team kit stash. After being hit he trotted off and straight into the changing room, where I found him bent down over a wooden bench in agony.

[@Vortigan07]

I'm guessing that most of us that have played the game even at local level have been hit in the nuts at some point by the opposing quick. It's bad enough even if it's the medium pacer...so how the hell you even walk again after being on the sharp end of a prime Jeff Thomson is something I don't really want to think too much about.

[@2310mjh]

The first time Thommo had no comeback!!

[@Mehdzz]

Bumble is a legend

[@008mrvik]

oh god!!! take the pain n leave the swelling....fuckin legend

[@guyosborn615]

Genius!

[@bodsnvimto]

Agreed. I've always considered him the best commentator this side of Sid Waddel. But you have to like Thommo also. Unlike so many egotistical sportsmen of today, he comes across as very modest & likable.

[@guyosborn615]

Well done and shame to all those haters of Thommo - Betwen them, he and Bumble have creatged a great cricket story

[@levitane307]

4 great former cricketers, 5 great broadcasters (Nicholas is alright), and James Bloody Brayshaw.

[@Bruce15485]

David Lloyd, great story teller ! Stole the show !

[@gavinscott8903]

What a funny man Bumble is. It's not the same without him & Holding commentating when in the UK

[@pradeepbaurai5671]

"You're voice was a bit higher last time we met "

[@pradeepbaurai5671]

"I recon you used to bowl in a wig "

[@petermcclenaghan5735]

one of the great characters

[@APB225]

one of the funniest things ive ever heard

[@jamesgeorge2299]

A natural raconteur, or I've never seen one. Classic stuff.

[@johnpower29]

Never gets old 😄

[@spidey1989]

We need more Bumble videos; he is just pure class.

[@anthonymensingh1989]

That's absolutely classic he's a comedian he had the protector made of plastic and Thompson smashed and cracked it and the plastic cut David Lloyd's ball sack now that's firepower love Anthony Fed ex lol

[@kevinbalsdon4705]

This would bring a tear to a glass eye.

[@akshaychaturvedi4919]

they are all time greatest player in cricket history

[@amrendramishra4288]

What a gem bumble is God bless him 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@waynemitchell1076]

Bumble is an honorary Australian 👍

[@marka1142]

It's true! The guy up the other end was looking for the quick single. LOL

[@TRUMP20Z4]

English dry smart humour is SO much better than american obvious crap humour.... LOVE from Australia COBBER!!!!

[@bappybd]

Can you take the pain away.....and leave the swelling ?

[@zenmoira]

😢

[@charlesmartella]

THOMMO - the Mike Tyson of cricket

[@robleary3353]

Bril!. Legends all!. And they probably would have had a beer together after the match!.....

[@advaithjayaram1047]

Can anybody tell me where I can find the whole interview?:p

[@kabirmahajan1710]

Bumble for PM! He's so much better than most of the stand up comedians!

[@EarlJohn61]

He'd be no good... one month out of twelve his voice goes on holiday... (if you don't believe that, he mentions it in this video)

[@chrisssy6467]

Fabulous from Bumble🤣🤣🤣

[@honeybeebadger]

David Lloyd only played 9 tests I’m not sure how he built such a big career for himself after the game I barely heard of him when he was playing

[@MOGGS1942]

How many Tests did you play ? I've never heard of you.

[@frankmurphyburr3598]

He should have been a stand up comedian 😅

[@gmarshall1026]

What a great story

[@miles501st]

Rip tony g

[@sebgold5841]

Bumble is an absolute genius.. Should be knighted!

[@zennor_man]

Dear Bumble.so funny...dear Thommo....god bless you...

[@Asimpleguitarist]

Absolute legend

[@munibullahkhan]

Comic genius!

[@superbuddyfranklin]

2:12 He tells a great story.

[@frankmurphyburr3598]

Bumble is the funniest

[@jitendrapanwar2206]

Bumble is Sidhu of England 😂

[@WaughZone6]

Cracked me up Bumble! Russel Peters who?

[@grahamnancledra7036]

The sadness is that most people in the UK listen to TMS on the Radio and Brumble took the money to be on TV. In the UK, and I don't know about the rest of the world, we watch on TV with the sound off and listen to the commentary on the radio as it's far more descriptive and...... you get the better stories, Such a shame Bumble took the money. Otherwise the hilarity we get on TMS would have been evn greater than it has been

[@jimlaw8199]

David "Bumbles" Lloyd, the most Australian Englishman that ever lived; talented, yet humble, yet irreverent. Come to Oz, we will adopt you!

[@billythedog-309]

You're saying Australians are talented, yet humble? Jesus, that must be when they're on their own in a dark room and their imagination is in full flight.

[@guyosborn615]

Nice comment

[@aid901]

Aussies are not humble.

[@guyosborn615]

What a lovely comment - come to England and we will adopt you! Thank you

[@a.jamesstretton3813]

That's how to tell a story.

[@diannekeightley9443]

James Brayshaw....Why is he there? Legends only please....

[@KingUnbound]

Hilarious! :D But i dont understand what he said at 4:20

[@wheeloflife17]

Bumble is brilliant. Nass Atherton and Bumble are always love listening to.

[@arifahmed7815]

who can give me the link for the full video ?

[@russelblackwell6041]

the old turkey trying to get out Bumble really miss your class on commentary now

[@bjmckay3]

No one funnier than Kerry okeeffe!!!

[@stephenreeds3632]

One short comment and he killed it. Thommo nowhere near him.

[@murdoch691]

Bumble wat a true legend

[@jasegtree1206]

Brilliant 👏😂

[@styxcreek]

Thomson’s completely out of his depth when it comes to comedy. Bumble could be a professional comedian, perfect comic timing.

[@stephenwright1476]

Wasn't much good to him in 1975...... your point?

[@chookvalve]

He had his time (sitting down)

[@russellcampbell9198]

Thommo was a naturally funny bloke.

[@allthemariners1845]

Well to be fair Thommo was a fast bowler and I'd say Bumbles was out of his depth facing him.

[@campyoldie]

Yes he could be a comedian - a third rate Working men's club comedian . The cricket equivalent of Ant and Dec. Spoils Sky cricket .

[@josephsujai5543]

Pure gold.. Bumble is a legend.

[@MrScottiej23]

A raconteur of the highest order.

[@Crundmama]

What did he say at 4:20?

[@jameswebb4593]

In the good old days when the BBC was a worthwhile corp . On Sunday afternoons the cavaliers would play a 40 over against a county eleven. During the Tea interval a previous player would be interviewed , a few were really good . Two stand out for me , not funny but revealing more of the Gentleman Player attitude of that period . I think it was a pre-war Derbyshire spin bowler who had me in stitches . A county match and he was getting hammered , oft requests to be taken off received shut up and bowl . One delivery the batter played gently to mid wicket where the skipper was fielding . Skip kicked the ball to the bowler , who promptly kicked it back , this went on several times before someone ran in and picked the ball up. The other was more poignant . I think he played for Middlesex . Taken on as a promising batsman , given 5 quid a week , promised that for every 50 he scored over a hundred would earn a fiver bonus . This particular match he was in top form 150 , 200 , 250 he had never seen so much money , or so he thought. Come payday he gets 7 notes , where's me bonus he cried . Well the committee thought you was far too young to have that much money , hard luck. He said he never scored more then a ton during the rest of his career , reach a hundred and give up his wicket.

[@leewhatley7077]

In the plums or what’s left of them lol

[@PrasKon]

Bumble should have been a stand-up comic.. i'll go for his shows!

[@chiran9]

Thumbs up for Bumble

[@brettbrett9973]

Brayshaw still gets a gig lol

[@rory12345g]

Brilliant!

[@leewhatley7077]

In the plums the poor bastard lol

[@shpilzak]

sry but what did he say he wore at 4:05 ?

[@foddyfoddy]

shpilzak A pink "Litesome" (the name of the box, in those days)

[@kingcurry6594]

If there was an Ashes series for cricketing humour, Bumble would be opening for England again. He's the funniest commentator in any sport by miles. His impersonation of Fred Trueman is uncanny.

[@rentaghostokish5628]

Bumble is genuinely funny; Thompson, OTOH, can only come up with tired old mistaken cliches about "poms and soap dodging" and "poms can't swim" that weren't even funny when they first came out in 1877...Bumble wins this encounter by a country mile!

[@stephenreeds3672]

I couldn't agree more. Thommo probably couldn't follow the self mockery and irony in Bumble's speech. All he said that was at all memorable was he likes to see blood on the pitch!! And all the Aussie commentator can talk about is something that happened decades ago.

[@porthpatho78]

Does he? On the 13-14 Ashes, all Bumble could mention was getting hit in the nuts.

[@ronanrogers4127]

Stephen Reeds ...but the commentator is an Englishman!!!

[@robicenco1]

Thomson can be very funny - but agreed that he didn't show it here.

[@Equalizer5]

There's no such player as "Thompson". Furthermore, they all soiled their underwear when facing Thommo. Last but not least Lloyd made fuck all against Austraia-average 24.50, says everything about the people saying things about Thomson.

[@PumpedFilms1234]

Omg hahahaha Bumble!!!!

[@richardgordon2855]

David lolyd and Jeff Thompson funny as you like, but being serious you wouldn't want to face thommo back then EXPRESS PACE.

[@bodsnvimto]

Bumble: Cricketer/broadcaster/stand up comedian. (Sometimes deliberately so, sometimes by accident, but always with hilarious consequences.)

[@gandalfthegrey41]

hilarious !

[@ZubySGian19]

Quick single.Hahahahaahaha.