Cricket highlights 1899-1938(W.G.Grace, Ranjithsinghji, Jack hobbs, Don Bradman, len hutton)

"The Lord's Taverners present 'Cricket Highlights' Commentary written by Michael Melford and spoken by E.W. Swanton."
L/S of Lord's Cricket Ground - a match in progress. C/U of batsman "England's young and very successful captain" (not named but probably Peter May). 1899 footage of the "Lord's Taverners and their ladies" - a panning shot of spectators in the stand. The film's narrator describes how this documentary will show 60 years of cricketing history "From W.G. Grace to Peter May, Boer War to Cold War, Penny Farthing to Sputnik...the highlights of yesterday, of the rich period between the wars."
W.G. Grace is seen practising in the nets. We then see Ranji in the crease. C/U of Jacks Hobbs, he smiles and laughs at the camera. Ranji "47 and rather plump" walks out onto the pitch (Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji). We see him walking off again: "in this hurried new world, even he didn't stay too long."
Various shots of cricketers in action: Jack Hobbs, Frank Woolley and Percy George Fender.
C/Us of members of the 1921 Australian team: Warwick Armstrong, Herbie Collins, (Horseshoe Collins), Arthur Mailey and Jack Gregory.
Leeds - M/S of two men in suits smoking pipes standing on the pitch. Lionel Tennyson loses the toss. The teams walk onto the pitch. M/S of Bardsley and Tommy Andrews (Australian team) walking out onto the pitch. Top shots of the large crowds watching the match.
Shot of a game in progress - the South African team at Lord's in 1924. Herbie Taylor's team are presented by their captain to King George V - good shot of them shaking hands.
M/S of the King speaking to Herbie Taylor on the pitch. Jack Hobbs and Herbert Sutcliffe are described as a "formidable new partnership" over footage of their play. M/S of the pair walking onto the pitch in Australia. Large crowds welcome the British team home after their victory.
Lord's - various footage of new grandstands being built (1926?) to meet the enormous demand for seats. The board of control met to appoint test selectors - panning shot of the men seated around a table in the board room. Lord Harris was present.
High angle shots of crowds at the Oval - everyone dressed in their Sunday best.
Australian team's visit in 1930. M/S of Percy Chapman and Bill Woodfull walking out onto the pitch to toss. Crowds applaud. Woodfull leads the Australian team out onto the pitch. The commentator relates the story of the match over footage of Hobbs and Woolley walking out onto the pitch. Various shots of the match in progress. Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji ("Duleep") is featured, as is Woolley. C/U of Don Bradman. High angle shots of Bradman playing at Leeds Cricket Ground - Headingley. Narrator lists names of all the bowlers including Harold Larwood, Richard Tyldesley, Maurice Tate.
Australia 1933 - various footage of Adelaide match. Woodfull gets hit by a fast bowl then loses his bat. Bradman ducks to miss a fast ball. High angle shots of the match "probably the most unpleasant ever played." (Presumably this is the bodyline series).
1938 - the Oval, Len Hutton reaches an historic 364. John Fingleton hobbles off with a strained muscle. Bill O'Reilly bowls. High angle of crowds applauding. Funny shot of a large man trying to squeeze through the "Ladies Gate" to see the climax of the innings. He tries to climb over the turnstile to get in.
Hutton "goes on and on and on" to pass Bradman's score of 8 years before. M/S of crowd applauding. Bradman shakes Hutton's hand in congratulation. The players stop for refreshments. "They pause for drinks inside, no such good fortune outside." M/S of the large man seen earlier trying to get into a pub ("The Cricketers") - the door is locked. Bradman bowls and twists an ankle - he is carried off. Australia lose the match. C/U of the scoreboard. Footage of Bill Edrich and Denis Compton batting. Crowds invade the pitch as match ends. High angle shot of the large crowds.
"The End."

[@salo7227]

Harold Larwood's bowling action was incredible. Still to this day his action stands up as one of the best and most attractive of all time.

[@gaurav7142]

Bradman and Hobbs against each other WOW

[@kirandalal2011]

Good to see past great cricketers in one video.

[@zaroonyakhyakhan4514]

Cricket is the greatest the best the most respectful sport of all time

[@hippo5035]

@@tryarunm Chess isn't even a sport. Golf used to stand for Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden, so I don't think Golf is that "civilised". Alexander Zverev is a tennis player and he isn't civilised at all. He’s abused umpires, fans, tournament officials and sponsors. And also in Tennis there is Maria Sharapova, who was caught for doping. In badminton you could also name a lot of players with bad attitudes as well. For cricket, despite having players like Ponting, there are kind hearted players like Sachin, DHONI, de Villiers, Gayle and much more. These sports you have mentioned above have following of millions and you should expect some bad attitudes. Also, in cricket there are close to 2 billion people who follow the sport, so there are bound to be some bad players. Please look at the full picture.

[@tryarunm]

@@hippo5035 The fact is, the incidence of rule- and culture-violation in those sports is so rare that the perpetrators are instantly recognised as violators, faced by instant justice, and conscience-ridden to admit and seek forgiveness for their violations. Not so much in cicket these days.

[@hippo5035]

@@tryarunm that is true, however it doesn't make cricket an uncivilised sport

[@hippo5035]

@bofursgun i mean, evidence please. Anyone could just make statements.

[@hippo5035]

@@tryarunm Mohammed Aamir got penalised, but he got to play again for Pakistan. Now Sreesanth should play again, but BCCI is just horrible. This doesn't cricket an un civillised sport though

[@backinblack7]

Wow footage of W.G, awesome

[@akashp9471]

W. G. is the great grandfather of cricket

[@theblackandwihtearmy]

awesome vid I love how old it is I didn't think there would be footage from so long ago

[@someblokecalleddave1]

Nice to see everyone running onto the pitch and being trusted to conduct themselves with a level of decorum that mean that wasn't an issue. In answer to the bloke below with regards to the camera angles, they probably didn't think it was that necessary, the idea of visual language hadn't filtered into stills photography to any meaningful extent back then and the film was probably shot with an emphasis of simply documenting the event rather than offering it up as entertainment. Another factor would have been equipment, it wouldn't have been particularly sophisticated. It wasn't until SKY and private enterprises such as Sky came on the scene that the money was there to start developing the equipment and technology and then produce the kind of thing we're used to.

[@wednesbury76]

Kk

[@tryarunm]

"Jack Hobbs wasn't a bad model..." what delicious understatement!

[@oshawaxpress]

Great posting! Thanks!

[@TheAnn2shoes]

Jack Hobbs is in my family tree. We share the same great, great grandparents.

[@skypatr0l]

Sachin, Lara ,Clive Lyod, Vivian Richards, Kapil Dev , Dravid , Ganguly, Ponting, McGrath, warne , murlidharan, Kallis, waugh Bros are grand kids in cricket

[@syed_taha_ahmed]

great work dude.

[@ArchismanMozumder]

Thank you for this rare footage. A small nitpick... The spelling of Ranji's full name should be Ranjitsinhji. Not Ranjith...

[@samuelarunmasilamoni9142]

What superb footage of the greats! The GOM, Hobbs, Sutcliffe, DGB, King George in Bowler, Chapman, Woolley, Armstrong, even my countryman, Ranji, whom I have longed to watch! When was this documentary made? The commentator's is as sharp and discriminating an RP as one could want to hear. Thank you! If only we could get to see Trumper, McCartney, May, Hammond, Amar Singh, Mohd. Nissar, Hazare, Merchant, Barrington, Miller, Greig...

[@redd605]

WG grace, I can see wear he lived from my window , just 200 meters away ,and Ernest Shackleton's , house is just 100 meters in the next road from WG grace house ,

[@ariseshine.isaiah601miracl4]

Superbbbb....

[@zaroonyakhyakhan4514]

there should be a movie about sir Don Bradman the great

[@tryarunm]

There is a TV mini-series called Bodyline that will tell you a lot about the Don. youtube. But yes, there should be a movie made about this man, the supreme ball-game player.

[@Zagg777]

Thanks.

[@41BobDylan]

Thanks for this great upload by the way :-)

[@41BobDylan]

Wow I had no idea footage existed of WG Grace, quite remarkable. 0:36

[@sylonisharma4660]

0:36

[@tryarunm]

Cardus (I think) wrote that the sight of Hammond walking out to bat was like that of a ship under full sail. I dare say, then, that Hammond charging the bowling would have looked like a man o' war delivering a broadside! Would love to see footage!

[@truthwar4567]

great Legends....but in this video we hardly ever saw any batsman with a high elbow while playing on front foot as all coaches suggest today...so technique has evolved a lot in years.

[@pmohanram]

Great video. Wonder why they didnt think of camera angles those days?

[@utha2665]

Cameras in those days were an after thought, and certainly not for broadcasting ball by ball commentary. It wasn't until really the 1990s that camera angles were strategically used, I recall in the 70s and 80s, while they had behind the bowler angles, the money just wan't there and many times the cameras were only at one end. The 90s saw cameras at each end, square leg and point and then the advent of stump cams,etc. I bet you weren't expecting a reply some 11 years later, haha.

[@vikashkumar-xv4gm]

Indian cricket team ke Grand father of Ranjit Singh ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@zaroonyakhyakhan4514]

Sir Don the great

[@paulstevenson7173]

Jack.Hobbs - The Master

[@sudachakri1]

:) Thanks for watching!!

[@EdnaMillion.]

I know it is grainy black and white, but looking especially at the 1930 series in England (around 6:20) there doesn't appear to be any attempt to prepare an actual pitch. It is indistinguishable from the rest of the square except for the worn areas made by the batsmen and the bowlers following through.

[@chrisiswright]

I have vintage cards of ranji and jack

[@tryarunm]

Are you kidding? You have been blessed beyond the dreams of any modern cricket fan.

[@kharis87]

Chris Wright Variety Show those are worth alot of money. It is understandable though if u never sell them.

[@sudachakri1]

@molred welcome buddy...more to come..!!

[@tryarunm]

I am glad to hear that, Matthew. His contribution to the game is beyond imagination - fairytale-like - and doubtless known to every player and pundit. However, the general public does not know much of him beyond Harlequin cap and the odd legend of his replacing-bails-and-scolding-bowler-for-not-remembering-whom-the-spectators-had-really-come-to-watch. I suppose all things are cyclical; in 50 years the fans will want to rediscover the game's founders and his name will receive top billing again.

[@sudachakri1]

thnks bud...From a site i downloaded..I don't have copy rights to upload..Still uploaded just to show these videos to all...!!

[@sudachakri1]

Thanks dude..sry for replying late...I suppose this documentary was made in 1940...i will try buddy for those videos...can get barrington, trumper, hammond's videos..!!

[@tryarunm]

Hi Matthew, is WG remembered in Bristol today? Is cricket still played or followed? Are there any museums or monuments to the GOM? It is sad that we hear so little about him today.

[@Flagfalls]

Amazing! Where did you get this?

[@JOhn90795]

They tap the bat so many time in such a weird way.completely different then now!

[@tryarunm]

+Anil Bista That's the speed of the recording camera, dude. Back then they had not developed cameras capable of sustained 24-frames-a-minute, nor of film projectors capable of faithfully reproducing that speed. Watch Charlie Chaplin or Laurel and Hardy movies. They did not deliberately act that way; that was the state-of-the-art of recording devices of those days.

[@francescoboni4209]

Nice

[@sudachakri1]

Yeah buddy..Do send me. and sorry been busy..not updating the channel. Will do post few more soon.

[@manzur995]

Look at the bowling @ 5:44 . What was that??

[@tryarunm]

That's just round-arm bowling by Clarie Grimmett. If you've seen Lasith Malinga of Sri Lanka, that's what Clarrie was doing, but as a spinner. There was hardly a bowler before the 1900's who bowled over-arm. The technique caught on because it enabled the bowler to flight the ball above the batsman's eye-height, which posed a greater challenge than the ball bowled below. This trick was discovered by Wilfred Rhodes, the only bowler to have taken over 4,000 wickets in first-class cricket.

[@tryarunm]

BTW, Manzoor Bhai, are you Pakistani?

[@tryarunm]

@bofursgun Round-arm, thats what makes it look so strange. He was the first man to 200 Test wickets.

[@tryarunm]

Please do, that would be any cricket-lover's dream. Have you ever read Albert E. Knight's reminiscences of Trumper's 185 in Australia against a victorious England? I could mail to you if you'd like. One line described Trumper batting 'with all the unlaboured, easy naturalness of a falling tear'.

[@jayhobbs8025]

I am related to jack

[@tryarunm]

I bet you must have terrific discussions about your ancestor during family get-togethers! What a legacy!

[@thepalletgurus-biddingwars5767]

I'm related to W.G. he's my great, great, great, great grandfather.

[@Ramukaka249]

What a perfect white world....

[@sudachakri1]

It's 75 years old mate

[@imviiku]

When there was no Athleticism in Cricket

[@vishveshtadsare3160]

Hence it was known as gentleman's game mate. There was underarm and round arm bowling back then.

[@spetterman2916]

I know this was 2yrs ago but you'd be surprised. Many cricketers back then were great athletes and competed in other sports and athletic events instead of just cricket.

[@sudachakri1]

thanks mate..I guess it's made in 40's or 50s.

[@MrChimneypot]

The film itself must have been made after August 1953 as there is footage of Compton hitting the winning runs at the Oval in the 5th Test.

[@sudachakri1]

Thank you mate..Keep following my channel. More rare videos coming

[@gnittegdellort]

trumper please :D

[@rajpalsharma6310]

Trumpet iseka of cricket

[@adrianollivierre9311]

Why didn't cricketers celebrate a wicket in those days.

[@thevagabond85yt]

maybe coz cricket was not as much commercialized as now.

[@vivekjiwane1175]

They used to celebrate it in the night!!

[@sudachakri1]

Trumper and Hammond I can try

[@paulwoolerton664]

Again the misleading facts about leg-theory in 32/33, Woodfull & Oldfield were hit by normal bowling. The first player hit in the series was Gubby Allen.

[@tryarunm]

Absolutely. Funny then how it was systematically regulated and banned by the MCC. And of course the cameras recorded the English batsmen's discomfort against, and utter subjugation to, the same bowling tactics by the West Indies and the Australians Lillee and Thomson. That wasnt even leg-theory, it was simple fast bowling aimed at leg stump with no fielders to catch defensive edges by the English batsmen. Pommie batsmen were pulverised by normal bowling, all the fault of their incomplete technique. Whingeing Aussies.

[@badblackmutha]

Merlo own cassette

[@sudachakri1]

i am not sure buddy..am not from england..from India..don't no much abt it..!!

[@Ramukaka249]

But seriously, except for Larwood, the other bowlers looked like club level cricketers

[@hyena131]

pottyboyler Yes, the way they play cricket all looks a bit silly and it's plain they'd be way out their depth in modern day cricket. Agreed re Larwood, though Bradman looked pretty sharp.

[@jayadsilva67]

They were all drunkards and pipe smokers.... they played cricket. l

[@offrampt]

What is the Cricketers pub at 8:45? There is a Cricketers at Kennington but it is a long way away. Is it The Hanover?