WEST.AUSTRALIA vs QUEENSLAND, 1976-1977 GILLETTE CUP MATCH

An extraordinary match the likes of which I am sure we will never see again. Queensland travelled to Perth and after rolling WA cheaply, a win was a formality, or was it....
TEAMS
WESTERN AUSTRALIA: Bruce LAIRD, Ric CHARLESWORTH, Rob LANGER, Kim HUGHES, Craig SERJEANT, Rod MARSH, Ian BRAYSHAW, Bruce YARDLEY, Dennis LILLEE, Mick MALONE, Wayne CLARK
QUEENSLAND: Viv RICHARDS, Alan JONES, David OGILVIE, Greg CHAPPELL, Phil CARLSON, Jeff LANGLEY, John MACLEAN, Graham WHYTE, Jeff THOMSON, Denis SCHULLER, Geoff DYMOCK

[@BEYONDTHEPALE1]

I remember watching this game as a young teenager. Probably the most incredible sporting performance I have ever seen. I still remember it today. There was only one man at that ground that thought victory was even remotely possible. Viv Richards and Greg Chappell in the batting lineup. It seemed impossible. This was more than a sporting performace it was about never giving up no matter what. Dennis Lille: The greatest bowler of all time.

[@rajpanchal9733]

Wow , thanks for uploading this gem of real & original Cricket. Lovely days those were and great players were playing domestic cricket

[@rusteee]

I was 16 and was there with a few mates. We'd taken a couple of eskies of cans and were worried after the first innings we wouldn't get to finish them. In the end we didn't, but didn't care with the result. Ah the days of bouncers in a one dayer and being allowed to take piss in to the ground.

[@godfreypigott]

When this game finished early, they played a second game afterwards. So you're not remembering the day very well.

[@carnthesharks]

Still love watching this. The sequence to get Richards was superb. That cemented the belief already stirred in the changeroom between innings.

[@r.cjones1515]

One of the few times you saw Viv on the back foot

[@BatMan-xr8gg]

I was there and one of the kids running onto the ground. Father was not impressed, but I didn't care. An amazing day to watch.

[@godfreypigott]

If you were there, then you will recall what happened after the game ........

[@BatMan-xr8gg]

@@godfreypigott I was a kid at the time, so my memory is not that good after what happened as my father came onto the ground and grabbed me and we left.

[@godfreypigott]

@@BatMan-xr8gg Then you missed some cricket. They played another game.

[@BatMan-xr8gg]

@@godfreypigott As said, dad was not impressed and took me straight home, so I did miss it. Cheers

[@markwilliams3174]

One of the most exciting performances from Dennis Lillee. Thank you for packaging this. This was a cherished childhood memory.

[@thornwivans]

Good to see Father Chapelle providing comments...love how many people are there for a state game. Awesome clip!

[@stevehall5299]

No other option on the table for Dennis, but to win, and he was the only man who could do it, Legend!

[@Jimmy911ism]

Great to see the crowd on ground after the game. These days there's a ring of security guards as they're too bloody prescious. Ah, the good ol' days!

[@shutthegate8232]

Brilliant game & effort. Reminds me of another feat, where a single player, when the opposing captain pretty much buried any chance of a win being even remotely possible by the time South Australia was to bat. In strode David Hookes and took the game by the scruff of the neck and shook it like a rag doll in a dogs gnarling mouth. RIP David Hookes.

[@sheldonwalz4016]

I was 10years old and a cricket nut I remember being so pissed off that day being a queen slander..I only found this searching for David Ogilvy who was my hero at the time.

[@Teebonemendez]

Its amazing how many demonstrations of behavior there are that would be considered well outside the 'Spirit of Cricket' protocol that exists now.

[@SammBam92]

Geoff Dymok is currently my year 7 teacher. He learnt to bowl when he was rond' 14-15. ^^ he is pretty kewl.

[@godfreypigott]

Geoff Dymock would have been well past retiring age when you wrote this comment.

[@brendanpage3369]

In 2012, Dymock said, "Playing cricket for me was a great experience, but financially it has cost me all my life. I am now still working because every time I stopped teaching to play cricket, which I earnt basically nothing for, I lost out on superannuation."

[@timwilde4200]

Amazing game and a testament to what a warrior Dennis Lillee was - still the greatest fast bowler I've ever seen, and I've seen many over the last fifty or so years. People forget how much time he lost due to his back issues in the early 70s, not to mention the wickets that don't count to his name from the World XI games and Packer Supertests. Toss those in and his total is in the mid 400s. At a time when bowlers with stress fractures routinely retired, Lillee helped to pioneer many of the measures modern bowlers now use to get through the same issues. I was watching the game at the time and didn't think WA had a hope of winning off such a low score, not with the world's two greatest batsmen in the Queensland side. But the way Lillee went after Richards was really something to behold, bouncer after bouncer, and it just flowed on from there. The fact that it was a typical Perth glasstop of the era, with some moisture in it and the Fremantle Doctor blowing a gale, certainly helped deliver both low scores. It's a shame that it occurred in a lowly Gillette Cup game - if the game had been higher profile Lillee's performance in the game would be much better known. Same again for his incredible bowling against the World XI in 1971-72, getting 8/29 against a formidable batting lineup. Back then he was an out and out tearaway who bowled at frightening pace, probably up there with Tyson at his peak.

[@frogmonster12]

I heard that when WA were bowled out for 76 a lot of people left the ground, expecting QLD to win easily, Chappell and Richards were in their mid 20's at the peak of their careers.

[@mdjcsmith]

My Dad and his friends were about to leave, but Dad appealed to their sense of cheapskatedness, by saying "We have to stay, we paid for a full game" he's never regretted that.

[@waynemitchell1076]

'And Dennis Lillee won this game off his own bat by bowling ......' Oh Bill, you're a card 😅

[@MichaelBurke-z9x]

Brilliant game, brilliant bowling.

[@MrBadger24]

Chappelle brothers are their own biggest fans

[@MrMdevaney]

who knew that ian chappelle joined the priest hood lol

[@sugarshane1985]

"An extraordinary match the likes of which I am sure we will never see again" I wouldn't be too sure of that, games like this happen quite often actually.

[@AussieTVMusic]

Every player in the WA side played Test Cricket except Ian Brayshaw. Who is the father of Mark and James Brayshaw and the Grandfather of Angus and Andrew Brayshaw.

[@mdjcsmith]

@joetyer I love hopalong!!!

[@eydiot909]

Did you see Lillee's bouncers versus Richards ?

[@hswforme]

This sort of stuff beats 20/20 hands down.

[@hirdy6]

Did Chappelie find the priesthood?

[@cr1ck3tr0x]

i met geoff today he talked about it too

[@scoldedcat]

Is Ian Chappell trying to make some sort of fashion statement and if so, what exactly is he trying to say ? Maybe he's joined some sort of religious order.

[@fjbutch]

@joetyer Yeah saw that Lol....those were the days ...miss them heaps !!!!

[@mickwarnie8707]

Watched this as a 10 year old

[@BaronP91]

Yes it is.

[@zibtihaj3213]

BEYONDTHEPALE1 do you have the complete game..or atleast the complete highlights...

[@Jimmy911ism]

Ric Charlesworth, is that the hockey player?

[@ednan9]

James Brennan yes

[@rajpanchal9733]

Yes he was a fine First class cricket player for Australia

[@adam872]

Yep, one of the greatest hockey players of all time, gold medal winning coach, state cricketer, doctor and member of federal parliament. That's quite a career.

[@Jimmy911ism]

I get the feeling if he'd stuck with cricket, that he'd have been Test captain. I'm guessing he was a batsman.

[@shani3333]

Second to watch :)good video mate.

[@hawty0boy]

@qldbulls7 I went to the clinic too! epic!

[@865nov]

four wides by todays standards from Lillee

[@zibtihaj3213]

@FIFTY2WEEKS how fast was he ?

[@BigRamifications]

"Dennis Lillee, 4 wickets, won this game off his own bat by bowling...." Bill Lawrie @6:34. And who's the creepy serial killer who appears @6:41?!

[@camtinley]

He was a groundsman. I worked at the WACA with him in 1978. When Lillee found out that he was getting paid as much as the players the **** hit the fan. That played some part in the genesis of World Series Cricket.

[@BigRamifications]

Cam Tinley Huge! Really appreciated.

[@elastotec173]

No chance of an exhilarating game like this today as the administrators have banned the bouncer - idiots!!!

[@russelblackwell6041]

Queensland chokers

[@BEYONDTHEPALE1]

No. I'm sorry.

[@caseyalexander8504]

Back when Australia was white, the way it should be.

[@BatMan-xr8gg]

Drop dead racist.

[@godfreypigott]

And why exactly should Australia be white??

[@greeniemelb]

Yes it is.