54 Years Ago Today ...

[TheLoneRanger]

This happened ...


https://youtu.be/iydq3JyUOrU

 

[monmouth]

Historic ground, binned by Cardiff obsessed wankers.

At least Malc got his name known! He must have been thrilled with the fielder at long off (?). Didn't he change wisely to medium pace after that?

 

[TheLoneRanger]

Historic ground, binned by Cardiff obsessed w******s.

At least Malc got his name known! He must have been thrilled with the fielder at long off (?). Didn't he change wisely to medium pace after that?

Roger Davis at long off


Malcolm Nash talking ...


“The first ball I bowled to Garry after tea – left-arm spin, around the wicket – wasn’t a bad ball, on a length on the stumps,” Nash continues. “He hit it straight up there. Over long-on. It went out of the ground and hit the guttering on The Cricketers.”

"But I also thought the best way to bowl and get him out was to keep pitching it up and let him have a go at it and hope that he whacks it up in the air. And that’s exactly what he did, except he didn’t whack it too short! He put the next one over square leg and it bounced into the road.

"Then the third landed up here, over long-off. I thought, ‘That went into orbit, pretty much’. The lads were getting further and further away from me, except that I still had a slip. I don’t know why. The next one went miles over midwicket. He played everything off the back foot. I thought ‘OK, but he’s going to mishit one in a minute’.”

“I gave the fifth one a little bit more air. He got underneath it a bit more. Roger Davis was at long-off on the line, just in front of us here. He got his hands ready and took the catch but then he overbalanced and sat down on the line. There were members shouting ‘out’ and there were members shouting ‘six’. The umpires had a consultation.”

“I started to walk,” Sobers says, “and the crowd were all Glamorgan fans, of course, but a lot of them said ‘you’re not out, go back’. They wanted to see if I could hit the sixth for six.” The umpire Eddie Philipson eventually signalled six. “There had been nothing in my mind about the six sixes through the over. But I thought – the last ball – this has got to go. I don’t care where Malcolm bowls it, it is going for six. I knew he was going to try to trick me and bowl the quick one.”

“I bowled a seamer, from round the wicket off a short run. Something I’d never done before. And it was the worst ball of the day, never mind the over. And that disappeared over midwicket onto the road between those two buildings."