Cricket Highlights (1899-1938)

this is a scene motive you will recognize most famous cricket ground in the world this is one of the modern heroes you'll see there England's young and a successful captain here we see the Lord's Taverners of 1899 and their ladies and this was the target of their admiration from WG Grace to Peter may who a war to cold war Benna filing to Sputnik six decades of history of which we shall show just a few highlights the highlights of yesterday of the rich period between the wars dr. grace and also from that Golden Age renji now after the first world war the great figure was Jack Hobbs in the twenties at the height of his fame an occasional glimpse of RAM g47 and rather plump was a nostalgic reminder of more later days but in this hundred new world even he didn't stay so long however Jack Hobbs wasn't a bad model from which to build a new generation of batsmen and this sort of thing was rare enough in those days to make this almost a historic picture there are other great men reaching the peak of their career in 1921 Frank Woolley was one of them there was a colorful character destined to bring many happy hours to the citizens of Kennington and elsewhere Percy George defender an all-rounder sorry we'll be proud to have even now in these days of printing Warrick Armstrong in 1921 he brought one of the best of all Australian sides to England contained many famous names Herbie Collins the vice-captain horseshoe Collins Arthur made one of the best of Australian spin bowlers a cartoonist now a writer and a character Jack Gregory a great fast Bell indeed a great all-rounder playing for England that year English cricket having barely recovered from the war and with injuries abounding was not a very rewarding honor here at Leeds Lionel Tennyson lost the toss he lost Hobbes later the same day with appendicitis in spite of his own 63 in an hour with a split and lost the net here come the Australian bards d an end on their way to begin the slaughter well slaughter Achmed this was England's third successive defeat in the series but in time English cricket began to rise again just as it was to do after another war a quarter of a century later and when herba Taylor brought his South African team bring on the 1954 hill they are being presented by their captain to King George the fifth they found a formidable new partnership established a partnership which was to make 268 for the first wicket in this Lord's tears and to make all sort of history in the next few years Hobbs and sucky next winter they went together to Australia and for the first time for 12 years Australia lost the Test match next time in 1926 it might be the ashes meanwhile an enthusiastic welcome home and then 12 months of speculation and excitement such as few Test series kind of provoked either before or since at Lord's next winter a new grandstand was built to meet the enormous public demand for seats and when the Board of Control met to appoint test selectors this dignified the one would have thought pictorially an exciting but it was accorded the limelight of a conference of politicians Lord Harris bottom right was the great legislator and administrator for the first time the board invited two professionals to serve on the selection committee Hobbs and rails there was to be no disappointment later that year the ashes came back to England with Yoda and for a few years English cricket enjoyed a healthy NPR on afterbuzz a Chapman side had retained the ashes in 1928-29 another Australian team came to England in 1930 the first of the two captioned by would fall but Lords Chapman and would fall come out to toss as you will see it's a toss which satisfied most of those in the pavilion a few minutes later one fool needs Australia out to the start of one of the best and most famous Test matches ever played a match of brilliant batting on both sides a match in which England were beaten by 7 wickets by about teatime on the 4th day there they scored around 400 in each innings Sutcliffe having recently split of thumb Hobbs and woolly open for England they were then respectively aged 47 and 43 this was the only match in which these two great batsman ever opened for England together on that first day England scored 405 for 9 a which juleps in T uncle Randy watching made a wonderful hundred and seventy-three now he is reaching a century which lives clearly in the memory of many of us to this day Willie made one of the classic shortenings of Test cricket 41 in the first 40 minutes of the map a piece of cricket full of strokes like this one and this using his immense reach to hit grim it to the square leg back but the greatest innings of that great match was the 250 for the young Australian not yet 22 John Brant and it leads the fortnight later he played another fabulous innings this time 334 in the second over of the match Archie Jackson was caught at short leg by Larwood of tape that was the last success the English brothers had for a long time Redmond made a hundred by lunch and 309 by the end of the day Gary about la would Richard tilts for estate but all came alike the greatest of all batting prodigies had arrived England's answer in Australia three winters later was a battery of fast burgers and body line this is not the place to discuss the pros and cons of body line you'll see if yourselves adhered Adelaide the australian batsman didn't see many of the pros would fall is hit what fool loses his bet Redman ducks law would build faster than ever yeah Badman gives a comfortable catch to Alan the choreplay Gio Alan later captain of England and chairman of selector wisdom records that this third Test match in January 1933 will go down in history as probably the most unpleasant ever played England wanted by 338 rocks to lead to one in the series subsequently they won the last two tests as well the ash is lost in 1930 where he gained but at what a cost they were lost again in 1934 and not regained in 1938 there at The Oval that year Len Hutton made his historic 364 he reaches 200 Fingal Tanabe off with a strained muscle O'Reilly burns and Hutton passes another landmark on the way two bad ones record 334 300 from all over London people are trying to squeeze into the oval to see the climax of this prodigious innings now in its third day Hutton very well in our goes on and on and on on this most perfect of wickets until applause because his Badman score of 8 yards before and redmond needs the congratulations they pause the drinks inside no such good fortune outside Bradman boughs and twists an entry neither he nor finger Concannon the match in Australia lose by innings in 579 run for the largest total ever made in a Test match the 132 England needed in the last innings took a lot of getting but ed rich played one of his staunchest innings and eventually a Compton hit the for which won the match the rubber and after a gap of 19 years the ashes

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Length: 9min 35sec (575 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 13 2014

Reddit Comments

[u/threedotsguy]

Loved the video. Also, Jack Hobbs doesn't ever get the credit he deserves. Guy has over 60,000 FC runs. That's mind-blowing!

[u/shaun-tait-fanboy]

This... This is why I am still on reddit.

[u/sam_ill]

I love these old videos, great find OP

[u/churchilling]

I like the fact that you can still see the Oval gas holders in this clip