RIP Warney
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"What colour was the couch?
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Some of the batsmen who faced him never quite recovered.South African batsman Darryl Cullinan came to Australia with a big reputation in 1994, but had a horror tour and was clueless in the face of Warne's bowling variations.
Cullinan was dropped from the tour but came back four years later after scoring mountains of runs against other countries and seeking psychiatric help for his inability to play Warne.
Later he gave an interview to the Australian media, admitting that he'd had counselling for the demons that had haunted him after facing the demon leggie.
"There's this story about Cullinan, he said 'I've been playing the man and not the ball, I've gone to a psychologist and I've got my head right now I've got to watch the ball'. And I'm reading this going 'goodness me, this bloke's all over the place – I'm going to give it to him again'."
Cullinan eventually walked out to a warm welcome from an 85,000-strong Melbourne crowd and took his mark opposite Warne, who had the ball in hand.
"I linger around the stumps and I'm lingering with intent. Mark Taylor [the Australian captain at the time] says 'mate just get back to your mark'. I said 'no way'.
"I stood there and as he was marking centre, I was standing at the crease looking at my field and whispered to him 'hourly sessions, mate?' He looked at me and I said 'What colour was the couch?' His head snapped round and it ended in 'off' what he said to me. Three balls later, I knocked him over again for nought."
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Spin king Shane Warne sets the record straight
The headlines generated by cricketing great, Shane Warne, over the years have often had little to do with his incredible cricketing talents. From his weight to his love life, his drinking and smoking, he's been a paparazzi target from the moment he outfoxed Mike Gatting in the 1993 Ashes series....
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@donsteppa lol, making one of our very best players ever look like a park cricket #8
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@mariner4life said in RIP Warney:
@donsteppa lol, making one of our very best players ever look like a park cricket #8
Have tried and failed so far to find their head to head stats. That first ball isn't a million miles from the Gatting one...
I remember reading something to the effect that Crowe forced himself to play Warne as a straight bowler, and then played for the turn late. There's a lot of mutual admiration quotes between the two of them.
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@donsteppa said in RIP Warney:
@mariner4life said in RIP Warney:
@donsteppa lol, making one of our very best players ever look like a park cricket #8
Have tried and failed so far to find their head to head stats. That first ball isn't a million miles from the Gatting one...
I remember reading something to the effect that Crowe forced himself to play Warne as a straight bowler, and then played for the turn late. There's a lot of mutual admiration quotes between the two of them.
It’s very sad to think they’re both gone
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@mariner4life said in RIP Warney:
@donsteppa lol, making one of our very best players ever look like a park cricket #8
Interestingly, if I've got the right match for that footage (second test Basin Reserve after losing in Christchurch) it looks like Crowe fell to McDermott in both innings (98 & 3) https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/australia-tour-of-new-zealand-1992-93-61409/new-zealand-vs-australia-2nd-test-63602/full-scorecard
Though that has been the joy/misery of the Australian attack so often, pressure at both ends eventually tells. Especially that later era of 'see off McGrath and Gillespie, now see off Lee and Warne, in time for McGrath and Gillespie...'
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@donsteppa said in RIP Warney:
@mariner4life said in RIP Warney:
@donsteppa lol, making one of our very best players ever look like a park cricket #8
Interestingly, if I've got the right match for that footage (second test Basin Reserve after losing in Christchurch) it looks like Crowe fell to McDermott in both innings (98 & 3) https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/australia-tour-of-new-zealand-1992-93-61409/new-zealand-vs-australia-2nd-test-63602/full-scorecard
Though that has been the joy/misery of the Australian attack so often, pressure at both ends eventually tells. Especially that later era of 'see off McGrath and Gillespie, now see off Lee and Warne, in time for McGrath and Gillespie...'
Or Starc, Johnson, then Hazelwood
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@canefan said in RIP Warney:
@donsteppa said in RIP Warney:
@mariner4life said in RIP Warney:
@donsteppa lol, making one of our very best players ever look like a park cricket #8
Interestingly, if I've got the right match for that footage (second test Basin Reserve after losing in Christchurch) it looks like Crowe fell to McDermott in both innings (98 & 3) https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/australia-tour-of-new-zealand-1992-93-61409/new-zealand-vs-australia-2nd-test-63602/full-scorecard
Though that has been the joy/misery of the Australian attack so often, pressure at both ends eventually tells. Especially that later era of 'see off McGrath and Gillespie, now see off Lee and Warne, in time for McGrath and Gillespie...'
Or Starc, Johnson, then Hazelwood
i just fucking knew Maxwell would take a wicket in his first over.
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@mn5 said in RIP Warney:
@nepia said in RIP Warney:
@mn5 said in RIP Warney:
Murali’s action was cleared wasn’t it ?
I also never realised he was a Rugby player too.
I had a Sri Lankan mate as a kid who said he found the move to NZ easier than he thought as cricket and rugby were both the big sports for kids in each country and he played both.
I'm not sure if rugby is still popular in Sri Lanka but he probably knew the name of more ABs at the time (the 80s) than I did.
Well yeah cos Murali played for Team Rugby in the Black Clash so he must have been an All Black without me realising it.
Oh, I took your post at face value didn't realise you were taking the piss.
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@mariner4life said in RIP Warney:
@canefan said in RIP Warney:
@donsteppa said in RIP Warney:
@mariner4life said in RIP Warney:
@donsteppa lol, making one of our very best players ever look like a park cricket #8
Interestingly, if I've got the right match for that footage (second test Basin Reserve after losing in Christchurch) it looks like Crowe fell to McDermott in both innings (98 & 3) https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/australia-tour-of-new-zealand-1992-93-61409/new-zealand-vs-australia-2nd-test-63602/full-scorecard
Though that has been the joy/misery of the Australian attack so often, pressure at both ends eventually tells. Especially that later era of 'see off McGrath and Gillespie, now see off Lee and Warne, in time for McGrath and Gillespie...'
Or Starc, Johnson, then Hazelwood
i just fucking knew Maxwell would take a wicket in his first over.
Yup. They thought he was the soft touch and BOOM
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@nepia said in RIP Warney:
@mn5 said in RIP Warney:
@nepia said in RIP Warney:
@mn5 said in RIP Warney:
Murali’s action was cleared wasn’t it ?
I also never realised he was a Rugby player too.
I had a Sri Lankan mate as a kid who said he found the move to NZ easier than he thought as cricket and rugby were both the big sports for kids in each country and he played both.
I'm not sure if rugby is still popular in Sri Lanka but he probably knew the name of more ABs at the time (the 80s) than I did.
Well yeah cos Murali played for Team Rugby in the Black Clash so he must have been an All Black without me realising it.
Oh, I took your post at face value didn't realise you were taking the piss.
This post is disappointing.
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@donsteppa said in RIP Warney:
@mariner4life said in RIP Warney:
@donsteppa lol, making one of our very best players ever look like a park cricket #8
Have tried and failed so far to find their head to head stats. That first ball isn't a million miles from the Gatting one...
I remember reading something to the effect that Crowe forced himself to play Warne as a straight bowler, and then played for the turn late. There's a lot of mutual admiration quotes between the two of them.
I can recall reading an article around the time MC passed away in which he talked about specifically measuring the turn on Warne's deliveries and determining the exact length he needed to use his forward defence. I'm obviously mangling the specifics, but it was fascinating to see how much thought and even science went into it.
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@donsteppa I remember reading an article in one of the UK papers ahead of that first Ashes series. In it Crowe warned England that Warne was something special and to be feared.
The general tone of the article was very condescending, implying NZ might have struggled but facing England would be an entirely different proposition
BOOMFAH!
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