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Here's a headline: Chatfield scythes thru Aussie batting
The guy gets underrated for his bowling. The argument sometimes trotted out that Hadlee 'had no competition for the wickets' isn't the best one. As @Godder notes, if the bowling was pants at the other end, the tactic would have just been to see out Hadlee as best as possible, and take fewer risks.
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@Donsteppa said in Cricket - best ever, trivia etc:
Here's a headline: Chatfield scythes thru Aussie batting
The guy gets underrated for his bowling. The argument sometimes trotted out that Hadlee 'had no competition for the wickets' isn't the best one. As @Godder notes, if the bowling was pants at the other end, the tactic would have just been to see out Hadlee as best as possible, and take fewer risks.
Chats was perfect for 80's One Dayers.
they were low scoring affairs so a bowler who was accurate and could bowl a nagging line over and over was invaluable.Ran into him a few times growing up in Upper Hutt in my teens. Very mild mannered quietly spoken guy
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@Virgil Always laughed, son played 1st eleven cricket with a bowler who was similar, just couldn't be hit for many runs. He had the nic 'Mer' as short for farmer in Farmer Chatrfield.
But in trivia someone will no doubt remember one of the Bracewells from way back, who had a back injury, stoped him playing cricket, but could still play rugby to provincial level. Maybe ended up at Waiarapa?
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@Dan54 said in Cricket - best ever, trivia etc:
But in trivia someone will no doubt remember one of the Bracewells from way back, who had a back injury, stoped him playing cricket, but could still play rugby to provincial level. Maybe ended up at Waiarapa?
Brendon. Father of Doug. Played for King Country
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@dogmeat said in Cricket - best ever, trivia etc:
@Dan54 said in Cricket - best ever, trivia etc:
But in trivia someone will no doubt remember one of the Bracewells from way back, who had a back injury, stoped him playing cricket, but could still play rugby to provincial level. Maybe ended up at Waiarapa?
Brendon. Father of Doug. Played for King Country
Saw him bowl at Old Trafford in an ODI back in 1978 - it was a school trip.
ENG vs NZ Cricket Scorecard, 2nd ODI at Manchester, July 17, 1978
Get cricket scorecard of 2nd ODI, ENG vs NZ, New Zealand tour of England and Netherlands 1978 at Old Trafford, Manchester dated July 17, 1978.
He was only 18 and he looked a great prospect - but he never played another ODI.
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Jeepers it really was a different game then…..
In saying that three run outs of the five wickets that fell and fair to assume Beefy fell from having a swing due to any great bowling from Paddles.
Wright and Edgar with a steady test like start (check out those “strike” rates if you can call them that ) before the rest crumbled. Ouch. Bracewell the pick of the bowlers by far !
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@KiwiPie said in Cricket - best ever, trivia etc:
@dogmeat said in Cricket - best ever, trivia etc:
@Dan54 said in Cricket - best ever, trivia etc:
But in trivia someone will no doubt remember one of the Bracewells from way back, who had a back injury, stoped him playing cricket, but could still play rugby to provincial level. Maybe ended up at Waiarapa?
Brendon. Father of Doug. Played for King Country
Saw him bowl at Old Trafford in an ODI back in 1978 - it was a school trip.
ENG vs NZ Cricket Scorecard, 2nd ODI at Manchester, July 17, 1978
Get cricket scorecard of 2nd ODI, ENG vs NZ, New Zealand tour of England and Netherlands 1978 at Old Trafford, Manchester dated July 17, 1978.
He was only 18 and he looked a great prospect - but he never played another ODI.
Edgar run out for 31 off 75 balls..75!...wonder if he was purposely run out..
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@Virgil said in Cricket - best ever, trivia etc:
@KiwiPie said in Cricket - best ever, trivia etc:
@dogmeat said in Cricket - best ever, trivia etc:
@Dan54 said in Cricket - best ever, trivia etc:
But in trivia someone will no doubt remember one of the Bracewells from way back, who had a back injury, stoped him playing cricket, but could still play rugby to provincial level. Maybe ended up at Waiarapa?
Brendon. Father of Doug. Played for King Country
Saw him bowl at Old Trafford in an ODI back in 1978 - it was a school trip.
ENG vs NZ Cricket Scorecard, 2nd ODI at Manchester, July 17, 1978
Get cricket scorecard of 2nd ODI, ENG vs NZ, New Zealand tour of England and Netherlands 1978 at Old Trafford, Manchester dated July 17, 1978.
He was only 18 and he looked a great prospect - but he never played another ODI.
Edgar run out for 31 off 75 balls..75!...wonder if he was purposely run out..
Edgar was a gutsy test opener who did his job of taking the shine off the new ball well. Also a bit of a personal favourite as he came to chat to us at primary school. Really nice funny bloke.
Fair to say the ODI game was not his game though.
It’s funny that the notion of a pinch hitter up the order took so long to take off. Players still had that mindset of a slow and steady start for about 20 odd years until the 92 WC.
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