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Sep 2020
1:00pm, 24 Sep 2020
6,186 posts
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57.5 Degrees of Pain
Is it maybe due to the construction work they've referenced in the commentary.
Makes you appreciate modern TV sports coverage.
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Sep 2020
1:00pm, 24 Sep 2020
22,276 posts
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Nicholls595
RIP Dean Jones. I loved watching him bat, even if he was a Convict.
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Sep 2020
1:08pm, 24 Sep 2020
3,858 posts
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ThorntonRunner
We're introducing a non-cricket watcher to cricket via televised matches. It was a couple of hours in that he realised that the bowling switches end at the end of each over - I remember the days when they only televised from one end of the ground so one over the bowler would run away from you, the next run towards you 
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Sep 2020
1:49pm, 24 Sep 2020
1,911 posts
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Oscar the Grouch
The end of Headingley 81 is more dramatic for that reason. Bob running down the hill and seeing middle stump uprooted from behind.
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Sep 2020
8:21am, 25 Sep 2020
28,353 posts
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Wriggling Snake
Bring back black and white telly too!
I will have a think about my all time favourite TV cricket moment!
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Sep 2020
8:36am, 25 Sep 2020
22,284 posts
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Nicholls595
Ooooo great shout for a Friday Wrigglers.
Definitely up there for me is the final of the Natwest in 1985. We needed 18 off the last over and Derek Randall nearly did it. I had been working all day and walked up to Heanor Market place to catch the bus home. I nipped into the Market Hotel for a quick pint and the cricket was on the telly. I missed several buses.
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Sep 2020
9:05am, 25 Sep 2020
22,023 posts
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TRO Saracen
1. 1981. Nuff said.
2. Being at Edgbaston for Dicky Ellison’s Fivefer and David Ivan’s daddy, Ashes 1985. (Whole trip was a classic, living for 5 days in my mate’s Vauxhall Viva).
3. Harmy’s slow ball to get Clarke, Ashes 2005 (narrowly edges Pratt/Ponting and Warne ‘dropping the Ashes’)
4. Ashes 2013, Mitch Johnson has the ball and is about to start his run up. Behind, the entire background is the barmy army swaying to the left and right in unison.
5. World Cup final 2019.
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Sep 2020
9:06am, 25 Sep 2020
104 posts
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ascoey
Good idea. Trouble is I'm not sure what is a real memory of an event or the memory of watching BBC highlights when rain had stopped play!
I can remember listening to commentary of Botham's innings at Old Trafford in 81 when he hit a sweep shot for 6. But we were listening on LW on holiday in France at the time and for years I thought he hit it into a sweet shop...
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Sep 2020
9:11am, 25 Sep 2020
22,285 posts
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Nicholls595
"Don't even bother looking for that. It's gone straight into the confectionery stall and out again."
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Sep 2020
9:16am, 25 Sep 2020
105 posts
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ascoey
That'll be it!
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