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The recent announcement of Australia’s T20 World Cup squad took me back to the 1983 ODI World Cup campaign - one of our great…
The latest Paul Kent fracas has livened up things for rugby league fans this week, and looks like providing plenty of storylines over the…
It was Jeff Thomson’s birthday recently - the legendary Thommo, pig shooter, fisherman, gardener, after dinner speaker and at one stage the fastest bowler…
It’s always a stress when a champion retires, especially when that champion is hard to replace. How do you substitute Shane Warne, for instance?…
Consider this scenario. It’s a crucial Test match - the Ashes are in the balance. One team is under the pump, due to some…
There have been some positives during the current Australian tour of India. Er....,Todd Murphy bowled well. Oh, and Nathan Lyon too. Usman Khawaja and…
And so the Aussies are in India to face the final frontier. Well, it's one of the final frontiers, because we haven’t won a…
This is the last in a four part series I’ve done on unsuccessful Queensland Sheffield Shield Cricket campaigns of the 1970s - ones where…
Today’s piece looks at a differently painful failed Queensland Sheffield Shield campaign. They all hurt - to Queenslanders, anyway - but this one had…
This piece is a sequel to one I wrote the other day about the 1973-74 Sheffield Shield season - the one where Queensland learned…
In the world of Queensland cricket, there were three great “almost” eras - times when we (warning: I identify with the Queensland cricket team…
Most Australian World Cup campaigns live on in the minds of fans. The thrilling epic of 1975 (“Mano a Mano against the Windies!”), the…
If you think I've been obscure on this site before, I’m about to double down with this piece – the story of Queensland’s failed…
The tour of the current West Indies side is making me, like many others, nostalgic for the old West Indies side, when they ruled…
Phil Carlson, the 1970s Queensland and Australia all-rounder, died in July this year. His passing was overshadowed by the other high-profile cricket deaths of…
The 1979-80 season is somewhat forgotten but worth a revisit.
I’ve written a number of pieces for this site that allude to probably the most traumatic sporting event of my childhood - events, rather:…
I’m guessing Robbie Kerr would be mostly forgotten now by all but the most hard core cricket fans and/or Queenslanders. But for a few…
There are few more backhanded compliments in cricket than 'honest toiler', but it’s also a kind of accurate description, especially the 'toiling' part. We…
I recall reading a cricket book years ago where a bunch of celebrities picked their all-time ODI XIs. Andrew Denton listed his, putting as…
The Purr is a great alt title for a spin off site!
Remembering the brief international career of Phil Carlson
Time zone isn’t get with the West Indies. Have no idea if there’s a highlights package haven’t been able to find it.
The 1979 World Series Cricket tour of the West Indies
You’re 100% right. That’s a shocker on my part. Have asked them to change. Thank you.
Remembering the brief international career of Phil Carlson
Mallett bowled terrifically that summer in the Shield.
One crazy summer: Why selections of Australian cricket team in 1979-80 still impossible to work out
I was surprised too. From reading contemporary accounts though the vibe was (a) Laird was a lock (b) we need someone to partner Laird (c) Wood and Hilditch did badly in India, Dyson was picked too soon, Yallop can’t face fast bowling, Davis and McCosker did badly in WSC, so… (d) let’s try Wiener. I think the selectors were a little impatient with their openers.
One crazy summer: Why selections of Australian cricket team in 1979-80 still impossible to work out
That’s a terrific stat about Dymock -as good as Larwood! Larwood probably the better batter 🙂 Dymock is my favourite story of 1979-80 because if any cricketer would’ve felt time had passed him by it would’ve been him – Thommo moved past him, then Gimour and Hurst, then Pascoe, and during WSC then Wayne Clark and Ian Callen and Sam Gannon and Hogg… but when he got an extended run he really made the most of it.
One crazy summer: Why selections of Australian cricket team in 1979-80 still impossible to work out
Jim Christy was a good one I’d never heard about. Lumb was just T20 yes? I knew I was stretching it with Walmsley but couldn’t find a bowler. Which in hindsight may have been a problem with their recruiting – too many batters!.
My favourite unsuccessful Queensland XI of the 1980s
SA had some incredible imports. Barry Richards, Garfield Sobers, Bradman. (Plus Andy Flower who, interestingly, didn’t do that much from memory).
My favourite unsuccessful Queensland XI of the 1980s
Don’t know what’s happened with SA in recent years. Am sure they can turn it around soon. Feel maybe they’re just a bowler or two short.
My favourite unsuccessful Queensland XI of the 1980s
I remember that game followed it on line. Wasn’t as traumatic as 84-86 more annoying. I’ve been lucky to see a few victorious Shield finals since the mid 90s.
My favourite unsuccessful Queensland XI of the 1980s
Nicest feedback ever. Not sure what the market would be for the book. Maybe people who want a gift for Gen X Queensland cricket fans they want to torture 🙂 I’d buy it!
My favourite unsuccessful Queensland XI of the 1980s
International off the top of my head (1) Kepler Wessels (2) Majid Khan (3) Graham Hick (4) Viv Richards (5) Alvin Kallicharran (6) Ian Botham (7) Tom Graveney (8) Wes Hall (9) Malcolm Francke (10) Rusi Surti (11) Walter Walmsley
My favourite unsuccessful Queensland XI of the 1980s
I’m a member of newspapers.com that enables me easily to search old SMH/Age articles – Trove is good for Canberra Times. Plus good old google!
The brief international career of Robbie Kerr
You would’ve seen a lot of Qld collapses in your day esp around Feb-March! Sam did go to the West Indies – hard to get past Simmo and Lawry. Shame he didn’t reinvent himself as a middle order batter. Also he had a lousy 1967-68 as Simmo retired.
The brief ODI career of Glenn Trimble
I did one on Steve Smith earlier for this site. Have fond memories of McCurdy!
'He'll do the hack work': The honest toil of underrated John Maguire
Yes he did say it – it helped prompt the Australian selection of four fast bowlers for the first test in that series – in hindsight they would’ve been better off picking Hogan.
The brief international cricketing career of Roger Woolley
I did that here https://www.theroar.com.au/2019/10/05/remembering-the-other-steve-smith/
The brief international cricketing career of Roger Woolley
AB didn’t want to captain at all. He had to be pushed into captaining Queensland and only got the Australian gig because no one else really was guaranteed of a spot in the side (except maybe Geoff Lawson who ironically turned into a great captain). I think if Marsh had been appointed captain in 83/84 (or in 83, 82 or 81) he would’ve hung around a little longer, even if just for the chance to captain an Ashes tour.
The brief international cricketing career of Roger Woolley
I hadn’t thought about Simon Davis – though who knows – but have been considering something on John Maguire. Very good bowler.
The brief international cricketing career of Roger Woolley
Patterson’s life has been hard since he left cricket. I’m sure he wasn’t the easiest teammate but I get the sense lots of stuff was going on.
The brief international cricketing career of Roger Woolley
Yes I read that too about Patterson. It’s in Jack Simmons’ autobiography – he said Patterson was very unhappy in Tasmania, didn’t have any friends or a social circle, and he didn’t get along with Woolley. He bowled a bunch of bouncers at him in the nets at Newcastle University the day before a Shield game – and Patterson was made twelfth man for that game. It happened in January 1985.
The brief international cricketing career of Roger Woolley
I also read WSC were going to tour Pakistan. Entire Pakistan side could have come out.
Graeme Wood signed for WSC he might’ve made the 79-80 side. I think South Africans would have flocked in increasing numbers Fascinating to imagine what a third season would’ve been.
The 1979 World Series Cricket tour of the West Indies