Utterly amazing performance, I remember Jim Laker as having a brilliant voice for test cricket, deep and mellow, I was born after his incredible feat, but a true legend - thanks Jim 👍🇬🇧

A proper gentleman, who was modest to the hilt, and a great commentator of the game too. A complete legend.

There was very little media coverage post match in those days. In a rare interview after the 1956 massacre Laker spoke of his brief stop at an Inn near Manchester. "I stopped and had a cup of tea and a sandwich while watching myself on television replays," he said. "No one in the room recognised me which was good after taking those 19 wickets."

The background music is a recording of Tony Lock wailing!

Absolutely hated the background music, Jim laker what a legend.

@MrZORROish

9 ай бұрын

agreed - totally inappropriate arty rubbish

Incredible feat, but a very humble man and a great commentator.

Remember watching the Laker Test live.

I hadn’t realised he’d already taken 10 wickets in an innings against the Aussies earlier in a tour match. Incredible.

@besserman1

2 жыл бұрын

The days when tour matches were played and were regarded as important. Attracted big crowds and were competitive.Then the counties started to put out weakened teams. Then they were scrapped altogether

@Kevin-lf4xx

9 ай бұрын

I had not known that either.

@michaelwhite8069

9 ай бұрын

I used to love Jim Laker’s commentary and Frank Tyson’s too...both very knowledgeable....👍👍👍

An astonishing feat that will surely never be equalled. Looking at Jim's body language, it was as if he was playing a knockabout village match rather than am Ashes Test. Such a modest and humble chap, and someone who probably felt a bit embarrassed at all the adulation this incredible performance merited.

A great Yorkshireman who never played for Yorkshire, much to my regret.

Fantastic!🎉 Jim Laker! 🙏 🤲 🎉❤ 🏏

All the great's have gone now R.I.P to all 🏏😢

@cricket023

Жыл бұрын

Add Warne too 💔

50 years from 1956. ☺️ That was a good era.

Have no doubts. This will never be replicated. Unplayable.

Background music is odd. Also, no mention that the groundsmen at Headingley & Old Trafford were ordered to produce dry, dusty pitches to suit England after Australia won at Lord's due to their pace attack.

@johnnicholson956

2 жыл бұрын

Why? England had Trueman, Tyson and Statham. Their pace attack was better than Australia's, who, after Crawford broke down, only had the ageing Miller.

@sentimentalbloke185

2 жыл бұрын

@@johnnicholson956 Read history. The English told the Aussies that, after Lord's, they wouldn't get another pitch like that.

@david10101961

2 жыл бұрын

@@johnnicholson956 At the time of the Old Trafford test, Miller was aged 36 and Ray Lindwall 34. Ron Archer was only 22. Ken Mackay (aged 30) could bowl military medium but wasn't used, I guess for obvious reasons. Neither Pat Crawford (22) nor Alan Davidson (27) played in that match. On the England side, Statham was 26. Neither Trueman (25) nor Tyson (26) was selected. Trevor Bailey was 32. Of the spinners playing, Laker was aged 34, Lock 27, Ian Johnson 38 and Richie Benaud 25. From memory this was also the match where the selectors recalled The Rev David Sheppard and he rewarded them by scoring a century. There's an anecdote when Sheppard (in another match) put down a sitter in the slips and the distraught bowler sought consolation from Fred Trueman who remarked "Don't be surprised, David only puts his hands together on Sundays".

@peterfrazer1943

9 ай бұрын

Always one who has something nasty to say. Can't just accept brilliance.

@sentimentalbloke185

9 ай бұрын

@@peterfrazer1943 which bit is nasty, pal?

The surprising thing is at that time cricket was very very slow, but still people used to come in large attendance.., that shows love for sports

@neilwhitehouse6833

9 ай бұрын

400 in one day is hardly slow. It was slow when survival was the agenda like Close and Boycott vs Liilee and Thompson

In 1989 I spoke to Burt Flack who had prepared the wicket. I asked whether he had instructions on the preparation? He said headquarters told him to take the grass off it, he said , I went one better and took the dirt off it! Lovely man ,legendary groundsman at Old Trafford.

It was gentle men's game. But today its no more,

A record that will not be beaten for a long long time.

@johnenglish929

9 ай бұрын

…and if it is it will only be by one wicket !

Compare the reactions from all players to reactions today. Laker looks almost unconcerned.

@handyvickers

9 ай бұрын

That's right... There would be never ending high-fives, aeroplanes, running about, whooping, etc etc etc... Wonder if he was man of the match?? 🤔🤣

@neville695

9 ай бұрын

​@@handyvickersHow dare they😡

@AsadAli-jc5tg

9 ай бұрын

Because it was nothing bigger than a club match, Australia and England was very much the same country back then.The standard of the game too was very low, umpires were unprofessional and players were cheating.

@vilekangarooo5068

9 ай бұрын

It’s one thing for a bowler not to over celebrate taking a wicket but it’s almost as if Laker was furious at picking up wickets. At one point one of the dismissed batsmen walked of and jauntily threw his bat into the air while Laker looked really enraged. Taking the final wicket which gave him the match figures of 19 for 90 would have been the final straw for Laker and no doubt he went home and vandalised his own house in fury.

@handyvickers

9 ай бұрын

@@AsadAli-jc5tg not sure you'd find many agreeing... Cowdrey, May, Bailey, Evans, Harvey, Benaud, Miller, Lindwall, etc etc etc... Some of the greats of Test cricket. I think a cut above club sides!

Excellent Enterprising Endeavour 👍

Remove the background music as it does not suit the clip

@rahulbuddhadev8976

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely

@saleemkirmani5583

2 жыл бұрын

@@rahulbuddhadev8976 Yes, there's no use of any music in this video.

Interesting to see how batsmen that were out walked off quickly ... maybe to help hide their shame. Today they just hang around and walk off very slowly as they have no shame.

@handyvickers

9 ай бұрын

These days there would be endless referring up to the TV umpire....

Can't beleive it. Everybody in the video is no more apart from Neil Harvey. Warne gone too unexpected and too soon. A fortnight before his death I saw this video and thought Neil and Warne are the only ones alive from this video....

@krishnansubramanian8955

9 ай бұрын

Harvey and Warne are 4 decades apart.Warne might not have been born when this Test match took place.Harvey did reasonably well in the Test if my memory goes right.I followed it up through A.I.R.commentary.

How great to see players just shaking hands instead of all the ridiculous antics nowadays when a wicket falls. Just look at Broad sprinting round the field like a greyhound. The players will soon be pulling their shirts of like the pathetic footballers when they score a goal.

Apparently he stopped off at a pub on the way home had a half and a sandwich. It came on over the radio about lakers achievement. Nobody recognised him .....different times .

At the end of an innings the groundsmen used to tidy up the creases with an old fashioned broom. On the second day, mid afternoon, there were even worse dust clouds than in the Old Trafford Test against the West Indies in 1950. Unique. You hardly saw it in the county game there, and only in those two Tests. Apparently some Old Trafford grandee had ordered an extra shaving of the pitch on the first morning. Cowdrey and Richardson opened on an almost grassless surface. If Ian Johnson had won the toss........

9:14 - get those cricket whites higher up to your barrel chest, jim!! I bet he had a lovely old chug on his pipe after his 19 wickets did jim. Fair play.

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@ray.shoesmith

2 жыл бұрын

what?

My only brother was at Old Trafford to see Jim Laker take his final few wickets in his 10 wicket haul....

A great achievement but Laker would be the first to admit the pitch was a major factor in his record.

Laker took 19 Kumble took 14 and Aijaz Patel took 15 wickets

@leerockx357

2 жыл бұрын

Nopes. Ajaz also took 14.

@douglasporter3865

2 жыл бұрын

Hedley Verity took 15 against Australia, Lord's 1934, and Wilfred Rhodes took 15 several years earlier. Both slow left-arm bowlers from Yorkshire!

@flamingfrancis

2 жыл бұрын

Bob Massie 16-137 in his debut Ashes Test, Lord's 1972

@douglasporter3865

2 жыл бұрын

@@flamingfrancis Yes, and as you may remember, Narendra Hirwani beat that by one run (16-136) on *his* debut, on a raging bunsen in India. But neither he nor Massie ever hit those heights again.

@besserman1

2 жыл бұрын

@@flamingfrancis I think he only played 5 tests in total

Uncovered pitches and the captain tells the groundsmen what sort of pitch he wants

Who was not out in the 2nd innings? Whose wicket did Laker cannot capture in the 1st innings?

Re Laker's ball that bowled Neil Harvey..... John Bracewell bowled Allan Border with an almost identical delivery in Sydney in 1985. (See kzread.info/dash/bejne/jH6VqqypcaSYepc.html at around 35:35)

Hope Imran didn't regret that beamer to Lloyd when he himself had to bat against Holding, Roberts & Marshall later! LOL!

"It promised to be a turning wicket .." Meaning: Right Groundsman, produce a bunsen or find another job...

What the hell was that f+++ing music!!!

who were the commentators?

@ernietarling5829

2 жыл бұрын

Brian Johnston was certainly one.

What a contrast to Baz Ball in 2023 !

jim laker 19 wickets in 1956 test v Australia.

I find the over celebrating and berating of the umpire appalling. So pleased we have moved on from this behaviour.

Bradford's finest

Great video - shame about the screaming banshee background cacophony.

From memory the next highest ashes haul was bob massie with 16.

@krishnansubramanian8955

9 ай бұрын

Narendra Gidwani also took 16 wickets in a Test Match.

@krishnansubramanian8955

9 ай бұрын

Hidwani for Gidwani.

@paulclissold1525

9 ай бұрын

@@krishnansubramanian8955 in the ashes lol.

Aussie batters going backfoot to full length off spinners - cannot fathom why they did not go front foot to the pitch of the ball and play with soft hands.

You can ONLY rely on 'taking the piss' when you are NOT the genius everyone is talking about. Is it true the bowler who had 6 x 6's taken off his over in a county game by Gary Sobers said to him: "Remember I go into the record books with you!!."??

So Colin McDonald was not a walker then :)

The groundskeeper would be arrested for match fixing if he prepared a wicket like that these days.

@patrickkelly9110

9 ай бұрын

Nonsense , the home team can prepare the wicket in any way they choose as long as it’s not dangerous

What about Narendra Hirwani?

@Alan-gh8X

9 ай бұрын

WHO.

Oh no, it rained in Manchester. What are the chances of 5hat ever happening again?

Ted Laker Yorkshireman...'nuff said...

@terranceparsons5185

9 ай бұрын

Ted Laker? I think you mean his brother, Jim!

The ground is huuugee... back then in England.

Actual cricket then played.After1985 money spoiled the game

What an odd choice of music that doesn’t suit the video at all. It’s the sort of music you have when opening an artery! 😳

Wicket was unplayable..

🙌

01:55 LORDS the usual england graveyard, stop playing at the museam.

what a stupid music background. Get rid of it............

To say, 'It'll never happen again', is stupid.

@sentimentalbloke185

2 жыл бұрын

To say "To say, 'It'll never happen again', is stupid" is stupid.

@user-fg3ei7pp4v

9 ай бұрын

How much would you bet it will never happen again?

The wicket was doctored.

Doctored wicket, pure and simple. Great bowler? Too funny.

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Laker would pull out the seam..so its no big feat

@hyena131

2 жыл бұрын

amit gokhale What are you getting at/inferring?

@portcullis5622

2 жыл бұрын

Even if that was true, he still had to land the ball in the right place, and did so, 19 times.

@peterchessell28

2 жыл бұрын

Talking out of your arse mate.

@beefy1986

11 ай бұрын

​@@hyena131 Mate ignore him. Typical Indian fan. When Indian spinners do well, it's talent. When foreign spinners do it it's ball tampering. Just idiots. Ruin the fun of cricket

Muralithatan has boweled far bertter unplayable ballscampared ro lsker or warne😂

@cquilty1

9 ай бұрын

@warsil3735 But Murali was a chucker - everyone knows that:)

@warsil3735

9 ай бұрын

@@cquilty1 😂😂😂😂 was proven beyond reasonable doubt that he was not chucker as per extensive tests analysis in world renowned biomechanics laboratories not only in Australia but also in the UK and also by video evidence using thousands of footages 😂😂. . So majority goes by scientific evidence not by white Australian policies or few white man's preference over performance based on skin tone😂😂

@cquilty1

9 ай бұрын

@@warsil3735 Here is an exert from Murali's profile on the widely respected ESPN cricinfo: "Perhaps no cricketer since Douglas Jardine has polarised opinion quite like Muthiah Muralidaran. For the believers, he's among the greatest to ever spin a ball. For the doubters, he's a charlatan undeserving of the game's greatest records, responsible for changes in the laws that they think have legitimised throwing." Still doubts linger over the chucker Murali:) As for your "So majority goes by scientific evidence not by white Australian policies or few white man's preference over performance based on skin tone", this is what many would consider hate speech/racism (I did not mention skin tone or race and nor do I see a need to) and clearly reveals your anger, impotence and lack of height. And of course we all know this type of race related rage and anger nearly always comes almost exclusively from the sub-continent, and your KZread account can be terminated for this. Sad really.

@cquilty1

9 ай бұрын

@warsil3735 "Muralithatan has boweled far bertter unplayable ballscampared ro lsker or warne", you babble. Huh?? Some friendly advice - spend more time learning the basics of written English in lieu of being so hate filled and obsessed with nationalism. Trust me - you'll be much happier:) PS. This video has *N-O-T-H-I-N-G* to with Warne. But your racism, hate, rage and anger makes you bring him up. *LOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!!!!*

Bowled laker 👍👍