Cricket on ITV

[Tubby Isaacs]

I'd never seen it before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM_5iWVYwy0

Coverage is surprisingly decent. Rain affected Sunday League. Martyn Moxon charges in to bowl...

[Tubby Isaacs]

Cricket on ITV

Sussex have two legspinners- Salisbury and Andy Clarke, who seemed to disappear from cricket suddenly. Though probably not as suddenly as the cars parked at the boundary edge when the drivers learned a legspinner was coming on to bowl. In fairness, Clarke looks good.

Their attack includes the famously psycbopathic pace bowler, Andy Babbington. Martin Tyler tells us he's nicknamed "Vinnie Jones". Gordon Parsons probably had the same nickname.

[longeared]

Cricket on ITV

Lead commentator on that is John Helm, who was also Yorkshire TV's main football man for years and years. He's the bloke in the grey jacket interviewing Sir Geoffrey at the interval.

YTV always used to have the Roses match on telly when I was a kid, similar set up with cameras at one end, made the BBC Test coverage look advanced stuff.

Had to look in Wisden where the ground was. Middlesbrough.

[tee rex]

Cricket on ITV

Granada/Yorkshire TV used to show the Roses match (county championship, proper version). Live coverage, albeit dipping in and out between horse races and sundry other annoyances.

[tee rex]

Cricket on ITV

Warning: sight of presenter may be unsuitable for work, or anything else:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbVzT7VQvOI

[Tubby Isaacs]

Cricket on ITV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMiH8-cFWq8

This is BBC, but also Yorkshire Eighties. There's a lovely sequence where Peter Walker leaves CMJ commentating and starts talking to David Bairstow on the boundary. They have a lovely friendly but interesting chat for about 5 minutes, looking over their shoulder at the game.

RIP Bluey.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Cricket on ITV

Strangely, all the footage I see has Phil Carrick hammering sixes.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Cricket on ITV

tee rex wrote: Warning: sight of presenter may be unsuitable for work, or anything else:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbVzT7VQvOI

Oh Christ.

Does he say stuff like "you've got the feeling this game has one more brilliant catch on the boundary left in it"?

[longeared]

Cricket on ITV

Switched over to the Sussex v Yorkshire 1996 NatWest quarter final now. Rather a perfunctory run through of the Sussex innings. Ian Salisbury got out by failing to read the leg spin of Richard Stemp. Peter Moores was run out from some bad running between the wickets. Yorkshire's required run rate is 3.55 per over on a "perfect pitch for one day cricket". There's no wonder we didn't win the World Cup earlier that year.

[longeared]

Cricket on ITV

Ha ha, Martin Speight slides in the field, Richie Benaud says "once again, the slide...saves time" and the novelty merits a replay.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Cricket on ITV

No connection with ITV, Yorkshire or Sussex, but you've got to see this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoOsa_DPhK0

Duncan Spencer, short lived quick bowler. 41 year old Viv Richards gets a bit of a a hiding.

[longeared]

Cricket on ITV

Now Salisbury comes on to bowl, delivers a right rank long hop which Moxon dispatches to the boundary and the fielder falls over in the process. The fielding as a whole is well below the standards of today.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Cricket on ITV

longeared wrote: Ha ha, Martin Speight slides in the field, Richie Benaud says "once again, the slide...saves time" and the novelty merits a replay.

We still couldn't do the slide in 2002. Simon Jones might have struggled to walk again after his slide.

I shouldn't sound flippant though. Hideous injury.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Cricket on ITV

longeared wrote: Now Salisbury comes on to bowl, delivers a right rank long hop which Moxon dispatches to the boundary and the fielder falls over in the process. The fielding as a whole is well below the standards of today.

Shocking, isn't it?

Neil Lenham's medium pace was ahead of its time though. Surprised he didn't try for New Zealand.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Cricket on ITV

I really like that first ball from Spencer. It looks like a loosener's on the way.

Vic Marks comments that Adrian Dale ducked "posthumously".

[longeared]

Cricket on ITV

Sounded like he called him "Alan Dale".

[Satchmo Distel]

Cricket on ITV

There is an article on that match:

http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/story/1057554.html

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

Cricket on ITV

Coverage of the Roses match spilled over onto Border TV too (we were forever feeding off scraps of other bits of the ITV network). I might be imagining this but I'm fairly sure there was some coverage of the Scarborough festival on Yorkshire and therefore wider ITV, around the same time.

[Satchmo Distel]

Cricket on ITV

Spring Bank Holiday 1977: Mike Carey and Gerald Sinstadt did the Roses commentaries for Granada:

"commentators are Gerald Sinstadt and Mike Carey with summaries by Farokh Engineer"

https://forums.digitalspy.com/discussion/1653431/cricket-on-itv-in-the-past

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/qa-tvs-bed-of-roses-1243586.html

[Haddock]

Cricket on ITV

I have a vague memory of YTV showing Yorkshire vs Australia tour game from perhaps the 1977 visit, maybe at Scarborough.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Cricket on ITV

Not on ITV, but couldnt think where else to put this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W8iBjhwV24&index=6&list=PL971F7BBB73B0B52 5

Highlights from the 6th Test of the 1974/5 Ashes.

With the same tune as 1980s British kids show, Wildtrack.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Cricket on ITV

Thompson doesn't play and Lillee only bowls 6 overs.

Mike Denness duly "returns to form" with 188.