Your favourite sporting pictures...

Gary 111 wrote:Can anyone name all the players - I think the keeper in Knott, the rotund chap at slip is Cowdrey, the bowler Underwood, John Snow is the closest fielder on the leg side and I think thats John Edrich square on the offside. Is it Illingworth stood in front of Edrich?

It's the last ball of the Oval Test v. Australia in 1968 which England won in the last over by 226 runs to square the series. The batsman being given out by umpire Charlie Elliot is Inverarity (for 56, having batted through the innings), the bowler is Underwood, the non-striker is Alan Connolly, the fielder crouched in a running stance on the extreme left is Ray Illingworth, Tom Graveney is standing at 2nd slip with John Edrich in front of him and Ted Dexter (in his last Test appearance) in front of Edrich, Cowdrey (in his last domestic Test as captain), with arms upraised is at 1st slip, Knott is keeping wicket.

On the legside John Snow is appealing directly to the umpire, his bowling partner, David Brown, is behind him with arm upraised, Olly Milburn is at short square and behind him is Basil D'Oliveira, recalled for this match (after being dropped from the 1st Test after scoring 87* in England's 2nd innings) because of the withdrawal from the originally named squad of Roger Prideaux due to injury.

The omission of D'Oliveira from the touring party to South Africa that winter (and his later inclusion after Tom Cartwright dropped out) after he had scored a chanceless 158 in England's 1st innings (along with Edrich's 164) and broken a stubborn partnership between Inverarity and Jarman that threatened to deny England victory only half an hour before this photograph was taken triggered the so-called "D'Oliveira Affair".

Big_Bad_Bob wrote:

JKLever wrote:

Gary 111 wrote:This one is quite iconic



Perhaps could do with an extra couple of close fielders in there though...

Wonder where the 11th fielder was?

Surely rather than fending it off the best tactic would have been to meet the ball on the full

From left-to-right, I'd say the England players are: -

Illingworth
Graveney
Edrich
Dexter
Cowdrey
Underwood
Knott
Snow
Brown
Milburn
D'Oliveiria

So would I. Name the six England captains, past, present and future in the picture.

Illingworth
Graveney
Edrich
Dexter
Cowdrey

You've got me on the 6th.

Illingworth, Graveney, Dexter and Cowdrey are the easy ones.

I presume the others were more ceremonial. Edrich and D'Olly?

Big_Bad_Bob wrote:Illingworth
Graveney
Edrich
Dexter
Cowdrey

You've got me on the 6th.

All right so far, BBB. a bit of a trick,I must admit. Think of ODIs not Tests. Interesting to note that all the Test captains are standing together on the offside, the non-Test captains are all standing on the legside. The ODi captain I'm looking for is in the middle.

This idiot after he dismissed Fleming with the most "barbaric" ball that i have ever been

Legends- arguably the 2 greatest players ever

Allan D wrote:

Big_Bad_Bob wrote:Illingworth
Graveney
Edrich
Dexter
Cowdrey

You've got me on the 6th.

All right so far, BBB. a bit of a trick,I must admit. Think of ODIs not Tests. Interesting to note that all the Test captains are standing together on the offside, the non-Test captains are all standing on the legside. The ODi captain I'm looking for is in the middle.

Knotty?

PlanetPakistan wrote:Legends- arguably the 2 greatest players ever

Meh - may as well watch monkey tennis.

PlanetPakistan wrote:This idiot after he dismissed Fleming with the most "barbaric" ball that i have ever been

Wow, I'm impressed, what else have you been?

This one's my favourite, because I was there, I took it, and I have a poster-sized version of it at home, with TGM's autograph to boot.

I reckon you must have been in the block directly below me, Zat. Apart from the elevation that's pretty much the view I had of it.

Special moment. Twas a privilege to be there despite everything.

Big_Bad_Bob wrote:

Allan D wrote:

Big_Bad_Bob wrote:Illingworth
Graveney
Edrich
Dexter
Cowdrey

You've got me on the 6th.

All right so far, BBB. a bit of a trick,I must admit. Think of ODIs not Tests. Interesting to note that all the Test captains are standing together on the offside, the non-Test captains are all standing on the legside. The ODi captain I'm looking for is in the middle.

Knotty?

Yep, skippered one ODI against the Windies at Scarborough in 1976 as a stand-in for Tony Greig which also marked the international debut of I.T.Botham. Apart from the regular England captains, Cowdrey (1959-69), Dexter (1961-4) and Illingworth (1969-73), Graveney had stood in at Headingley in the Test before this when Cowdrey had been injured and Edrich captained in the 3rd Test at SCG at the beginning of 1975 when Denness dropped himself (he had also taken over as acting skipper in the closing stages of the Oval Test against Oz in 1972 after Illingworth sprained his ankle).

Another iconic image from the Oval Ashes Test of 1964:

Fiery's 300th.

Big_Bad_Bob wrote:I reckon you must have been in the block directly below me, Zat. Apart from the elevation that's pretty much the view I had of it.

Special moment. Twas a privilege to be there despite everything.

Indeed it was Bob.

Day 3 was more fun, given the Forum6 got together that day, but Boxing Day was truly special. Even though it was freezing. And I was hungover.

Zat wrote:

Big_Bad_Bob wrote:I reckon you must have been in the block directly below me, Zat. Apart from the elevation that's pretty much the view I had of it.

Special moment. Twas a privilege to be there despite everything.

Indeed it was Bob.

Day 3 was more fun, given the Forum6 got together that day, but Boxing Day was truly special. Even though it was freezing. And I was hungover.

Aye - gee-whizz it was cold.

Coldest I've ever been sat watching a game of cricket.

The queues at the tea bars were 5 to 10 times the length of those selling a drop of the harder stuff.

Day 2 was a bit more warmer, though not a lot.

Day 3 was a perfect day for watching cricket, shame that most of the England batsmen had the same idea and couldn't wait to get back to the dressing room as the game raced towards its conclusion. Best part of the day was getting myself in with the Barmy Army for the conclusion of the game and having to be moved along by the exasperated Melbourne police desperate to get home to their families a good hour after the game had concluded!

Fatalistic, bloody minded support and gallows humour at its best. Good times in its own perverse way.

The highlight of Day 3 came as the forumers wound their way towards the CBD and a cab pulled up with Athers in the passenger seat, with the fatal error of having the window down a little bit. Embee started talking to him, and asked him if Athers was planning a comeback with McGrath retiring. Priceless.

Big_Bad_Bob wrote:Fiery's 300th.

Indeed, who was the batsman?

Allan D wrote:

Big_Bad_Bob wrote:Fiery's 300th.

Indeed, who was the batsman?

I ought to know, but would have to Google it.

Allan D wrote:

Big_Bad_Bob wrote:Fiery's 300th.

Indeed, who was the batsman?

Neil Hawke wasn't it?

Big_Bad_Bob wrote:

JGK wrote:

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Shit - I spent about half an hour yesterday looking for that photo. I seem to recall it being more of a close up.

It's a great photo - beautifully captures the agony of being a sports fan.

Sit closer to the screen?



Agreed BTW - and not just because of the subject matter . . . positively dripping with emotion.

I suspect that if you had taken a pic of the first row of the top deck of the Sydney Olympic Stadium when Wilikinson made THAT drop goal you would have seen me in a similar position to the guy 3 from the right at the top.

Zat wrote:This one's my favourite, because I was there, I took it, and I have a poster-sized version of it at home, with TGM's autograph to boot.

Hahahahaha! I'm in that pic!

You're the nazi attendant who everyone shouts 'you are a w*nker' to aren't you?

Geoffrey Trueman wrote:

PlanetPakistan wrote:This idiot after he dismissed Fleming with the most "barbaric" ball that i have ever been

Wow, I'm impressed, what else have you been?

don't think you would want to know....