As a kid in the 80s gower was my favourite batsman. He made it look so easy.
@maxbowie607410 ай бұрын
My god. What a glorious batsman he was. I could watch him forever
@edwardjohn90712 күн бұрын
Spp
@rickster5120 Жыл бұрын
Best left handed batsman England ever produced...scores were against everyone home and abroad in the greatest era of cricket ..the Sixes off Richard Hadlee were so Effortless and off a World class bowler ...I remember a Worcestershire legend telling me that people had no idea just how hard he hit the ball
@anweshchatterjee7595 Жыл бұрын
Most elegant definitely. Best was Cook.
@jeffrey19771000 Жыл бұрын
no one epitomised the game of cricket better than gower.he knew the game was more important than the result.
@MuhammadIrfan-hk8chАй бұрын
Dawid gower very stylish and classical batsman
@markhayward7400 Жыл бұрын
As a teenage boy playing cricket on the outfield with mates at Moat Park during the lunch interval of a county championship match between Kent and Leics, David Gower and several of his team mates (I remember John Steele, Nick Cooke, Chris Balderstone) joined in our game. When his turn came to bat David Gower declined to use the bat provided and picked up a stump instead whilst we (his team mates included) bowled at him in turns. He middled everything. That's how good his eye was. His team mates when they also had a go at batting with a stump, missed more than they hit !
@Treviscoe10 ай бұрын
What a lovely memory! It was good of him (and them) to join in like that.
@nigeledwards46832 ай бұрын
Boyhood hero. I was in awe when he picked up me and my mate and took us to Grace Road for a net before the County Championship match.
@KhalidMahmood-kg5xc Жыл бұрын
This is called CLASS
@KhalidMahmood-kg5xc Жыл бұрын
The most stylish left handed batsman in the world 🌎.
@baburamani2955Ай бұрын
Yes
@MrMartinmozz2 жыл бұрын
So awesome! My favourite player growing up...and still is lol Ty :)
@mrkipling22012 жыл бұрын
One of the most elegant batsmen I’ve ever seen. He should have definitely gone to India in 1993. One of the biggest selection mistakes English cricket has ever made.
@raghavgopal436311 ай бұрын
As Botham says, Gooch did not take him not because he wasn't good enough. I am surprised that can happen with ECB
@fromomelastocarcosa357511 ай бұрын
@@raghavgopal4363 Gooch was one of the best batsmen England ever produced. But he may be one of the worst captains in the history of any sport. Laid the foundations for a decade of failure: incapable of seeing his own biases, started a trend of sporadic selection policies that mentally broke promising players, thought everyone needed to operate the same way he did, played right into England's tendency to have 'chosen ones' whose whims were indulged for seemingly no reason (Lamb, Lewis, Gatting were all treated like kings despite utterly mediocre returns. Fraser, Smith, Russell were shifted all around the place while perforking far better when given the chance), held court over a legendarily useless and unaccountable commitee of selectors, didnt have the first ideas how to treat eccentrics like Gower or quieter men like Russell, Fraser and Caddick. His legacy ate Atherton and Stewart. A calamity it took a decade, and the combined efforts of Hussain, Fletcher and Vaughan to finally overcome.
@Treviscoe10 ай бұрын
He may have had a lucky escape though; several of the players who did go ended up with food poisoning (apparently due to prawns). I agree it was sad that his career was ended early, but the upside of that was that his career ended on a high with his beating Geoff Boycott's Test runs record against Pakistan,.
@AyubPatel1232 жыл бұрын
Thank you for all your efforts in uploading these gems Darren. Wonderfully nostalgic trips down memory lane & whilst there is a sadness those days have gone. To have the opportunity to watch those bygone series for a moment transports me to such innocent youthful days.
@dmmordecai79842 жыл бұрын
Hello Ayub, thank you for taking time to send those words. They are deeply appreciated. Stay safe, DARREN
@mrkipling22012 жыл бұрын
I totally agree, this is a brilliant channel.
@lingolarker9318 Жыл бұрын
We’re so lucky to be able to find so much old footage like this.
@user-cu1rp6lw9q8 ай бұрын
Just beautiful to watch.
@royp75415 ай бұрын
He was class act. Could make difficult bowling look easy. So simple but so effective
@waynejackel29212 жыл бұрын
Hello Darren Oh i say this is the One Lord Gower a Diamond of a Video From your Archive Collection Splendid Superb and Glorious Indeed. Have a Smashing Saturday and Sunday. WAYNE.
@dmmordecai79842 жыл бұрын
Morning Wayne, glad you enjoyed the last video of 1993. A New Year awaits.... Stay safe, DARREN
@abirguha30436 ай бұрын
The best English batsman of his times
@DA-ol8dp7 ай бұрын
The greatest English Batsman ever with Joe Root.
@vinikapoorjalota2 жыл бұрын
Bro you're the best youtube account!! You post such amazing videos daily!! Thank you so much! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
@dmmordecai79842 жыл бұрын
Hello Vini, thank you for your support. Lots more to come, DARREN
@shaoibdurrani9608 Жыл бұрын
Realiy one of the most stylish batsman.
@syedghaznavi8482 жыл бұрын
THE MOST stylish batsman EVER ! ! !
@andrewdowling742 жыл бұрын
Hard to argue with you there! Haha. Though Mark Waugh at one end and David Gower at the other - imagine that!
@syedghaznavi8482 жыл бұрын
@@andrewdowling74 awesome combination
@drraman96162 жыл бұрын
The gentleman love his batting 🙌
@raviarcot314510 ай бұрын
Gower "A symbol of batting elegance, flow. Had Michael angelo seen him, v would hv a massive marble sculpture of him in Oval.
@umarumar-fy4qlАй бұрын
A great stylish cricketer. Mr Gower , how did you find Pakistani bowler Mudassir Nazar in England, when he used to bowl against you. Thank you
@raghavgopal436311 ай бұрын
The finest LHB I have seen. The next best, but not by a small margin was Ganguly.
He ended up being kicked out by Sky in a similarly unceremonious, ungracious way a couple of years ago, much to the detriment of Sky's cricket coverage.
@seaniek91753 ай бұрын
I think if there was a world competition where every country had to pick it's best representative, England could do no better than put David Gower forward.
@vishalkashyapsingh Жыл бұрын
My favourite 👍
@judgementravijudgementravi99308 ай бұрын
Some players refused to play Aisan countries particularly India & Pakistan ✍️ But indians now or past 20 years wandering everywhere searching to kenya😄
@dfb19762 жыл бұрын
Strangely he never mentioned the tour of India 1984-85, it was his finest hour overseas as captain
@mshazadhussain970710 ай бұрын
Should have played 4 more years it's like gatting making zero in 1993 then dropped brought back 1997 and then retired/ NOW GOWER VERY GOOD COMMENTARY
@maliknanayakkara5857 Жыл бұрын
Cricket needs these kind of crowd pullers. Dashing, elegant ,at times reckless ( like when he got out last ball before lunch in Australia), so what? With all those utterly serious & dull blokes (Gooch, Boycott et al) u badly needed a maverick. and Gower was the perfect antidote for that . Great pity his career ended when it did ,when he still had a lot of cricket left in him. Dean Jones I would say is his Australian counterpart. I say again we badly need these type of guys who are a rare breed of cricketers.
@berrywilton73342 жыл бұрын
I feel upset sometimes I feel gower should have played longer than just 1992, probably until 1997 if he could’ve
@mrkipling22012 жыл бұрын
Agreed. He should have definitely gone to India in 1993 as well.
@berrywilton73342 жыл бұрын
@@mrkipling2201 sélection policy then and even now is a b*tch
@mrkipling22012 жыл бұрын
@@berrywilton7334 it is. It was definitely worse before central contracts I would say though.
@berrywilton73342 жыл бұрын
@@mrkipling2201 yeah tbh graham gooch was responsible for making that mistake. Oh we’ll wonder how the ashes will be like this year!!
@mrkipling22012 жыл бұрын
@@berrywilton7334 definitely!! I’m a bit worried I have to admit!! If all our bowlers are fit and on top form then we have a chance.
@ALKUBKV2 жыл бұрын
Sir, What will be ur next series?
@dmmordecai79842 жыл бұрын
Hello Alok, all we be revealed in time. It's good to have a little anticipation.... Stay safe, DARREN
@KhalidMahmood-kg5xc Жыл бұрын
He should've played till his 10000 runs.
@sanjeevkoparde98402 жыл бұрын
Lazy elegance best defines DG
@riyazahmed20811 ай бұрын
A Mere 30 from gowers bat provided more joy to the audience compared to a laboured hundered. Cricket is a visual sport , and for that reason alone,damn the averages.!! While he was at the crease it was a dream. Even when he fell , it looked graceful. Only Gower could fall so gracefully. Only two others could come close to gowers grace: zaheer abbas and mohammed azharuddin. But, Gower was the best in the league of stylists.
@atuljanardan37839 ай бұрын
And Mark Waugh
@riyazahmed2089 ай бұрын
@@atuljanardan3783 yes.
@user-cu1rp6lw9q8 ай бұрын
That 73 in his last couple of tests in 92, was an absolute gem, and so stylish.
@user-cu1rp6lw9q8 ай бұрын
@@atuljanardan3783the right handed Gower😊. I loved watching them both in full flow...both so stylish and effortless.
@charlesmartella Жыл бұрын
An excellent player. I remember him when I was a kid . Good luck David Gower . Thanks for the memories from Western Australia. ps Graham Gooch and Mike Brearley were both knobs.