I think that today's batsman are Lucky

Man he absolutely broke Piers Morgan down brutally and didn't forget to hit the stumps too

But Gavaskar would face this space without helmet like andy roberts and malcom marshal, joel garner. 😂❤

@@careercounselor3582 Yeah, in his dreams. Only Viv and Richie Richardson had the courage to bat w/o helmets.

⁠@@garethwest9069 Not true, Gavaskar batted for a large part of his Test career without a helmet, even after getting hit in the head by Malcolm Marshall. In later years he wore a skull cap. But it was certainly no helmet.

@@Jeremy-kf2zs Sorry, I stand corrected. I might've been thinking of another batsman.

@@garethwest9069 All good, mate.

Him down one end Mcgrath down the other, when the aussies came to town it was the worst but also the best

So Gilchrist was faster than Lee?!

@@tuut1241 Comprehension fail...!!!

Kiwis are originally Australian

What's kiwi poop like

Rohit Sharma iska maar ke rauf bana deta

It wasnt really a bouncer as well. He ducked right into it which was only going over the stumps by about 18". You're right, it could have killed him.

Yeah, remember Hughes 😢

Yes very similar area where Hughes was hit.

Yeah i mean facing someone whos bouncing anythin past 80 mph is tough so someone who touches near 100 is almost a deathwish

That was just terrible luck, plenty of blokes have been hit around that same spot and not died. You also have to feel for Sean Abbott, I doubt a day goes by that he doesn''t think about it. Abbott was no where near Lee's pace. Lee probably lucky no one died from any of those balls when you think about Phil Hughes.

Chanderpaul's hit him on the back of the helmet on the base. So the helmet thankfully gave some protection. He was still out cold. Phil Hughes tragically hit on the neck, so no protection. Chanderpaul was lucky here. Could have been much worse...

Agree, that gave me the heebies, seeing that one

​@@iankearns774says a lot abt the accuracy of the guys like Lee and Akhtar They merely put ppl in hospital while they could easily have killed many with the pace they had

Yes these guys have an impact on the game that could be felt

theres an interview where shaun tain talks about how modern day cricket is a lot more regimented, bowl this amount of balls, take rests, don't focus on pace, keep technique in line ect. When the older generation was going through the system they were probably more left to their own devices, which resulted in more unique bowling actions and mentalities on pace. Lots of great face bowlers have their careers cut short due to inury, brett lee was reknowned for training like an olmpyic athlete. Australia has had plenty of fast bowlers careers finished premateutely due to injury such as james pattison.

No disrespect to Garner but I'm sure lee was a lot quicker

Big bird bowled 125-130 kph his height and bounce along with accuracy is what made him lethal.

Kiwis always seem polite and friendly, but they are tough as nails.

he's michael papps

Coulda used his bat

Oh, he flinched alright.

No, he just staggered backwards in a daze. Gotta feel sorry for him, he had no idea.

By no other do you mean Shoaib Akhtar?

Michael Holding was quite fiery in his day

Jeff Thomson had the Poms crapping in their pants but there wasn't head protection back then and you learned how to get inside the line of the ball and play the bouncer them. Helmets have blind spots, I could never wear one.

Michael Holding was fast but Shaun Tait holds aussie record 4 fastest ball..a

Shoad Aktar doesn't rate he was done for using performance enhancers and he wasnt consistent

But Gavaskar would face this space without helmet like andy roberts and malcom marshal, joel garner. 😂❤ the timing sense of Gavaskar.. 😅

My thoughts are that helmets have allowed batters to become lazy. Without the helm you learnt to use that other piece of equipment, the bat, to avoid being hit. *OR* you got out of the bludy way of the ball... No ducking (because that takes your eyes OFF the ball) but swaying, even stepping back out of the way. If it's following you, sit down, quickly, but still the bat is near your face to prevent the ball hitting you if at all possible.

Well it was Piers Morgan, the bloke isn't really considered intelligent...

True sportsman hits batter in the head then next ball hits him in the head again, yeah he's a beauty great sportsman.

​@@robchisholm2697 Most of these balls were armpit height at best and the batsmen ducked into them. The bowler is well within their right to bowl uncomfortable lengths. It's international cricket not local cricket on a Saturday 🤣

@@robchisholm2697 Grow a pair Rob, most of the time the batsman ducked into the ball....

​@robchisholm2697 bowler bowls a deadly bouncer and all of a sudden they r the villain? It's his job to get batsman out in any way he can legally. Stop thinking with emotion and start thinking with logic dumbass

Ofc. He was always trying for the fastest ball so he was always aware of the dangers. And he didn't want to hurt anyone. So he was always ready to help the batsman in case

Credit to Piers for facing up tho, dunno if I would want Binga bowling at me

This was during the Ashes series where Mitchell Johnson absolutely terrorised the English batters, Piers "The Idiot" Morgan accused the English team of being "Mentally Weak" for being intimidated by Mitchell Johnson 's pace. Brett Lee took this as an insult to Fast Bowling, so challenged Piers to face an over from him in the nets during the luncheon interval at one of the tests.

@@christopheryoung3850 Actually, that rings a bell now, yes I remember that.

That's cz he is in the follow through, mate

@0Zolrender0 Aussies - always whining and crying:)

@@cquilty1 Indians... always cheating.

@@cquilty1 Why all of you Curry M*$@hers are moving to our country. Because its not a 3rd World S%^%hole thats why.

@@syedarsalanahmad Yet Lee still goes to them to see if they are ok. He could easily stand back or just turn around.

You are a hater and a piece of shit

Players that grown up wearing helmets certainly have worse techniques for short pitched balls at your body compared to batsmen prior to helmets becoming the norm.

And Lee was bowling to him from about 20 yards, not the normal 22...

@@EarlJohn61 He was also bowling at around 75% of his best and not wearing studded bowling boots and nowhere near his full runup.

But the Aussie bowlers at the time made a habit of bowling from over the line in their practices. I remember one time, here in Adelaide, David Shepard was scheduled to be the "Neutral" umpire and thought he'd like to try a net session to get used to the slightly different light. He left, complaining that the bowlers (all of them) weren't even trying to bowl from the line. "What's the BL**DY point" was the mildest of his comments.

Yeah , could have knocked some sense into him 😉

He’s an extremely passionate fiery person, which I respect alot more than people who don’t have passion for the game. I’m sure him and Lee would have joked about it sometime after. It’s kinda funny your name is bas though you gotta admit 😂

Sachin

But Gavaskar would face this space without helmet like facing andy roberts and malcom marshal, joel garner. 😂❤

Bibabidibabu India cricket bibibidadu ba bubabu overrated di Bada bubu keep quiet about it baba budu India ruins cricket bibudibebabadabu Pakistan play better cricket kkkkk

2003 one is just the most dangerous and fastest bowler

Jofra archer is 155kph in his prime and definitely an intimidating prospect to batters of all eras when in his best form just ask steven smith who averages nearly 60 over 100 odd tests thats superior to anybody even the likes of tendulkar jofra archer worked smith over like a number 11 so don't let nostalgia cloud reality archer is as fast and hostile as anything the game as seen in the last 20-25 years injuries and the way england have handled him as held his progression back

@@lukehandley7930 Don't compare Smith to the great batsmen of the past. Smith averages less than 30 against fast bowling

In one angle he looks like Leo

Sachin...sachin....😂

But Gavaskar would face this space without helmet like andy roberts and malcom marshal, joel garner. 😂❤

Kevin Pieterson

Ponting, Gilchrist, Hayden, Langer, Taylor, Boon... (going back a few more years) Lawry, Stackpole, Chappell i, Chappell g, Hookes, Border, Waugh m, Waugh s. As a matter of fact most of the Australian First Class Cricketers (specialist batters) from the time of Bob Simpson through to the end of Lee's career would have faced some bowler of about the same sort of pace in Sheffield Shield matches. Lindwall, Miller, Freeman, Sincock, Lillee, Thompson, Hogg, Lawson, Gillespie, Tait, Lee plus there were some very quick bowlers for both South Australia & West Australia that never were selected for Australia because they didn't play on the east coast [Lillee being the exception]

I don't think Brian Close would be impressed with most of the batsmen as they could have swayed out of the way instead of ducking into the line. A split decision I know, but could've avoided a lot of pain. P.S could have kept their eyes on the ball as well!!!

@@danielmartinbowen3844 Yes, it's no coincidence that in every clip where they get hit, it's while their eye is off the ball. But, it's easy for us to say, we're not having it come at us at over 90 mph. They should study Robin Smith, he was always great at playing the quicks and would always make sure he was limber and ready to get out of the way if he had to.

@@jshaers96 I agree. Also, years ago, I was watching a test match. I can't remember who England were playing, but the camera was sweeping the crowd and there were a couple of boys playing. One of them bowled the other a bouncer and the other swayed out of the way whilst keeping his eyes on the ball all the way. I thought that a lot of professional cricketers could do with watching the clip as it would show them what to do. I know the ball wasn't a cricket ball, but my point stands.

Yes, helmets have allowed batters to be very lazy while facing up.

abbe tera gavaskar to kut kut khelte hain.only the king Richards without helmet.he is the boss

It's time to get over that fact because batting helmets were unknown of in those times

So did many other batsman in Gavaskar's era and before. So many professional indians out there who think it was only Gavaskar who never wore a helmet 🤣😂🤣 Besides, Gavaskar's 1st series against the West indies was 70/71 five years before Roberts and Holding. Then he played against the West Indies during WSC when Roberts, Holding, Garner and Croft weren't available for official test matches . So he missed playing against all of them during the WSC years. And unlike Viv Richards, Gavaskar *DID* indeed wear a protective helmet of sorts. And Richards played against all the West Indian quick bowlers in inter island games and played against all other fast bowlers from other nations. Maybe you've heard of Dennis Lillee, Jeff Thomson, Richard Hadlee and Bob Willis...to name but a few.

Try it when the gloves are rudimentary at best as are the pads on your legs. *AND* then the opposition is DELIBERATELY targeting your body and setting fields so that if you use the bat, you'll hit the ball into the hands of one of the four fielders waiting there. It earnt the name BODYLINE... It was developed to counter *ONE* batsman... And it worked, for that series he only averaged 56.57 when we all know Bradman averaged 99.94 in his entire career. Sunil G. had a very respectable career average of 51.17 but didn't inspire any opponent to develop a tactic specifically for him.

Viv?