Is Marchant de Lange the new Peter Pollock?

[Spikey]

1st Test: South Africa v New Zealand at Durban, Dec 8-12, 1961 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo


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[Spikey]

Is Marchant de Lange the new Darren Sammy?

 

[Sylvester]

Is Marchant de Lange the new Darren Sammy?

 

[DingDong]

ur late spikey there's already a thread on lange

gawd this must be embarrasing

 

[Spikey]

Dominic Cork on air refusing claims that Marchant de Lange is the new Dominic Cork and instead has claimed Marchant de Lange is the new http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/15897.html

 

[SeamUp]

1st Test: South Africa v New Zealand at Durban, Dec 8-12, 1961 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo


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Haha...some good similarities there...Durban test debut and five-for and all that.

See the fast bowler as first change for South Africa...Godfrey Lawrence aka GOOFY Lawrence. Gangly huge bugger and was just plain goofy.

Goofy Lawrence | Cricket Players and Officials | ESPN Cricinfo

From Rhodesia (old Zimbabwe) and he used size 13 boots and when he played a domestic game against Border in East London...his boots got lost in the flight and there were no boots that size in East London in those days. Interesting story hehe ...just remember my old man telling me that story years ago but I can't remember the rest.

 

[ankitj]

1st Test: South Africa v New Zealand at Durban, Dec 8-12, 1961 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo


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Why so many debuts in that match?

Test debuts GA Bartlett, PT Barton, FJ Cameron, AE Dick and RC Motz (New Zealand); EJ Barlow, KC Bland, HD Bromfield, MK Elgie, GB Lawrence, PM Pollock and KA Walter (South Africa)

Were the teams playing after some sort of longish break?

 

[SeamUp]

Why so many debuts in that match?



Were the teams playing after some sort of longish break?

From South Africa's perspective...it was an end of an era to our first proper test bowling attack of the 50's in Neil Adcock, Peter Heine and Hugh Tayfield and 4 of those debutants were bowlers. Not counting the trio of leg-break googly bolwers at the beginning of the century and an ok attack we took to England in 1935.

Barlow and Bland were the standout batting debutants.