He Said What?

[Line and Length]

Who said, ' ...a bowler with Test average of more than 300 came and snatched the victory from our hands' and who was the bowler?

 

[Starfighter]

Ranatunga and Warne?

 

[Line and Length]

Ranatunga and Warne?

Yes!

Warne had played in just seven first-class matches before making his debut at Test level for Australia. He had an undistinguished Test debut when called into the Australian team in January 1992 for a Test against India at the Sydney Cricket Ground. He took 1/150 (Ravi Shastri caught by Dean Jones for 206) off 45 overs. He took 0/78 in the fourth Test in Adelaide, recording overall figures of 1/228 for the series, and was dropped for the fifth Test on the pace-friendly WACA Ground in Perth. His poor form continued in the first innings against Sri Lanka at Colombo, in which he recorded 0/107. However, on 22 August 1992, he took the last three Sri Lankan wickets without conceding a run in the second innings precipitating a second innings collapse and contributing to a remarkable 16-run Australian win. Sri Lankan captain Arjuna Ranatunga commented in an interview that, 'a bowler with Test average of more than 300 came and snatched the victory from our hands'. - Wikipedia

 

[Starfighter]

Who said:

Where's that going?

Every time the ball went more than about eight metres from the bat, time after time after time (ad nauseam)?

 

[Line and Length]

Who said:

Where's that going?

Every time the ball went more than about eight metres from the bat, time after time after time (ad nauseam)?

Was it either Boycott or Tavare batting?

 

[Starfighter]

Was it either Boycott or Tavare batting?

Boycott may have been batting in some innings, too early for Tavaré. It's a commentator, and I've exaggerated the 'eight metres' part.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Norman May. Absolute legend of the 74/75 series. But he did overdo the "Where's that going?"

 

[Starfighter]

Yep. In the 74/75 highlights it feels like you hear it every time the ball remotely looks like going past the near infield. Quite apparent elsewhere as well.

 

[Migara]

"He is not a threat, because he hasn't turned a single ball"

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Was that about Mendis before he ripped through India that time?

 

[honestbharani]

Dunno but sounds like something Sehwag might have said, about just about any spinner.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Sehwag swag.

 

[Line and Length]

"There's Neil Harvey standing at leg slip with his legs wide apart, waiting for a tickle."

 

[the big bambino]

Sounds like something Brian Johnson would say.

 

[Line and Length]

Sounds like something Brian Johnson would say.

.... and DID say!

 

[Line and Length]

"Those who run cricket in this country, especially at the domestic level, are for the most part a self-serving, pusillanimous and self-important bunch of myopic dinosaurs unable to take any but the shortest-term view of everything."

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Good old Henry. He liked to throw in "pusillanimous" and "ubiquitous" at every opportunity.

 

[Migara]

Was that about Mendis before he ripped through India that time?

Nope. About one and half decades before that.

 

[Migara]

"Selectors are a set of muppets headed by a joker"

 

[jimmy101]

"Selectors are a set of muppets headed by a joker"

Marvan Atapattu?