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loudest and most hostile crowds

SillyCowCorner1

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The crowds at the Antigua Recreation Ground were some of the best...aided by Gravy and Chixy on his sound system.
The Jamaican crowd I think is the most knowledgable.
The Bajans are alway pompous...
 

SteveNZ

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ODI at Carisbrook when Brett Lee sconed Adam Parore with a bouncer and the helmet fell on to his stumps. Parore was given out hit wicket when it should've been a no ball - the crowd went nuts.
Yeah that was chaos. Those Carisbrook crowds could be feral as hell. Didn't Fleming have to walk around the boundary to calm them down?
 

Smudge

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Think the Hadlee thing was (late?) eighties (from what I remember of a book of his). Of course, New Zealand crowds might have had amazing clairvoyant powers.
No, definitely closer to 79-80. Kicked off around the time he had an unpleasant stint with Tasmania.
 

Line and Length

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From all accounts the Adelaide crowd was pretty hostile when Oldfield mishooked Larwood and suffered a cracked skull in the '32/33 Bodyline series.
 

Starfighter

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That was considered unusual for there though. The Sydney crowd was the toughest here at the time.
 

KungFu_Kallis

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The Elliot six. I was there. Nothing like it. The cheering just went on and on.
Oh and random strangers in the crowd all started hugging each other like scrums.
 
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Yeah, I was lucky enough to be at that game and also the 2011 RWC final, and I'm sure the cheer for Elliott's six was louder. I guess the rugby was more of a relief.
 

Lillian Thomson

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The best crowd experience was a One Day Match at Taunton in the late 70's and early 80's. Botham, Richards and Garner on the field. The atmosphere for a semi-final or big Sunday League game was electric. By half through the day the noise was incredible. The cider was flowing and by the end the main bank of singers were fighting amongst themselves.
 

SteveNZ

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Yeah, I was lucky enough to be at that game and also the 2011 RWC final, and I'm sure the cheer for Elliott's six was louder. I guess the rugby was more of a relief.
I was at the RWC 2011 final, that wasn't rowdy at all (apart from when Woodcock scored). It was 70 odd minutes of arse squeaking. You could hear the air slowly being expelled out of people's puckered dates, such was the tension. Then on FT it was definitely more relief than elation.

2015, I wasn't there, but I did run around my home madly and wake up my 1 month old child. Who gave a ****. Not me. Certainly my greatest moment as an NZ sports fan I reckon, possibly rivalled by Cambo winning the US Open.
 

Kirkut

International Regular
Yes the Pakistan fans when we played them anywhere in the north west were very lively. Then police intercepted a plan by the far right or combat 18 who had bought hundreds of tickets for a game at headingly. There would have been huge trouble that game if they wasn't stopped from attending. It must have been around 2005 ish, there were numerous race riots at the time in places like Oldham Rochdale Bradford between the white and Pakistani communities
It's something about Yorkshire that makes everyone lively who lives there. The Pakistani fans you're talking about in race riots were a bit like chavs, and they speak Urdu/Punjabi with a Yorkshire accent, very unique.
 

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