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Sylvers
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Outswinger@Pace
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Killer article! Sylvers was a mean pace machine for sure and a lot of established test cricketers (Imran, Gavaskar, Boycott, Gower and a host of others) have spoken quite highly of him. Must have been a fearsome proposition with his deceptive pace and nasty lift off a length.
Thommo before this back injury was perhaps another bowler whose awkward bounce off a length was something to be feared. Facing a conventional bouncer is one thing, but having one rear up at your throat from fractionally short of a length would scare the wits out of even the best of batsmen.
benchmark00
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One feels that if he was more punctual he would've made more runs and pressed his claims as an allrounder.
zaremba
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That's a bloody awesome catch.
You get a sense of the enormous power of Clarke just from that one shot actually. Can imagine him doing some damage in T20.
Burgey
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I'm just grateful I was far enough back that you couldn't see the appalling clothing I was wearing at the cricket that day.
As for Clarke, you can see he just flicks at that ball, he obviously had enormous power.
And yes Fred, a wonderful article indeed.
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Late on the previous day (iirc) the players went off for light, and my grandfather and I were leaving the ground. As we left, they came back on so we snuck up and watched from the newly opened Brewongle Stand (security not being what it is now). When they came back on Bruce Yardley (the bowler who dismissed Clarke) took a screamer in the gully from Lillee to get rid of Greenidge. It's at about 3.30 here.
It was a great era for watching cricket. Just after the Packer schism, when cricket came back together, you had the sense of tradition being restored, but with advances in coverage and profesisonalism too.
If you have a look at that video, there are some great names from that era of cricket. I believe it remains my favourite of those I've watched, but then I was only young.
It was also a time where the outer ground at the SCG went from the old Sheridan stand right around to underneath the Bradman Stand - half the field. As a kid, you could run amok with your mates there (I frequently did), and get up into the stands, especially the Noble Stand, and meet the commentators. I met Alan McGilvray there a number of times, and he was always happy to have a chat about cricket.
You could also get into the ground for about $8-$10 dollars, and even if you had a reserved seat, it was cheaper for kids. These days, you pay for the seat, and it doesn't matter if you're an adult or a child, of course - the price is the same.
That match ended in a draw, Australia chasing 370-odd plus in the last dig, finished four or five for 200, with Dyson making 120 odd. He had a rare match. I went to every day of it with my grandfather. They're cherished memories.
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robelinda
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Am planning to upload the Dyson 127* soon......
robelinda
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I guess I should come good with a Sylvester Clarke video eh???
Burgey
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Pretty high runs/ innings total ratio.
