What are your recollections of the first WSC match and season? Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk. Cold Sober Premium Platinum. White Sox;Storm,Victory. Best cricketers in the strongest era, brilliant.
Was 17 at the time, great cricket, great sex, great time. I have no recollection of the first WSC match specifically. I do not know what was first match I watched consciously but certainly World Series Cricket on channel 9 was my introduction to cricket as a sport on tv. I certainly remember following all season 2 but season 1 more of a blur so I must have come to it a bit later in first season.
I do remember Andy Roberts bouncer that hit David Hookes and broke his jaw. He then came back either next season? The summed up WSC for me. Just full on , no holding back from either sides. Best cricket ever watched in terms of standard. It is funny how stuff back then, was so ahead of it's time. Helmets coming into game, interviews with players as the left the field after being dismissed batting only started becoming done again on Big Bash cricket in recent years.
Night Test matches took over 30 years to follow the SuperTests at night back then. Used to play 4 days of 7. Amazed it has taken this long for Test cricket to start to follow suit. I remember the McDonalds ads on tv dominating with all the players.
It was funny how I saw some cricket on ABC too, but really did not follow as it seemed like B grade level in comparison. That was actually the Test cricket side I was a little kid then so was all impressions rather that conscious thoughts on it.
What I found colourful back then as a kid probably little kids have in last few years if their introduction to cricket has been channel 10 Big Bash cricket.
After WSC cricket ended, the b grade cricket I saw on ABC had to move with the times and start to wear coloured clothing and play more limited over cricket. I still remember the first season after WSC was over and the Test cricket and one dayers on channel 9. England refused to totally adopt everything so some of field restrictions of one day cricekt not imposed and the England players wore white in one dayers apart from the pads in black.
I still have vivid memory of Bairstow, the keeper for England keeping from the sight screen in last ball of one game with white uniform, black pads. Weird times. Jascave said:. In the first season of WSC India toured for a full 5 test series.
Against virtually an Australian 3rd or 4th XI. The thing was that despite the drain of Australian talent to WSC it was a truly enthralling series, which Australia won by winning the 5th test. Apparently 2 men and a dog. Camera men and one of their pets.
I think from memory about 13, people in total attended the first SuperTest while 30, went to the establishment Test in Brisbane. Do not think I saw any of that.
Probably the next summer of England here must have been the little I saw of establishment cricket. Probably watched some of it in break of play on WSC. I watched the entire series. One of the best Test Cricket series I have seen. To give you an idea just how far advanced Channel 9 was as opposed to the ABC was the number of cameras being used to televise the game. The ABC had 3 cameras-2 up in the grandstand, one down and ground level; while Nine went with 9 cameras.
Marcus DuQuesne Cancelled. Yardley certainly played after the real Aussie team came back. Yardley, Lyon and May been our best off spinners in my time of watching. Marcus DuQuesne said:. Ashley Mallett was good. Brilliant gully fieldsman also He may well of been but was an old man by time I saw him so got no way to compare for my own viewing time. Maybe seen him in a couple of Tests at most in year after World Series Cricket finished up. It did not stick out in my mind as memorable.
However I know Ian Chappell that did play with him rates him so I am sure he was good at his peak well before then. How good compared to Yardley and Lyon? I do not know. I still rate Bruce Yardley best off spinner for us I seen. Lyon is not there just yet. Adelaide Hawk Hall of Famer. It was simply the best time to be a cricket watcher. When I was a kid, the done thing to do was to choose between the Beatles and Rolling Stones as your favourite band. My theory was, "Why choose? I like both".
It was similar in Another possible source is the Middle Dutch word krickstoel , meaning a long low stool used for kneeling in church and which resembled the long low wicket with two stumps used in early cricket.
According to Heiner Gillmeister, a European language expert of Bonn University, "cricket" derives from the Middle Dutch met de krik ket sen i. It is more likely that the terminology of cricket was based on words in use in south east England at the time and, given trade connections with the County of Flanders, especially in the 15th century when it belonged to the Duchy of Burgundy, many Middle Dutch words found their way into southern English dialects.
Despite many prior suggested references, the first definite reference to the game is found in a court case concerning dispute over a school's ownership of a plot of land. A year old coroner, John Derrick, testified that he and his school friends had played creckett on the site fifty years earlier. The school was the Royal Grammar School, Guildford, and Mr Derrick's account proves beyond reasonable doubt that the game was being played in Surrey The first reference to it being played as an adult sport was in , when two men in Sussex were prosecuted for playing cricket on Sunday instead of going to church.
In the same year, a dictionary defines cricket as a boys' game and this suggests that adult participation was a recent development. A number of references occur up to the English Civil War and these indicate that cricket had become an adult game contested by parish teams, but there is no evidence of county strength teams at this time. Equally, there is little evidence of the rampant gambling that characterised the game throughout the 18th century. It is generally believed, therefore, that village cricket had developed by the middle of the 17th century but that county cricket had not and that investment in the game had not begun.
After the Civil War ended in , the new Puritan government clamped down on "unlawful assemblies", in particular the more raucous sports such as football. Their laws also demanded a stricter observance of the Sabbath than there had been previously. As the Sabbath was the only free time available to the lower classes, cricket's popularity may have waned during the Commonwealth. Having said that, it did flourish in public fee-paying schools such as Winchester and St Paul's.
There is no actual evidence that Oliver Cromwell's regime banned cricket specifically and there are references to it during the interregnum that suggest it was acceptable to the authorities providing it did not cause any "breach of the Sabbath".
It is believed that the nobility in general adopted cricket at this time through involvement in village games. Cricket certainly thrived after the Restoration in and is believed to have first attracted gamblers making large bets at this time.
Cricket had certainly become a significant gambling sport by the end of the 17th century. There is a newspaper report of a "great match" played in Sussex in which was a-side and played for high stakes of 50 guineas a side. With freedom of the press having been granted in , cricket for the first time could be reported in the newspapers. But it was a long time before the newspaper industry adapted sufficiently to provide frequent, let alone comprehensive, coverage of the game.
During the first half of the 18th century, press reports tended to focus on the betting rather than on the play. Gambling introduced the first patrons because some of the gamblers decided to strengthen their bets by forming their own teams and it is believed the first "county teams" were formed in the aftermath of the Restoration in , especially as members of the nobility were employing "local experts" from village cricket as the earliest professionals.
The first known game in which the teams use county names is in but there can be little doubt that these sort of fixtures were being arranged long before that. The match in was probably Sussex versus another county. The most notable of the early patrons were a group of aristocrats and businessmen who were active from about , which is the time that press coverage became more regular, perhaps as a result of the patrons' influence. For the first time, the press mentions individual players like Thomas Waymark.
Cricket was introduced to North America via the English colonies in the 17th century probably before it had even reached the north of England. In the 18th century it arrived in other parts of the globe. It was introduced to the West Indies by colonists and to India by British East India Company mariners in the first half of the century. It arrived in Australia almost as soon as colonization began in New Zealand and South Africa followed in the early years of the 19th century.
The basic rules of cricket such as bat and ball, the wicket, pitch dimensions, overs, how out, etc. In , the Duke of Richmond and Alan Brodick drew up "Articles of Agreement" to determine the code of practice in a particular game and this became a common feature, especially around payment of stake money and distributing the winnings given the importance of gambling.
In , the Laws of Cricket were codified for the first time and then amended in , when innovations such as lbw, middle stump and maximum bat width were added. These laws stated that the principals shall choose from amongst the gentlemen present two umpires who shall absolutely decide all disputes.
MCC immediately became the custodian of the Laws and has made periodic revisions and re codifications subsequently. The game continued to spread throughout England and, in , Yorkshire is first mentioned as a venue. The original form of bowling i. Scorecards began to be kept on a regular basis from and since then an increasingly clear picture has emerged of the sport's development.
The first famous clubs were London and Dartford in the early 18th century. London played its matches on the Artillery Ground, which still exists. Others followed, particularly Slindon in Sussex which was backed by the Duke of Richmond and featured the star player Richard Newland. But far and away the most famous of the early clubs was Hambledon in Hampshire.
It started as a parish organisation that first achieved prominence in The club itself was founded in the s and was well patronized to the extent that it was the focal point of the game for about thirty years until the formation of MCC and the opening of Lord's Cricket Ground in Hambledon produced several outstanding players including the master batsman John Small and the first great fast bowler Thomas Brett.
Their most notable opponent was the Chertsey and Surrey bowler Edward "Lumpy" Stevens, who is believed to have been the main proponent of the flighted delivery. It was in answer to the flighted, or pitched, delivery that the straight bat was introduced.
The old "hockey stick" style of bat was only really effective against the ball being trundled or skimmed along the ground. Cricket faced its first real crisis during the 18th century when major matches virtually ceased during the Seven Years War. This was largely due to shortage of players and lack of investment. But the game survived and the "Hambledon Era" proper began in the mids. Cricket faced another major crisis at the beginning of the 19th century when a cessation of major matches occurred during the culminating period of the Napoleonic Wars.
Again, the causes were shortage of players and lack of investment. But, as in the s, the game survived and a slow recovery began in MCC was itself the center of controversy in the Regency period, largely on account of the enmity between Lord Frederick Beauclerk and George Osbaldeston. In , their intrigues and jealousies exploded into a match-fixing scandal with the top player William Lambert being banned from playing at Lord's Cricket Ground for life. Gambling scandals in cricket have been going on since the 17th century.
In the s, cricket faced a major crisis of its own making as the campaign to allow roundarm bowling gathered pace. The game also underwent a fundamental change of organization with the formation for the first time of county clubs.
All the modern county clubs, starting with Sussex in , were founded during the 19th century. No sooner had the first county clubs established themselves than they faced what amounted to "player action" as William Clarke created the traveling All-England Eleven in Though a commercial venture, this team did much to popularize the game in districts which had never previously been visited by high-class cricketers. Other similar teams were created and this vogue lasted for about thirty years.
But the counties and MCC prevailed. The growth of cricket in the mid and late 19th century was assisted by the development of the railway network. For the first time, teams from a long distance apart could play one other without a prohibitively time-consuming journey. Spectators could travel longer distances to matches, increasing the size of crowds.
In , another bowling revolution resulted in the legalization of overarm and in the same year Wisden Cricketers' Almanack was first published. His feats did much to increase the game's popularity and he introduced technical innovations which revolutionized the game, particularly in batting.
The first ever international cricket game was between the USA and Canada in In , a team of leading English professionals set off to North America on the first-ever overseas tour and, in , the first English team toured Australia.
Between May and October , a team of Australian Aborigines toured England in what was the first Australian cricket team to travel overseas. In , an England touring team in Australia played two matches against full Australian XIs that are now regarded as the inaugural Test matches. The following year, the Australians toured England for the first time and were a spectacular success. No Tests were played on that tour but more soon followed and, at The Oval in , arguably the most famous match of all time gave rise to The Ashes.
South Africa became the third Test nation in A major watershed occurred in when the official County Championship was constituted in England. This organisational initiative has been repeated in other countries. Australia established the Sheffield Shield in — The period from to the outbreak of the First World War has become an object of nostalgia, ostensibly because the teams played cricket according to "the spirit of the game", but more realistically because it was a peacetime period that was shattered by the First World War.
In the immemorial four ball over was replaced by a five ball over and then this was changed to the current six balls an over in Subsequently, some countries experimented with eight balls an over. In , the number of balls per over was changed from six to eight in Australia only.
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