BS: Remember laker, Australian people?

Subject: BS: Remember Laker, Australian people?
From: greg stephens
Date: 28 Jul 07 - 12:32 PM

On July 28 in 1956(also a good year for music) Jim Laker took seven Australian wickets for 8 runs in 22 balls. I have just been reading about this in the Guardian. And it happened at Old Trafford(Manchester). Now, that's what I call cricket, wish I'd been there.

Subject: RE: BS: Remember laker, Australian people?
From: MBSLynne
Date: 28 Jul 07 - 02:15 PM

I thought you were going to talk about Freddie Laker

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: Remember laker, Australian people?
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 28 Jul 07 - 02:42 PM

In baggy trousers too!

Subject: RE: BS: Remember laker, Australian people?
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 28 Jul 07 - 02:45 PM

Now I don't like cricket but at least the scoring is sensible, unlike tennis which is just plain daft. It's funny but tennis fanatics get quite upset if I joke about the scoring!

Subject: RE: BS: Remember laker, Australian people?
From: ard mhacha
Date: 28 Jul 07 - 04:29 PM

I do remember the Aussies complaining that the wicket was made to order for his spin bowling.

Subject: RE: BS: Remember laker, Australian people?
From: Teribus
Date: 29 Jul 07 - 08:44 AM

Of course it was ard, that is all part and parcel of a test match series, the home team gets to select the grounds and can state exactly how they want the wicket prepared at each ground.

Subject: RE: BS: Remember laker, Australian people?
From: greg stephens
Date: 29 Jul 07 - 09:17 AM

Come on ard, remember the old adage:
"And when the one great scorer comes to write against your name
He writes not whether you were a jolly good sport
But whether you won the Ashes".

Subject: RE: BS: Remember laker, Australian people?
From: alanabit
Date: 29 Jul 07 - 03:03 PM

You are showing your age there Greg. I am barely old enough to recall the last time that England took seven Aussie wickets in a test series. I hear that the visiting Indians have been giving England a good spanking this weekend. There is something comforting about the return of normality!

Subject: RE: BS: Remember laker, Australian people?
From: ard mhacha
Date: 29 Jul 07 - 03:08 PM

Is anyone old enough to remember the dust bowl Laker and Lock bowled into, the groundsman was hailed as much a winner as the bowlers.