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00:00:00Over the past 30 years or so, the modern game of cricket has undergone many changes but has
00:00:27experienced some wonderful moments. Hello and welcome, my name is Ken Sutcliffe.
00:00:32With more cricket being played than ever before, many of the old milestones have
00:00:37been surpassed. 10,000 test runs, 500 test wickets. In this program we'll take you
00:00:45back through some of these moments and along the way pay tribute to some of the
00:00:49great players of the modern game.
00:00:57Here at the Bradman Museum in Barrow, we can reflect on the batting feats of a man, a
00:01:26nation came to know simply as the Don. His record stands above all others. His
00:01:34accomplishments are the yardstick by which all others are measured. No one has come
00:01:38close. But every now and then a player comes along and revives his memory with
00:01:45an achievement of their own. One such player is the former Australian test
00:01:49captain, Mark Taylor.
00:01:57It wasn't so much the score, it was the fact that I was able to bat that long. I always
00:02:01prided myself as an opening batsman to try and bat through a day of first class cricket,
00:02:05whether it be a test match or a game for New South Wales. And I was able to do that a number
00:02:09of times. But to bat through two days, I thought was something I'm very proud of. It was an achievement
00:02:14which I never thought I'd be able to do, particularly in Pakistan. So that's why that
00:02:18inning probably sticks out in my mind more so than most.
00:02:21Short again, suddenly Taylor has just found his right level, he's found his confidence.
00:02:29We were all looking forward to seeing this show of Akhtar Bowl and seeing what sort of pace he was going to generate.
00:02:33We knew the wicket was a fantastic batting wicket. Tubby started pretty scratchy.
00:02:38I think he got dropped twice before he made 50 and one of them was an absolute dolly at short leg.
00:02:43And then I've never seen him play better. Like punching balls through the covers, off the back foot,
00:02:48with the fielders there. His placement was perfect and he had all his old power back from 1989. Brilliant.
00:02:54And he's been brought back on into the attack and the first ball has been hit for six.
00:03:07And Taylor looking for his 100 and it's far too easy a way to bring it up.
00:03:12So well played, Mark Taylor. He gets the standing applause of his Australian team mates.
00:03:17All his shots were working. The Pakistanis had no answer to him.
00:03:21Back and off the back foot, straight down the ground. He really is hitting it so sweetly.
00:03:30Front foot, back foot. And that's the double hundred. The second time in his career.
00:03:36His team mates rise to him. Nine years since his last double hundred.
00:03:41I got close to, I think it was 219, which was my old highest score.
00:03:46And also Michael Slater's highest score. And myself and Slats, good mates, opening partners.
00:03:51So I came off at lunch time on day two when I was very close to that score.
00:03:55And I said, Slats, I think Slats said to me, Mark, are you going to go past our score?
00:04:00And I said, I am. And I'm going to give you something to chase.
00:04:05Inside it. It's three times for three different shots. He's played square with the wicket and this over.
00:04:11I felt fantastic until I got to about, I'd say 280, 290.
00:04:16And then I started to feel a bit weary because I think I started to think of making a Test 300.
00:04:20And I knew from my knowledge of cricket history that Test 300s don't come around all that often.
00:04:26So I had an opportunity to do something which I'm sure every batsman would love to do.
00:04:30And I was starting to get nervous. All of a sudden my legs started to feel tired.
00:04:34And I thought, am I going to make it?
00:04:35We'll stack Armour to bowl. Taylor on strike on 298.
00:04:38And he gets it through. So Mark Taylor will bring up his 300.
00:04:43He raises his left fist in exhilaration.
00:04:46I remember sort of going up, what do you do now?
00:04:49I've made a few hundreds, so now you've got to raise your bat, take your hat off and that sort of stuff.
00:04:53But here's the 300. And I remember thinking to myself, it's the first time I sort of started to lose a little bit of control of myself
00:04:59when I batted for nearly two days at that stage.
00:05:01And what a moment for Mark Taylor. What a moment for Mark Taylor.
00:05:03What a moment for Australian cricket. It's been a long time since an Australian has made 300.
00:05:10There wasn't a huge crowd there, but for me it was a very big moment
00:05:14because I'd achieved something, as I said, that I didn't think I'd ever be able to achieve.
00:05:19And then I started thinking about Sir Donald Bradman's 304, Bob Cowper's 307,
00:05:26and Bob Simpson's 311, and Sir Donald Bradman's 334, because I knew they were the only four Australian scores of over 300.
00:05:35So I knew that from my history.
00:05:36And there they are, poised on the balcony, the Australians, for this moment in history.
00:05:41Takes it off the hip. So he joins Sir Donald Bradman as Australia's highest scorer in Test cricket.
00:05:53And I end up back on strike for the last two balls on 334, not out.
00:05:57And I tried to score runs off them, which I'm sure is exactly what the late Sir Donald Bradman would have done in the same situation.
00:06:04I was out there batting, trying to score runs.
00:06:06They were both well fielded by Ejaz Ahmed, who had fielded very poorly throughout the day,
00:06:11but all of a sudden kept me on 334 overnight.
00:06:14You can't get it past. And that's the end of the day's play, with him sitting on 334,
00:06:25being congratulated by Ricky Ponting, first there by Ejaz Ahmed, by all the Pakistani players.
00:06:33And then I spent a fairly sleepless night trying to think about what I was going to do.
00:06:36And it wasn't until about 2 o'clock in the morning that I decided to declare.
00:06:40I think our score was 599 for four, and I thought it was time to try and win the game.
00:06:45Mark Taylor, captain of Australia, 334.
00:06:51A score achieved only once previously by Don Bradman at Henigley in 1930.
00:07:10In Australian cricket, one fast bowler stands alone in the modern era.
00:07:21Many regard him as the greatest ever.
00:07:24The Dennis Lilly story is well known.
00:07:26But one of his greatest feats came in a match that many of us don't know about.
00:07:30It was a one day game between Western Australia and Queensland in 1976.
00:07:35Good morning from the Western Australian cricket ground, Perth, where play is just about to begin in the second semi-final of the 1976-77 Gillette Cup.
00:07:45It was over in the West, and the people in the West, of course, got the shock of their lives when they were bowled out for 77.
00:07:52And that's bowled.
00:07:53Out.
00:07:54And out.
00:07:55That must be close.
00:07:56Got to be out.
00:07:57Yes, LBW.
00:07:58He could be out.
00:07:59He's out.
00:08:00He could be out.
00:08:01He's out.
00:08:02Thornton Richards.
00:08:03Thornton Richards.
00:08:04Goal in.
00:08:05Beautifully found it by Dimock.
00:08:06And that is out.
00:08:07And what a tragedy.
00:08:08Everything has gone wrong for Western Australia today.
00:08:22Western Australia bowled out for 77 by Queensland, and it looked as if it was all over.
00:08:27I thought we could win it.
00:08:28We had Viv Richards, myself, and two international batters in the line-up.
00:08:33You know, you'd think that perhaps one of us could get some runs and we'd be able to win that game.
00:08:38But it didn't reckon on probably one of the great performers of all time, and that was Dennis Keith Lilly.
00:08:45But he's gone without scoring, and it's a good catch by Alan Jones.
00:08:50What a dramatic morning this has been, this Gillette Cup second semi-final.
00:08:54Lilly caught Jones bowled Greg Chappell without scoring.
00:08:58Rodney Marsh was the captain of the team, and I remember Rod telling me the story afterwards.
00:09:02He said, we're in the dressing room, we're just getting ready to go.
00:09:05And I was about to sort of say something to the team, like, come on, you know, we can still win this game.
00:09:10When, and I can't tell you completely the story because this is a family program, but you'll get the gist of it with Dennis.
00:09:17But he, apparently he leapt up before Rodney, and he said, we can win this so-and-so game,
00:09:23and just marched out of the door, went out onto the ground before the captain, led the Western Australian side out there,
00:09:29before the captain, Rodney Marsh was sort of back in the background.
00:09:32Dennis just charged out onto the ground and picked up the ball, and Rodney said, the rest of the team,
00:09:39when they heard this from Dennis and they just saw him go, he said, you've suddenly felt in the room
00:09:44that there was a chance that they could win this game.
00:09:47We've got the side of Dennis Lilly measuring out his run, warming up, ready to take up the fight.
00:09:54And if West Australia are going to get up at all, it's going to be through the strong right arm of Dennis Lilly.
00:09:59But it's Dennis Lilly to Viv Richards.
00:10:02The man that he really wanted to get out because of the way he scored his runs, how quickly he scored them,
00:10:06was Viv Richards. So it became a battle between Viv Richards and Dennis Lilly.
00:10:13How do you do, Viv? Nice to have you in Perth, Dennis said, as he let a bouncer go.
00:10:18He charged in, and he bowled. The first ball was a bouncer, the second ball was a bouncer.
00:10:24There's another bouncer, and that was a much better one, and Dennis Lilly is obviously not going to give up this one
00:10:29without a fight, because there's a test on here, you know. There's a test of supremacy.
00:10:34Dennis Lilly still considered perhaps the best bowler in the world, and many consider Viv Richards the best batsman.
00:10:40I mean, one of them was a rip snorter. The other three were just bouncers.
00:10:44And Viv, I think, was just a little bit cautious about the one that was a good'un.
00:10:50And it was still on its way up when it got to me.
00:10:55Oops!
00:10:56And that's a big bouncer by Lilly then. Viv Richards going for the hook that was much too late as it flew by,
00:11:02and Rod Marsh, as you saw on the screen, had to get up high to take it.
00:11:05We asked the question, Bobby, will the umpires warm Dennis Lilly for bowling too many bouncers on over?
00:11:10Three out of three now?
00:11:11He'll have to be brave in Perth to do that, I think, Bill.
00:11:13The thing that I remember the most was the challenge against Viv Richards.
00:11:18I mean, and here's an indication of how stupid administrators are.
00:11:22You know, they've taken the bouncer out of the limited overs game.
00:11:27I see that they are now talking about bringing it back in at one per over.
00:11:30But here's Dennis Lilly. Four bouncers on the tribe.
00:11:33Four. He's got to be warned. What's the umpire?
00:11:38He's moved across. And he's warning Dennis Lilly. Yes, quite right.
00:11:44Dennis obviously bowled them on purpose.
00:11:47But because the pitch was slightly damp, I think Dennis said to the umpire, Don Hawks,
00:11:53I'm not trying to, but my foot's slipping a little bit.
00:11:56And, you know, I'll try and keep him up.
00:11:59Having no intention whatsoever to change the way he was going to bowl that day anyway.
00:12:05That was well up there.
00:12:09Dennis had got him going, you know, and it was just marvellous cricket.
00:12:13And, you know, to me that's the excitement of the game of cricket.
00:12:18And it's certainly when you're a commentator and you've got a champion fast bowler against a champion batsman
00:12:24and they just lock horns. I mean, that is a fantastic scenario.
00:12:32Dennis, typically Dennis fashion, just sort of continued down the pitch and kicked the stump.
00:12:38And I thought that was just very symbolic of, you know, what had happened and what was about to happen.
00:12:44And the winner on that encounter is Dennis Lilly.
00:12:47And the crowd's gone mad.
00:12:48And look at the Western Australians and the crowd. They've gone wild.
00:12:50They think they're in there with a chance.
00:12:52The noise that emanated from that crowd, and it wasn't a Melbourne Creed ground crowd,
00:12:57was just incredible.
00:12:58But it was a very, very special battle.
00:13:01And, of course, Lilly went on to bowl them out and win the match for Western Australia.
00:13:04And that's well caught there.
00:13:05And another hook.
00:13:06Once again, Greg Champ is staying for the decision.
00:13:07He's got seven balls to wrap up this match.
00:13:08And if ever men in Australia could bowl out two tail enders, it's Dennis Lilly.
00:13:23Oh, and giving it plenty of...
00:13:25Is it run out?
00:13:26Is it run out?
00:13:27Yes!
00:13:28He's out!
00:13:29Oh dear, oh dear.
00:13:30McLean run out.
00:13:32Schuller wouldn't respond to McLean's call.
00:13:35And tragedy for Queensland.
00:13:37It was one of those games, I suppose, you know, we've all played in a few low scoring games.
00:13:42And often, you know, you think just because you've bowled the opposition out for a low score
00:13:47that you should win the game.
00:13:48But that was one day when I wasn't all that confident with Dennis Lilly at the other end
00:13:53that we were going to do it.
00:13:55And he's hit that.
00:13:56He's out!
00:13:57Good and going!
00:13:58It's all over!
00:14:00Caught in a gully!
00:14:01So, Western Australia bowled Queensland out for 62.
00:14:05An unbelievable performance.
00:14:07And what a cricketer, Dennis Lilly, as the children pour onto the ground.
00:14:11Dennis Lilly, four wickets.
00:14:12One missed game off his own bat by bowling.
00:14:15Richards in the first over.
00:14:16He picked up Ogilvy and Chappell and finished off the game with Schuller being caught in the gully.
00:14:20And Western Australia win with Queensland all out for 62, Bobby Simpson.
00:14:24Well, what an incredible game and what an incredible finish with the people pouring onto this ground to congratulate the West Australian team.
00:14:32And well, they might do because they've responded magnificently to this task which everyone thought was quite beyond them.
00:14:39But what an amazing finish.
00:14:41What an amazing match.
00:14:42And the hero of the game must be Dennis Lilly, my man of the match.
00:14:46Back in 1977, Dennis Lilly featured in another match of enormous historical significance.
00:14:58It commemorated the first test between Australia and England.
00:15:01And it proved to be even more memorable.
00:15:04Certainly for a lot of us that played for England, it remains a match that is right up there with the very best.
00:15:12It was probably in many ways, even though there was 45 runs difference in the scores,
00:15:17it was still the test that I preferred playing in rather than any other test that I played in.
00:15:23There was a different feel about it and the whole atmosphere, the whole week was very different
00:15:28and it was a very unique test match and it turned out to be a unique test match on the field as well.
00:15:37That's out.
00:15:38LBW with the first wicket to John Lever.
00:15:43Out. That's a brilliant catch.
00:15:47He's out.
00:15:48Caught by Tony Gregg and very well caught.
00:15:54Hold him.
00:15:55He's gone.
00:15:56Nine down.
00:15:57Greg Chapman is out.
00:15:59Bowled out for 120-odd on the first day and most people thought we were in a bit of strife
00:16:04and I don't think we thought we were sitting pretty, but I didn't feel we were out of the game.
00:16:10I knew that if we bowled well, I think we'd taken a couple of wickets on the first night.
00:16:14So I knew if we'd bowled well the next day, we could at least keep them down to a score around our score.
00:16:19In fact, we finished up with a first-innings lead of 30-odd I think.
00:16:25And that's out. Magnificent ball from Dennis Lilley.
00:16:28There's an appeal and Randall is out.
00:16:34Court match on Lilley.
00:16:36And he's gone off the glove.
00:16:40And the eighth wicket is down for 78.
00:16:44Good ball but caught it. And given out.
00:16:50There were other things in that match that one will never forget.
00:16:56Rick McCosker, for example, coming in to bat and then getting smashed on the head and breaking his jaw.
00:17:04And he's out and he's also hurt.
00:17:09He's pulled that onto his face and it's gone down onto the stumps.
00:17:13So he's certainly out but he is in a bad way out there, Rick McCosker.
00:17:20So he came back from hospital and I mean, you've all seen the vision, you know what he looked like.
00:17:24I mean, it looked very ordinary.
00:17:27But he's a gutsy player and a team man and I knew that if required, if I asked him, he'd probably do it.
00:17:35And I went up to him and I said, mate, do you feel that you can go out there?
00:17:38We need you to go out there and just try and hang in there for a while and, you know, get us a few more runs.
00:17:44And he didn't hesitate.
00:17:45I went straight to Willis and said, look, let him have it.
00:17:47I mean, if he wants to come out here, this is the way this is.
00:17:49And he did. He let him have it.
00:17:56McCosker never, he never blinked an eyelid.
00:17:58He knew it was going to happen to him. He got bounced again.
00:18:01So there was no quarter given and that was special.
00:18:08Hooks is locked at this one and it lands five yards inside the boundary.
00:18:14Very well timed shot.
00:18:15Hooks, he was on fire.
00:18:17I mean, he was, I think he got five sentries in six innings or something like that.
00:18:21He was in this rare vein of form and that got him selected in the centenary test.
00:18:27That's a very good sweep shot.
00:18:31Underwood has quite a chase from.
00:18:34Back at the square leg and it's on the fence for four.
00:18:38I always thought I had a chance.
00:18:39I tossed it up outside off stump a little bit and he blazed away as a youngster does
00:18:44and hit the gap every time.
00:18:46He played superbly.
00:18:47That's a magnificent cover drive.
00:18:49Feeding Parlow.
00:18:50And it'll go into the fence for four more.
00:18:52I'd like to say that I won the battle with David Hooks, but I didn't.
00:18:56I get reminded of that on a very regular basis.
00:18:58He hit me for five consecutive fours.
00:19:00And Hooks has put this away past him.
00:19:01And there's his first half-century in test cricket.
00:19:03And what a way to bring it up.
00:19:04Four fours in a row.
00:19:05That MCG was just buzzing to have, you know, to have a young kid, 20, I think he'd just turned
00:19:28one and here he is building a guy who the Australians love to hate at that stage.
00:19:34Tony Gregg, you know, he'd been out here in 74-5 and, you know, when he was hitting fours
00:19:40off Dennis Lilley, he was signalling four.
00:19:42I mean, Greggie went out of his way, I'm sure, to get the Australian crowds going.
00:19:47And he got them going all right.
00:19:49And for them to see David Hooks hitting the five fours in a row off Tony Gregg, the crowd
00:19:54loved it.
00:19:55I don't think I've ever heard a bigger buzz at the MCG.
00:20:00He's cover again.
00:20:02Barlow chasing.
00:20:04And it's into the fence with his fifth one.
00:20:09Five fours from five balls.
00:20:12That was the turning point in the test match as far as I'm concerned.
00:20:16All of a sudden, it made those of us in the dressing room realise that all the gremlins were
00:20:20gone from the wicket.
00:20:21It was a pretty good batting wicket and we needed to make some runs.
00:20:27And there's Rodney Marsh's 50 with a very fine lofted shot back over Chris Old's head.
00:20:33As far as the Australians were concerned, of course, a tremendous milestone as well for
00:20:37Rodney Marsh.
00:20:38We always thought he was a bit of a slogger.
00:20:40But the truth of the matter is, on that day, he really did turn it on to get 100.
00:20:45He's got an inside edge and that is Rodney Marsh's 100.
00:20:52He's the first Australian wicketkeeper ever to make 100 against England.
00:20:57I remember Notti coming up to me and saying, do you realise how significant this is?
00:21:03Because he was obviously a wicketkeeper into the significance of scoring 100 for one's country
00:21:09as a wicketkeeper.
00:21:10And of course it was.
00:21:11It was a tremendous occasion.
00:21:13And I personally think that it was the innings and the innings along with the partnerships
00:21:20that went with it that actually swung things a bit.
00:21:22Because, you know, until such time as those partnerships started to happen with Marsh and
00:21:28Walters in the second innings, we really looked as if we would win the match.
00:21:32That's a lovely shot.
00:21:35He's a good driver, young Randall.
00:21:38Yes, I tend to think of the centenary test in terms of Derek Randall, first and foremost.
00:21:43And I'm a bit biased there because, I mean, the Aussies had never heard of him.
00:21:46This was a new face for Australian.
00:21:49And he made over 170.
00:21:52And I will never forget, this kid, a minor's son, used to discipline and had scored a lot
00:21:59of footies for us in India and wasn't kicking on.
00:22:02And it was a source of frustration for me.
00:22:05And I pushed him into the corner just before that second innings.
00:22:08And I said, look, the time has come.
00:22:10You just have to make a big score here.
00:22:13Otherwise, you know, we really have to start questioning your ability to kick on.
00:22:16And so do something about it.
00:22:19Otherwise, you may not be inside.
00:22:20And he responded brilliantly to that.
00:22:22And, you know, anyone who saw him play, anyone who remembers him doffing his cap to Lily,
00:22:28which was cheeky.
00:22:29I mean, really cheeky.
00:22:30But that's the sort of character it was.
00:22:31A bit of a comic.
00:22:32It was a wonderful innings.
00:22:34Played almost every shot in the book.
00:22:36The ones that we remember best, I think, are the hook shots, the pull shots.
00:22:40They went screaming away to the boundary.
00:22:42And he did it against the best fast bowler in the world.
00:22:46Randall's hook, hooked very well.
00:22:49I remember bowling to him late in his innings.
00:22:53He was past 100.
00:22:54And we needed a wicket and I was getting a bit frustrated.
00:22:57I got one that must have hit a crack or something and it's cut back and gone between bat and pad.
00:23:02There was a noise.
00:23:03I wasn't sure whether he hit it or not.
00:23:05I appealed.
00:23:06Rod Marsh dived forward.
00:23:07And I looked around to see Tom Brooks had his finger up.
00:23:10And it was a wicket that we needed.
00:23:11So I sort of rushed up to Rod, fairly excited about the fact that we'd got the breakthrough.
00:23:16And Rod said, he's not out.
00:23:20I said, what do you mean he's not out?
00:23:21Tom's just given him out.
00:23:22He said, he didn't hit it.
00:23:23I said, well, that's not our problem.
00:23:24I said, Tom's thought he hit it.
00:23:26That's enough for me.
00:23:27He said, well, actually, it didn't carry.
00:23:28What's happening here?
00:23:29I said, oh, that's a bit different.
00:23:30So we called Derek back and he came back and finished off 178, I think.
00:23:35And put him into a position where at afternoon tea time they should have won the test match.
00:23:39Randall came out and played the innings of his life, for sure and certain.
00:23:44And, you know, had it not been for Dennis' performance, where he, I mean, he tried every trick in the book in that game.
00:23:50He bowled fast.
00:23:51He bowled cutters.
00:23:52He bowled swingers.
00:23:53He bowled slower balls.
00:23:55He bowled the whole lot.
00:23:57Well, that's got to be very close.
00:24:00Yes, indeed.
00:24:01And that was a good delivery.
00:24:04Oh, that's a fine delivery.
00:24:07And he's out.
00:24:08Oh, Dennis bowled him.
00:24:12It wasn't a good pitch for fast bowlers, but Dennis Early found a way to take wickets there.
00:24:17What did he get?
00:24:18I think 11 in the centenary test.
00:24:21And I think the fact that they chaired him off, you know, after that centenary test, I think, was a tribute to not only his ability, but to that great determination.
00:24:33Because, you know, it had turned out a pretty good pitch.
00:24:37And, I mean, there must have been times when, I'm sure, Greg as captain thought that England were actually going to make the runs in that second innings.
00:24:46The fact that we were able to win the test match with exactly the same margin as the first ever test match between Australia and England just topped off what was a fairytale test match.
00:24:55And that's got to be out, must be out.
00:24:56And that is the end of the centenary test match.
00:24:57Dennis Early has taken 11 wickets in what could conceivably be his last test match.
00:25:10Cricket coaches repeatedly emphasise to their players the importance of partnerships in the game.
00:25:23One of Australia's recent players must have listened to that advice very carefully because, in his short test career, he has featured in a couple of crackers.
00:25:32One that will be remembered for years by all who saw it happened in Hobart in 1999.
00:25:39Oh, he's gone across a long way and it is a pair for Ricky Ponting.
00:25:45So half the Australian side are now back in the pavilion.
00:25:49Only two teams in 122 years had made more than 369 to win a match in the fourth innings at test level.
00:25:58And you wouldn't have given a brass rasu for Australia's chances when Adam Gilchrist joined Justin Langer.
00:26:04Five for 126 and they looked as though they were gone and forgotten.
00:26:08It turned out to be one of the most exhilarating partnerships I've ever seen in any form of cricket.
00:26:14Wonderful stroke play and carrying the attack to the opposition. It was simply superb.
00:26:23Shot.
00:26:24When you consider what they were up against, they were up against a very good attack.
00:26:26They were up against a situation where it was all lost.
00:26:29And from what I can gather, it was Langer who kept saying, you never know.
00:26:34You'll never know. Let's play to lunch. You'll never know. Let's get the tea.
00:26:37You'll never know what will happen after that.
00:26:39And of course, down the other end, that's all that Gilchrist needed.
00:26:42I mean, he just carried, he made much of the runs, but the man who sort of held it together,
00:26:47who kept looking at that end result, I think, was Justin Langer.
00:26:52And that runs absolutely smacked through mid-wicket.
00:26:58And he just keeps doing that, hitting balls into the gap.
00:27:01What were you both feeling and thinking as you walked out to bat on that final day?
00:27:05We didn't walk out there thinking we needed 181 runs.
00:27:08We sort of, it was more, I guess, 10-minute periods.
00:27:12And that's what I was looking at, the clock.
00:27:14And JL was looking at sort of breaking it down to 10-run sort of sectors.
00:27:18I said to Gilly, you know, you just never know what could happen here, mate.
00:27:22And then I said to him, mate, we could make test cricket history here.
00:27:27It was almost the sort of thing we muck around about in the change room or something,
00:27:32but it was in the, you know, in a test match.
00:27:35And because we were mates and because we were nice and relaxed about it,
00:27:38I think that was a big help for us.
00:27:46I certainly knew exactly what I had to do to give my best attention to every ball at a time.
00:27:51And we really did break it down to one ball at a time.
00:27:55Good shot, this ball now, come on.
00:27:59Come on, Gil, this ball.
00:28:08Just trying to do our job was the main thing.
00:28:11And, you know, they were obviously getting more and more frustrated the longer we went on.
00:28:15And I guess we used that to our advantage.
00:28:17We knew that and sensed that.
00:28:23Certainly, Justin Langer, he was, at one stage, we all thought, caught behind.
00:28:26He nicked one and went through the keeper.
00:28:28But, you know, in keeping with the way things are these days, he stayed.
00:28:31Well, it was a fiery time, I think.
00:28:38You know, in the end of the day, I'm sure to this moment I didn't hit it.
00:28:42They were sure to this moment I did hit it.
00:28:45Come on!
00:28:48So, the umpire was sure at the moment I didn't hit it as well.
00:28:54Well, that's a very quick bouncer and a very accurate one.
00:28:59All it brings is a smile.
00:29:00I couldn't believe it.
00:29:02It was a pretty quick ball and pretty nasty.
00:29:04And then I went down to try and make sure JL didn't lose focus,
00:29:07don't get into a slanging match.
00:29:09And I just saw the grin.
00:29:10And there was one of his fangs missing.
00:29:12And he just came down and said,
00:29:14he just really, really loves this stuff.
00:29:16And with a big grin on his face.
00:29:17And I thought, that's crazy.
00:29:18He must be nuts.
00:29:20But it was enough to inspire me and keep me going.
00:29:27Straight down the ground.
00:29:28That'll be it.
00:29:29Beautiful shot.
00:29:30And that is a superb century.
00:29:32He's first in his career.
00:29:34Yeah!
00:29:35Come on!
00:29:36Come on!
00:29:37I thought, well, I don't want to over-celebrate her.
00:29:40It's a personal milestone, but we're still another hundred away.
00:29:43And all I wanted to do is sort of look at the guys
00:29:46and just let them know that, you know, we're in with a big show
00:29:49and, you know, to hang in there.
00:29:55And there's the hundred for Justin Langer.
00:29:57He's fourth in test cricket and second against Pakistan.
00:30:00I'd say it's about the only time in my career, it might sound like a crazy thing to say,
00:30:12but I didn't really think about my hundred until I was on ninety-nine.
00:30:15And I was so intent on watching the scoreboard or watching the time as Gilly was doing.
00:30:21The hundred was almost irrelevant.
00:30:24A very special cricketer, certainly Justin Langer.
00:30:27And his partner down the other end.
00:30:30Well, we're going to see a lot of him over the years.
00:30:32He's a wonderful, aggressive player.
00:30:36But it was a great performance.
00:30:37It's the fourth highest total achieved to win a match in the history of test match cricket.
00:30:45That's how significant that partnership was.
00:30:51And that is it.
00:30:53That is the winning run.
00:30:57And Gilchrist is telling Warne to get down the other end.
00:31:06Warne had plenty of hands in the victory with his bowling.
00:31:11The Australians have pulled off what I think is one of the finest victories I've ever seen in test cricket.
00:31:18Down and out yesterday, 5 for 126.
00:31:21And two men batted almost the whole of the final day up to the point where the winning runs were hit.
00:31:31Adam Gilchrist, 149 not out.
00:31:35Justin Langer, 127.
00:31:38Superb performance.
00:31:39Many memorable moments in the game are not actually moments at all.
00:31:50They take hours and sometimes days to unfold.
00:31:53But this next one is a moment.
00:31:56It created a sensation at the time and has been talked about ever since.
00:32:00It belonged to Shane Warne.
00:32:03Life was a real struggle for England in 1993.
00:32:07The Australians went up to Old Trafford and they made 289 on rather a dicey pitch.
00:32:13Mark Taylor got a very good 100 and it was great to see.
00:32:16And then the England side went along okay until Atherton was out for 71.
00:32:21In came Mike Gatting.
00:32:24Much more important, on came Shane Warne.
00:32:281 for 80 here at Old Trafford.
00:32:31Shane Warne is to come on at the Warwick Road end.
00:32:34The first ball on English soil for Shane Warne just changed his life.
00:32:39I'm staying at the top mark, it's my first ball.
00:32:41I'm a bit nervous because I haven't played against England before and it means so much Australia versus England.
00:32:46The ball to an orthodox field for a start, just a slip.
00:32:48I come in the bowl and I generally just want to start a normal spell.
00:32:52I just bowl a few leg breaks to get myself into a bit of rhythm, a bit of momentum, get into the feel of the game.
00:32:57First ball in test cricket in England for Shane Warne.
00:33:01So I've come in the bowl, let go of the delivery, feels pretty good out the hand.
00:33:08And he's done it.
00:33:10He started off with the most beautiful delivery.
00:33:13It drifted in and then it dipped and then it kicked and hit the top of off stump.
00:33:19Now, I mean, what more can you do?
00:33:22Because of the dip, the batsman was wrong footed in terms of the ball's length.
00:33:29Because of the furious work on the ball, it drifted in, so he was wrong footed because of the line of the ball.
00:33:34And then because of that spin on the ball again, it really did rip and hit the top of off stump.
00:33:41I mean, the perfect delivery and it will be the ball forever.
00:33:45Well, some people said it drifted two feet towards the leg stump and outside it and then spun back two feet.
00:33:52That's not true. It was round about nine inches each way and it just clipped the top of the bale.
00:33:57It was absolutely magnificent.
00:34:01It was one of those things that just happened and watching Healey's reaction behind the stumps and it was just an enormous feeling and it's pretty hard to describe how good it felt to do it.
00:34:12Gadding has absolutely no idea what has happened to it. He still doesn't know.
00:34:16Mike Gadding stood there stunned. He thought I'd hit the bales off with my gloves or something suspicious had happened.
00:34:24Luckily, I held my mouth. I had eye contact with him as I was running past him. I was about to say something and didn't and he just had no idea.
00:34:32Kenny Palmer just gave him a raised eyebrow and a little nod and that's all it needed.
00:34:37And it's not until later, until I have a look at the replay, I realised how far it actually turned. I thought it was just a leg break that turned a little bit.
00:34:44Well that has turned about two and a half feet. Gadding can't believe his eyes. What a start for Shane Warne.
00:34:52We saw Warne bowl that type of delivery in New Zealand. He was spinning the ball so far in New Zealand that he was missing the bat by six inches.
00:35:00So we had to move his line outside leg and that's where he started to do that and sometimes around the wicket.
00:35:05So I'd gotten used to those sorts of the drifting ball outside leg and coming back to off. But to do it first ball, freakish.
00:35:15Sitting in the pub in twenty years time, instead of turning that far, it would have turned that far.
00:35:19And I suppose even when I'm 75, it would have turned even further. It was probably my favourite delivery I've ever bowled.
00:35:27Something everyone forgets though is that shortly after that, with only four more runs added,
00:35:32Warne bowled an equally good delivery to Robin Smith and had him caught at slip by Taylor.
00:35:37It's never thought of these days.
00:35:38For all of the past decade, the name War has been prominent in Australian cricket.
00:35:49The Twins, Steve and Mark, so different, yet so similar, were never more twin-like than when they established a new batting record in a Sheffield Shield game in Perth in 1990.
00:36:02The Twins already had an unbroken partnership at 238 when they walked to the wicket this morning, but really, it was only the beginning.
00:36:12I really went out there with a game plan to keep the ball on the ground and concentrate hard and we talked about it the night before the game,
00:36:18how to play against the West Australian bowlers, not to play anything too wide and make them bowl to us and I think it worked pretty well.
00:36:23That's a magnificent shot again.
00:36:29350 partnership, sensational batting by the War brothers.
00:36:34I've only scored 120 runs in about eight digs before this, but yeah, it was nice to get a few runs.
00:36:39It's always difficult over here.
00:36:41Wickets different against good high-class bowling, but yesterday, once we got going, the runs started the flow.
00:36:46There's Mark goes very high, very long. That's a big hit.
00:36:54We got the feeling in the change room that they were never going to get out.
00:36:57So it was just a matter of continuing watching the shot play and then just clapping the milestones as they went past.
00:37:02But you just got that feeling that even when they were about 50 or 60 not out, that they just looked very, very set.
00:37:09When Mark brought up his 150, he became only the 10th Australian batsman to score 3,000 runs in a calendar year.
00:37:17They scored their runs effortlessly.
00:37:19We just sat there and thought, they're on 140. If we wait 10 minutes, one of them will be 150.
00:37:24So we just sort of waited there, there it is, clap, wait 10 minutes, the next guy will make the milestone as well.
00:37:30So, monotonous is not the right word, but we almost got to a stage where we just knew it was going to happen.
00:37:35I suspect every now and again when twins get together, there's a bit of competition there.
00:37:40And I suspect that on this occasion there was a bit of competition there and they were just going to bat and bat and bat
00:37:47for as long as it took for that partnership to get broken up.
00:37:50There was no sign of fatigue and when the 400 partnership came up, they'd broken the Australian record for a fifth wicket stand.
00:38:00Six runs later, the world fifth wicket stand was theirs.
00:38:04Then a double century apiece, but still they went on, achieving their highest individual scores
00:38:11and then with the stand at 463, the highest ever Australian batting partnership.
00:38:16Finally, with the New South Wales score at a massive 601, partnership worth 464, a declaration.
00:38:26Mark Waugh, not out 229, Stephen Waugh, not out 216.
00:38:32The scoring rate was very quick and I remember Greg Matthews, who was next in, putting the pads on and he had the pads on ready to go in.
00:38:39And I remember turning to him at one stage and saying, well, you might as well take those off.
00:38:43And he said, no, I'm not taking these off.
00:38:46I said, mate, you're not going to need those pads because you won't be batting today.
00:38:49And this was just after lunch, I think.
00:38:51And he said, well, I'm not quite as confident as you.
00:38:54I'm going to leave these on and what's more, if I don't need to wear these pads out in the middle,
00:38:58I'll wear them out tonight if we go out and have a meal and a drink somewhere.
00:39:02So sure enough, the boys batted right through the day, 464 run partnership.
00:39:05They've come in and everyone's just over the moon. It was tremendous to watch.
00:39:09And one of the first things Mark said was, looking forward to seeing your pads tonight, mate.
00:39:13So I wore my pads out that night. It was good for a laugh. It was good PR for the family.
00:39:18I remember him having his denim pants on with this brown suede front on these denim jeans with two white cricket pads on.
00:39:26So it wasn't a great look, but I'm sure it wouldn't have worried mate too much.
00:39:28Over the years, we've seen some great players come out of the West Indies.
00:39:38Names like Sir Garfield Sobers, Vivian Richards, Clive Lloyd and Wesley Hall come to mind.
00:39:44More recently, another Caribbean superstar has made his mark,
00:39:48cementing his reputation in scoring a spectacular first test century at the SCG.
00:39:59Well, straight away he's hit a beautiful shot into the gap at Midwicky.
00:40:03What a start by Lara. That is a magical clip away off his toes there.
00:40:07The innings I remember the most was the 277 at the SCG, which I think may have been his first test century.
00:40:14And that's one of the best test innings that I've seen.
00:40:24We came to Sydney, I think with a 1-0 lead in the series, knowing that the West Indies don't like playing in Sydney.
00:40:30They don't like the slow wickets. They don't like the spin bowlers.
00:40:32And we thought, wow, what an opportunity. If we can take them here and lead 2-0 in the series,
00:40:38we might be able to win this series.
00:40:40I remember we made about 500 in the first innings ourselves.
00:40:45Won the toss, made 500. So everything was set up for us.
00:40:48And then out came Brian Lara and he just took it away like that.
00:40:53There it is. Great moment. He's a very, very good young player.
00:40:58Much appreciated by his teammates.
00:41:04And I can guarantee you, as mentioned, there will be hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people around the Caribbean.
00:41:11Who will be delighted Brian Lara has made his first test match century.
00:41:16We would have had a very firm plan how to get Lara out, I'm sure, as all Australian teams do go into games.
00:41:21But nothing worked that day. The thing I remember about that innings was just the power and the placement.
00:41:28And just the relentlessness of his shots. He just wasn't giving us anything. No chances.
00:41:34The conditions weren't great for our bowlers. The ball was a bit wet.
00:41:37But that, I don't think, was a real factor. He was just awesome. Even on a dry day, he would have been right on fire.
00:41:46Oh, he's going for the pool shot there. He played it beautifully.
00:41:49Straight down into the ground, past Borda, and into the fence for four.
00:41:53So that's his 17th boundary.
00:41:56Oh, good shot.
00:42:00He was a very dangerous player. Saw him play a couple of years earlier in the West Indies.
00:42:10Not for the West Indies, but for a Trinidad side.
00:42:13Knew he was a very talented player, but never exactly sure how he'll handle himself at an international level.
00:42:19But he showed us here in Sydney. He absolutely smashed us.
00:42:21Just like that.
00:42:30Has been a pure joy to watch.
00:42:37What about that? Boy, do you think you didn't give that something?
00:42:41I think I bowled 69 overs, two for a thousand, got delted, of which Brian scored 277.
00:42:47But to this day, on 196, he sort of plomped forward and tried to reef me across the line.
00:42:54Hit him on the ankle. It was absolute salmon trout.
00:42:56And Darrell Hare, the umpire, he was that used to it going to the boundary.
00:42:59He just turned, looking to the boundary, and no, not out.
00:43:02And I think to this day, he was still out.
00:43:04Yeah, Prince scored 277. Matthews, two for a thousand.
00:43:07And unfortunately, that was the end of my test career.
00:43:09Has he got a bat on it?
00:43:17That's the question.
00:43:18Ryan Lara didn't give the umpire much opportunity to signal buys there.
00:43:30And when he got about five metres from the crease, he started waving his bat to the West Indies crowd.
00:43:37Not only a very fine batsman, but also a very smart one.
00:43:41That was good work, and it's a great double hundred.
00:43:45Oh, great shot. Magnificent shot.
00:43:52The ball, you must remember, is spinning away towards the slip.
00:43:56He's gone down the wicket and just closed the face on it and really hit it right off the meat of that bat of his.
00:44:03Straight between the two fieldsmen.
00:44:05If you were hitting the ball in the air all the time, trying to hit sixes, sooner or later you'll miss hit one and you'll get caught.
00:44:10That was the thing that amazed me about Lara.
00:44:13He just hit everything into the gaps, played magnificently.
00:44:16And really the only way the Australians were going to get him out was run him out, which is exactly what happened.
00:44:22He's 23 short of 300 runs.
00:44:26Oops, he's in trouble.
00:44:28He's back, he's gone.
00:44:29What a tragic end.
00:44:31Got sent back, got wrong footage, a good throw, a good take.
00:44:34The end of a fine, fine innings.
00:44:37Brian Lara running out for 277.
00:44:41Well, after making 277 runs, you don't usually find a batsman being disappointed.
00:44:47But I'm sure Brian Lara certainly is disappointed of the fact that he was run out in such a manner.
00:44:53It was a brilliant innings.
00:44:55Couldn't have asked for much more than what he did.
00:44:58Got to the wicket with Weston is in trouble, and he certainly played very, very well.
00:45:02But such a young man, couldn't have asked for anything more.
00:45:07A super ovation.
00:45:09A standing ovation from commentators, spectators, scorers, the Australian players.
00:45:16The end of one of the all-time great knocks at the Sydney cricket ground.
00:45:19Brian Lara unfortunately run out.
00:45:22A tragic way to end a great innings.
00:45:23Not all the great memorable performances have been in the Test Arena.
00:45:34Whilst he has played Test matches, one Australian player has carved out a reputation as the best in the world in the one-day arena.
00:45:41Often when matches seem lost, Michael Bevan carried his team to victory.
00:45:46But never more thrillingly than at the SCG in 1996.
00:45:50Got to be a chance if he hits it.
00:45:51He hits it, he's gone.
00:45:53Oh, what a catch.
00:45:54That is brilliant.
00:45:55Phil Simmons.
00:45:56And that's a poor shot from Stuart Law.
00:45:57Yes, I'll never forget that match because it really did seem another one of those games that Australia were going to lose by quite a long margin.
00:46:14They lost four wickets for very little.
00:46:17Went from bad to worse really.
00:46:18I came out at four for thirty-odd and then another couple of wickets tumbled.
00:46:23It's in the air and he's gone.
00:46:26Always bowled him.
00:46:28Well, he tried to...
00:46:30He went from four for thirty-odd to six for thirty-eight and then seven for seventy-odd.
00:46:34And Paul Reifel took a partnership on with Bevo.
00:46:39In the air and four.
00:46:40That is beautifully played.
00:46:45That's nicely played.
00:46:46That'll go for four as well.
00:46:53He's hit that one well.
00:46:55Beautifully struck.
00:46:56It's racing between the two fielders.
00:46:57Hit to the fence for four.
00:46:59You could see the calculator in his mind working.
00:47:02A little glance up to the scoreboard every now and again.
00:47:05Just keeping in mind how many balls there were to come and how many runs were needed.
00:47:08And always just there.
00:47:11It's been one of the sources of frustration for me.
00:47:14I've often wondered why he keeps it quite so close.
00:47:18But it's all to do, I'm sure, with taking as few risks as you possibly can and at the same time making sure you're in touch.
00:47:23Sweeping, he gets it fine.
00:47:26Beautifully played.
00:47:27Could go all the way.
00:47:28The man's coming around from backwards square leg.
00:47:30That's a magnificent fifty for Michael Bevin.
00:47:34Especially in the later overs, that's when the cat and mouse game starts.
00:47:39You're really trying to pick the bowlers that you think you're the best chance of scoring the runs off.
00:47:43Trying to farm the strike, I suppose, so you're protecting certain batsmen as well.
00:47:49So those last overs were very much like that until the last over.
00:47:53Looking back now, I can't even remember how many runs we needed off that last over.
00:47:58Where's that? He's gone! Good catch! It made wickets!
00:48:05When we got close, I still think deep down we believe we weren't going to get there.
00:48:11Come in!
00:48:14He's gone!
00:48:16Dan McGrath is not known for his batting, but he has such great confidence.
00:48:22Well, he was pretty relaxed when he came out.
00:48:24I think he knew that it was a tough situation.
00:48:27But, you know, I don't think, I mean, it obviously didn't get to him.
00:48:32I was just trying to work out how we could juggle the strike so we could get the, you know, the runs needed, really.
00:48:40And Roger Harper bowled the last over, which was a good thing from our perspective
00:48:44because it just meant that it gave us probably a little bit more leeway or latitude for when the new batsmen came in.
00:48:50Four runs for victory. Two balls remaining.
00:48:53And what are innings by Michael Brevin. Great support from Riepel and Healy.
00:48:58This young man's carried all before him, Michael Brevin, as somehow in the one-day games.
00:49:02Hasn't been out yet.
00:49:04And the crowd are chanting, giving him tremendous support.
00:49:08I know on the second last ball that Roger Harper bowled a very good ball for a spinner in a one-day match.
00:49:13He fired in at the leg stump a Yorker.
00:49:16And there wasn't actually anything I could do with that ball.
00:49:18And it was a case of, like, should I leave it to Glen to get the runs or should I get the runs myself?
00:49:24So, after playing a dot ball out and scoring no runs off it, I kind of thought, well,
00:49:29if he does get it right again, then it might be real tough to score the four we need.
00:49:33The men will go back inside the circle. They're right on the line.
00:49:37What was going through in my mind, I was trying to work out where was the safest place I could hit a four
00:49:41and my best chance of hitting a four.
00:49:44I had three options. I had over cover, which, where I would have to step back and give myself room
00:49:51and try and slash it over cover.
00:49:53The other area was over mid-wicket.
00:49:56And that way I'd just have to swing across the line of an off-spinner.
00:50:00I didn't really see that as being a safe shot.
00:50:01And then the other, the other area was straight.
00:50:05And that was just straight back over the, the umpire's head.
00:50:08He'll probably pitch it in towards the egg stump in the full.
00:50:11It's down and that's four!
00:50:14It's Nicky for Australia!
00:50:16What an effort! What a stroke!
00:50:18It's Michael Bevan's evening at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
00:50:21What a shot under pressure!
00:50:23I don't really show that emotion to tell you the truth as a general rule anyway.
00:50:28So, um, you know, a situation like that was just, I guess it was amazing for me.
00:50:33The crowd is going mad at the Sydney Cricket Ground and why not?
00:50:37We'd won a one-day game. It wasn't a final or anything like that.
00:50:40We'd won a one-day game that we should never have won.
00:50:42So that's always probably one of the greatest feelings you can have in any sport, I think,
00:50:46to win a game that you're never in and you never should win.
00:50:49As a result of what he did in that match, he became known as the finisher.
00:50:53In Australian Cricket because of his incredible ability to get his team,
00:50:58no matter what the circumstance, right up to the point where they can win the match.
00:51:02You've seen one of the all-time great one-day innings from a young man
00:51:06who's fought his way back into the Australian side and a full house goes berserk.
00:51:17Although Bevan will be remembered as a one-day batting specialist,
00:51:20he did trouble the West Indies in a test.
00:51:26Oh, he's had a go, that one, and that'll go to the fence for four like a rocket.
00:51:32Finding the gap nicely.
00:51:34And Bevan's about to have a go now, smashes that one down the ground for four.
00:51:37There he goes, and that's it. Back go the stumps.
00:51:43So Glenn McGraw is out-bowled and Bevan down the non-striker's end, not out 85.
00:51:50Well, he'd be pretty disappointed that he wasn't able to kick on and make his 100.
00:51:55But then again, perhaps he left that little flurry of ease a little bit too late.
00:52:01I picked Michael as the second spinner, which was a slightly controversial move
00:52:06because Michael at that stage was considered mainly a batsman
00:52:09who bowled a bit of left arm unorthodox type left arm Chinaman bowling.
00:52:12So, it was a bit of a controversial decision.
00:52:16And then we lost a toss. That was a real blow to me.
00:52:18I wanted to win the toss badly in bat.
00:52:21Got him! That's a beautiful catch! What a catcher!
00:52:24Mark Taylor is one of the best of all time.
00:52:27It was quite a different role for me, and I was fairly nervous going into the test
00:52:32because I had no idea how they would come out for me.
00:52:34I'd only been a part-time bowler up until that point in time.
00:52:37And he's not being picked either. He's got another one with the googly,
00:52:43and that was an excellent catch by Mark Taylor. He was down to that very quickly.
00:52:47I think the good thing about Tubby was he had a knack of knowing when to bring a bowler on,
00:52:52especially someone like me, a left arm leg spinner who bowled some good balls and some ordinary balls.
00:52:58I always had a lot of confidence in Bevo's bowling.
00:53:01I often knew he was going to bowl rubbish, but he was the sort of guy who could get wickets bowling rubbish.
00:53:05And he'd probably hate me for saying that, but I've seen Bevo bowl beautifully at times
00:53:10and not get anyone out because they actually treat him as a front-line spin bowler.
00:53:15He often took his most wickets when he bowled one or two half-trackers and over,
00:53:18and they thought, well, all I've got to do with this bloke is wait for the half-tracker and I'll hit a boundary.
00:53:23But then all of a sudden he'd bowl a good one, and you'd just drop your guard a fraction and bang, he's got you out.
00:53:27That was the sort of bowling bowler that Bevo was.
00:53:29God, I can't believe it. He's chipped it straight to mid-wicket.
00:53:35Almost the way he got out in Sydney and here in the first innings, just chipping the ball on the up.
00:53:41A soft dismissal game and a disappointing one for the West Indies and Jimmy Adams.
00:53:46I was bowling my wrong and pretty well at that stage.
00:53:49Probably I was bowling my wrong and better than my stock leg spin delivery.
00:53:52And so I don't think that there were too many batsmen that when I bowled could actually pick the wrong one.
00:53:59Now, when you're a leg spin bowler and they're not picking your wrong one, I mean, that gives you a tremendous amount of confidence.
00:54:09It's in the air and it should be caught. It's caught.
00:54:13He had his loop and bounce off the wicket all going and the West Indies just couldn't read him.
00:54:20It was a brilliant wrong one which the West Indies couldn't pick.
00:54:23The leg spinner, the left-hand leg spinner, threatened to spin a lot more than it did and that meant they got some outside edges.
00:54:30And, you know, we were all in good catching form.
00:54:32That match in Adelaide where he got ten wickets, he just landed it on the spot.
00:54:37The wrong end would turn, the leg spinner wouldn't and it would get the outside edge and Tubby or I would catch it.
00:54:42So, it was great and his form was great in that tour and then in a South African tour where he went to,
00:54:48he went through a little golden patch with the ball.
00:54:50That's out, straight to the Australian captain off the edge of the bat.
00:54:58Junior Murray has fallen and five wickets to Michael Bevan, terrific performance from Bevan.
00:55:05To tell you the truth, I really didn't want to be a bowler and I was just sort of making my way in the team
00:55:10and trying to make sure I cemented a position. So, I guess it was a way to cement a position but I really wasn't comfortable in that role.
00:55:17And looking back now, if I had my time again, I think I would have changed my attitude a little bit towards it
00:55:24because really I was bowling quite well at that stage and if I had maybe been not so stubborn about it
00:55:30and just enjoyed the process of what happened and, you know, how I got the wickets and just kept bowling
00:55:36and kept working out my game, then maybe I probably would have enjoyed that period a little bit more.
00:55:39So, the ten wickets was a great highlight but, I mean, scoring runs at that time and now is probably where it's at for me.
00:55:51Nine wickets for the match for Michael Bevan.
00:55:53Off the back of the bat, that's out and that's it. Australia retains the Frank Morrill Trophy.
00:56:00They won their ninth series against the West Indies.
00:56:04Patterson Thompson is out. Michael Bevan gets his tenth wicket of the game.
00:56:08He's had a terrific game. He's come in under a cloud and he walks away the hero at the Adelaide Oval.
00:56:13Ten wickets in the match, 85 not out and a very excited Australian team.
00:56:18Australia retains the Frank Morrill Trophy.
00:56:26Greg Chappell has a reputation for being one of the most elegant batsmen of the modern era.
00:56:32The former Australian captain was a prolific run-getter and an outstanding fieldsman.
00:56:36On his test taboo, he made a century. And when he walked out for the last time in 1984, he undoubtedly had milestones on his mind.
00:56:46Well, there was a lot of flair and a great deal of nostalgia attached to that match in 1984.
00:56:51Greg Chappell made the runs and then retired from the game. Dennis Lilley retired from the game.
00:56:58And on top of that, Rodney Marsh retired from test match cricket.
00:57:01The majestic innings Greg Chappell played to pass Bradman's test record was something for everyone to savour when they were at the ground or watching on television.
00:57:12And he batted then as he did so often for Australia around the world.
00:57:17Greg, there's a rumour going round that you're retiring from test cricket. Is that correct?
00:57:21Yes, I informed Phil Writings this morning that I'll be retiring from test cricket at the end of this game or international cricket.
00:57:26I won't be available for the one day internationals either.
00:57:28Any particular reason?
00:57:31Well, I think, you know, I think we all know when the day has come and I've found it fairly hard in the last few weeks to really get motivated and get my mind on the job.
00:57:40And I think from that point of view, not going to the West Indies is pointless playing in the one day games.
00:57:45It's a chance for somebody else to be given an opportunity.
00:57:49And yes, I decided to make that decision based on that.
00:57:53Quite an incredible scene. Greg Chappell cheered all the way up to the middle.
00:57:58Everyone off the backside, standing up, cheering him out to the middle.
00:58:03And this is his last test match.
00:58:07He needed 69 runs to beat Don Bradman or Sir Donald Bradman when he started that game.
00:58:15And he announced his retirement before the game.
00:58:17And, you know, that said something to me straight away.
00:58:22It's in the air but safe.
00:58:26And we'll beat Karzim away to the boundary.
00:58:29Greg Chappell's first boundary.
00:58:31And Australia moved to two for 75.
00:58:34I'd struggled a bit during the year. I batted down the order a bit during that season.
00:58:39Kim Hughes was captain in that series.
00:58:41And I spoke to Kim before the test match here.
00:58:43I knew it was going to be my last test match.
00:58:46I hadn't announced it to anyone else at that stage.
00:58:48But I asked him if I could bat it, bat up the order, bat in the normal position.
00:58:55Which he was quite happy for me to do.
00:58:59That's going to beat Mohsen and Karir over the boundary rope.
00:59:06It was fairly obvious once I started to bat in the first innings.
00:59:12Pakistan hadn't made a particularly big score.
00:59:14And I knew that if we could get a reasonable lead, we'd probably only bat once in the game.
00:59:19So I felt if I was going to do something, then I had to be in the first innings.
00:59:23And I can remember going out to bat.
00:59:25It must have been before lunch.
00:59:27I think perhaps half an hour or so before lunch.
00:59:29And Abdul Qadir was bowling.
00:59:31He was bowling quite well.
00:59:32There was a bit of turn in the wicket.
00:59:33And I would have looked pretty ordinary for a lot of that time.
00:59:37Because I didn't feel too comfortable.
00:59:38But I was just determined to make sure I got a start.
00:59:41He said I couldn't drag the concentration up like I used to be able to do it.
00:59:45And he said I knew there was only one way I could do it.
00:59:48And that was to say publicly that this is my last test match.
00:59:53He said then I knew in my own mind I really only had one more innings to make those 69 runs.
01:00:00Shot. Beautiful shot.
01:00:01He could tell just the way Greg approached most things that he set himself for something special.
01:00:09He knew it was going to be his last test match.
01:00:12He'd set himself for a big last game.
01:00:14There was no question about that.
01:00:16Qadir.
01:00:17And the misfield there by Saleem at backward point.
01:00:22Gives Greg Chappell his half century.
01:00:30Relief in the crowd.
01:00:32That's one milestone past.
01:00:34Greg Chappell's 32nd half century in test match cricket.
01:00:38The actual runs that took him past Bradman came from an overthrow.
01:00:41And I think it was Mohsen Khan who fired the ball.
01:00:44And as Greg ran down for the third knowing that he was going to get a fourth from this overthrow.
01:00:50He actually did a bit of a wide turn and he actually taps Mohsen Khan on the backside just as a thank you very much mate as he goes off for the fourth run.
01:01:00Which you know I mean for a guy who had this ability to concentrate like hell this was quite an amazing deviation for Greg to actually take this wide turn and tap him on the backside and say thanks very much mate for your help.
01:01:14Now it's his job to make these next four runs for Greg Chappell as difficult as possible to get.
01:01:27Safrez to Chappell again.
01:01:31Quick single.
01:01:32In comes Mohsen.
01:01:33He'll shy the stumps.
01:01:34Chappell's home.
01:01:35And they're overthrows.
01:01:37This could be it.
01:01:38Chappell turning for the second.
01:01:40He'll be back for the third.
01:01:41Hughes is flying.
01:01:42He'll come back for the fourth.
01:01:44And this run makes Greg Chappell the most prolific scorer of runs in the history of cricket in Australia.
01:01:5318,000 people rise to their feet.
01:01:57And cheer one of the greatest batsmen of all time.
01:02:01Works Modassa.
01:02:02There's the jump for the side.
01:02:03And they're the two.
01:02:04Kassim picks up.
01:02:05Chappell comes back for the second.
01:02:06And he has now scored 7,000 runs in test cricket.
01:02:12He's the first Australian batsman to reach that target and becomes the sixth batsman in the history of the game to have scored 7,000 runs.
01:02:25Once Greg got 50, 100, you could almost bet money on him making 100.
01:02:40Shot.
01:02:41Beautiful stroke.
01:02:42What a marvellous way to bring up 100 with the classic cover drive we've seen so often over the years from this great player.
01:03:01His wife Judy is so pleased she knows this is his last international game of cricket for Australia.
01:03:14A century to Greg Chappell.
01:03:16And what a magic moment for us all.
01:03:19Not only the people here at the Sydney Cricket Ground but the viewers throughout the Nine Network.
01:03:23I'm sure there's a tear in Judy's eye there because there's a few people around this ground with a lump in their throat.
01:03:28What a magnificent effort from one of Australia's all-time greats.
01:03:32The crowd are standing here at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
01:03:34It's a magic moment for us all and particularly for Greg Chappell.
01:03:38There was no real feeling of euphoria and it certainly wasn't in that game.
01:03:43It was more of relief that having sort of gone that far and got that far to finish it off and to sort of round off my cricket career in an even sort of way was, as I say, was more about satisfaction than anything else.
01:03:58And being involved in a successful team effort obviously it was an important part of that as well.
01:04:04So we're picking that hook shot up and a couple of bounces over the boundary.
01:04:17Got that through.
01:04:18The outfit is quicker over there.
01:04:19It's going downhill.
01:04:21Four more to Chappell.
01:04:24150 up for Greg Chappell.
01:04:27I guess the biggest thrill probably for all of us was the fact that Dad was there.
01:04:35I mean Dad and Mum were there.
01:04:37And when you know how much that Gene and Martin actually gave up to give us the best opportunity possible, the three of us, to play at that level, then I guess when something special like that happens and they're actually there to see it, then that's your way of thinking, well, you know, I have repaid them for all those things that they did for us when we were young.
01:05:03That's close.
01:05:04Yes, indeed.
01:05:05Kept a bit low, played across it, and I think it would have hit about middle and leg.
01:05:10And the whole crowd rises now to Greg Chappell.
01:05:17182 in his last test match innings.
01:05:30He made 108 in his first test match innings in Perth.
01:05:37182 in his last test match innings at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
01:05:43Former Australian captain, one of the greatest players ever to wear the baggy green cap and to grace the cricket field on behalf of this country.
01:05:57It's not uncommon for test matches to be won by huge margins. Hundreds of runs, eight, nine or ten wickets. Very few go right down to the wire.
01:06:16There were Australia's two tide tests, one against India, the other against the West Indies.
01:06:22There was also a game that became known as the closest test in history.
01:06:27Well, that's got to be out. Yes, he's got him. LBW.
01:06:34And that's gone. That was a loud nick.
01:06:36Shouts of catch it. Desmond Haynes has done it. Border walks. He doesn't even wait for the decision.
01:06:46And it's gone on to the stumps. Big shout, and he's been given.
01:06:53We still needed to make 180 odd. That was still quite a big score for that game.
01:06:58It wasn't a big scoring test match. So we had our work cut out, but we were never in the hunt really.
01:07:06I think we were eight for 80 at one stage in the play. So we needed 100 runs with two wickets left. So we were right out of the game.
01:07:13It's Tim May's birthday today. It's not quite the situation that he would have liked to have been in at the start of the day.
01:07:20Very much at the moment, it looks as though if anyone's going to be cracking champagne this evening, it's more likely to be the West Indies.
01:07:26There were two wickets left when I went out the bat, and I think we needed another 80 odd.
01:07:30And Justin Lang was in, and it was his first test. And I think he was about 30 or something night out.
01:07:36And he seemed to be hitting the ball pretty well.
01:07:43I think I only made six in the first innings, but I felt good. So I actually walked out there and feeling reasonably confident and relaxed.
01:07:49And when you're two wickets away and you need 80 to win, you haven't got a great deal to lose.
01:07:56That's going to be four runs for Tim May. That's a big hit. That's going high and wide. That's four.
01:08:04That brings up the 50 for Justin Lang. And what a beauty.
01:08:08I think Justin and I sort of took the score on to about 40 or 40 to go.
01:08:12And then Justin got out and I thought, we're in a bit of strife here.
01:08:16And then I looked up and saw Craig McDermott come out.
01:08:19And I thought, we're in a lot of strife here. We're in more than a lot of strife.
01:08:23Craig McDermott makes his way to the wicket.
01:08:25Excited because Australia, I guess, have got a swim chance now of winning this match.
01:08:31Walsh has not been used since T.
01:08:35So available.
01:08:37Big shout. Not out.
01:08:39Beats mid off. Kirtley Ambrose.
01:08:48McDermott's looking for three.
01:08:51And gets them.
01:08:54It's well run.
01:08:55It's nine for 162.
01:08:58We said to each other, whatever you do, don't look at the scoreboard.
01:09:02And just keep playing every ball on its merits.
01:09:05And if they're there, they'll come.
01:09:07But if we look at the scoreboard, then we might freeze up a bit.
01:09:11So we knew we were edging closer just because of the general crowd reaction and all that sort of stuff.
01:09:16But we weren't quite sure how close we were.
01:09:18But I must admit, it was about an over.
01:09:21Before I had a little sneak up at the scoreboard and thought,
01:09:24we are close here.
01:09:26It's in the air, but Desmond Haynes is too far back.
01:09:30And the missed field brings another run.
01:09:34Nine for 177.
01:09:36You always think it's nerve-wracking for the people out in the field,
01:09:39but I think it's worse for the other players watching from afar.
01:09:44I mean, you've had your chance, you've been dismissed, and you're up there,
01:09:47and you're just... nothing you can do about it but watch and bite your nails
01:09:51and play with your worry ball and hope the decision goes the right way.
01:09:54But, yeah, probably up until the last 15, 20 runs,
01:09:59you're basically expecting the last week to fall.
01:10:02And, you know, we don't really deserve to win because we had our opportunities.
01:10:06The batsmen should have done the job, but we didn't.
01:10:09Then all of a sudden, as you get closer, you start thinking, you know,
01:10:12the impossible might happen.
01:10:14So you do get your hopes up very highly.
01:10:16Yes!
01:10:18Driven shot.
01:10:19There'll be at least three here.
01:10:21Kenneth Benjamin, hobbling along after the ball.
01:10:24He'll just get it.
01:10:26Three runs to Tim May.
01:10:28Six runs required for Australia.
01:10:30And the tension is really rising here.
01:10:33Sporting people are very superstitious, and where they like to admit it or not,
01:10:37every run we got closer, you wanted to move but you couldn't move
01:10:40because if you moved you'd break the spell type thing.
01:10:43So everyone was just glued to their seats and not moving.
01:10:46Someone would get up to go get a drink or go to the toilet at the end of the over
01:10:49and, like, ten other blokes or nine other blokes would push them back to their seat.
01:10:52Just wait.
01:10:53Like, no one's moving.
01:10:54He's driven it.
01:10:55It's in the air.
01:10:56Richie Richardson dives.
01:10:57He can't get to it.
01:10:58And Australia survive.
01:10:59Short one again.
01:11:00It's in the air.
01:11:01But Desmond Haynes is in the wrong position.
01:11:02Will they go back for the tying run?
01:11:03No, they don't.
01:11:04184.
01:11:05One run away from the tie.
01:11:06We only need two runs to win or one run to tie.
01:11:07And even a tie would have meant we couldn't have lost the series.
01:11:20Oh, he's tried to avoid it.
01:11:24It's hit the bat.
01:11:25And he's gone.
01:11:26And the Test match has been won by one run.
01:11:29I can't believe it.
01:11:30The West Indians are delighted.
01:11:32Craig McDermott is so disappointed.
01:11:34It's been a magnificent effort by both sides here today.
01:11:38Courtney Walsh is absolutely delighted.
01:11:41The Australian dressing room will be decimated.
01:11:43I've been in a few sort of dressing rooms where we've lost cricket matches
01:11:46and it's, you know, like a mortuary and everyone's really down the down.
01:11:49But that particular one, we knew we'd had a great opportunity
01:11:53to beat the West Indies in a Test series.
01:11:56And to go sort of agonisingly close
01:11:59and a little bit of a controversial decision to end the match
01:12:03just made a real tough pill to swallow.
01:12:07And the West Indian players have had so much frustration today
01:12:11trying to bowl the Australians out for less than 185 runs.
01:12:15They've done it by exactly one run.
01:12:24For bowlers, nothing can compare with taking a Test hat-trick.
01:12:28There have been several taken by Australian bowlers over the past few years.
01:12:32And without exception, they've been enjoyed by cricketer and fan alike.
01:12:37Yeah, I think it was over three days, over three overs, over two innings.
01:12:42So it was a pretty interesting one.
01:12:44I reckon there'd be one better point to taking a hat-trick,
01:12:47just actually knowing at the time that it was a hat-trick.
01:12:50The first wicket in the hat-trick was the last ball of, I think, my 36th over in the first innings.
01:13:00And there we go.
01:13:02The first ball of my 37th, which was the close of innings.
01:13:07And that's out.
01:13:09And that's the end of the innings.
01:13:11And Merv Hughes has now picked up his fifth wicket of the innings.
01:13:17And then the first ball of my first over in the second innings,
01:13:20which was a day and a half later or something.
01:13:22So it was just, it was unbelievable.
01:13:25We got onto the ground and Geoff Lawson had just been hit.
01:13:30Oh, and that's hit him a nasty blow.
01:13:33In fact, it's gone onto the stumps, I think, the ball.
01:13:39That's hit him a nasty blow.
01:13:41Geoff Lawson had just been felled by a bouncer
01:13:44and got a very, very badly broken jaw.
01:13:48And in the dressing rooms, we were pretty pumped.
01:13:51We had to go out there and bowl the last few overs of the day, I think it was,
01:13:57at the West Indian Openers.
01:13:59Bob Simpson came up and said, listen, five overs to bowl.
01:14:02You're going to bowl three of them.
01:14:04Let's get out there.
01:14:05Let's get the ball up there in line and length.
01:14:08We might get a couple of wickets.
01:14:09All right, yeah.
01:14:10Alan Border came up and said, listen, big fella, you're going to start.
01:14:13And at that time, I think he called me Gronk
01:14:15because he reckons I look like a caveman.
01:14:16So Gronk, you're going to start.
01:14:18I want you to get that ball in the Corridor of Uncertainty.
01:14:21And I'm sitting there thinking, Corridor of Uncertainty?
01:14:23Where is that?
01:14:24I've got no idea.
01:14:25In those 10 years, I don't know.
01:14:26I've still got no idea.
01:14:27And then Craig McDermott was 12th man, fielding for Geoff Lawson.
01:14:31As we're walking onto the ground, I was thinking line and length, line and length,
01:14:34Corridor of Uncertainty.
01:14:35Where is that?
01:14:36And McDermott came up and put his arm around me and said, what are you going to do here?
01:14:39I said, I'm not sure.
01:14:40He said, should bounce a shot out of him.
01:14:42Good idea.
01:14:43And Merv was as fired up as I've ever seen him.
01:14:46And he was keen to sort of exact some revenge for Geoff Lawson being struck.
01:14:53And so I can remember him sort of just getting really pumped up for this first delivery of
01:15:00the second innings.
01:15:04I think everyone expected a searing bouncer.
01:15:07Probably Gordon Greenwich was probably thinking that as well.
01:15:11Because you could feel the atmosphere.
01:15:12It was pretty tense as a result of Geoff being hit.
01:15:16And us going out there to, you know, have a dash at him in these last few overs.
01:15:21So I think he outfoxed everyone.
01:15:24I think most of us would have been ducking and weaving just knowing, you know,
01:15:27with Merv's eyes spinning, steaming in to bowl that first ball,
01:15:31that it would be a bouncer.
01:15:33Hughes on a hat-trick.
01:15:41And he's got it.
01:15:42Merv Hughes, a hat-trick.
01:15:50What a performance.
01:15:51It looked absolutely plumb.
01:15:57Merv Hughes has struck.
01:16:01What a moment for him.
01:16:02The Australian team, we were just pumped up.
01:16:04And to get rid of a batsman of Greenwich's capabilities and status was just huge.
01:16:10And I might have gone over the top looking at footy.
01:16:12I must admit, I could have gone way over the top.
01:16:15He gave Gordon a bit of a send off Gordon Greenwich.
01:16:18Gordon didn't want to go.
01:16:19I don't know whether he stunned or he disagreed with the decision,
01:16:22but he was hanging around like a bad smell.
01:16:24And so Merv just told him exactly where the pavilion was and got stuck into him a bit.
01:16:28And there was some, let's say some lingering animosity from that particular incident for a little while.
01:16:34It was a pretty sort of electric moment when we went into their rooms after the game, after the day's play.
01:16:40And Merv and Gordon were there and I don't think either were speaking to each other and everyone felt pretty uncomfortable with the whole scene.
01:16:48But these things happened and you look back at that and have a bit of a laugh about it.
01:16:53When we got Greenwich out we thought, if we get another one here the big fella's got a hat trick.
01:16:57And the next ball I bowled with Richie Richardson and it would have been two foot outside off stump I suppose,
01:17:02because I was a little bit nervous because I thought I was on a hat trick at that stage.
01:17:05And he sort of played and missed and there was a half shout, no bad luck.
01:17:08But at the start of my next over, Tony Dottomate bowled the second over.
01:17:12At the start of my next over I was walking up and Steve Waugh came up from slip and got my hat in my jumper and just said,
01:17:16I think you've got a hat trick.
01:17:17I said, what are you talking about?
01:17:18He said, I'm pretty sure, did you get Patrick Patterson?
01:17:20And I started to think about it and I said, no, I don't think so.
01:17:23And he said, oh yeah, we just heard on the PA system, so you've got one.
01:17:26And then my next two overs were just absolutely tripe because I said, I'm going to test a hat trick.
01:17:31I was pretty excited with that.
01:17:35Six down for 91.
01:17:37Warham continuing.
01:17:38No ball ever forgets a hat trick if he's lucky enough to get one.
01:17:42I was lucky enough to get one Boxing Day test match again, 1994.
01:17:46It was against England.
01:17:48And the first victim, I suppose, was Phil De Freitas.
01:17:51So I follow the ball as one of those ones that hit something in the wicket and go straight.
01:17:56Oh!
01:17:57And they hit the pad.
01:17:58Yes, he's got him.
01:17:59That's out.
01:18:00De Freitas is out.
01:18:01LBW.
01:18:02Everyone jumps around and goes, well, ball, well, what was that one out the front of the hand?
01:18:05Oh, yeah, yeah, that's the one that just bowls straight.
01:18:06Through the fingers, through the fingers, goes straight on.
01:18:09Doesn't seem, oh, right, right, right, yeah.
01:18:11Oh!
01:18:12And they hit the pad.
01:18:13Yes, he's got him.
01:18:14That's out.
01:18:15LBW.
01:18:16That hit the pad.
01:18:17You don't tell them it wasn't the leg break that didn't turn.
01:18:19You don't tell them that, though.
01:18:20But that was the first one.
01:18:22Well, De Freitas was gone, and in came my good friend, Darren Goff.
01:18:25And he took centre.
01:18:26I'm at the top mark.
01:18:27Shining the old ball up.
01:18:28And he's got a little bit of looks up.
01:18:30Bit of a smirk on his face.
01:18:31He was a real goer.
01:18:32And was obviously going to have a bit of a try and whack me around with a bat.
01:18:36So I think about what to bowl.
01:18:38I decide I'm going to bowl a leg break.
01:18:39Anyway, came into bowl.
01:18:40Curves in the air a little bit.
01:18:41Spins a little bit.
01:18:42Oh, that's out.
01:18:43Caught behind.
01:18:44Yes, he's got him.
01:18:45Fastball.
01:18:46Goffey was good enough to nick it.
01:18:50And Heels took a very, very good catch behind the stump.
01:18:52So there was two gone, and I was on a hat-trick.
01:18:55So what do I do?
01:18:56Normally you don't really truly believe deep down that you're going to get the hat-trick.
01:19:00Or I don't, anyway.
01:19:01This time it's Devon Malcolm walking in the bat.
01:19:04And we thought, oh, we're a chance here.
01:19:05So I go and see my old friend Damien Fleming, who was standing at mid-off.
01:19:08He had got a hat-trick in his first test in 1994 in Pakistan.
01:19:11So I said, Fleming, Fleming, what do you do?
01:19:13What do you do?
01:19:14I've been on a hat-trick.
01:19:15I've never got one.
01:19:16What do you do?
01:19:17And he said, well, just picture what you want to do, and then just go and do it.
01:19:19I think we all counselled him a little bit.
01:19:20We all had an idea of what he should bowl.
01:19:22But by that stage, Shane had played about three or four years of Test match cricket and was
01:19:25doing very well.
01:19:26And we knew the way he was bowling, he was going to have it all over the poms.
01:19:30So out comes Devon Malcolm, who I'm sure Devon wouldn't mind me saying is not the greatest
01:19:35batsman of all time.
01:19:36And here was a chance for Shane Warne to take a hat-trick at the MCG in front of his home
01:19:41crowd.
01:19:42Beautiful day.
01:19:43Good crowd in.
01:19:44Perfect opportunity.
01:19:45And Devon Malcolm on strike.
01:19:47Like, you don't get a better opportunity.
01:19:49So we're all saying, Warnie, bowl your flipper.
01:19:51People were saying, no, no.
01:19:52I think I said, just bowl a leg spinner to him.
01:19:54Someone said, bowl a rongan.
01:19:56There was all sorts of people saying what he should bowl.
01:19:59Here we go.
01:20:00Fleming took the last one.
01:20:02Merv Hughes before him.
01:20:04Yes!
01:20:05Oh, he's got him, Mr Corning.
01:20:07Yes, he has.
01:20:08He's got him.
01:20:09It's a hat-trick.
01:20:10That's a hat-trick.
01:20:11That's a hat-trick to Shane Warne.
01:20:13A great moment in his career.
01:20:16What a catch by David Boone.
01:20:18That was just fantastic.
01:20:19We all ran around, hugged each other.
01:20:21The Aussies are all around.
01:20:23And have a look at that.
01:20:24Fleming alongside Warne there.
01:20:27I was shaking.
01:20:28I thought, jeez, how good is this?
01:20:30Finally, I got a hat-trick.
01:20:31And touch wood.
01:20:32Hopefully, there's another one around the corner.
01:20:33That's a hat-trick to Shane Warne.
01:20:35A great moment in his career.
01:20:37Well, Glenn McGrath wrote the script for his hat-trick.
01:20:42He said the day before, I'd like Sherwin Campbell for 299.
01:20:46Brian Lara would be nice for 300.
01:20:48I don't know whether he's talking hat-tricks, but he just put those two together.
01:20:52It was special for me because it was only my second year of commentary.
01:20:57And I was given a chance to be on commentary for ball-by-ball with Shane Warne, who was
01:21:03out injured.
01:21:04And he was one of our mates out trying to get a hat-trick.
01:21:08That's out.
01:21:09That's 299 test wickets for McGrath.
01:21:13And that was a good one.
01:21:15Just short of a length to Sherwin Campbell.
01:21:18Tried to play the ball down the leg side.
01:21:20A bit of extra bounce.
01:21:21And maybe just a bit of seam.
01:21:22And a good, healthy as to Ricky Ponning at first slip.
01:21:24Brian Lara.
01:21:25Got the wood on him at the moment.
01:21:26He's got a bit of an injury.
01:21:28He can sniff it, Hidge.
01:21:31Gone.
01:21:36He's dropped him, it's out.
01:21:37First ball, Glen McGrath.
01:21:40There's 300.
01:21:41The perfect scenario.
01:21:43Brian Lara came to the crease.
01:21:45Glen McGrath right on the spot.
01:21:47Pitched about, middle and leg.
01:21:48Went away.
01:21:49A good, thick outside edge.
01:21:51And Glen McGrath's got 300 test wickets.
01:21:54Well-bowled.
01:21:55Absolute champion, Glen McGrath.
01:21:57Beautifully bowled.
01:21:58He gets Brian Lara.
01:21:59First ball for 300 test wickets.
01:22:01And out came Jimmy Adams, the West Indies captain.
01:22:04With Glen McGrath a chance for a hat-trick.
01:22:06It's fair of thought for this man, Jimmy Adams.
01:22:08Coming in to face Glen McGrath.
01:22:10On a hat-trick.
01:22:13He's just seen his opening batsman fall.
01:22:15He's just seen Brian Lara fall.
01:22:17And here he is facing a hat-trick.
01:22:22It's out!
01:22:23Got it!
01:22:24Glen McGrath's got it!
01:22:25It's a leading edge.
01:22:26Straight up in the air.
01:22:27And that's a hat-trick.
01:22:29He wasn't on 300 test wickets for long, Glen McGrath.
01:22:32A simple leading edge.
01:22:33Justin Langer the catcher.
01:22:35And that's 301.
01:22:36Well, we'll just put three out of one.
01:22:38What an unbelievable scene here at Perth.
01:22:40The crowd's going off.
01:22:41The Australian team's going off.
01:22:43Glen McGrath can't believe it.
01:22:44It is all happening, as Bill Lorry would be saying.
01:22:47And really, when he bowled the ball, I thought that was a rubbish delivery.
01:22:51It was aimed at his hip.
01:22:53It was pretty much down the leg side.
01:22:55Jimmy got himself in an awkward position.
01:22:59Spooned it up to bat pad where he was caught.
01:23:01And I think we all got very excited.
01:23:03And I know I got excited during the commentary.
01:23:05And then I looked at it and I thought, well, it wasn't a great delivery.
01:23:08But speaking to Glen after the game, he said that that was their plan.
01:23:12To get Jimmy Adams out.
01:23:13They felt that he was played, stood very open.
01:23:16But by the time he actually faced up, he got very side on.
01:23:19And made it difficult for him to score on the leg side.
01:23:21So the plan was to bowl him something on the hip.
01:23:24Because he would find it difficult to play.
01:23:27Sure enough, that's where Glen bowled it.
01:23:29And that's where the catch went.
01:23:31And a hat-trick for Glen McGrath.
01:23:33McGrath's got an uncanny, confident knack.
01:23:35Sort of starting to pick his marks.
01:23:37And against the top sides, he targets either the captain
01:23:41or the threatening opening batsman.
01:23:43And so far, it's worked well for him.
01:23:46Glen McGrath, 3 for 10 so far.
01:23:48He's heading down to his fine leg where he's going to field.
01:23:50And the crowd down there will go berserk.
01:23:53Let's see the thumbs.
01:23:54Let's count how many times he puts the thumbs up to the crowd here, Tubbs.
01:23:57There's one.
01:23:58It could be a few.
01:23:59And why wouldn't he enjoy it?
01:24:01Soak it up, Pidge.
01:24:02You've enjoyed it, mate.
01:24:03Great effort.
01:24:04300 wickets.
01:24:05A hat-trick.
01:24:06Unbelievable stuff here at the Whacker.
01:24:20pink waves.
01:24:21flexing the drum amp.
01:24:22Deep, take some music.
01:24:23On every way!
01:24:24Ajax!
01:24:25The hot water!
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01:24:28It could be a big one!
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01:24:35And the first part!
01:24:36It could be a big one!
01:24:37The most part!
01:24:38The one part!
01:24:39The main part!
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