The premise of Cricket Clips is to host very short video clips of some favourite cricketers from days past in action. It's all very well remembering someone inspirational like Michael Holding, but he last bowled twenty years ago and it's great to be able to visualise the run up, the action, etc.
- IMPORTANT: The clips are (nearly) all at 352 by 288 pixels, which is half full-screen resolution for UK TV. If your browser starts showing them in a tiny window at the bottom of your Internet Explorer left-hand (Media) bar, just click on the 'undock player' button and drag the video window somewhere suitable on your screen... After viewing each clip, leave the video window on-screen, to save having to keep undocking and moving it!
- You'll need a fairly fast connection. Even at half full-screen size, each six second clip takes up over a Megabyte. If you're on a dial-up modem, you'll have to be patient for each clip to download!
- It seems that for many people, the seamless playback of these clips has been ruined by Microsoft's Service Pack 2 security tweaks. If you find you can't play these clips directly, or can't work out the settings needed, try right-clicking them and downloading them to a 'local' file on your hard disk instead.
- Hopefully, you'll get some enjoyment out of these clips, too. Technically, they're all lifted from the television, so I guess they're copyrighted, but a) they're VERY short (some as short as a second or two!), b) information on the original broadcast companies is mostly long gone, and c) there's no commercial interest here. It's all just for fun...
- If you have a favourite cricketer from days gone by and would like to submit a similar clip (max size 4MB please), feel free to get in touch at slitchfield A T gmail.com
- Last site update Sep 2007
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Batsmen and All-rounders
Ian Botham, batting, huge
six at Headingley, 1981, from his most famous innings, botham.mpg, 1.1MB, plus typical bowling success,
botham2.mpg, 1.5MB
Geoff Boycott, never a man of extravagant shots, but superb concentration, boycott.mpg, 4.5MB
Donald Bradman, the master batsman and record breaker, bradman.mpg, 2.7MB
Greg Chappell, a great back foot player, gregchappell, 1.0MB
Sunil Gavaskar, the tiny master, with impeccable concentration and great timing, gavaskar1.mpg, 1.3MB
Graham Gooch, a powerful and confident hitter, gooch.mpg, 1.3MB
David Gower, a stylish left-hander and intelligent player, gower.mpg, 1.5MB
Gordon Greenidge, batting, 1976, a cricket ball has never been hit so hard, greenidge.mpg, 1.2MB
Richard Hadlee, bowling, early eighties, incredible accuracy, hadlee.mpg, 1.1MB
Imran Khan, bowling, 1987, very fast
even though this was near the end of his career, imran1.mpg 2.2MB, imran2.mpg,
1.4MB
Also batting, very watchful and a great player of spin,
imran3.mpg, 1.1MB, and imran4.mpg, 1.5MB.
Inzamam-ul-Haq, a moody Pakistani batsman of great talent, inzamam.mpg, 1.4MB
Javed Miandad, tremendously innovative at the crease, always ducking and diving and trying something new, javed.mpg, 560K, javed2.wmv, 2MB
Kapil Dev, a surprisingly powerful Indian all-rounder, here shown batting, kapildev.mpg, 450K
Brian Lara, a precocious talent that was never fully realised, lara.mpg, 1.4MB
Clive Lloyd, batting, mid seventies, a huge bat and perfect timing, clivelloyd.mpg, 0.7MB
Majid Khan, batting, mid seventies, fearless strokemaking, majid.mpg, 1.8MB
Graeme Pollock, superb timing that was never seen much in Test circles, due to his South African origin, graemepollock.mpg, 1.8MB
Mike Procter, 'bowls at 100mph from mid-off off the wrong foot'(!), procter.mpg, 0.8MB
Barry Richards, another South African, who we thankfully saw quite a bit of over here in County Cricket, with every stroke in the book and who hit the ball surprisingly hard, barryrichards2.mpg, 2.2MB and barryrichards3.mpg, 0.8MB
Viv Richards, batting, late seventies, classic and improvised shots, viv0.mpg, 1MB, viv1.mpg, 0.9MB, viv2.mpg, 0.9MB, richards4.mpg, 2.0MB
Gary Sobers, batting, the best all-rounder of all time? sobers.mpg, 1.8MB
Glenn Turner, a New Zealand
batsman of great patience and classical style, turner1.mpg, 3.0MB and turner2.mpg, 1.9MB
Mark Waugh, a stylish Australian, markwaugh.mpg, 1.6MB
Zaheer Abbas, stylish Pakistani from the seventies, zaheer.mpg, 1.1MB
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Bowlers (only)
Bishen Bedi, the master spinner, bedi.mpg, 0.7MB
Chandrasekhar, with one arm withered by polio, a whippy and unique spinner, chandra.mpg, 2.0MB
Alan Donald, genuine speed and great rhythm, donald2.mpg, 1.0MB
Joel Garner, bowling, 1977-ish, a giant of a man, the 'Big Bird', garner.mpg, 1.2MB
Wes Hall, deadly aggression, wes.mpg, 0.8MB
Michael Holding, bowling,
1976, probably the fastest bowler in the modern era and poetry in motion to
watch, holding1.mpg, 1.9MB, holding2.mpg, 1.6MB, holding3.mpg, 1.1MB - see also The Fastest Over Ever
Merv Hughes, a big, big Australian, mervhughes.mpg, 1.0MB
Harold Larwood, larwood.mpg, 2.4MB
Peter Lever, curving run-up and super slingshot action, peterlever1.mpg, 760K
Dennis Lillee, bowling, seventies, raw energy and aggression, lillee.mpg, 0.8MB, lillee2.mpg, 3.4MB, lillee4.mpg, 2.4MB
Ray Lindwall, lindwall.mpg, 760K
Malcolm Marshall, bowling, early
eighties, all bustle and energy, marshall.mpg,
1.1MB
Kerry O'Keefe, an always-interesting leg-spinner, okeefe.mpg, 1.4MB
Chris Old, bowling, mid seventies, lovely smooth, accelerating run-up and action, chrisold.mpg, 1MB
Andy Roberts, speedy round-arm energy, roberts.mpg, 1.1MB
Shoaib Akhtar, the fastest bowler in the world over the last few years, shoaib1.mpg, 0.8MB, shoaib2.mpg, 1.1MB, shoaib3.mpg, 0.6MB,
John Snow, again a lovely smooth, accelerating run-up and genuinely fast action, snow.mpg, 1MB, snow2.mpg, 1MB
Jeff Thomson, fearsome pace from a huge slinging action, thomson.mpg, 0.6MB, thomson2.mpg, 0.6MB
Fred Trueman, untiring energy on a diet of English stodge(!), fredtrueman.mpg, 1.1MB
Frank Tyson, the action of the fastest bowler to ever live? tyson.mpg, 1.1MB
Derek Underwood, underwood.mpg, 1MB
Waqar Younis, not the fastest of world fast bowlers, but with an almost unplayable yorker, waqar1.mpg, 0.9MB, waqar2.mpg, 1.8MB, waqar3.mpg, 1.0MB
Wasim Akram, bowling, one of Imran's proteges, a fast, whippy and intelligent left-armer, wasim.mpg, 0.9MB
Bob Willis, bowling, 1981, willis.mpg, 0.7MB
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Cricket clips site idea and presentation is (C) Steve Litchfield, 3-Lib, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008.