Before helmets !!

[Niteguy705]

awesome slide show

[maverickkris84]

@Niteguy705 haha i can see the sarcasm

[mobyuv]

I remember the bodyline tour well I was'nt actually their but it smacked I think bert elfer in the head and almost killed him. Imagine how secary it'd be to verse the west indian fast bowlers

[mizofan]

Oh the great Pakistan cricketer Majid Khan hammered the fearsome West Indies attack all over in the winter of 76-77but a bouncer from Andy Roberts got him and his cousin Imran thought he was never quite the same again.

[mizofan]

Batsmen today, eh? Helmets and body gear!!! They should take 20 runs off each innings they wear em. We ad it toof when i were a lad, you got eet on t'ead by an Andy Roberts 150 mile an hour bouncer you carried on without battin an eyelid. Nowadays, you'd have Kylie Minogue roaring in from Vauxhall Lane end in a tutu with a tennis ball and the softies 'd be so kitted out in armour it'd make the French at Agincourt blush. Whatever next? Cheerleaders?

[jawsboris72]

so you like people dying in cricket do you? in case you havent noticed a cricket ball is rather hard and when hit in the head at 150+km/h it doesnt do to much go to you. i'd rather be called soft and still hitting sixes than be dead

[mizofan]

Baaaaah! Stuff and nonsense and utter balderdash. I didn't get where i am today without a regular dose of cricket balls to the head, and it never did me any harm. Character building, that's what it was, like 5 mile runs in the snow at dawn, cold showers and a jolly good thrashing. Such noble traditions made the British Empire- without which India, Pakistan and other fortunate outposts would have been deprived of the great game that distinguishes the true gentleman from the spineless bounder.

[jawsboris72]

it was alrite 20 years ago cause the bouncer was used less, as 'bodyline' was still a little not cricket, especially aiming at their head. pitches also didnt have the bounce they do now. in 1949 three people in international cricket died as a result of a ball to the head. i dont want that to happen in cricket, i would rather a batsman look comfortable knowing that they wont die. also it takes a bloody fast bowler to knock someone out, like lee in the windies.

[darkmossie633]

LOL!

this is CJ in "Life and times of Reggie Perrin"

like it, though there are undertones of

reality if you went to public school in

his era

-well, the 1950's, roughly!

[XOlleyX]

where you are today? You're talking like a World War One fighter pilot, i say you're severely concussed and need some help... 150mph to the head? you'll be hitting sixes... Six feet under!

[mizofan]

Tosh and piffle, XOlleyX, i can assure you i'm in the rudest health, and there's not been a single airforce pilot from either great war whose handlebar moustache can hold a candle to my own magnificent bristling specimen. Dennis Lillee knew he'd met his match the moment he clapped eyes on it; his fire fizzled out; force of will, old boy

[XOlleyX]

you make me laugh, you are a funny 108 year old...

[Designerboy66]

Ha ha ha. You have obviously baited somebody. I don't know about 150 mph though, more like 150k.

[alzaamil]

it hasnt hit him.....was close.....

[sh33n0]

what happend after that....lol

[fanimw]

after that they invented helmet

[mrsamoa69]

lol