Robin Smith 91 v India, Perth, 1992 World Cup

[jebdiben]

can you please put the entire highlights of this match

[simonbodd]

Seeing this video you can see that Srinath's action changed dramatically during his career!

[amitavinashsingh]

ludocrat, you better be kidding otherwise I'll smash you. Get this correct, Robin 'God' Smith is Englaish, not South African.

[MattDoubleRainbow]

thats my uncle :)

[tonybasumatary]

javagal srinath... indian opening bowler

[JFK2684]

boundry line is so big those days.. these days boundry is so freaking close, anyone one could hit a six easily...

whos that bowler in the beginning, he has good bowling action

[Camelsarse]

I remember the innings against the WI (i think edgbaston) where England crumbled and he stood alone, there was no one on that team braver to stand up to the WI quicks.........and there certainly isn't anyone in the England team now. I wonder how the new generation of batsmen would react to a true fast bowler on a demon pitch................

[TheMaverickanupam]

This is classic cricket-Long boundaries, Fast pitch(of course its WACA)4 runs per over,batsman needs to work hard even against mediocre bowling because of juice in the wicket-Love it

[TheMaverickanupam]

Can u plz load the complete match-Tendulkar believes the leg cutter that got rid of him(bowled by Botham) is one of the best balls he has ever faced.

[a2b4c6d8]

Ah, Robin Smith. One of the most underrated batsmen of the last 20 years. His records would be up there with the top batsmen of today's era, had he been playing today against inferior bowling attacks and batting-friendly pitches.

Just a quick question: Who's the Aussie commentator at 2:35? His voice sounds familiar, but can't remember the name. I believe he commentated in the recent India vs Australia ODI series in India

[dynamite1976]

Brilliant batsman.... in my lifetime I would say he was the best I've seen! This lot we have today are just show-ponies who are playing against rubbish bowling attacks compared to those faced by Smith. He would of out averaged all of them in this era if he was around.

[MCBhangramuffin]

@dynamite1976

Too true! Convert the bowling Smithy faced in the 90s, to the rubbish on show nowadays and he'd average 54, not 44. Atherton would've been over 40 as well

[TheSinnical]

i didnt watch Judge much but later i got to know that he was terrific against WI quicks...that made me respect him....this innings is against an ordinary attack...also 1990s was when cricket was at its best...so many good bowlers...the reasons i made this vid as my fave.

[TeflonTron]

Robin Smith is still my favourite Cricketer of all-time.

[Powerhous]

Best square cut in world cricket, and not as bad against spin as some people think - most people suffered against Warne!

[dmpcornwall]

He would have flourished under Duncan Fletcher.

[IanGorton]

I didn't even know this game was shown in Australia

[dougjardine33]

He gave an afterdinner at our cricket club and was a great speaker. I had the pleasure of meeting him and he's a quality bloke.

[Bagpuss76]

Robin Smith was my first favorite cricketer as a kid....such a brave cricketer!

[loderchris]

Me too.

[RaviKings]

isn't all aussie cricket grounds massive! it took yrs for the ball to reach the boundary. i cant imagine any1 hitting sixes

[harshaphukan]

Robin Smith was fantastic against the quicks!

I remember the time when he cut the South African attack to ribbons in a one-dayer (he scored 160 odd!!)

But he was equally terrible against quality spin. The tour to India in 1993 badly exposed this. Then came the Ashes when Warne and Tim May got the better of him. That was the beginning of the end for who I consider to be one of the best players of fast bowling.

[Camelsarse]

Quite agree. Problem is, is that Ray Illingworth and the people in charge seemed to do nothing to help the man.

He had a good 6-8years left at test level.

Could never quite believe how the Ramps, Crawleys, Knights and the Hicks of this world got chance after chance and the Judge got nowt!

[ludocrat]

"Classic South African Innings"! (kidding :)

[doriadorialiverpool]

haha lol

[englandsonemanarmy]

:) Haha!

[Camelsarse]

I tell ya, there aren't amny batsmen around today that were as good as this bloke against the quicks.

Bowling today is substandard compared to the 80's generation!

[custardtart101]

Robin Smith - great player, bravest England batsmen of his generation, he loved to take on the quicks.....

[kil93]

was a good batsmen in an era when bowling was world class. would be world class if he played today against th quality of bowling

[meesawdemha]

your right graham gooch is another as well as graeme thorpe and david gower