i don't know if you guys believe this. But he actually coached our youth cricket team and he was such a great guy and I learned a lot from him. He truly inspired me. I live in raleigh, NC-USA
IF YOU STILL DON'T BELIEVE GO ON WIKIPEDIA AND READ LAST PARAGRAPH ABOUT HIM!
Thats a classic. No helmet , no pads and facing a fast bowler. That man got balls and he beings shame to the most of the current day cricketers and that includes sachin
@tonythekingfisher: no he wasn't. He may have been very aggressive on field - but thats his nature. He was excellent for Aus and a prick for opposing teams. Just what you want in your team !!
There are few better players of the hook & the pull than Alvin Kalicharan. Just imagine, Dennis Lillee, without the helmet, hooking him for 6, my god. Courage, conviction & a lot of class. A hallmark of Caribbean Cricket ....
ps. check out the stylistic Roy Fredricks on youtube. Only one other player comes to my mind for elegance and alomost "regal" batting class and that is Mohsin Hasan Khan. Sadly, cricket lost him to marriage .......etc etc.
Alvin Kallicharan is one of the great West Indian batsmen of the 70's. By the way I was told that he was the player of the World Cup cricket 1975 player of the tournament. I don't know how true that his but he is still considered a true West Indian great.
@xajactor Alvin Kallicharan stands with the greatest West Indies batsmen. I remember when Clive Lloyd brought his team in 75 or 76 to India. The lineup was Greenidge, Fredricks, Kallicharan, Richards, Lloyd, Murray, Roberts, Boyce, Julian, Gibbs and Holder. What a fantastic team it was they won the series 3-2.
@rodtorre7 He is from Guyana of indian heritage. Guyana has a large indian population. Other prominent cricketers of indian origina form guyana include Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Rohan Kanhai
@Thor17 And Warwickshire. He spent so long in the UK I think he might even have been eligible to play for England by the time he retired from first-class cricket at the end of the 1990 season. Bearing in mind by that time England were using such terrifying forces as Bill Athey... I think you can see where I'm heading with this :)
AS for this innings, Lillee got him on 78. His strike rate was 93. Useful innings, hardly one that rates as an all time great. You see innings like these every frigging season for christs sake. Kallicharan's test average was 44 - a useful batsman but nowhere near top line. Compare the great Dennis Lillee's career, 355 test wickets over 70 tests at 23. He's regarded as one of the all time greatest fast bowlers ever. BTW did you know Kalicharran made 12 in the 1975 final of this series?
@brizfightfan Dude..Kalli was a sublime batsman, a touch player of the highest standard. He has almost 5000 runs and 12 centuries. He has been out in the 90s 9 times ! He has also played all over the world and scored well in all countries - dear Dennis ,undoubtedly a great bowler, never played in the subcontinent except once in Pakistan where i think he went wicketless. Cricket would have poorer without the Kalli chapter !
@brizfightfan This is the reason where Stats could be deceiving - in those days they didn't play enough matches where a player on a hot streak would make up for weak showing. Rohan Kanhai had a test avg of 47 and he is acknowledged as one of the all time greats. Alvin Kallicharan was a superb batsman by any standards.
This is ridiculous. Kallicharan faced Lillee in test cricket once in 1973 - the test Lillee broke down in and was out for 18 months. 75/76 test series. 1st test Lillee had him out for 4. 3rd test out for 32, 6th test out for 44. Thompson had him out 3 times that series for under 10, Cosier got him once also in single figures. He averaged 38 in that series. Of course we all know he avoided WSC in 77 - 79, preferring to lead the second string WI team.
@brizfightfan yea he avoided WSC because he wasn't a sellout. Maybe he should have because the WI took all the rebels back into the fold and hung Kalli out to dry.
i have seen kallicharan in 1979 at eden gardens kolkata. he captained windies and was pretty much near the end of his career. even then, i remember his batting.
@maxlogica You're not wrong. Rod Marsh was probably the greatest sportman (in the true sense of the word) ever. Witness the way he recalled Derek Randall in the Centenary Test when he thought he'd grounded the catch.
@ashtree50 Also if you watch the underarm incident he is shaking his head hinting is not happy at whats about to happen jusyt search for 'cricket disgraceful' on here
@maxlogica Yea, seen that before and loved the head-shake. The guy is just possibly the most honest sportsman ever. Strange thing about Aussie wicket-keepers - Gilchrist and Langley were also top-notch in terms of playing the game. Very sadly I can't think off-hand of any English players who tick that box.
@ashtree50 David Gower was and is still a gentleman who was surrounded by ignorant oafs like Botham, Lamb and Gatting during the 80's....he at least played the game in the right spirit.
this is a fantastic display of batsmanship and vintage guts.... no helmet, no elbow guard and facing a genuine fast bowler of the calibre of Denis Lillee.... it is fantastic. I have watched him play in the end of his career when he led a West ndian team to India in 1979 or maybe a yaer later... I am not sure.
@binorakesh. I understand your statement of "Era when Indians began to believe they were not ineferior to the Whiteman," however, Kallicharan is from Guyana and in the Caribbean especially Jamaica we have a different mindset. The Majority of us never believed we were inferior to the Whitemen plus Kalli grew up facing very-fast bowlers in the Caribbean during our first class seasons.
Kalli is an Indian from Guyana not Indian so we/they think differently.
The main reason why Australia did win that series 5-1 against an emerging West Indies side featuring a young Viv, Roberts, Greenidge, Holding on his debut tour at the time is because they were poor bias Australian umpiring. That's why since then it took Australia another 19 years to beat the West Indies in a test series.
@paulbav : It is not bravado or machismo. That is how the game was played back before the 80s. No one wore any helmets or arm guards or whatever. All they had were the pads, the box and gloves. I am not sure how old you are but obviously we come from different generations. I understand why the players nowadays wear all the protective gear. There is money to be made and they can't afford to be off. I don't blame them but cricket just isn't the same.
@crazyhumans agree! batsman are getting hit more nowadays because of the helmet!! They rely too much on the gears than their instincts as they used to. Cricket has lost its character....
BelaruslsFun you are on cloud cuckoo land if you think windies were the best at this time (1975). Chappelli, the puppet master and Greg, the puppet captain, THRASHED the windies 5-1. WSC came and there was transfer to the windies in that they became the world power accelerated by the WSC - ACB split. As an aside, Thommo, Holding and Lillee would be my pick for the best fast bowlers of all time. Only on a batting track could the top 6 make it past 100 against that attack
I was 12 when I started being a cricket fan and I watched aus destroy Eng in the '74/75 series. I didn't know about the World Cup - probably because of the Aussie Rules Footy season consumed me during the oz winter - then summer came and the WI got absolutely destroyed 5-1. I knew nothing of this, just that Aust was almighty. then at 14, it all collapsed. WSC and all these boys were playing in pajamas
@yaartz WI had a consistently better record in the WSC games than Australia with both countries playing with most of their best cricketers...and right after WSC, they beat a full-strength Australia IN AUSTRALIA in a test series and didn't lose to them for a number of years. So, if you're implying that WI got ahead of Aus because of WSC, that's not true, they got ahead because they were better than Australia's best (including Lillie and the Chappels).
@ConcreteLake They were breaking in a young Michael Holding, after the series they very quickly retired Holder and Boyce. I believe Bernard Julian stuck it out for one more season but then they onboarded Joel Garner and with an attack comprising of Roberts, Holding, Garner and Julian they destroyed England in England. Julian went out to make way for Malcolm Marshall and I don't think we have seen a pace quartet like that since then.
Check out Lillee's test victims...all the great batsmen of his era. In 1975/76 (after this game) he and Jeff Thomson routed the Windies 5-1 in the test series. He took 355 wkts in 70 matches, average 23.92. Against the Windies, the best team from c 1979, his average was over 27 or 25.34 if you discard his 1st test against them when he had a chronic back injury. Hardly 'overrated'
They became great later but in 1975/76 (after this game in 1975) Australia crushed West Indies 5-1 in a 6 match test series. West Indies dominance began about 3 years later
What a master - all wrist and finesse and twinkling footwork - a litttle genius hooking the fast men to the furthest boundaries! what a privilege it was to be alive to witness such pure, innocent and noble destructiveness!
I have played against Alvin Kallicharan (he played for Dunnington in the York league). He was a great sportsman and a total gentleman, which is more than I can say for a racist like you.
@MrHistorian123 I'm related to Alvin ; Alvin Stardust "Oh wont you be my Cooca -Choo ....i love you yes i love you yes i ..i love ma Cooca ; Pretend your happy when your blue..it isnt very hard to do.." etc.
@kallis100 Is this Rohan Kallicharan by any chance? If so, then please let your Dad know that we are very grateful for the memories. Another champion WI batsman from the seemingly bottomless West Indian reservoir of greats!
We lost too - but it didn't help that Collis King (also a member of the WI 1979 World Cup winning team) was also in the Dunnington side that beat us. Two World Cup winners in a club game seems a BIT unfair. Both are lovely people though - Collis is still playing there, making centuries for fun. Pleased to hear that Alvin is still playing; he's one of my heroes.
When he goes in for tea, Collis puts his bat on the ground and it stands up on its own - it's that wide. I couldn't lift it. It MUST be 4lbs+.
I remember playing Dunnington and thinking "how many other club teams can boast not one, but two world cup winners?" Both Alvin and Collis were magnanimous in victory (the normal state of affairs) and, on one memorable occasion when we beat them, very gracious in defeat. But they're cricketers - true sportsmen.
I saw Lillee at the Centenary test at Lords in 1980 and he was FEARSOME! Not quite as fast as Michael Holding, but even as a pretty good club cricketer, I would have taken leg guard to him - square leg to be exact. And the thought of facing him with NO HELMET is simply terrifying. Doing this to him is almost superhuman.
And all this from a man who just about comes up to my chest.
@tonythekingfisher I played against Dunnington 3 years ago they had Collis King playing for them. At his age to still be playing at premier league standard is incredible.
Kallicharan had a brother Derick who was a club professional for my cricket team in the early 80's.He was no mug with the bat either.Like a feckin cheetah fielding in the covers.
he didn't do so well later that year when windies were thrashed 5-1 in the test series in australia. lillee and thommo butchered the WI batting order of greenidge, fredericks, richards, lloyd, rowe, kallicharan etc in that series. for all their swagger, viv and co didn't like it up 'em. actually no batsman does, which is what's missing from the game currently
Kallicharan was a brilliant hooker of the ball.Only a little fella really as well.watching that though i have ton say was Lillee really fit??? He didnt look in the run up to be on top form fitness wise to me
ianpafc... good question about Lillee's fitness. I reckon he was fit all right. Remember it was before he remodelled his run-up and had professional sprint training from Austin Robertson Sr. After that training, Lillee's run-up was so rhythmical and incredibly imposing. His delivery action was always amazing to watch but it got better as his career went on.
But Kallicharan was a superb batsman and a great player of the hook and pull shots. He was great to watch also.
@tahirphysio --------brave ! you knew the dangers and you countered to suit. I have faced fast bowling in the days of no helmet -I did not even wear pads or if I did it was one pad on the front foot and bouncers trained us to hook and pull -no pads meant playing off the legs was more about survival so skills were developed to counter
Kallicharan was little but Tallawah. He seemed 2 have so much time, largely due 2 his footwork and him being accustomed 2 the Fiery Pace on offer in the WEST INDIES' domestic season. The West Indies semmingly had an assembly line of Great Batsmen and GENUINELY FAST BOWLERS. Hopefully these days will return. The Cricketing world will be better for it...
''The West Indies semmingly had an assembly line of Great Batsmen and GENUINELY FAST BOWLERS. Hopefully these days will return. The Cricketing world will be better for it...''
Amen! Windies are the only team in the Western hemisphere that can compete with Eng, India, and all others. It is so good to have a team that can represent all of us in the Americas. How I long for the return of the good old days of WI cric!
Amen. I do envision the days of true West Indies Dominance. Lets hope these youngsters and those fast bowlers lining up in the Domestic Competitions can bring it a-new. The West Indies' humbling @ the hand of the Aussies made them go out and get their own and the world was never the same. I remember them facing their own bowlers in First Class Cricket those were classic battles...
Fine player, no doubt, but the most complete batsman of the 70s? Ahead of G.Chappell, Viv Richards, Rohan Kanhai, Gavaskar, C.Lloyd and Boycott?
I don't think so. His game against spin wasn't as good, by the way. What you could have said was that Kalli was one of the finest against pure pace and I would have agreed.
I know..What I was saying is he wasn't as good as say Lloyd, Sobers, Ian Chappell or Gavaskar in playing spinners. Also his game against spin wasn't as good as his game against pace.
Also in his last 20 tests, Kalli registered just 1 century (2nd inns. Adelaide against Lillee and Pascoe). If you have an overall look at his career, he'd go down as one of the finest batsmen of the 1970s!
Great as he was against pace,he was better aaginst spin. As for his record, the WI sent him in early if the pace was fiery to protect Richards, then dropped him down the order if things were good.He stood alone when the WI would collapse (Lloyd included) . I was living in the WI and remember those years vividly. They hounded him out of the WI Team in the later period, hence the effect on his batting.
I didn't know that..Thanks for sharing. No doubt it was a team of great players. I am an Indian and my Dad always used to talk about how good Lloyd was against spinners and was the last man standing with the tail against the Indian spinners on real turners.
But your piece of info about Kalli's last few innings comes as a revelation to me. I am pretty sure that a player of such calibre deserved better treatment than being shuffled about in the order to suit team strategies!
In those days the WI was infamous for collapsing, only Kallicharran would stand and bat, often getting out in the 90's (he has the most in Tests). Lloyd came at # 6, and was like Gayle, making the occasional big hitting innings but Kalli was the rock. After the WI discarded him he scored tons of runs in the following English county Season, like Bradman.
man i so would loved to have been around in those days when the windies attack were the benchmark of cricket. what has happened to the coachin in the carribean these days. walsh and ambrose were the last of class bowlers the wi ever produced, ever since no one has quite measured up and thats putting it nicely
islandman makes a good point about batsmen's helmets and protective armour these days- perhaps there should be a rule deducting 10 runs from each innings they wear them, that would make things interesting. Monty Python field day: We 'ad it toof when i were a lad, men were men, none of your namby pamby stuff today; god they even need cheerleaders. In old days if you got 'eet on t 'ead by an Andy Roberts 150 mile an hour bouncer, you carried on without battin an eyelid. These yoong uns todaay..
Not the sort of thing that happened to Lillee very often! He was one of the handful of greatest fast bowlers- good on Kalli, a really memorable knock. Well done for putting this on here.
He was a supreme strike bowler..Had the tendency to over-attack and get carried away sometimes, as in this occasion. Just like your very own Waqar Younis :)
I agree. Cricket has become such a wussy sport with the batsmen looking like American Football players. Helmets and bodyguards and arm guards and every other guard you can imagine.
@crazyhumans what is with all the bravado and machismo. why does every person have to prove their manliness (stupidity) by not wearing protective gear?
yup. guess you'll have to take that poster of lille down. you know, the one hanging a good 10-20 feet under kallicharan's poster in your bed room.
don't feel bad though. all this time, the whole lille being an actual man thing was a facade. he's really a butch lesbian with hormone issues...and this video proves it. notice the way in which he walks away after getting hammered on each delivery like the shriveled vagina that he is.
brilliant brilliant batting. A this best Kalicharan was an outstanding talent, so under rated and unheard of these days. The most effortless players I have seen were Majid Khan and Alvin Kalicharran, Gower too was very good if not quite able to domintate the fastest bowlers. Around 1980 Imran really sorted out Kalicharran by bowling was faster than his West Indian team mates. But here Kalli taught the Aussies a lesson. Simply brilliant.
Quick bowler, bouncy wicket yet Kalli had all the time to hook him easily to the boundary. Best batting i've seen by the little man and great footage from the 75 world cup..
The only man to bowl 100mph is a Pakistani ? Do you mean that chucker Shoaib Akhtar? The 1979 competition was a bowler competition, not a chucker competition
At this point in mid-75, Lillee and Thompson were bowling easily at over 100 mph, and were crazy. But Clive Lloyd and Alvin Kallicharan taught them a lesson in the WC that year, and so did Vivi
I played with Alvin a few years ago before he retired, even at 60 he ran about 15 laps of a sports complex every day :P great man
AdamDCC 1 week ago
my nuts r itchy
royman019 2 months ago
Those were the days... of carefree cricket. Interesting fashion as well, unbuttoned shirts, long hair... great to watch
novicefred 2 months ago
i don't know if you guys believe this. But he actually coached our youth cricket team and he was such a great guy and I learned a lot from him. He truly inspired me. I live in raleigh, NC-USA
IF YOU STILL DON'T BELIEVE GO ON WIKIPEDIA AND READ LAST PARAGRAPH ABOUT HIM!
DaCoolestNerdXD1 2 months ago
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DaCoolestNerdXD1 2 months ago
Thats a classic. No helmet , no pads and facing a fast bowler. That man got balls and he beings shame to the most of the current day cricketers and that includes sachin
TheEuphony69 2 months ago
awesome
kandiyal13 3 months ago
@tonythekingfisher: no he wasn't. He may have been very aggressive on field - but thats his nature. He was excellent for Aus and a prick for opposing teams. Just what you want in your team !!
asifnzaidi 4 months ago
One of the greatest of all West Indian batsmen. Completely unsung, but awesome nonetheless! Thanks for the post.
das2761 5 months ago
There are few better players of the hook & the pull than Alvin Kalicharan. Just imagine, Dennis Lillee, without the helmet, hooking him for 6, my god. Courage, conviction & a lot of class. A hallmark of Caribbean Cricket ....
theimanghosh 5 months ago
ps. check out the stylistic Roy Fredricks on youtube. Only one other player comes to my mind for elegance and alomost "regal" batting class and that is Mohsin Hasan Khan. Sadly, cricket lost him to marriage .......etc etc.
TheNomadintime 5 months ago
Harbourne cricket club never had a such a good player.
MENSFORTHHILL99 6 months ago
Yeah without helmet OMG... Pakistani :)
qadirabbasi 6 months ago
I love it that you can see right up the Harleyford Road...
markbailey1970 8 months ago
only west Indians can pull this kind of stint !!!!
No helmet and butchering a world class fast bowler
TheEuphony69 8 months ago
Jesus no helmet either! Wow!
Akupara1 9 months ago
Check Kalli, no helmet, these guys had guts and skill. Also check Lillee's run up and delivery, just beautiful.
Stryker563 9 months ago
u cannot compare the old brigade with the new boys.
then -> little protection
now -> now, well if you know cricket you know the score.
not to mention pitches
the game has changed, some may argue "evolved."
for modern day players thank God for helmets, else Kallis, Lara et al would all have been seriously hurt by people like Shoaib.
TheNomadintime 9 months ago
@TheNomadintime Yep ppl like Shoaib, because of all the steroids
perfectdevin 8 months ago
Alvin Kallicharan is one of the great West Indian batsmen of the 70's. By the way I was told that he was the player of the World Cup cricket 1975 player of the tournament. I don't know how true that his but he is still considered a true West Indian great.
xajactor 10 months ago
@xajactor Alvin Kallicharan stands with the greatest West Indies batsmen. I remember when Clive Lloyd brought his team in 75 or 76 to India. The lineup was Greenidge, Fredricks, Kallicharan, Richards, Lloyd, Murray, Roberts, Boyce, Julian, Gibbs and Holder. What a fantastic team it was they won the series 3-2.
r8rdarklord 6 months ago
Those were the days my friends
We thought they'd never end
We sang and danced forever and a day
We lived the lives we choose
We fought and never loose
Those were the days
Oh yes those were the days
clakiej50 11 months ago
@clakiej50 wow man you started that little poem great but it sounded really shitty after
perfectdevin 8 months ago
Kallicharan sounds like INDIAN NAME? But i never heard Indian batsman with that name which team is he playing for
rodtorre7 1 year ago
@rodtorre7 He is from Guyana of indian heritage. Guyana has a large indian population. Other prominent cricketers of indian origina form guyana include Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Rohan Kanhai
KingFahtah 1 year ago
@KingFahtah Alvin Kallicharran played for Guyana and the West Indies.
Thor17 11 months ago
@Thor17 And Warwickshire. He spent so long in the UK I think he might even have been eligible to play for England by the time he retired from first-class cricket at the end of the 1990 season. Bearing in mind by that time England were using such terrifying forces as Bill Athey... I think you can see where I'm heading with this :)
InvictaKent 9 months ago
AS for this innings, Lillee got him on 78. His strike rate was 93. Useful innings, hardly one that rates as an all time great. You see innings like these every frigging season for christs sake. Kallicharan's test average was 44 - a useful batsman but nowhere near top line. Compare the great Dennis Lillee's career, 355 test wickets over 70 tests at 23. He's regarded as one of the all time greatest fast bowlers ever. BTW did you know Kalicharran made 12 in the 1975 final of this series?
brizfightfan 1 year ago
@brizfightfan Dude..Kalli was a sublime batsman, a touch player of the highest standard. He has almost 5000 runs and 12 centuries. He has been out in the 90s 9 times ! He has also played all over the world and scored well in all countries - dear Dennis ,undoubtedly a great bowler, never played in the subcontinent except once in Pakistan where i think he went wicketless. Cricket would have poorer without the Kalli chapter !
pique62 1 year ago 2
@brizfightfan This is the reason where Stats could be deceiving - in those days they didn't play enough matches where a player on a hot streak would make up for weak showing. Rohan Kanhai had a test avg of 47 and he is acknowledged as one of the all time greats. Alvin Kallicharan was a superb batsman by any standards.
r8rdarklord 6 months ago
This is ridiculous. Kallicharan faced Lillee in test cricket once in 1973 - the test Lillee broke down in and was out for 18 months. 75/76 test series. 1st test Lillee had him out for 4. 3rd test out for 32, 6th test out for 44. Thompson had him out 3 times that series for under 10, Cosier got him once also in single figures. He averaged 38 in that series. Of course we all know he avoided WSC in 77 - 79, preferring to lead the second string WI team.
brizfightfan 1 year ago
@brizfightfan yea he avoided WSC because he wasn't a sellout. Maybe he should have because the WI took all the rebels back into the fold and hung Kalli out to dry.
jumbybird 7 months ago
Such fast footwork - he really had Lillee rattled by late in that over.
roostewrum 1 year ago
i have seen kallicharan in 1979 at eden gardens kolkata. he captained windies and was pretty much near the end of his career. even then, i remember his batting.
dodul65 1 year ago
Denis Lilee was fearsome. To think that batsman did not wear helmets in those days. Kallicharan was a great cricketer. Fond memories
citizenfess 1 year ago 3
Helmets, anyone?
mikeydread62 1 year ago
Dennis Lillee got raped !!!!!
I miss that hook shot. Too bad we dont see that anymore
TheEuphony69 1 year ago
Rod Marsh clapping as he walked off I think speaks volumes.....
maxlogica 1 year ago
@maxlogica You're not wrong. Rod Marsh was probably the greatest sportman (in the true sense of the word) ever. Witness the way he recalled Derek Randall in the Centenary Test when he thought he'd grounded the catch.
ashtree50 1 year ago
@ashtree50 Also if you watch the underarm incident he is shaking his head hinting is not happy at whats about to happen jusyt search for 'cricket disgraceful' on here
maxlogica 1 year ago
@maxlogica Yea, seen that before and loved the head-shake. The guy is just possibly the most honest sportsman ever. Strange thing about Aussie wicket-keepers - Gilchrist and Langley were also top-notch in terms of playing the game. Very sadly I can't think off-hand of any English players who tick that box.
ashtree50 1 year ago
@ashtree50 David Gower was and is still a gentleman who was surrounded by ignorant oafs like Botham, Lamb and Gatting during the 80's....he at least played the game in the right spirit.
maxlogica 1 year ago
this is a fantastic display of batsmanship and vintage guts.... no helmet, no elbow guard and facing a genuine fast bowler of the calibre of Denis Lillee.... it is fantastic. I have watched him play in the end of his career when he led a West ndian team to India in 1979 or maybe a yaer later... I am not sure.
dodul65 1 year ago
awesome player ,playing hook shot without helmet
djhaijfl 1 year ago
these men dont put on helmets yet dennis lillee was such a quick bowler natural talent 4 more my goodness
benji1275 1 year ago
@binorakesh. I understand your statement of "Era when Indians began to believe they were not ineferior to the Whiteman," however, Kallicharan is from Guyana and in the Caribbean especially Jamaica we have a different mindset. The Majority of us never believed we were inferior to the Whitemen plus Kalli grew up facing very-fast bowlers in the Caribbean during our first class seasons.
Kalli is an Indian from Guyana not Indian so we/they think differently.
iron2468 1 year ago
an indian
historyoftube 1 year ago
Alvin Kallicharan like his uncle Rohan Kanhai before were both superb batsmen in their own right.
mongoslay 1 year ago
The main reason why Australia did win that series 5-1 against an emerging West Indies side featuring a young Viv, Roberts, Greenidge, Holding on his debut tour at the time is because they were poor bias Australian umpiring. That's why since then it took Australia another 19 years to beat the West Indies in a test series.
mongoslay 1 year ago
My goodness, what a magnificent batsman...Dennis must have had a lot of respect for this fella after the game .... ..
fjbutch 1 year ago
the Great OLD cricket is gone...
what we play now is science :(
redmalli 1 year ago
he's easing thru the covers. How can he play such great hooks with no helmet?? :)
dogzrgood 1 year ago
this marked an era when Indians truly started believing that they are no inferior to white people both physically and intellectually.
binoyrakesh 1 year ago
@paulbav : It is not bravado or machismo. That is how the game was played back before the 80s. No one wore any helmets or arm guards or whatever. All they had were the pads, the box and gloves. I am not sure how old you are but obviously we come from different generations. I understand why the players nowadays wear all the protective gear. There is money to be made and they can't afford to be off. I don't blame them but cricket just isn't the same.
crazyhumans 1 year ago 2
@crazyhumans agree! batsman are getting hit more nowadays because of the helmet!! They rely too much on the gears than their instincts as they used to. Cricket has lost its character....
howsit666 1 year ago
All without a helmet... another player royally screwed by the West Indies.
jumbybird 1 year ago
BelaruslsFun you are on cloud cuckoo land if you think windies were the best at this time (1975). Chappelli, the puppet master and Greg, the puppet captain, THRASHED the windies 5-1. WSC came and there was transfer to the windies in that they became the world power accelerated by the WSC - ACB split. As an aside, Thommo, Holding and Lillee would be my pick for the best fast bowlers of all time. Only on a batting track could the top 6 make it past 100 against that attack
yaartz 1 year ago
I was 12 when I started being a cricket fan and I watched aus destroy Eng in the '74/75 series. I didn't know about the World Cup - probably because of the Aussie Rules Footy season consumed me during the oz winter - then summer came and the WI got absolutely destroyed 5-1. I knew nothing of this, just that Aust was almighty. then at 14, it all collapsed. WSC and all these boys were playing in pajamas
mistersmith6000 1 year ago
@yaartz WI had a consistently better record in the WSC games than Australia with both countries playing with most of their best cricketers...and right after WSC, they beat a full-strength Australia IN AUSTRALIA in a test series and didn't lose to them for a number of years. So, if you're implying that WI got ahead of Aus because of WSC, that's not true, they got ahead because they were better than Australia's best (including Lillie and the Chappels).
ConcreteLake 1 year ago
@yaartz or I should rather say they became better very quickly after the 5-1 mauling during which most of their future superstars were very raw.
ConcreteLake 1 year ago
@ConcreteLake They were breaking in a young Michael Holding, after the series they very quickly retired Holder and Boyce. I believe Bernard Julian stuck it out for one more season but then they onboarded Joel Garner and with an attack comprising of Roberts, Holding, Garner and Julian they destroyed England in England. Julian went out to make way for Malcolm Marshall and I don't think we have seen a pace quartet like that since then.
r8rdarklord 6 months ago
the last six is a beauty
ashwinipc84 1 year ago
both lillee and alvin look more like film stars than cricket players - with their buttoned down loose shirts.
reckz420 2 years ago
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Dennis Lillee was a very over rated player
tommyau2006 2 years ago
sort of like sachin tedulkar
murkygreen 2 years ago
Check out Lillee's test victims...all the great batsmen of his era. In 1975/76 (after this game) he and Jeff Thomson routed the Windies 5-1 in the test series. He took 355 wkts in 70 matches, average 23.92. Against the Windies, the best team from c 1979, his average was over 27 or 25.34 if you discard his 1st test against them when he had a chronic back injury. Hardly 'overrated'
miketreacyful 2 years ago
@tommyau2006 wanker!
goldenfool1971 2 years ago
But judging by the thumbs down you are being rated very accurately.
noteatpig2getha 2 years ago
Yes, facing Lillee as he torn in at you can't have been much fun.
mikeydread62 2 years ago 2
This was at the oval in 1975-I remember it well. Alvin pulverised Lillee it was great to see. Never seen anyone treat Lille like that.
widlad7 2 years ago
@widlad7
See the Sobers 254 video clip against australia and world XI. That was pulverisation
gatesrocks 2 years ago
not seen that one iwill check it out. Sobers was the greatest of them all.
widlad7 2 years ago
"destroys" is a bit strong haha.... I believe Dennis lived another day
plarter 2 years ago 2
yeah but the WI team of this era was so far ahead of Australia. The WI team was The greatest team of all time!
BelarusIsFun 2 years ago
They became great later but in 1975/76 (after this game in 1975) Australia crushed West Indies 5-1 in a 6 match test series. West Indies dominance began about 3 years later
miketreacyful 2 years ago
I was lucky enough to have a training session with Alvin a year or so ago. He is still mustard!
mattsicles 2 years ago
that 2nd hook shot @ 1.54 is the best of lot!!....
@dogevpr2.....didnt know this....but Richards used to play fast bowlers quite well i think
TheSinnical 2 years ago
What a master - all wrist and finesse and twinkling footwork - a litttle genius hooking the fast men to the furthest boundaries! what a privilege it was to be alive to witness such pure, innocent and noble destructiveness!
levdt 2 years ago 2
its remarkable how with minimal protection, and bouncers flying at them, guys like kallicharan can stand tall and hook them for six. thats class.
lankylankan 2 years ago 2
No helmets those days.....facing bowlers like Lilee.....man that requires guts and skill.
abc507 2 years ago 6
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Dennis and Bret Lee are my heros and still are they rule and dont diss
you try batting agaist them they will rape you
kieranfly10 2 years ago
then Kallicharan for your Dennis and Gale for your Bret
;)
amkt20 2 years ago 9
@amkt20 due respect..AK was in a whole other class..gayle simply doesnt measure up..
avinashfar 9 months ago
right on, bro
Fredfrenger 2 years ago
yeah they are kind of gay
lankylankan 2 years ago
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ha ha ha ha that fuckin aussie faggot lillie getting twatted by a wog.
southsieed 2 years ago
I have played against Alvin Kallicharan (he played for Dunnington in the York league). He was a great sportsman and a total gentleman, which is more than I can say for a racist like you.
tonythekingfisher 2 years ago 73
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Suck his dick in the showers did you ? Tony the faggotdickheadfisher
southsieed 2 years ago
Southsieed: While don't you crawl back under your rock, you obnoxious little fuckwit.
tonythekingfisher 2 years ago
HAHA, you go tonythekingfisher!! southsieed, what a prick!!!!
204274 2 years ago
@tonythekingfisher am humbled by your comments Tony. Feel free to look at my profile and you will see why.
kallis100 1 year ago
@kallis100
Are you related to Alvin?
MrHistorian123 1 year ago
@MrHistorian123 I'm related to Alvin ; Alvin Stardust "Oh wont you be my Cooca -Choo ....i love you yes i love you yes i ..i love ma Cooca ; Pretend your happy when your blue..it isnt very hard to do.." etc.
kenfig 1 year ago
@kallis100 Is this Rohan Kallicharan by any chance? If so, then please let your Dad know that we are very grateful for the memories. Another champion WI batsman from the seemingly bottomless West Indian reservoir of greats!
Imrankniazi 1 year ago
@tonythekingfisher I've just played on the same team as him today, for my Grandad's cricket team against Pevensy cricket club. We still lost, though.
FelixBexhill 1 year ago
@FelixBexhill
We lost too - but it didn't help that Collis King (also a member of the WI 1979 World Cup winning team) was also in the Dunnington side that beat us. Two World Cup winners in a club game seems a BIT unfair. Both are lovely people though - Collis is still playing there, making centuries for fun. Pleased to hear that Alvin is still playing; he's one of my heroes.
MrHistorian123 1 year ago
@tonythekingfisher collis king played for them as well
djsimmy 1 year ago
@djsimmy
He still does, with enormous distinction.
MrHistorian123 1 year ago
@MrHistorian123 good stuff. does he still use a bat at like 4lb lol
djsimmy 1 year ago
@djsimmy
When he goes in for tea, Collis puts his bat on the ground and it stands up on its own - it's that wide. I couldn't lift it. It MUST be 4lbs+.
I remember playing Dunnington and thinking "how many other club teams can boast not one, but two world cup winners?" Both Alvin and Collis were magnanimous in victory (the normal state of affairs) and, on one memorable occasion when we beat them, very gracious in defeat. But they're cricketers - true sportsmen.
MrHistorian123 1 year ago
@tonythekingfisher That's pretty awesome! I regret not having witnessed any of these matches (wasnt even born then) :( :(
Can't imagine Lillee taking a hiding like this. Esp considering his speed and accuracy..
yaitsmenaren 1 year ago
@yaitsmenaren
I saw Lillee at the Centenary test at Lords in 1980 and he was FEARSOME! Not quite as fast as Michael Holding, but even as a pretty good club cricketer, I would have taken leg guard to him - square leg to be exact. And the thought of facing him with NO HELMET is simply terrifying. Doing this to him is almost superhuman.
And all this from a man who just about comes up to my chest.
MrHistorian123 1 year ago
@MrHistorian123 Which team did you play for sir? May I know your name? :)
yaitsmenaren 1 year ago
@MrHistorian123 and he wa quicker in 1975 ...so tell me did u see Imran is 1982 in UK,...how was he ?
AIMANALI 1 year ago
@tonythekingfisher I played against Dunnington 3 years ago they had Collis King playing for them. At his age to still be playing at premier league standard is incredible.
jr280188 8 months ago
@tonythekingfisher Dennis Lillee is the most racist man i've seen in the world....oh snap!!!
khanshamim1 8 months ago 8
@khanshamim1 You've never been to India then, where there are 1.2billion people more 'racist' that Lillee ever was.
lazaglider 5 days ago
Skillz! On today's pitches, this kind of thing is ordinary. But then so is Cricket today.
velvetfog 2 years ago
playing without helmet againist lillie ..wow
bharathreddy74 2 years ago 2
Kallicharan had a brother Derick who was a club professional for my cricket team in the early 80's.He was no mug with the bat either.Like a feckin cheetah fielding in the covers.
NHazel1 2 years ago 2
he didn't do so well later that year when windies were thrashed 5-1 in the test series in australia. lillee and thommo butchered the WI batting order of greenidge, fredericks, richards, lloyd, rowe, kallicharan etc in that series. for all their swagger, viv and co didn't like it up 'em. actually no batsman does, which is what's missing from the game currently
mikepumpkin 2 years ago
What is he saying at 2:29/2:20? it sounds like "stupid fellow" hehehe ?
gobots75 2 years ago
most talented batsman..stupid fellow! haha
dancehallraja 2 years ago
"This little fellow"
nadses 2 years ago
Yes he is of Indian descent. Born in Guyana. Just like me :)
shrum777 2 years ago 3
Kallicharan is an Indian surname. I'm guessing he is of Indian descent.
HemantPatelGuru 2 years ago 4
west indies had so many legends for real pick a world 22,, from 1968 to 1988...it would 22 west indies players no doubt
harris211279 2 years ago
I think this was the record at the time, 18 runs off an over, the record is now 36
frogmonster12 3 years ago
Kallicharan was a brilliant hooker of the ball.Only a little fella really as well.watching that though i have ton say was Lillee really fit??? He didnt look in the run up to be on top form fitness wise to me
ianpafc 3 years ago
ianpafc... good question about Lillee's fitness. I reckon he was fit all right. Remember it was before he remodelled his run-up and had professional sprint training from Austin Robertson Sr. After that training, Lillee's run-up was so rhythmical and incredibly imposing. His delivery action was always amazing to watch but it got better as his career went on.
But Kallicharan was a superb batsman and a great player of the hook and pull shots. He was great to watch also.
cricketbatty 3 years ago 2
No helmets, no arm-guards; brave or stupid, or just ignorant???
tahirphysio 3 years ago
skilful
grezzbop 3 years ago 9
They didn't exist! If there were helmets, they'd have been terribly heavy and restrictive of sight at the time.
At least he had a box...
welshfinn1 2 years ago
@tahirphysio --------brave ! you knew the dangers and you countered to suit. I have faced fast bowling in the days of no helmet -I did not even wear pads or if I did it was one pad on the front foot and bouncers trained us to hook and pull -no pads meant playing off the legs was more about survival so skills were developed to counter
asiba2 2 years ago
wow look at 1:51 amazing that too without helmet ... they will score 300 in twenty twenty crap with all the accessories modern players use
67810234 3 years ago
Look at those shots!! No arm guard. No helmets. Sheer genius.
sanjaygt 3 years ago
Could anyone tell me where I could find the old footage of test matches and one day games other than youtube. Cheers
jase032 3 years ago
Lovely quality for an older match.
gthotshot 3 years ago
Kallicharan was little but Tallawah. He seemed 2 have so much time, largely due 2 his footwork and him being accustomed 2 the Fiery Pace on offer in the WEST INDIES' domestic season. The West Indies semmingly had an assembly line of Great Batsmen and GENUINELY FAST BOWLERS. Hopefully these days will return. The Cricketing world will be better for it...
iron2468 3 years ago 4
''The West Indies semmingly had an assembly line of Great Batsmen and GENUINELY FAST BOWLERS. Hopefully these days will return. The Cricketing world will be better for it...''
Amen! Windies are the only team in the Western hemisphere that can compete with Eng, India, and all others. It is so good to have a team that can represent all of us in the Americas. How I long for the return of the good old days of WI cric!
1400deadwood 2 years ago
Amen. I do envision the days of true West Indies Dominance. Lets hope these youngsters and those fast bowlers lining up in the Domestic Competitions can bring it a-new. The West Indies' humbling @ the hand of the Aussies made them go out and get their own and the world was never the same. I remember them facing their own bowlers in First Class Cricket those were classic battles...
iron2468 2 years ago
Alvin Kallicharan was without a doubt one of the most complete batsmen of the 70's.
ShivIsGreat 3 years ago 2
Now, that's stirring the hornet's nest!
Fine player, no doubt, but the most complete batsman of the 70s? Ahead of G.Chappell, Viv Richards, Rohan Kanhai, Gavaskar, C.Lloyd and Boycott?
I don't think so. His game against spin wasn't as good, by the way. What you could have said was that Kalli was one of the finest against pure pace and I would have agreed.
Imrankniazi 3 years ago
Not true Imran he made lots of runs against the Indian Spin Trio. Kall was a complete batsman,ahead of all yo unamed no doubt.
Dogevpr2 2 years ago
I know..What I was saying is he wasn't as good as say Lloyd, Sobers, Ian Chappell or Gavaskar in playing spinners. Also his game against spin wasn't as good as his game against pace.
Also in his last 20 tests, Kalli registered just 1 century (2nd inns. Adelaide against Lillee and Pascoe). If you have an overall look at his career, he'd go down as one of the finest batsmen of the 1970s!
Imrankniazi 2 years ago
Great as he was against pace,he was better aaginst spin. As for his record, the WI sent him in early if the pace was fiery to protect Richards, then dropped him down the order if things were good.He stood alone when the WI would collapse (Lloyd included) . I was living in the WI and remember those years vividly. They hounded him out of the WI Team in the later period, hence the effect on his batting.
Dogevpr2 2 years ago
I didn't know that..Thanks for sharing. No doubt it was a team of great players. I am an Indian and my Dad always used to talk about how good Lloyd was against spinners and was the last man standing with the tail against the Indian spinners on real turners.
But your piece of info about Kalli's last few innings comes as a revelation to me. I am pretty sure that a player of such calibre deserved better treatment than being shuffled about in the order to suit team strategies!
Imrankniazi 2 years ago
In those days the WI was infamous for collapsing, only Kallicharran would stand and bat, often getting out in the 90's (he has the most in Tests). Lloyd came at # 6, and was like Gayle, making the occasional big hitting innings but Kalli was the rock. After the WI discarded him he scored tons of runs in the following English county Season, like Bradman.
Dogevpr2 2 years ago
man i so would loved to have been around in those days when the windies attack were the benchmark of cricket. what has happened to the coachin in the carribean these days. walsh and ambrose were the last of class bowlers the wi ever produced, ever since no one has quite measured up and thats putting it nicely
filoboy88 3 years ago
islandman makes a good point about batsmen's helmets and protective armour these days- perhaps there should be a rule deducting 10 runs from each innings they wear them, that would make things interesting. Monty Python field day: We 'ad it toof when i were a lad, men were men, none of your namby pamby stuff today; god they even need cheerleaders. In old days if you got 'eet on t 'ead by an Andy Roberts 150 mile an hour bouncer, you carried on without battin an eyelid. These yoong uns todaay..
mizofan 3 years ago
"150 mile an hour bouncer" .. Now that's a world record indeed..Haha, I'm sure Andy would be proud!
Imrankniazi 2 years ago
Not the sort of thing that happened to Lillee very often! He was one of the handful of greatest fast bowlers- good on Kalli, a really memorable knock. Well done for putting this on here.
mizofan 3 years ago
Destroyed indeed! Quality.
MalahideGaffer 3 years ago
Clive Lloyd once said that Kalli had the best footwork he had ever seen in a batsman.
vkellman 3 years ago
Kalicharran, Roy Fredericks and Rohan Kanhai...three small men who could bat in any conditions and were totally fearless !!!
vkellman 3 years ago
what stupid bowling by Dennis Lillee.
phaardoongateri 3 years ago
Good bowling. Better batting, in my estimation..
thecrucifer 3 years ago
He was a supreme strike bowler..Had the tendency to over-attack and get carried away sometimes, as in this occasion. Just like your very own Waqar Younis :)
Imrankniazi 2 years ago
He played for my village team a few years ago and what a funny guy! A lazy shit as well though but still a legend!
AdamDCC 3 years ago
world class player, lille needed his ass kicked what a ahhe was.
HassanNY 3 years ago
Well done WITHOUT helmet and elbow pads etc etc, not like these pussies nowadays.
islandman425 3 years ago
I agree. Cricket has become such a wussy sport with the batsmen looking like American Football players. Helmets and bodyguards and arm guards and every other guard you can imagine.
crazyhumans 3 years ago
@crazyhumans what is with all the bravado and machismo. why does every person have to prove their manliness (stupidity) by not wearing protective gear?
paulbav 1 year ago
What batting. Amazing stuff. The whole look-n-feel of that era is something else. And that last hook?! Genius.
samirchopra1 3 years ago
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oh dear! a curry muncher hammering away the epitome of aussie manliness.
skar12 3 years ago
yup. guess you'll have to take that poster of lille down. you know, the one hanging a good 10-20 feet under kallicharan's poster in your bed room.
don't feel bad though. all this time, the whole lille being an actual man thing was a facade. he's really a butch lesbian with hormone issues...and this video proves it. notice the way in which he walks away after getting hammered on each delivery like the shriveled vagina that he is.
kaliamalia 3 years ago
Su!!!!!!!
sonofthedestroyer 3 years ago
brilliant brilliant batting. A this best Kalicharan was an outstanding talent, so under rated and unheard of these days. The most effortless players I have seen were Majid Khan and Alvin Kalicharran, Gower too was very good if not quite able to domintate the fastest bowlers. Around 1980 Imran really sorted out Kalicharran by bowling was faster than his West Indian team mates. But here Kalli taught the Aussies a lesson. Simply brilliant.
sportsfansportsfan 3 years ago
"Kalli" was one of the greatest - he scored against any type of bowling and was the first to decimate the feared Lillee (and Thomson ) duo.
Dogevpr2 3 years ago 4
I can't believe how awesome that time's criket was...look at the shirt of them, that is called man, but look at nowdays idiots, they play like women
washrafulw 3 years ago 4
I can't believe how awesome that time's criket was...look at the shirt of them, that is called man, but look at nowdays idiots, they play like women
washrafulw 3 years ago
I cant believe that last shot went for six!!
kvrvenkat1983 3 years ago 2
Greatness.
gthotshot 4 years ago
The Oval when it was a big ground !
Quick bowler, bouncy wicket yet Kalli had all the time to hook him easily to the boundary. Best batting i've seen by the little man and great footage from the 75 world cup..
stellaviolens 4 years ago 2
Awesome batting display! Any longer batting videos of this fella?
mail4neo 4 years ago 3
He was like Englands David Gower except far better
timechannel 4 years ago
Difficult choice...Gower too was amazing! Supremely graceful.
skr346 4 years ago 2
when west indies use to run shit...feared by all...
2shar2 4 years ago 2
that massive.. fearsome and awesome lilee going for 26 runs..kalicharran did it without a helmet
ednan9 4 years ago 2
what a simple uncomplicated batting style, stand, watch and deliver - beautiful.
seeget 4 years ago
Snoopdickety
The only man to bowl 100mph is a Pakistani ? Do you mean that chucker Shoaib Akhtar? The 1979 competition was a bowler competition, not a chucker competition
rkrish67 4 years ago
Well whatever it was it had no Indian in it and it never will. Jeeeeeeeeeaaaaaalllooouuuuussssssss!!! :D
SnoopDicketyDawg 4 years ago
chucker? Anyone who knows a little bit about the games knows that he was cleared. He has a hyperextension.
And one more thing, If those indians dont start eating more meat, they're never going to get past 100mph.
cricketer562 4 years ago
bro they will never get past 95 MPH
SnoopDicketyDawg 4 years ago
Wow, just wow. I could not believe my eyes.
skvfighter 4 years ago
hahahaha lillee got owned
SuperHoops13 4 years ago
At this point in mid-75, Lillee and Thompson were bowling easily at over 100 mph, and were crazy. But Clive Lloyd and Alvin Kallicharan taught them a lesson in the WC that year, and so did Vivi