Booney wrote:wristwatcher wrote:Rik E Boy wrote:I can fully understand Yallop and Boycott's reluctance to face Messers Holding and Thomson. Of the West Indies bowlers I reckon Andy Roberts would have been the scariest to face. He would bowl a 'slow' bouncer and then follow it up with a real fast one. It was this move that earnt David Hookes a ride in Packer's Jag.
regards,
REB
Greg Ritchie tells one of the funniest stories I ever heard about the day Roberts set him up with the slower and faster bouncer in a game between Qld and the Windies. I could never do it justice and it went for 10-15 minutes but it was the most captivating funny cricket story and I have heard and I have heard many of them. Obviously it didn't end with a broken jaw but it did knock him out and involved many other peculiar details such as breaking his stumps and being nearly impaled, a forklift, Kepler Wessels, 6 ham sandwiches, a team in stitches, the dog track round the GABBA and had the clever edgy humour only the Cat could provide.
Whilst Fat Cats touring has cut down with the retiring of Mahatma Coat if ever you do get a chance to see him he is the best speaker and entertainer I have had the pleasure of seeing and meeting.
I too have heard this one, and it is a ripping yarn. Jeff Dujon behind the stumps laughing as Roberts comes in and Ritchie wonders why he's laughing. Between overs he asks Dujon "What's so funny?" Dujon grins and replies "'He's going to kill you".
yeah he tells a funny story does the old 'Cat, I've heard that story at Westies in Alice Springs in the early 2000s- ******* funny night....
Wayne Phillips (our one, not the crap Victorian one) tells a good story of Garner and Marshall playing a game of "how far can we push Dujy back" in Barbados in the 3rd test of the 1984 series. Batsmen, wickets and runs were immaterial, just bowl as fast as you can to push Dujon back further than he stands for the other bowler....
Apparantly Dogwatcher must have copped a bouncer on his fingers from a bowler in BL&G cricket, given he has been un-able to type his top five books....