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May 21, 2020 7:08:53 GMT
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Post by hoskotafe3 on May 21, 2020 7:08:53 GMT
And another trip back to 1992-93. Dean Jones, for reasons he attempts to explain here, decided to poke the wild bear Curtley Ambrose by telling him to take off the wrist band on his bowling hand. What followed was about twenty minutes of wonderful cricket with Ambrose and Jones trading shots at each other (Jones hit a a great on drive running down the wicket to Ambrose not shown here and had a deliberate nick for 4 in there too that aren't shown here) and then demolition. Jones isn't on the wicket montage though: he got out to Anderson Cummins at the other end.
Worst part was Ambrose was having an average summer (by the ridiculously high standards of someone with a sub 21 bowling average) until then. He played himself into peak form with 5-32 here. From there he took 3-25 in the second final, 6-74 and 4-46 in the Adelaide test and 7-25 (including an insane 7-1 in his second spell) and 2-54 at Perth. His swag from that series: Player of the Finals in the ODIs, Man of the Match at Adelaide and Perth and then won the B&H International Cricketer of the Year Award. With 33 wickets in the 5 test series I think he may have been Player of the Test Series too..
Worst part was Ambrose was having an average summer (by the ridiculously high standards of someone with a sub 21 bowling average) until then. He played himself into peak form with 5-32 here. From there he took 3-25 in the second final, 6-74 and 4-46 in the Adelaide test and 7-25 (including an insane 7-1 in his second spell) and 2-54 at Perth. His swag from that series: Player of the Finals in the ODIs, Man of the Match at Adelaide and Perth and then won the B&H International Cricketer of the Year Award. With 33 wickets in the 5 test series I think he may have been Player of the Test Series too..