Such a joy to listen to Ian Chappell and Michael Holding comment on the Aus-WI series.
Got to know 2 funny incidents narrated by Chappell and Holding.
Firstly Chapell was talking about Sir Gary Sobers playing for South Australia at Adelaide. There was a match with New South Wales and Richie Benaud was captain of NSW. As usual Sobers was on the rampage, Benaud turning to Alan Davidson (a great bowler of Australia, a commited cricketer so typical of the Aussies) to "slow Sobers down". Well he got trashed for 4,6,4 and the 6 landed one bounce into the bar just behind the scoreboard. And the straight boundaries at the Adeliade Oval are supposed to be pretty far away.
Davidson though finally got Sobers out and remarked to Benaud "I sure did slow him down!!"
The other one Holding talks about the comments that the crowd in Adelaide keeps passing at the players. Apparently there was this English captain who was trying to swat a fly out of his sight. And pat came a voice from the crowd "Leave em flies alone!!" Well whats so funny, the fact that the English captain answered to the name of Douglas Jardine.
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