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The Analyst Inside Cricket

HEADHUNTERS Ep2: Pain in Perth

The Analyst Inside Cricket

Sport Social Podcast Network

Cricket, Sports

4.5632 Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

The second instalment of our special 5-part series looking back at the iconic and brutal Ashes contests of 1974/5, fifty years ago. This episode features the painful encounter in Perth when England's batters - supplemented by 41 year old Colin Cowdrey - were subjected to a barrage from Lillee and Thomson. For the complete series go to The Analyst Plus at patreon.com/theanalyst25 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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can hit badly there that time.

0:48.3

There's a nasty one.

1:02.6

The radio commentators, and it would probably be Brian Johnson, was struck a blow in the groin.

1:06.9

Well, I wish I had a been. It missed me groin by about three inches.

1:09.9

And it was bull's-ye, full in.

1:17.8

So that was David Bumble Lloyd, recounting one of the most painful and embarrassing experiences of his career.

1:25.1

Hello, I'm Simon Hughes and welcome to episode two of Headhunters, a special podcast series,

1:30.2

recounting the dramatic events of that Ashes series of 1974-5,

1:35.5

leaving many of the England players on it, not just with damaged manhoods, but scarred for life,

1:36.9

if that isn't the same thing.

1:42.8

And I'm Simon Mann, and it's nearly 50 years since the England team's harrowing experience down under in what is often regarded,

1:44.7

certainly then, as one of the scariest test series of all time.

1:48.5

The batsman's largely unprotected welfare in serious danger.

1:52.7

We'll hear in this podcast series from some of the protagonists who played. In the last episode, we heard how England were dismembered by Australia's searing pace bowlers

2:11.1

at the ground in Brisbane known as the Gabatoire and arrived in Perth, one nil down in matches and two nil down in players.

2:20.0

Both John Edrich and Dennis Amos were ruled out of the second test with broken fingers.

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