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The Analyst Inside Cricket

HEADHUNTERS - Episode 1 - Hung Drawn and Quartered

The Analyst Inside Cricket

Sport Social Podcast Network

Cricket, Sports

4.5632 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The first episode of a special four-part series telling the story of the brutal 1974/5 Ashes Tests. Fifty years ago, England's unsuspecting batsmen were subjected to a barrage from Australian speedsters Dennis Lillee and Jeff Thomson. Simon Hughes and Simon Mann narrate the harrowing details of the first Test in Brisbane with help from the participants David 'Bumble' Lloyd, Dennis Amiss and Ian Chappell assisted by Ian Botham and author David Tossell. For other episodes in this series go to patreon.com/Theanalyst25 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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It doesn't worry me in the least to see the batsman hurt rolling around, screaming and blood on the pitch.

0:43.3

Stuff that, slip off a lit brat. Let's see how stiff it is when it's split.

0:48.3

I try to hit the batsman in the rib cage when I bowl a purposeful bouncer,

0:58.8

and I want it to hurt so much that the batsman doesn't want to face me anymore.

1:15.5

That was Jeff Thompson and Dennis Lilly talking 50 years ago before the 1974 Five Ashes.

1:25.6

And this is the ABC television theme music introducing the highlights of each day's play of that iconic series.

1:42.7

Hello, I'm Simon Hughes and welcome to Headhunters, a special podcast series recounting the dramatic events of that Ashes series of 74-5,

1:46.7

a truly shell-shocking experience for many England players on that tour.

1:51.9

And I'm Simon Mann, and I remember that series vividly because it was the first overseas tour

1:58.0

that caught my imagination. You'd wake up at four in the morning to listen to the

2:02.5

radio commentary from Australia. There was no through the night coverage in those days. No one had

2:07.7

any idea how the test match was going on in the UK. You woke up wondering how England

2:13.2

were going to get on. Normally they were struggling. And then in the evening, you were able to watch

2:17.4

the highlights on BBC television, the highlights from ABC TV. So for the first time, you saw,

2:24.6

I did anyway, and Ashley's series abroad, and it just felt dramatic and exciting and different.

2:31.8

And it stuck in my imagination and my memory ever since.

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