The World Cup Years: 1979
Test Match Special
BBC
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🗓️ 15 May 2019
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Kevin Howells and Andy Zaltzman continue their look back on the four Cricket World Cups to have been held in the UK.
As we reflect on the 1979 World Cup, we’re joined by Graham Gooch, David Gower and Mike Hendrick, plus some vintage commentary from the great Tony Cozier.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:04.6 | This is the TMS Podcast from BBC Radio 5 Live. |
| 0:09.9 | Well let me tell you putting together these programmers and bringing back to life. |
| 0:14.5 | The cricket world cup held in this country has been absolutely brilliant. |
| 0:18.2 | 1979 we've reached now, the West Indies, they want it again, England beaten in the final, |
| 0:23.5 | Boo Hiss, a Graham Gooch, David Gower and Mike Hendrick, what a lineup here to talk about |
| 0:28.7 | it. Andy Zoltzmann to add to it all our stats man, Andy hit me with a stats straight away, |
| 0:33.6 | can you about the 1979 World Cup. |
| 0:35.8 | Well for the second World Cup in a row, England's bowling attack, as I'm sure Mike will be delighted, |
| 0:41.2 | he had the best economy rate and the best communal bowling average, it wasn't quite enough to win |
| 0:46.4 | the tournament, it was the slowest scoring of all the World Cups to just over three and a half |
| 0:53.2 | an over compared with over five and a half an over in the most recent 2015 World Cup, |
| 0:58.1 | which shows quite how much one day cricket has changed. |
| 1:00.5 | I say Mike Hendrick's here to talk about the whole tournament. |
| 1:03.7 | I've got a funny feeling if I were to allow him to do so, we could spend the entire half hour |
| 1:08.5 | talking about that ball in the final to Viv Richards. |
| 1:13.2 | How on earth was that not out, Mike? |
| 1:15.4 | I wish Barry Meier was here to explain to all of us why it wasn't out. |
| 1:18.9 | I can see it now, it's daft isn't it, you get the age of 70 and this is 40 years ago |
| 1:24.8 | and there's still things that you close your eyes, you think about certain things, that pops up with me. |
| 1:30.1 | How on earth did he not give that out? |
| 1:32.0 | Tell us about it, go on, not for half an hour, I'll give you 30 seconds. |
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