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He was a superb player. Underrated but he would be a colossus today. I recall his 203 fondly. Just a tribute thread to a great bat.
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A tribute to Dennis Amiss
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No offense but every oldie feels the same way. When in reality they wouldn't get anywhere close to Test selection in the modern era. This is why I want big pharma to invent a miracle age-reversing drug that I want some choice Test greats of the past to take and regain their former youth and play cricket again .... It would make for fascinating viewing to see them get owned by the intensity of the modern game.
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Is that the one he got at the Oval where Holding bowled like lightning?
Poor fella, copping Lillee and Thompson (away and home), then Roberts and Holding straight after. No wonder he was the first to put a helmet on!
He manned the breach at a time when Boycott had made himself unavailable to England.
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Eleven centuries in fifty tests average 46 was pretty good. Hit the first ever ODI century too, and held the top score record for an England player until Strauss went past him in 2011.
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Yes. One of the truly great knocks. The Aussies did him in but he was a wall against the great WI attacks. Really fine player. One of my heroes in a bygone era (when my hair has colour).
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Yes. One of the truly great knocks. The Aussies did him in but he was a wall against the great WI attacks. Really fine player. One of my heroes in a bygone era (when my hair has colour).
Seemed ahead of his time as a ODI player to.
sure with a jaw dropping List-A avg of 35 ....
You guys never fail to amuse me. And then you get upset that us fans of modern era do not respect old era's much.
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Only played 18 ODIs so the sample was small, but he got four centuries, average 48. I wonder how he would have done in an era of more ODIs.
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I was talking more about Tests. So few real quicks about. DA would carve these guys on these flat decks. Yes in ODIs he was ahead of his time as was Zaheer.
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Can one ask how has a tribute to Denis Amiss become him v SRT thread?
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No idea. I was just reliving wonderful memories of an epic innings and great player.
when [MENTION=144456]bujhee kom[/MENTION] decided that SRT could only dream of playing such an inngs or words to that effect.
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Suggest we stick to Amiss.
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Only one of two cricketers to score an ODI hundred in his first and last ODI! The other one is Desmond Haynes.
The more I read from [MENTION=134300]Tusker[/MENTION], the more I cannot help thinking how much sense he makes. I was reading an article about Arunabha Sengupta from Cricket Country reg memories of legends from bygone era, as to how people make sound that that the bygone era was something else and the current crop can only dream of matching that skill. Unfortunately, due to lack of extensive video evidence, one may have to take their word on face value. However, what Arunabha says is that as years dwindle by, the shots get more elegant, the sixes go longer and the bowler gains a few yards of pace! No expect a select few know how difficult or easy it was!
No disrespect to Amiss, I have read some great things about him, and for someone to have an Away average 10 points higher than home average, I would think is a great achievement (even if i take into consideration, most of the folks played county cricket in England around that time) but two things bother me
1. I thought his test average of 15 vs Australia as compared to 46 overall, sticks out like a sore thumb! He was exposed against Lillie and Thommo.
2. He was never captain of England.
The more I read from [MENTION=134300]Tusker[/MENTION], the more I cannot help thinking how much sense he makes. I was reading an article about Arunabha Sengupta from Cricket Country reg memories of legends from bygone era, as to how people make sound that that the bygone era was something else and the current crop can only dream of matching that skill. Unfortunately, due to lack of extensive video evidence, one may have to take their word on face value. However, what Arunabha says is that as years dwindle by, the shots get more elegant, the sixes go longer and the bowler gains a few yards of pace! No expect a select few know how difficult or easy it was!
No disrespect to Amiss, I have read some great things about him, and for someone to have an Away average 10 points higher than home average, I would think is a great achievement (even if i take into consideration, most of the folks played county cricket in England around that time) but two things bother me
1. I thought his test average of 15 vs Australia as compared to 46 overall, sticks out like a sore thumb! He was exposed against Lillie and Thommo.
2. He was never captain of England.
Thanks for the kind words. It is a natural human tendency to cling on to our memories from our best years. And back in the day it was also easy to pass them off as absolute indisputable facts. But the advent of modern tech has rudely disrupted this aspect of cricket. As such there is a short clip of Dennis Amiss 203 on YT and it is predictably nowhere near as spectacular as described by the fanatics. I would rather watch Ravi Ashwin bat.
totally agree!!
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Couldn't have said better!
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1. Interesting, though he got that big ton against WI so he must have been able to play the quicks. Was either one of Lillee & Thommo getting him out more than the other? Lillee tended to do best against the top men.
2. Maybe Amiss didn't appear to the TCCB to have the leadership stuff. Who were his skippers - Illy, Greig, Denness?
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<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lVtk3q7nPjE" frameborder="0" gesture="media" allow="encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Look at how far back the slips are in the panoramic shots.
Look at how far back the slips are in the panoramic shots.
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How can you tell the distance from any of the angles in that footage ?
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By estimation of the ratio between the length of the pitch and the distance from the wicket to the slips in the panormaic shots.
you cant do that ... because the camera isnt giving you a flat 2D image that you can linearly extrapolate. the only way to tell would be through a side on view which includes a known length ( say the pitch )
Here : https://youtu.be/lVtk3q7nPjE?t=5m26s
If you measure the distance from the white sight screen (top of the frame) to the batsman in that frame you would get the same distance between batsman and at the bottom edge of the screen on that fraame which is a few yards behind the slips and well inside the fineleg boundary. Obviously that is not the case.
Like this shot that includes the pitch and the slips from square boundary: https://youtu.be/YMFhnBPoUrg?t=3m23s
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