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    Cricket videos on Youtube

    By Will last year, mid-May Leave a comment on this post

    As has been well discussed, Youtube is the tardis of online video, and there is an awful lot of tripe there as a result. But in between the mundane crap there are some priceless and rare gems, and one particular user was a guaranteed supplier of the better material. Cougarcricket was his name. He is now in the past, either missing in action or dead. Or, more likely, banned by Percy and pals in their blind and insatiable corporate greed to run the planet their own way. Soon, we’ll all have golf courses under the sea (or whatever Ian Chappell’s recent brilliant quote was). What the ICC have failed to realise is the internet is not a Zimbabwe, or any other cricket board; with it being essentially an ungovernable medium, people are continuing to upload whatever they like, as they should do.

    So we need a replacement to Mr Cougar, and / or a list of the latest and greatest cricket clips. Your nominations, please.

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    6 Responses to “Cricket videos on Youtube”

  • Reverse Swing wrote:
    May 9th, 2007 at 10.10 pm

    Just go onto Youtube and do a search - ‘Botham, Headingley, 1981′ for example…

  • Will wrote:
    May 9th, 2007 at 10.19 pm

    Thanks for that…!

    I meant any excellent, new clips that people had seen…

  • Jeremy Cave wrote:
    May 9th, 2007 at 10.36 pm

    3 of the best, for those who loved the WI in all their pomp:

    Gary Sobers hitting 150 vs England at Lords 1973:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUg92yj1_ZI
    Michael Holding taking 14 wickets in a test v England 1976:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFZSCDX9hZI
    Courtney Ambrose’s 7 for 1 against the Aussies
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7UOy5thUig

  • Angus wrote:
    May 10th, 2007 at 5.23 pm

    Youtube will do more to spread cricket than the ICC can ever do. Now, Slovaks, Magyars, Chinese, Botswanans, and Burmese can tune in and learn about the game.

  • Wraye wrote:
    May 12th, 2007 at 12.20 am

    Well, if you want a taste of English County cricket, visit surrey.tv. Lancs and Sussex also have video feeds but subscription is 20 UKP per season.

    I have become a bit of a Surrey fan thanks largely to the entertaining commentary by Mark Church and Trevor Jones on BBC Radio London. Listen to the match, watch the highlights later. All games archived. Tune in tomorrow. The ever gorgeous Ramprakash is on 44*.

  • Thomas wrote:
    August 1st, 2008 at 8.22 pm

    http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=mbOUk-s_7P4
    Sanath Jayasuriya equals Viv Richards 189 in ODIs

    http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=aZrEPFtMZTI
    Muttiah Muralitharan 9/65 Vs Eng…

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