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[broadbat]

Since we have time before the Indians get into action, I was wondering if people recollect their first ever live cricket broadcast on TV. For me the image that remains frozen in memory is B&W of course of S.Guha clean bowling Bill Lawry leg stump at the FS Kotla. Watched standing outside a TV shop in Delhi. Year I think should be 69 or 70.

[Blwe_torch]

Since we have time before the Indians get into action, I was wondering if people recollect their first ever live cricket broadcast on TV. For me the image that remains frozen in memory is B&W of course of S.Guha clean bowling Bill Lawry leg stump at the FS Kotla. Watched standing outside a TV shop in Delhi. Year I think should be 69 or 70.

Subrata Guha has expired some years back. I think, he was one of the finest seam bowlers India have ever produced. Pity that his Test career didn't last long...........those were the days of the spinners.
My first TV -Cricket watching is West Indies vs England...most probably...Gary Sobers and Bernard Julien on a century stand.....'75-76 series most likely.

[caught and bowled]

Since we have time before the Indians get into action, I was wondering if people recollect their first ever live cricket broadcast on TV. For me the image that remains frozen in memory is B&W of course of S.Guha clean bowling Bill Lawry leg stump at the FS Kotla. Watched standing outside a TV shop in Delhi. Year I think should be 69 or 70.

What a pleasant coincidence. Just this morning, while coming to work, I was thinking about that series and this match in particular. Before the beginning of this match Bill Lawry had famously declared that he would like to finish this match in 3 days and go fishing. The match indeed got over in 3 days but it was finished by the Indians and not the Aussies. This is one of the best foot-in the-mouth instances in Cricket I can remember.

Delhi had Doordarshan much before the rest of the country. I remember only hearing the commentary and reading  the reports in the next mornings papers about this match. This was also the debut series of Vishwanath.

I think I saw Cricket for the first time on TV during 74-75 tour of WI(neighbour's house with a lot of pleading for being allowed to come in and watch, there were atleast  50 others!!). The last match in Mumbai in the brand new Wankhede Stadium (it was Brabroune before) was shown on TV . Gavaskar scored 86 in the first innings and hit their spinner Barret for 4-5 fours consecutively. I think this was also the match when Solkar scored his only century and also  some girl ran on the pitch and kissed Brijesh Patel.

WI simply hammered us - Llyod scored a double, Fredricks a century and the rest also tucked into us at will.

[achutank]

my furthest memory goes back to a lone Asif Iqbal walking back to the pavilion - b&w - 78 was it? i think it was his last match because he acknoledged the crowd for a long time, the next clear memory i have is of kapil taking 5 at wankade againt the english

[sudzz]

My first match I think was a series with Keith Fletchers England where Botham really took to the Indian crowds.

[feverpitch]

I don't want to remember my first ever cricket match on TV ... Let me just say it was held in Sharjah, I was in boarding school, and for the first time, we were allowed to watch a match in the only TV in the principal's room.

[caught and bowled]

I don't want to remember my first ever cricket match on TV ... Let me just say it was held in Sharjah, I was in boarding school, and for the first time, we were allowed to watch a match in the only TV in the principal's room.

I wouldn't want to remember it either, if I know what you are talking about . Still enough to give nausea and a sleepless night...

[prfsr]

my furthest memory goes back to a lone Asif Iqbal walking back to the pavilion - b&w - 78 was it? i think it was his last match because he acknoledged the crowd for a long time, the next clear memory i have is of kapil taking 5 at wankade againt the english

It was at the Eden (Asif Iqbal's retirement). The deshdrohis actually geve him a standing ovation :-)

IIRC he was run out -- ironic because he was an excellent runner. Zaheer Abbas, Asif Iqbal, Majid Khan -- a very different Pak team those days. And a far more dangerous one I might add. If it weren't Pak, I could have enjoyed Imran coming in full-steam...
-P

[schumi]

The first match I saw on TV was WI was India at Chepauk, (MAC, Chennai). I think 78/79. The images I could remember are

Late cuts and hook shots by Vishy
Venkat clean bowling Larry gomes (or was it Kallicharan)
Karsan Ghavri playing a hook shot to get a boundary in the second innings.
Narasimha Rao - Cant remember what he did . Saw him bowl a few overs.

We required some 100+ runs in the second innings and almost lost 7 or 8 wickets before we got there. Watched the match at my Aunt's house which was very close to the stadium. So we used to hear the crowd roar for a boundary before the shot was actually shown on TV.

[caught and bowled]

my furthest memory goes back to a lone Asif Iqbal walking back to the pavilion - b&w - 78 was it? i think it was his last match because he acknoledged the crowd for a long time, the next clear memory i have is of kapil taking 5 at wankade againt the english

It was at the Eden (Asif Iqbal's retirement). The deshdrohis actually geve him a standing ovation :-)

IIRC he was run out -- ironic because he was an excellent runner. Zaheer Abbas, Asif Iqbal, Majid Khan -- a very different Pak team those days. And a far more dangerous one I might add. If it weren't Pak, I could have enjoyed Imran coming in full-steam...
-P

Then it couldn't have been in 1978.  See below the details of Asif from Cricinfo:

Statsguru Tests filter | Statsguru One-Day Internationals filter
Test debut  Pakistan v Australia at Karachi - Oct 24-29, 1964 scorecard 
Last Test  India v Pakistan at Kolkata - Jan 29-Feb 3, 1980 scorecard 
ODI debut  New Zealand v Pakistan at Christchurch - Feb 11, 1973 scorecard 
Last ODI  Pakistan v West Indies at The Oval - Jun 20, 1979 scorecard 
First-class span  1959/60 - 1982
List A span  1968 - 1982

[Libran]

Vivid memories...Live telecast for the first time was the 74-75 WI series...Was in school and we were taken in batches to the auditorium to watch the match....i still remember the Engineer getting hurt off a Venkat delivery...and Kanitkar replacing him to keep wickets ...

Till then the only cricket I watched were those films on cricket in theatres with background voice overs by Raju Bharathan...The 72-73 series...Tony Greig lifting GRV when the latter scored a century....

[achutank]

my furthest memory goes back to a lone Asif Iqbal walking back to the pavilion - b&w - 78 was it? i think it was his last match because he acknoledged the crowd for a long time, the next clear memory i have is of kapil taking 5 at wankade againt the english

It was at the Eden (Asif Iqbal's retirement). The deshdrohis actually geve him a standing ovation :-)

IIRC he was run out -- ironic because he was an excellent runner. Zaheer Abbas, Asif Iqbal, Majid Khan -- a very different Pak team those days. And a far more dangerous one I might add. If it weren't Pak, I could have enjoyed Imran coming in full-steam...
-P

P -
this was the series we won 2-0 right?

was bedi the captain?

you think he fixed the run out?

[dhruvdeepak]

India's 91/92 tour of Australia, when we got bowled out for 126 and tied the match.

I had no idea of the Test series that preceded this - Sachin had scored two unbelievable centuries. My dad was buzzing about him nonstop - this got me interested and i started watching...

http://usa.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1991-92/OD_TOURNEYS/WSC/IND_WI_WSC_ODI1_06DEC1991.html

there we are. who else but sachin came on to bowl an over and took the last wicket, caught wonderfully in the slips by Azza.

we got ripped into in the Test series, but had a wonderful ODI series (this was just before the WC)

http://usa.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1991-92/OD_TOURNEYS/WSC/IND_AUS_WSC_ODI2_08DEC1991.html

Sachin was becoming consistent
http://usa.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1991-92/OD_TOURNEYS/WSC/IND_WI_WSC_ODI5_14DEC1991.html
http://usa.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1991-92/OD_TOURNEYS/WSC/IND_WI_WSC_ODI9_11JAN1992.html (Ganguly's ODI debut)

we won a key match (below) to make it to the final and oust WI. Sachin again helped us home
http://usa.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1991-92/OD_TOURNEYS/WSC/WI_IND_WSC_ODI12_16JAN1992.html

from then on - crazy for cricket

[broadbat]

I don't want to remember my first ever cricket match on TV ... Let me just say it was held in Sharjah, I was in boarding school, and for the first time, we were allowed to watch a match in the only TV in the principal's room.

I wouldn't want to remember it either, if I know what you are talking about . Still enough to give nausea and a sleepless night...

Apparently you guys suffer more than the bloke himself who is an 'Expert' on TV these days. Anyway it should mean that nothing else India did after that could shake you including WC'07.