RIP thread

[yuppie]

Dean Jones has died from a Heart Attack whilst in India.

That's a huge shock, probably the first cricketer that i really followed as a youngster. More so than Border. In full flow in one day cricket he was something to behold. Changed the game in Australia at the time. Always exciting to watch.

And then there is his 200 against India in Chennai. Still up there as one of Australia's greatest test innings. As well as combating heat, sickness and concentration, he had to put up with abuse from Border.

RIP, very sad news.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Sorry to hear about this. Great Aussie cricketer in both formats and author of one of the very best and most legendary Test innings.

[alfie]

A real shock ...only 59. Very sad to hear this. He was certainly an exciting player to watch in full flight...and a bit of a character , I believe. RIP Dean Jones.

[Gingerfinch]

One of my favourite batsmen of the 80's. A Dashing and unconventional player who managed to average close to 50 in ODI's, which was unheard of in those days.

[Durhamfootman]

blimey... that's a shocker

59

same age as me.

[The Professor]

https://wisden.com/stories/global-t20-l ... ssion=true

Huge respect for Lee here

[sussexpob]

Bit before me as a player, but his name crops up in a lot of funny stories. Seemed a character! RIP

[Durhamfootman]

Bobby Ball, bless him

"You've got me skin, Tommy"

RIP

[Arthur Crabtree]

Goes to join the controversial Frank Bough.

[Durhamfootman]

and now Nobby Stiles 78

the 7th of the 66ers, who seem to be passing regularly now

RIP

[Arthur Crabtree]

Picture of him on BBC has him with hair and teeth. Difficult to recognise.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Sean Connery has died at 90.

Though not an admirer of the James Bond films I still reached for the theme music as a personal tribute! He was judiciously cast. My regards for Connery as an actor is almost totally carried by his supporting performance as a tough Irish cop in The Untouchables, where he was very affecting. He started off in films as a terrible actor, haplessly out of his depth in good British films like Hell Drivers, or unremarkable in bad ones like Time Lock or On the Fiddle. Yet, via the Bond films, and in a large part because of his unmissable sexual charisma he had time to become a good actor and a huge star with enormous presence. From the seventies onwards, he was a fine lead in often complex stories like The Offence, The Man Who Would Be King, Robin and Marion and The Molly Maguires. He escaped typecasting and became much more than 007. RIP.

[Durhamfootman]

that we was able to play any character without ever having to change his voice says much about his charisma and status as an actor, for me.

Alex Salmond (remember him?) has just described him as the worlds greatest Scot, and that's hard to argue against. Like all of the great Scots he managed to be a really great Scot whilst living somewhere warm on the other side of the world

I was quite shocked when I heard the news... he sort of felt a bit immortal to me. I think I thought he would go on and on

RIP

[sussexpob]

If you asked me to name a list of my 25 top worst films I have ever seen, I think Connery would be a dominating force. The Rock is the worst film ever made. Highlander would possibly be second depending on my mood, but certainly in the next 3. Medicine man was an abomination. A Good guy in Africa (IIRC the name correctly)was an overtly racist film, even in the 90s. And that before we get to the Avengers..... and then there are films like Rising Sun or Entrapment, that were merely bad.

But weirdly, apart from his turn as Ramirez in Highlander which was pathetic, he's not the reason these films are bad. He's half creditable as the old school hard man in the Rock, its cage who stinks that up. It seems like a theme... he acts his part quite well, but the films are always on the road to nowhere.

I get the feeling he was a goodish actor with a terrible agent. Or maybe he struggled for work as his looks and youth drifted from him, and had to take bad scripts to get films. Maybe a 20 year old would think Rob De Niro was a trash actor uniquely in terrible films, had they cared only to watch films released in their life times.

So I will cut him some slack.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Maybe did a few for the money.