Fun With YouTube - Australia v West Indies - Fourth Test, 1993

The Key Moments of this Test match will stun and amaze!

Sometimes the YouTube algorithm shows you the most extraordinary things.

No, I’m not talking about this Test. That’s pretty much what I’d expect the algorithm to spit at me.

I’m talking about the Key moments for this video, as determined by Google’s all-seeing AI, displayed directly beneath the video on the YouTube.com website.

Key moments of the Test

Let’s take a closer look, shall we?

Desmond Haynes

This is not, in fact, Desmond Haynes. It is a different West Indies cricketer entirely. Can you use context clues from the thumbnail to determine which one? In what ways does this (or does this not) make you smarter than Google’s AI engine?

Courtney Walsh

This is not Courtney Walsh. Nor is it Desmond Haynes. Or even Keith Arthurton. Astonishingly, it’s not a West Indies cricketer at all. It’s Mark ‘Junior’ Waugh. Although it does look like he’s about to bowl, and Courtney Walsh did bowl a lot of deliveries, many of them in this Test match. So perhaps an understandable error.

David Boone

How do you spell this batter’s surname? Is it the same as the common English word that means a timely benefit or blessing? Or the last four letters of a ‘baboon’? Or the common Australian word that means ‘he who drinks too much on a flight to England’.

Or is it the same as Daniel Boone, American frontiersman who played zero (0) Tests?

Let’s assume the AI was trying to say ‘Boonie’ and dropped the ‘i’. That’s less embarrassing for it.

Carl Hoover

Perfect. No notes.

Steve War

This is also excellent. Oh, sure. Some Australians might take great umbrage at this erroneous spelling. They might even call it a Steve War crime. Not me. At this stage of his career, Steve ‘Senior’ War did not deserve respect to be shown to his name. Look at that career average. Sort it out, get it above fifty, and we’ll talk, Steve.

Richie Richardson

Is this why he used to always wear that big hat?

Man of the Match Award

To be fair, I think Richie Richardson is about to hand over the award here, so fair enough. One out of seven? It could be worse.

Great Test, though. It even cracked the top ten of my 50 Greatest Matches in Australian Cricket (of the Past 50 Years) when I wrote that book in, oh, let’s say, 2019.

Those of you who are paid subscribers can read my piece on that Test from the book below. The rest of you will just have to buy it. (I mean, you don’t have to buy it. But, gosh, it’d be nice if you did.)

The 50 Greatest Matches in Australian Cricket