{"id":106520,"date":"2025-08-30T10:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T10:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/106520\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T10:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T10:29:08","slug":"watch-the-man-who-transformed-australian-cricket-into-a-ruthless-winning-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/106520\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: The Man Who Transformed Australian Cricket into a Ruthless Winning Machine!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An ode to the player who made Australia a great cricketing nation \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/crictoday.com\/cricket\/news\/former-australian-cricketer-captain-and-coach-bob-simpson-dies-at-age-89\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bob Simpson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756549748_767_hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube video\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" nopin=\"nopin\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Bob was a great servant to Australian cricket, wearing various hats of a player, captain, coach, national selector, commentator, writer, and mentor.<\/p>\n<p>Bob represented Australia in 62 matches between 1957 and 1978, including 39 matches as a captain. He averaged 46.81 with the bat, and took 71 wickets, all while being one of the greatest slip fielders of his time.<\/p>\n<p>When Australia was going through a lean phase in the mid-80s, Bob was brought in as the Head coach. He focused on making Australia a strong fielding side instantly and led the team with an iron hand.<\/p>\n<p>His ruthless and disciplined approach brought results quickly, as Australia won the 1987 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Bob <a href=\"https:\/\/hindi.crictoday.com\/tag\/bob-simpson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">passed away<\/a> on 16th August 2025, aged 89 years.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video above to understand his impact on the game.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An ode to the player who made Australia a great cricketing nation \u2013 Bob Simpson. Bob was a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,56205,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-106520","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-bob-simpson","11":"tag-cricket","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}