Archive for January, 2011
Neal Thomsen’s best Test side since 1970
Even more difficult to pick from those players, as several on the list I have only seen on highlight reels (I’m an ’83 model). It’s easy to think of a player as exceptional when all you’ve seen are their highlight packages – but I have no idea how Thommo or Lillee bowled throughout a struggling day in the field when the captain and team needed him to stand up. I’ve only ever seen images and footage of their 5-fors and wicket-taking deliveries. Lillee approaching the wicket so fluently and bare-chested, with the big chain dangling, and putting the ball in an almost unplayable spot to deliver an edge through to Marsh. Or Thommo firing down at Tony Greig and other Poms, obviously striking terror into most opposition batsmen.
There will be an inquiry
‘There will be an inquiry’
– Former New South Wales Premier Neville Wran in the months before his Corrective Services Minister, Rex Jackson, was jailed for accepting bribes to secure the early release of prisoners.
