Ooh, Aah... Glen McGrath

[Snaggletooth Tiger]

Yet another legend of the 'Baggy Green' has taken his bat, ball & gone home!
(Well after the World Cup anyway!)
Will 2006 be remembered as a major turning point in Aussie Cricketing History?
Out with the old & in with the new!
We'll see next Summer eh!

[mal]

Australia has been blessed with some magnificent fast bowlers.
The mantle has been passed on for 60 years, ONE RETIRES, ONE TAKES OVER
1950s MILLER
1960s MCKENZIE
1970-80s LILLIE
1970-80s THOMSON
1980-90s MCDERMOTT
1990-00s MCGRATH

As one retired we wondered who would be the next great, the next successor
was in thier infantcy and stepped up to the plate.

The best 2 were LILLIE then MCGRATH

I remember watching the 1995 series in the West Indies and MCDERMOTT
damaged his leg and was out for the tour, I thought how do we beat the
mighty Windies.
MCGRATH stepped up as the enforcer and announced to the world his greatness.
He has continued over a decade and finishes with 500+ wickets @21[+ 2 tests to go]

MCGRATH is an amazing bowler, he at times looks pedestrian, easy to play and
anything but a champion bowler, and will then produce deliveries out of no where
that dismisses batsman with regularity.
I think his greatest attribute was getting wickets on flat tracks, the mark of a
great bowler.
MCGRATHs bowling to the best batsman was phenominal, his ability to get the oppositions
best players out cheaply is probably the best of any Australian bowler I have seen

Who will be the next great???
The past suggests one is coming.

Of the bowlers going around I think the most likely would be Benny HILFENHAUS
AND IF GETS TO BE 3/4 AS GOOD we have potentially the next great bowler.

[Punk Rooster]

3 greats of the game have retired recently.
Australian cricket was richer for having them play the game.
So Warney, Ooh-ah Glen McGrath & MAL, we salute you.

[mal]

3 greats of the game have retired recently.
Australian cricket was richer for having them play the game.
So Warney, Ooh-ah Glen McGrath & MAL, we salute you.

[Adelaide Hawk]

1970-80s LILLIE
1970-80s THOMSON
1980-90s MCDERMOTT
1990-00s MCGRATH

As one retired we wondered who would be the next great, the next successor
was in thier infantcy and stepped up to the plate.

The best 2 were LILLIE then MCGRATH

Mal, Mal, Mal. Dennis Lillie was a Queensland leg spinner in the 1960s who made a brief re-appearance in the 80s. The fast bowler of which you speak is none other than the incomparable Dennis LILLEE