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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!

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.

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.

Punk Rooster wrote: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 wrote: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