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Back injury. During a Test against Pakistan in the 1972–73 season, Lillee felt sharp pain in his back for the first time, but continued to play. On the tour of the West Indies that followed, Lillee broke down completely and was diagnosed with stress fracture in his lower vertebrae.
- The first selection. In 1969-70, Lillee was a young man plying his trade in club cricket in Perth. He was expecting selection that year as Western Australia needed pacers in the absence of Graham McKenzie and Laurie Mayne, who were on national duty.
- FOT. In his young days with Western Australia, Lillee was not very interested in fielding and used to almost while away at fine-leg or third-man. The captain Tony Lock used to be irritated to correct him and put him in proper place.
- The Aussie captain pulls a fast one. Lillee’s maiden Test series was the Ashes 1970-71 Down Under, which saw the incident involving Terry Jenner, where he was felled by a bouncer from John Snow.
- The best off-spinners Dickie Bird saw. During an Ashes Test in 1975, Lillee was unhappy with the shape of the ball and complained to Dickie Bird, the umpire.
Jul 18, 2014 · With the white shirt clinging to his torso, a moustache matched by few others, a run-up that sent a chill down the spine of the hapless batsmen, and pace like fire, Lillee was one of the...
Jul 18, 2014 · Dennis Lillee scythed through line-ups as easily as anyone did in history. Dennis Lillee had every arrow in his quiver. Dennis Lillee had walked out to bat with an aluminium bat.
Dec 16, 2020 · Dennis Lillee was a tearaway young quick when he suffered every fast bowler’s worst nightmare – stress fractures in his back. He broke down during Australia’s 1973 West Indian tour just two years after making his Test cricket debut.
Jul 18, 2020 · Dennis Lillee announced himself to English audiences with an outstanding performance in the 1972 Ashes series. It earned him a Wisden Cricketer of the Year award. Despite a serious back injury and a spell in World Series Cricket, Dennis Lillee went on to be one of the great fast bowlers of all time. In 70 Tests, he took 355 wickets at 23.92.
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At a time when fast bowling was at its richest in the entire Cricket history, Dennis Lillee was the man everyone looked up to. Considered to be the most complete fast bowler, Lillee was one of...
