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Australian Cricket Team In England In 1975
Following the 1975 Cricket World Cup, the Australia national cricket team, Australian cricket team remained in England in the 1975 English cricket season, 1975 season to play a four-match Test cricket, Test series against England national cricket team, England. For England, the principal resistance came from veteran opening batsman John Edrich and David Steele (cricketer), David Steele, who received a maiden international cap after a decade of county cricket for Northamptonshire County Cricket Club, Northants and whose silver-haired, bespectacled appearance led the press to dub him "the bank clerk who went to war". Steele went on to be named the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award, BBC Sports Personality of the Year 1975, the first cricketer to win the accolade since Jim Laker in 1956. Nonetheless, in the absence of Geoffrey Boycott, the batting was again broadly unable to withstand the pace-bowling partnership of Dennis Lillee and Jeff Thomson, with swing bowler Max Walker ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Denness
Michael Henry Denness (1 December 1940 – 19 April 2013) was a Scottish cricketer who played for England, Scotland, Kent and Essex. Scotland did not have a representative international team at the time of Denness' career, so he could only play for England at Test and ODI level. He was the sixth player born in Scotland to play for England, after Gregor MacGregor, Alec Kennedy, Ian Peebles, David Larter and Eric Russell, but remains the only England captain to be born in Scotland ( Douglas Jardine and Tony Greig had Scottish parents, but Jardine was born in Bombay and Greig in South Africa). Denness later became an ICC match referee. He was one of the inaugural inductees into the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame and was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1975. He was president of Kent County Cricket Club in 2012–13. Early life Denness was born in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. His father was employed by W.D. & H.O. Wills, a tobacco importer and cigarette manufacturer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |