Australian cricket team in England in 1975
Following the 1975 Cricket World Cup, the Australian cricket team remained in England in the 1975 season to play a four-match Test series against England. For England, the principal resistance came from veteran opening batsman John Edrich and David Steele, who received a maiden international cap after a decade of county cricket for 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 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 providing admirable
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Australian cricket team in England in 1975
Following the 1975 Cricket World Cup, the Australian cricket team remained in England in the 1975 season to play a four-match Test series against England. For England, the principal resistance came from veteran opening batsman John Edrich and David Steele, who received a maiden international cap after a decade of county cricket for 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 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 providing admirable
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Following the 1975 Cricket Wor ...... therefore retained The Ashes.
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Australia won by an innings and 85 runs
Australia won the 4-Test series 1–0
runs-team1-inns
IM Chappell 192, RB McCosker 127
RB McCosker 25*
runs-team2-inns
IM Chappell 35
IM Chappell 86
KWR Fletcher 51
R Edwards 99, DK Lillee 73*
RA Woolmer 149
RB McCosker 95*
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Australian cricket team in England in 1975
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DJ Constant and AE Fagg
HD Bird and AE Fagg
HD Bird and TW Spencer
WE Alley and TW Spencer
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AA Mallett 3/127
AA Mallett 3/50, GJ Gilmour 3/72
CM Old 3/74, AW Greig 3/107
DK Lillee 4/84
DL Underwood 1/5, AW Greig 1/9
GJ Gilmour 6/85
JA Snow 3/86, GG Arnold 3/91
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DK Lillee 5/15, MHN Walker 5/48
DL Underwood 1/40
JR Thomson 4/50, MHN Walker 4/63
JR Thomson 5/38
KD Walters 4/34, DK Lillee 4/91
PH Edmonds 5/28
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Following the 1975 Cricket Wor ...... Max Walker providing admirable
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Australian cricket team in England in 1975
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