Post by hhsussex on Jun 10, 2014 10:08:04 GMT
Only 62, and in ill-health following a liver transplant in 2005. Coupled with a reference to a carefree approach to training I assume that what is implied is that he partied not wisely but too well and for too long. He had that golden summer of 1975 when he successively bowled well against England in the World Cup semi-final and in the Headingley Test (the George Davis match) following a breakthrough against the West Indies the winter before. For a time he looked like a real all-round find for Australia, but his form had gone by the time of the Centenary Test and the team that came to England in 77 and thereafter went to Packer made do without a main all-round presence.
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