Talk:Dennis Lillee

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"Still a huge hit with the fans, Lillee continued his international career until famously retiring along with Greg Chappell and Rod Marsh after the Sydney Test match against Pakistan in January 1984; many consider this 'triple retirement' had an adverse impact on the Australian national team as their performances soon slumped."

Whilest all 3 did retire from TEST cricket after that match I'm pretty sure Marsh continued on play out the World Series Cup of that Summer whereas Chappell and Lillee did not.

  • Interesting, but I'm not sure it's particularly relevant to an article on Dennis Lillee. In adding the information about the possible adverse impact on the national team, I did so as more an indication that it happened. Certainly an article on the impacts of their retirements would be very interesting...--Cory 16:32, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] MRF School Of Pace

I think something should be mentioned in his role at the MRF (Madras Rubber Factory) sponsored School of Pace Academy in Chennai (formerly Madras).
He was made director of the school, founded in 1987, which was launched to help find good young fast bowlers in India

A couple of links:
http://www.chennaibest.com/cityresources/Sports_and_Recreation/sportsacademies01.asp
http://www.iloveindia.com/sports/bodies/mrf-pace-foundation.html

Fast bowlers who I think have trained at the school:
Javagal Srinath, Venkatesh Prasad, Ajit Agarkar (?), Ashish Nehra(?), Zaheer Khan(?), Irfan Pathan, Shanthakumaran Sreesanth, Munaf Patel(?), Rudra Pratap Singh(?)
Stonysleep 14:56, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 05:53, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] One and only caught & bowled dismissal in test cricket

No mention of Lillee's one and only caught and bowled in test cricket - the victim was Geoffrey Boycott. Having induced Boycott to hook with the previous ball ( a bouncer), Lillee repeated it - and Boycott skied it. Yelling "Mine!" at the top of his voice, Lillee ran to a short mid wicket position and delightedly took the catch. (This happened at Trent Bridge - but I am open to correction on the point.)

I think this deserves a mention. 81.102.15.200 (talk) 12:44, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

It was Dilley at Headingley, no idea if it was a hook shot, so maybe not that notable- or referenced.[1]The-Pope (talk) 14:42, 3 June 2008 (UTC)