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Dennis Lillee

Dennis Lillee
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Personal information
Full name Dennis Keith Lillee
Born (1949-07-18) 18 July 1949 (age 67)
Subiaco, Perth, Western Australia
Nickname FOT
Height 6 ft (183 cm)
Batting style Right-hand batsman
Bowling style Right-arm fast
Role Bowler
International information
National side
Test debut 29 January 1971 v England
Last Test 2 January 1984 v Pakistan
ODI debut 24 August 1972 v England
Last ODI 18 June 1983 v West Indies
Domestic team information
Years Team
1969–1984 Western Australia
1987–1988 Tasmania
1988 Northamptonshire
Career statistics
Competition Test ODIs FC List A
Matches 70 63 198 102
Runs scored 905 240 2337 382
Batting average 13.71 9.23 13.90 8.68
100s/50s 0/1 0/0 0/2 0/0
Top score 73* 42* 73* 42*
Balls bowled 18467 3593 44806 5678
Wickets 355 103 882 165
Bowling average 23.92 20.82 23.46 19.75
5 wickets in innings 23 1 50 1
10 wickets in match 7 n/a 13 n/a
Best bowling 7/83
(11/123)
5/34 8/29 5/34
Catches/stumpings 23/– 67/– 67/– 17/–
Source: CricketArchive, 14 January 2009

Dennis Keith Lillee, AM, MBE (born 18 July 1949 in Subiaco, Western Australia) is a former Australian cricketer rated as the "outstanding fast bowler of his generation". Lillee was known for his fiery temperament, 'never-say-die' attitude and popularity with the fans.

In the early part of his career Lillee was an extremely quick bowler, but a number of stress fractures in his back almost ended his career. Taking on a strict fitness regime, he fought his way back to full fitness, eventually returning to international cricket. By the time of his retirement from international cricket in 1984 he had become the then world record holder for most Test wickets (355), and had firmly established himself as one of the most recognisable and renowned Australian sportsmen of all time.

On 17 December 2009, Lillee was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame. He has also contributed to the MRF Pace Foundation in Chennai, India.

Aged 20, Lillee made his first-class debut for Western Australia in 1969-70 and impressed with his raw pace. Lillee took 32 wickets in his debut season to be WA's leading wicket-taker. At the end of the season, he toured New Zealand with an Australian second team and took 18 wickets at 16.44 average.

The following season, he made his Test debut in the Sixth Test at Adelaide in the 1970-71 Ashes series, taking 5/84 from 28.3 eight-ball overs. His first Test wicket was John Edrich, caught by Keith Stackpole for 130, but it was not until the Seventh Test at Sydney that John Hampshire became the first batsman to be "caught Marsh, bowled Lillee". In 1971–72 against a World XI at Perth, he destroyed a powerful batting lineup that included Garry Sobers, Clive Lloyd, Rohan Kanhai and Sunil Gavaskar by taking 8/29. Lillee followed this performance with a successful Ashes tour of England in 1972, when he "asserted himself as a great bowler". In a series that ended 2–2, he was the outstanding bowler on either team, taking 31 wickets at an average of 17.67. This earned him selection as one of Wisden's Five Cricketers of the Year for 1973.


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