Craig McDermott is one of Australia’s top 5 wicket-takers in both Tests and one-dayers, yet is largely a forgotten figure today. Why is this so and how good a player was he?
After struggling for wins last summer, Australia’s one-day side have turned things around recently with a superb run of form. Who were the key players behind this turnaround?
Glenn McGrath and Shane Warne are usually cited as the key figures in Australia’s now ended era of Test dominance but in their own way Matthew Hayden and Ricky Ponting were equally as significant.
Published 25 years ago, Dennis Lillee’s book ‘Over and Out’ is a fascinating insight into not only the man himself but Australian cricket in the 1980s.
Australia’s 1995 Test series win in the Caribbean is rightly seen as a historic event in Australian cricket, but it wouldn’t have been achieved without the groundwork laid in the previous series – 1994/95 Ashes.