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...When selectors ended Healy's Test career in 1999, Australians lost a record-breaking wicketkeeper who more than occasionally saved his side with his bat. His replacement, Adam Gilchrist, proved to be an improvement on greatness?an almost equally accomplished gloveman who became, if not his country's finest batsman, certainly its cleanest and most dashing hitter. Of all examples of Australian extravagance this past decade, none has been more demoralizing for opponents than the sight of Gilchrist marching to the crease...
...Ponting's Australia can admit to being outplayed, but never to being outclassed. When they were losing in England, opening batsman Justin Langer said: "If we execute our skills well, we will beat anyone in the world. That's not being arrogant, that's just a fact." No, that was arrogant - England had a better pace attack, pure and simple. Even the Australian nice guys have publicly disputed umpires' decisions this past year, and bristled at suggestions that poor form might have put their places in jeopardy. Ponting can't be held responsible for everything his teammates...
...person and not just as a cricketer." Waugh's shyness is a revelation: a passage in which he botches a speech in front of his family is one of the book's most poignant. Another surprise is the helplessness he felt in his early days as a Test batsman, facing a quartet of West Indian fast bowlers every bit as ruthless as Waugh would become...
...start." Australia has held the Ashes since 1989, when Allan Border arrived in England determined to bury his team's reputation as amiable pushovers. Captain Grumpy banned wives and girlfriends from making the trip and dodged any socializing with the opposition. During a match early in the tour, England batsman Robin Smith, suffering a stomach upset, asked Border whether it might be alright if a teammate brought Smith a glass of water. "What do you think this is, mate?" the captain snarled. "A f___ing garden party...
Holy Cross threatened to take the lead in the top of the 11th when a hit batsman, error and intentional walk loaded the bases with only one out, but Brown stayed calm and got out of the jam. First, he induced Jamie Aldrich to ground to Klimkiewicz at first, who fired home for the force out. Then Brown struck out Tom Potvin on a low breaking pitch to end the threat...