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This cricket writer was born in 1984 and despite a certain degree of talent – which peaked at the age of 16 – I never made it anywhere near the England ranks. Even the county ranks proved too elusive. The same cannot be said about a truly majestic leg spinner, arguably the unluckiest leg spinner of all time. Stuart MacGill had a significant taste of test cricket but not the amount that someone of his calibre deserved.
The start of our Ashes 100-1 feature coincided with Ricky Ponting’s “absolutely possible” response to a question asking if Australia could repeat their 5-0 whitewash of four years ago. Although Ponting, didn’t quite veer into full Glenn McGrath territory and make an outright 5-0 prediction, it does seem to have heralded the start of what Andrew Strauss has shrewdly termed the “silly season” of Ashes propaganda. And that is our subject today.
87 is known as the “Devil’s Number” in Australian cricket as it is thirteen shy of a hundred, so it seems apt that with 87 days to go until the Ashes begins in Brisbane on 25th November, we look today at Australian batsmen who have fallen on this dreaded number in our Ashes 100-1 countdown.
Ashes 2010: Archie Jackson – The ‘Other Bradman’
Ashes 2010: A Look at Keith Miller Ashes Legend
England vs Pakistan 1st T20 Highlights
Ashes 2010: The Memory of Botham’s Ashes in 81
Ashes 2010: Hughes’ Talk of England as #1 is Premature
Match Fixing Controversy: Why is it Always Pakistan?
A Historical Perspective of Match Fixing in Sport
The Reverse Sweep – The Week in Cricket
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