Well led by Allan Border, the team included the young cricketers Mark Taylor, Merv Hughes, David Boon, Ian Healy and Steve Waugh, who were all to prove long-serving and successful Ashes competitors.

Merv Hughes also starred in the series 2 episode Workin ' Class Man.

In the late 1980s, the warm up stretches performed by Merv Hughes would often be mimicked by the crowd at Bay 13.

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To make matters worse, Australia's first-choice pace pairing of Craig McDermott and Merv Hughes missed the tour due to injury.

Waugh fell on tough times, being dismissed for a duck and four by Test bowler Merv Hughes in the next match against Victoria and then 17 and a run out for another duck against the touring New Zealand.

On 2 December 1988, Merv Hughes, playing for Australia, dismissing Curtly Ambrose with the last ball of his penultimate over and Patrick Patterson with the first ball of his next over, wrapping up the West Indies first innings.

Gatting's dismissal in the second innings was also unusual, in that he was bowled off the very last ball of the fourth day's play by Merv Hughes, meaning he was unable to help England bat out the last day.

Boon was formerly a member of the Cricket Australia selection board, along with Merv Hughes, Andrew Hilditch and the newly appointed Jamie Cox.

Footscray's Test representatives in order of debut are Ron Gaunt, Les Joslin, Ken Eastwood, Alan Hurst, Ray Bright, Merv Hughes, Tony Dodemaide and Colin Miller.

* Euroa is the birthplace of cricketer, Merv Hughes.

Haynes, when facing Australia in the bitter 1990 – 91 series, clashed verbally with Ian Healy, Merv Hughes, Craig McDermott and David Boon, who christened him ' Dessie '.

At Perth, in 1988 – 89, Merv Hughes completed a hat-trick spread across three separate overs and two different days.

* Patrick Keane, in association with Merv Hughes, Merv: the Full Story ( Australia: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1997 )

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He also missed most of the 1993 Ashes tour when Shane Warne and Merv Hughes shared the spoils in his absence.

Playing defensively to try and draw the Test match against Australia, Gooch blocked a short ball from Merv Hughes.

Sledging is common at most levels of the game in Australia, but one Australian with a particular reputation for sledging was former fast bowler Merv Hughes.

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Forming a potent pace bowling attack with Terry Alderman and Merv Hughes, Lawson finished with 29 wickets at 27. 27 as Australia won back the Ashes with a crushing 4 – 0 victory.

He was especially severe on Australian Bowler Merv Hughes, playing in only his second Test.

Greg Matthews was the most senior of bowlers, and had played as many Tests ( 17 ) as the others combined ; Bruce Reid ( 8 ), Steve Waugh ( 8 ), Merv Hughes ( 1 ) and Chris Matthews ( 0 ).

England also began well, reaching 71 runs before Mike Atherton was dismissed by Merv Hughes.

After the Sassanid Ardashir I ( 220-240 AD ) took Merv, the study of numismatics picks up the thread: a long unbroken direct Sassanian rule of four centuries is documented from the unbroken series of coins originally minted at Merv.

In 1037, the Seljuks, a clan of Oghuz Turks moving from the steppes east of the Aral Sea, peacefully took over Merv under the leadership of Toghril Beg – the Ghaznavid sultan Masud was extremely unpopular in the city.

He took Merv in December 747 ( or January 748 ), defeating the Umayyad governor Nasr ibn Sayyar, as well as Shayban al-Khariji, a Kharijite aspirant to the caliphate.

In March 1987, Holmes took over from 1ZB host Merv Smith, who had been breakfast host for many years.

Liberty Broadcasting ( in which entertainer Merv Griffin was an investor ) took over the station in 1993 and the format became " Hot Adult Contemporary " under veteran programmer Steve Davis, adding more contemporary titles as well as vintage Top 40 hits from the 1980s.

Over 150 celebrities took a part in the series, some self-lampooning: Merv Griffin played a griffin talk show host, game show host Wink Martindale played a riddle-expert sphinx, and Mike Connors, famous for Mannix, played Athenian policeman Chipacles ( named after CHiPs ).

Merv Hughes's Test career batting performance.

One of six cricketing brothers, four of whom represented Victoria, Harvey followed his elder brother Merv into Test cricket and made his debut in January 1948, aged 19 and three months.

Harvey's eldest brother Merv went on to play one Test for Australia, while Mick and Ray both played for Victoria.

He said that his effort was inspired by elder brother Merv, who gained Test selection in the same year.

Merv had already gained Test selection, but soon Neil was attracting more attention.

Left to right: Martin Donelly ( kneeling ), Geoff Rabone, Walter Hadlee ( kneeling ), Frank Mooney, Rona Anderson, Harry Cave, Merv Wallace, John R. ReidWalter Mervyn (" Merv ") Wallace ( 19 December 1916 – 21 March 2008 ) was a New Zealand cricketer and Test match captain.

Left to right: Martin Donelly ( kneeling ), Geoff Rabone, Walter Hadlee ( kneeling ), Frank Mooney, Rona Anderson, Harry Cave, Merv Wallace, John R. ReidIn his next Test series, when the West Indies visited New Zealand in 1951-52, Rabone continued to be used primarily as a defensive batsman, taking 178 minutes to acore 37 as an opener, and then 83 minutes to score just nine in middle order.

During an interview with talk show host Merv Griffin, the elderly producer engaged in a lengthy tirade against " pinko communists ".

* August 18 – CBS pits Merv Griffin against Johnny Carson in the late-night talk-show arena.

When arriving in Anatolia from Merv ( Turkmenistan ) with his 400 horsemen to aid the Seljuks of Rum against the Byzantines, Ertuğrul set off the chain of events that would ultimately lead to the founding of the Ottoman Empire.

Merv reached renewed importance in February 748 when the Iranian general Abu Muslim ( d. 755 ) declared a new Abbasid dynasty at Merv, expanding and re-founding the city, and, in the name of the Abbasid line, used the city as a base of rebellion against the Umayyad caliphate.

The Abbasids began a rebellion against the Umayyad Caliphate, beginning in 747, in Merv, Khurasan, and resulting in the proclamation of a new Abbasid Caliph in about 750.

Before that he had served with distinction in the campaigns against the Jin Dynasty, the Xi Xia and the Khwarezmid Empire, where he was instrumental in the capture and massacre at Merv and Nishapur.

He initially defeated an Abbasid army under the command of al-Ajtham of Merv, but was himself defeated in a bloody battle against an army led by al-Mahdi, the son of the Caliph al-Mansur ( and a future Caliph himself ).

Although Kaufmann was unable to induce his government to support all his ambitious schemes of further conquest, he was still in office when General Mikhail Skobelev was despatched from Tiflis in 1880 and 1881 against the Turkomans of the Akhal-Teke Oasis, but died suddenly at Tashkent in May 1882, shortly before the annexation of Merv.

Monday, WCHL president Ron Butlin said a court injunction would be sought against Goring and another Jet forward Merv Haney from playing with the Dauphin Kings.

Hanson featured prominently in The Prince and the Premier, the 1985 book by investigative journalist David Hickie, which canvassed allegations of corruption against senior NSW government officials, including Premier Robert Askin and senior police including Norman Allan, Hanson and Merv Wood.

In 1876 he represented the London Daily News during the rising of Bosnia and Herzegovina against the Turks, and in 1879, for the same paper, made his adventurous and famous journey to Merv.

In a shock result, the Australia A team ( captained by Damien Martyn and featuring up-and-comers such as Ricky Ponting, Matthew Hayden and Greg Blewett, as well as veterans – wicket-keeper Phil Emery and pacemen Paul Reiffel and Merv Hughes ) ousted England from the series and went into the best-of-3 final against Australia.