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Benaud's and bowling
This helped Australia take a 321-run first innings lead and put them in control of the match, but the hosts batted for the remainder of the match to stave off defeat ; Benaud's shoulder prevented him from bowling more than nine overs.

Benaud's and on
On a green pitch which was struck by a downpour on the opening day, Benaud's spin was not used by Arthur Morris and he failed to make an impression with the bat in his only innings, scoring only two.
Benaud's book My Spin on Cricket was published in 2005.
Despite sending a very strong team on the 1958 – 59 tour of Australia and New Zealand, England lost The Ashes to Richie Benaud's Australians.
He recovered sufficiently to break Geoff Boycott's forearm in a tour match just before the vital Seventh Test, but was not recalled and was left stranded on 246 Test wickets, two short of Richie Benaud's Australian record.

Benaud's and Australia's
As Benaud's deputy, Harvey helped materially in Australia's surprise 4 – 0 series victory to reclaim the Ashes.

Benaud's and tour
Harvey began his final tour to England in 1961, and Benaud's regular absences due to a shoulder injury allowed him to lead Australia for a third of the tour matches.

Benaud's and when
After breaking Richie Benaud's Australian Test record of 248 wickets, Lillee toured England in 1981 when his preparation was compromised by a viral infection.
In December 1960, Test cricket's first-ever Tied Test took place at the ground when Richie Benaud's Australian team tied with Frank Worrell's West Indian side.

Benaud's and they
They were booed and heckled as they left the field and Benaud's reputation as a " go ahead " cricket captain was badly tanished.

Benaud's and Indian
Along with the West Indian captain Frank Worrell, Benaud's bold leadership enlivened interest in Test cricket among a public who had increasingly regarded it as boring.

Benaud's and Australia
Benaud's 5 / 13 in 25 balls instigated an English collapse which saw Australia retain the Ashes.
During Benaud's captaincy, Australia did not lose a series, and became the dominant team in world cricket.
It seemed that Harvey would captain Australia in a Test for the first time with Benaud's shoulder still problematic, but the captain declared himself fit.
He matured as a test player to become an unobtrusive but often vital member of Richie Benaud's team that brought Australia out of its late-fifties doldrums in two remarkable series, against the West Indies in 1960 / 61 and England in 1961.

Benaud's and .
" In his review of Benaud's autobiography Anything But, Sri Lankan cricket writer Harold de Andrado wrote: " Richie Benaud possibly next to Sir Don Bradman has been one of the greatest cricketing personalities as player, researcher, writer, critic, author, organiser, adviser and student of the game.
Hassett struck 179 in four hours, and took 47 runs from Benaud's seven overs.
The Australian team for Benaud's debut Test match.
Harvey and Benaud had been captains of their respective states until Harvey moved in the same season for employment purposes from Victoria to New South Wales and became Benaud's deputy.
Benaud's men won the Second Test, before he took 5 / 83 and 4 / 94 in the drawn Third Test.
Benaud's personal form was a major factor in this success.
It was another lean series with the ball, Benaud's 17 wickets costing 40. 47, the third consecutive series where his wickets cost more than 30.
Benaud took 5 / 72 and scored 43 in the First Test, but then injured himself in a grade match, so Bob Simpson captained the team for the Second Test and won the match in Benaud's absence.
Benaud's bold leadership coupled with his charismatic nature and public relations ability enlivened interest in Test cricket among a public who had increasingly regarded it as boring.
" He also appeared in Richie Benaud's Greatest XI, a video in which he chooses his own team.
On 29 October 2008, Benaud's mother Irene died, aged 104.
Prior to the trip, Harvey made 112 in the second innings to help Lindwall's XI defeat Benaud's XI by seven wickets.

bowling and reached
The first was won with Cronje scoring 49 and 74 ; in the second Test, he took 3 / 14, his best bowling in Tests, and smashed 82 off 63 balls, his fifty being brought up with three consecutive sixes off Muttiah Muralitharan, and was reached off just 31 balls ; at the time, it was the second fastest in Tests after Kapil Dev's.
Boycott reached the milestone from the bowling of Greg Chappell with an on drive for four.
Reminiscing about the match later, Compton compared the South Africans ' bowling with a decent county side, but criticised their catching ( he had been dropped before he reached 20 ).
In the notorious third Test at Adelaide, the English Bodyline tactic of bowling fast balls directed at the Australian batsmen's bodies reached its most dramatic moment when fast bowler Harold Larwood hit Oldfield in the head, fracturing his skull ( although this was from a top edge off a traditional non-Bodyline ball and Oldfield admitted it was his fault ).
He brought up his century with a boundary off the bowling of Fidel Edwards, and by the end of the first day had reached 167 not out.
Taking bruising blows from the hostile pace bowling of Fred Trueman and Brian Statham on a pitch with irregular bounce due to the presence of a ridge, Lawry reached 32 at stumps on the first day after England were bowled out for 206.
It was played at Hastings, a favourite bowling haunt for Underwood who, having gone in to bat as nightwatchman, finally reached the hundred mark in his 618th first-class innings.
Though if nine wickets are down when the agreed time for tea is reached so that the bowling team only needs one more wicket to end the batting team ’ s innings, tea is delayed to the earlier of that wicket being taken or 30 minutes elapsing.
England reached 231 thanks to partly to a " priceless " 56-run late partnership between Paul Allott ( 52 ) and Willis ( 11 ) before Willis then led the bowling attack with four wickets to restrict Australia to 130 all out.
* For each dismissal, the kind of dismissal ( e. g. LBW or run out ), the bowler ( in the case of a bowling, LBW, catch, or stumping ), any other player involved ( in the case of a catch or stumping ), as well as the total the batting team reached at that point in the game (' the fall of wicket ').
He reached his maiden test century with a driven four off the bowling of Tait before making 158, eventually being dismissed by Glenn McGrath.
In 1898, Townsend bowled on a sticky wicket at Lord's to win the opening match against Middlesex, and, though on the hard pitches his bowling was largely harmless, his skill as a batsman reached far beyond that of previous years and he hit five centuries-the highest being 159 against Lancashire.
Lockwood's bowling reached its highest point, though, against Yorkshire at the Oval when Richardson was injured: he took 7 for 94 on a very true pitch to win the match that decided the Championship.
Roland Perry wrote that Lindwall " reached his zenith, producing a sustained, sensational season of brilliant, powerful and intelligent fast bowling ".
Taylor, batting at number four, scored 20 runs as England replied with 286, however the tourists bowling success would not strike twice as Australia reached 339 to save the game, and Taylor was quiet behind the stumps that innings.
Kenya's captain Tom Tikolo top-scored with 48 as the Africans reached 228 all out against Argentina, who were unable to cope with the bowling of Zahoor Sheikh ( 4-25 ) and could do no better than 141, thus losing by 87 runs.

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