Australia enforced the follow-on and piled on the pressure ; Gooch was out for 0 on his third ball of the first over caught by Terry Alderman off the bowling of Dennis Lillee.

The Old Trafford Test was less of a turnaround and more of a team effort than the previous two Tests, but Botham again was England's hero hitting yet another century in what Lillee claimed to be a better innings than his Headingley heroics.

Along with Malcolm Marshall, Hadlee was seen as the finest fast bowler of his time, despite the contemporaneous presence of Dennis Lillee, Imran Khan, Andy Roberts, Michael Holding, Joel Garner, Kapil Dev and Wasim Akram among others.

It was common for Hadlee to think about how to dismiss batsmen by wondering ' what would Lillee do?

Denness lost heavily to the hostile pace of Dennis Lillee and Jeff Thomson and despite numerous injuries to batsmen and bowlers alike Snow was not sent as a replacement.

The first recorded Thai Lilac kitten was born to the Jenanca line in 1989, when ' Jenanca Lilac Lillee ' was born from two Korat parents in the UK.

A good example of Trueman's coaching ability had occurred in 1975 when he was approached by the Australian fast bowler Dennis Lillee for help.

Lillee was having trouble with both his run-up and bowling action, problems that Trueman had already observed and mentioned on the radio.

Trueman gave Lillee the technical advice that provided the solution and Lillee was soon able to recover his form, though this was at the expense of England.

It was the end of an era for Australian cricket as Rod Marsh, Dennis Lillee and Greg Chappell retired at the end of the season, leaving the Australian team short on experience.

At the time, Lillee and Marsh held the world records for the most Test wickets and wicket-keeping catches respectively, while Chappell was Australia's highest-ever runscorer.

Hughes was identified as a potential Test cricketer from an early age but his impetuous style of batting and personality clashes with influential team mates and opponents such as Dennis Lillee and Rod Marsh saw a later introduction to first-class and Test cricket than anticipated.

The batsman's response was to hit two sixes in three balls off Ken MacLeay, before hitting two consecutive sixes off Rodney Hogg, and in the next over, doing the same to Lillee.

The highlight was undoubtedly a one-handed shot off Lillee, which soared over the fine leg fence.

In the early part of his career Lillee was an extremely quick bowler, but a number of stress fractures in his back almost ended his career.

On 17 December 2009, Lillee was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.

His first Test wicket was John Edrich, caught by Keith Stackpole for 130, but it was not until the Seventh Test at Sydney that John Hampshire became the first batsman to be " caught Marsh, bowled Lillee ".

On the tour of the West Indies that followed, Lillee broke down completely and was diagnosed with stress fracture in his lower vertebrae.

* In December 1979, on the second day of the Test Match between Australia and England, Dennis Lillee emerged onto the field carrying not the traditional willow bat, but a cricket bat made from aluminium, known as a ComBat.

With the close support of his family, Hadlee cancelled all his appointments for two weeks, and took a holiday to Rarotonga, where he ran into his great cricketing rival Dennis Lillee.

Boycott has responded to these accusations by pointing out that Lillee had been out of cricket for 21 months suffering from a serious back complaint and that Thomson had not played in Tests for 23 months prior to the 1974 – 5 Ashes series, since an unsuccessful debut Test against Pakistan ( Thomson's match figures were 0 – 110 ).

Trueman received criticism from many people in the England camp for helping an Australian player, especially after Lillee publicly acknowledged his debt to Trueman.

Former Australian bowler Dennis Lillee employed a leg cutter of this sort to considerable effect ; however, deliveries of this kind will be slower than if the bowler simply bowls with the seam upright, hoping for movement one way or the other.

Aged 20, Lillee made his first-class debut for Western Australia in 1969-70 and impressed with his raw pace.

During a Test against Pakistan in the 1972 – 73 season, Lillee felt sharp pain in his back for the first time, but continued to play.

Remaining in Australia to do television commentary on the tour, Lillee was isolated from the furore in England surrounding the plans for the breakaway professional competition, WSC.

Cutting down his pace and the length of his run up, Lillee now concentrated on moving the ball off the seam with an occasional faster or slower ball for variation.

However, the tour of Pakistan that followed was ruined for Lillee by flat batting pitches prepared by local curators to blunt his effectiveness.

Against New Zealand and India in 1980 – 81, Lillee took 37 wickets in six Tests and was the leading bowler in the World Series Cup for the second successive season.

Returning to the team for the latter stages of the World Series Cup, Lillee was no longer an automatic choice to take the new ball.

Throughout his Australian career Lillee was also famous for his partnership with wicketkeeper Rod Marsh, and the scorecard entry ' c Marsh b Lillee ' appeared 95 times in Tests, a partnership record between wicketkeeper and bowler that is yet to be broken.

He is also noted for a controversial run-out of Alvin Kallicharran in a Test Match against the West Indies in 1974, and often clashed with Australian fast bowler Dennis Lillee on the 1974 – 75 Ashes Tour in Australia.

Play was held up for ten minutes as the umpires persuaded Lillee to change to a piece of willow ( Video ).

Lillee was fined and suspended for two matches – ( Video, Scorecard ).

Notable Western Australia cricketers who also played for the Australian cricket team include Rod Marsh and Dennis Lillee, who are inductees of the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame, and Bob Simpson, Kim Hughes, Geoff Marsh, Adam Gilchrist and Mike Hussey, who each captained Australia whilst playing for Western Australia.

In the 1974 – 75 series, with the England team breaking up and their best batsman Geoff Boycott refusing to play, Australian pace bowlers Jeff Thomson and Dennis Lillee wreaked havoc.

Especially between players such as Dennis Lillee, Rod Marsh, former WSC players and Kim Hughes who stuck with the official side.

This period of exile coincided with the peaks of several fast bowlers ' careers, including Dennis Lillee, Jeff Thomson, Andy Roberts, and Michael Holding.

Some of his players felt that he struggled to cope with the pressure of captaincy during the tense England run chase on the final day, when Australia won a dramatic victory, due to by a marathon bowling spell from Dennis Lillee.

He ended his Test career with 310 wickets in 76 tests, the fourth highest Australian total behind Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath and Dennis Lillee.

Lillee followed this performance with a successful Ashes tour of England in 1972, when he " asserted himself as a great bowler ".

Lillee suggested that a made-for-television exhibition series could be played each season with profits given to the players.

In nine " Supertests " ( four in Australia and five in the West Indies ) during 1978 – 79, Lillee captured 46 wickets at 22. 5 average, with a best of 7 / 23 against the West Indies XI at the SCG.

During the season of his return to official cricket, Lillee collected 35 Test wickets in six matches against the West Indies and England, and gave Australia's bowling attack stability while the selectors experimented with the team.

Lillee formed a penetrative partnership with fellow West Australian Terry Alderman, who claimed an Australian record of 41 wickets.

This allowed Lillee to play the rest of the Test series and he finished with 20 wickets at 31. 65.

This made him the second fastest Australian to reach the milestone, equal with Shane Warne and Dennis Lillee.

* Described by Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack as " one of the most undignified incidents in Test history ", the clash between Lillee and Pakistani batsman Javed Miandad in 1981, in which Lillee and Miandad collided with each other, after which the bowler turned and kicked Miandad from behind.