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Lindwall and later
Lindwall was subjected to a thorough fitness test on the morning of the Second Test at Lord's two weeks later, the home of cricket.
Lindwall removed Hutton with the new ball and later returned to remove Dollery and Jim Laker without the addition of a single run to take 3 / 61 as Australia took a 409 run victory.
In later years, Bradman told Lindwall that he pretended not to notice Lindwall's pain.
Lindwall was worried that Bradman had noticed his injury, but Bradman later claimed that he feigned ignorance to allow Lindwall to relax.

Lindwall and dismissed
He was dismissed for a duck only once in Tests, lbw to Ray Lindwall in the 1st Test against Australia at Brisbane in 1951.
Lindwall was dismissed for only nine in Australia's first innings, bowled by Alec Bedser.
Lindwall had Compton dismissed before lunch after Morris had taken a difficult catch.
Lindwall returned for the Fifth Test and dismissed Hutton early, before ending with 3 / 77.
The teams played out a draw in the third match at Manchester, where Tallon dismissed George Emmett from the bowling of Ray Lindwall with a diving one-handed catch.

Lindwall and English
This was partly due to English perception of the short-pitched fast bowling of Australian pairing Ray Lindwall and Keith Miller as being hostile.
After a strong performance in the Caribbean, Lindwall missed half of the 1956 English tour with injury and was otherwise ineffective as Australia lost its third consecutive Ashes series.
Lindwall took five wickets in the Second Test in Melbourne, two of which came in the closing stages of the English run-chase.
During a match against the country champions Surrey at The Oval, Lindwall came across Peter May, who was regarded as the best young English batsman to emerge from the post-war era.
The match was drawn with Lindwall taking 2 / 26 in the second innings .< Ref name =" testlist "/> Lindwall had helped to reduce England to 3 / 12 at stumps on the fourth day after removing Don Kenyon and Hutton with the new ball, but defiant batting on the final day saved the English.
He took two further wickets as England fell to an innings victory .< Ref name =" p235 "> Perry ( 2001 ), p. 235 .</ ref > After the match, English paceman Frank Tyson asked Lindwall for advice on how to bowl a more effective bouncer.
Richie Benaud said that Lindwall was " technically the best fast bowler " that he ever saw .< Ref name =" p211 "/> During the 1950s, Lindwall's action was copied by young children and a number of first-class Australian bowlers, including Ron Gaunt, John Power and Barry Fisher consciously copied his action .< Ref name =" az "/> Alan Davidson, who succeeded Lindwall as Australia's pace spearhead, labelled him as " the best fast bowler I ever saw ".< Ref name =" a159 "> Armstrong, p. 159 .</ ref > Lindwall's childhood hero Harold Larwood rated Dennis Lillee to be equal to Lindwall " but not ahead of him ".< Ref name =" a159 "/> Following Lindwall's tour of England in 1953, his English counterpart Alec Bedser said that Lindwall was " the best fast bowler I've seen, because of his variety and control ".
Len Hutton, the English batsman with whom Lindwall had many celebrated battles.
Tallon had difficulty with the English conditions early in the season as he sustained a bruised right finger when he lost sight of a Ray Lindwall bouncer on a misty morning during a tour match against Surrey at The Oval and was hit as he put hand over his face for protection, with the ball running away for four byes.

Lindwall and captain
As captain, Hutton believed that the key to success was a strong pace attack, stemming from his experiences against Lindwall and Miller, which influenced his selection of several promising fast bowlers.
Queensland's captain, the veteran paceman Ray Lindwall, was no longer an automatic Test selection.
During the return trip to Australia, Lindwall captained Australia for the only time in a Test match against India in Mumbai, after injuries forced out regular captain Ian Johnson.
Lindwall was appointed the Queensland captain, and he took 30 wickets at 28. 97 and made 383 runs at 32. 55.
The Second Test in Bombay was the only time that Lindwall was to captain Australia in a Test match.
Australia's depleted bowling told in the home side's second innings, as the visitors were only able to prise out five wickets and match ended in a draw, with Indian captain Polly Umrigar batting for six hours for a defiant 78 .< Ref name =" p239 "/> Lindwall finished the tour with scores of eight and 28 in the Third Test in Madras.
Lindwall ( l ) with ( l to r ) Australian prime minister Robert Menzies | Sir Robert Menzies, his former Test captain Lindsay Hassett and then West Indies ' skipper Frank Worrell at Manuka Oval in 1961.
When England developed quality pace bowlers of their own in the 1950s, Hutton was captain and he implemented a similar strategy to that executed by Lindwall and Miller.

Lindwall and second
He was bowled second ball by a yorker from Lindwall and England struggled to remain competitive throughout the match.
After supporting Lindwall in a 48-run partnership in the first innings of the Fourth Test, Johnston took 4 / 95 in the second innings, including three in the space of 16 runs.
At the age of 11, Lindwall and his elder brother Jack were spectators at the Sydney Cricket Ground on the second day of the First Test of the 1932 – 33 Ashes series.
During the winter of 1942, Lindwall helped the St. George football team to reach the grand final for the second consecutive year and also finished the season as the League's top point-scorer.
Lindwall gave his first indications of cricketing potential on a 38 degree day in the second innings of a match against Victoria.
He bowled only briefly in the first innings, with 0 / 23 before being forced from the field with chickenpox, which prevented him from bowling in the second innings as Australia secured a heavy innings victory .< Ref name =" testlist "/> The illness prevented Lindwall from playing in the Second Test in Sydney in what would have been his first Test in his home town.
Lindwall took two further wickets in the second innings as Australia took a 3 – 0 series win with another innings victory.
In the 1947 – 48 season, the tour by the Indian cricket team saw Lindwall take his career best bowling figures of 7 / 38 at the Adelaide Oval in the second innings of the Fourth Test .< Ref name =" az "/>< Ref name =" testlist "/> Lindwall was again the leading wicket-taker for the series, with 18 wickets at 16. 88, in addition to his 70 runs at 14. 00.
Lindwall could not bowl in the second innings as Australia completed an eight wicket victory.
Lindwall removed Emmett for a duck in the second innings, bringing his tormentor Edrich to the crease.
Australia struggled to 228 in its first innings with Lindwall making the second top-score of 41 in supporting Neil Harvey ( 74 ) in a rearguard action.
In the Fourth Test in Adelaide, Lindwall took 3 / 51 in England's first innings before scoring a patient 31 in Australia's second innings, helping to set up at target that was 274 runs too much for Brown's men.
Lindwall was wicketless in the second innings and Australia faced 236 to win.
In the second innings, Lindwall took two further wickets and struck vice-captain Jeff Stollmeyer in the head.
Lindwall showed his versatility again in the First Test in Brisbane, scoring an unbeaten 38 in the second innings to extend Australia's lead to 373.
In Australia's second innings, Lindwall scored the fastest half-century in Ashes history.
Lindwall bowled Tyson in the first innings and in the second innings, Lindwall gave him a bouncer which skidded towards Tyson's throat.
It was his second century at Test level, eight years after his first, but showed the same counter-attacking aggression .< Ref name =" p237 "/> Lindwall had another quiet match with two wickets in another high scoring draw with both teams amassing more than 500 in the first innings .< Ref name =" testlist "/> Lindwall finished the series with four wickets in the Fifth Test in Jamaica as Australia completed a 3 – 0 series win with another innings triumph .< Ref name =" testlist "/> In a high scoring series, Lindwall had taken 20 wicket at 31. 85 while also scoring 187 runs at 37. 40, a strong all round performance .< Ref name =" p238 "> Perry ( 2001 ), p. 238 .</ ref >

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