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.

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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* Merv Hughes took a hat trick in the Test against the West Indies in 1988 / 1989, and went on to take 8 – 87 in the innings.

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.

He also appeared as himself on The Ed Sullivan Show, Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows, The Red Skelton Show, The Merv Griffin Show, The Mike Douglas Show, and guested on Ralph Edwards ' This Is Your Life on February 12, 1961 with honoree Peter Palmer.

Patterson appeared on several popular talk shows to show the film and promote the documentary on Merv Griffin's program, with Krantz offering his analysis of the film, and also on Joey Bishop's talk show.

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On the strength of his record sales, he made numerous national TV appearances, including on Arthur Godfrey radio show, The Merv Griffin Show, The Mike Douglas Show ( which he co-hosted for a week ), The Ed Sullivan Show, The Tonight Show, and The Kraft Music Hall ; he also performed in Las Vegas and did concerts around the U. S. Bryant, who still lives in Pickens, continues to write and record music.

Expanding its television franchise, on May 5, 1986, Columbia also bought Merv Griffin Enterprises, notable for successful shows: Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy !, Dance Fever, and The Merv Griffin Show for $ 250 million.

The show also drew many well-known or then up-and-coming actors and actresses for single guest starring roles, such as Don Ameche, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Ken Berry, Sonny Bono, Eddie Bracken, Joseph Campanella, Virginia Capers, Rosalind Cash, George Clooney, Polly Holliday, Robert Culp, Ruby Dee, the Del Rubio triplets, Jeane Dixon, Anne Francis, Johnny Gilbert, Jack Gilford, Alice Ghostley, Peter Graves, Merv Griffin, George Grizzard, Gary Grubbs, Bob Hope, Julio Iglesias, Freddie Jackson, Tony Jay, Billy Jayne, Gordon Jump, Paula Kelly, Alan King, David Leisure, Jenny Lewis, Hal Linden, Mark Linn-Baker, Mario Lopez, Edie McClurg, Marian Mercer, Martin Mull, Leslie Nielsen, Jerry Orbach, Leland Orser, Tony Plana, Peggy Pope, Joe Regalbuto, Burt Reynolds, Debbie Reynolds, Donnelly Rhodes, Richard Riehle, Alex Rocco, Cesar Romero, Mickey Rooney, Harry Shearer, McLean Stevenson, Inga Swenson, Jeffrey Tambor, Meshach Taylor, Jay Thomas, Alex Trebek, Dick Van Dyke, Tom Villard, Lyle Waggoner, David Wayne and Fred Willard.

She also made occasional guest appearances on different television shows including The Merv Griffin Show and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.

Merv was also the center of a major 8th-century Neo-Mazdakite movement led by al-Muqanna, the “ Veiled Prophet ”, who gained many followers by claiming to be an incarnation of God and heir to Abu Muslim ; the Khurramiyya inspired by him persisted in Merv until the 12th century.

The best-preserved of all the structures in Merv is the 12th-century mausoleum of Sultan Sanjar, also in Sultan Gala.

Laugh tracks were also used on Merv Griffin's Crosswords, which ran from 2007 to 2008 and, unlike most game shows, did not tape in front of a studio audience.

It is stated that Russia is making movements in the direction of Herat, and intends not only to extend the railway from Merv into the Kushk Valley, but also to build a line from Charjui along the Oxus to Karki, close to the Afghan frontier.

It is also claimed he was born in the village of Sanjerd or Makhowan near the city of Merv in what is now Turkmenistan.

Mervyn also appeared in his own spin-off to The Sandman series called Merv Pumpkinhead: Agent of DREAM, published in 2000.

Olson's first TV announcing job was on the final year of the original Name That Tune in 1958 ; in that year Olson also announced the Merv Griffin-hosted Play Your Hunch, which lasted until 1963 and began his long association with Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions, five years earlier.

He also appeared on Laugh In, The Dean Martin Roast, The Mike Douglas Show, The Tonight Show, Merv Griffin, The Smothers Brothers Show, The Burns and Schreiber Comedy Hour, Laugh Trax, and as one of the cast members in the 1985 special of That Was the Year That Was with David Frost.

She also appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, The Merv Griffith Show, The Tonight Show, The Arsenio Hall Show and The Flip Wilson Show.

He was also a regular on The Steve Allen Show and a guest artist on The Tonight Show and The Merv Griffin Show.

These two, along with various other Christmas pieces of his composition, also appeared in The Truth about Christmas – or Gold, Frankenstein and Merv – a one-off television programme in 1984, performed again by both Stilgoe and children from the Broom Leys Junior School Choir.

She also appeared frequently on various television shows, including The Merv Griffin Show, Dick Clark's American Bandstand, Solid Gold, and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.

Sanjan gained further importance following the Seleucid establishment of Merv as the principal city of the Margiana province, a status it also held during the subsequent Parthian ( 250 BCE – 226 CE ) and Sassanid ( 226-651 CE ) eras.