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Dennis Lillee

Full Name
Dennis Keith Lillee
Born
18-07-1949 Subiaco, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Current Age
73 years old
Major Teams
Australia
Batting Style
Right-hand bat
Bowling Style
Right-arm fast
Dennis Lillee

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Dennis Lillee Biography

One of the greatest fast bowlers of all time, Dennis Lillee is considered the patron saint of skilful intimidation by the modern speedsters.
 
He started his career started as a raw, volcanic force and a fascination for hurling balls down in a fiery spark, making them leave the hand and zip across 22-yards in the least possible interval of time.
 
During the second stage it was hostility laced with skill, a near-perfect weapon of untamed primal force with fast sprouting guile. The flame of aggression singed the best of batsmen; it often burnt them to cinders. Yet the fire suggested burnout. Something had to give. And his back did, in multiple places. There was an interlude of inaction, frustration and agony.
 
When he came back, it was as if he had been forged by the scorching travails, the artillery of the past enhanced with the science cultivated through months of reflection. The action was remodelled, the hostility remained intact. The offerings were sharpened to cutting edge fast bowling.
 
And finally there were the riches of experience, enhancing his trade into the highest level of art. As a senior pro he was the veritable text book of his profession. Even a phenomenon like Richard Hadlee had a magic formula that spelt his success, a simple question which ran: “What would Lillee do?”
 
Dennis Lillee’s career evolved through these phases. It overcame pain, it snipped out the shortcomings to chisel lasting perfection; it won over the inevitable fraying brought about by age. And it ended as one of the most successful of all fast bowling tales in the history of cricket.
 
He ran through an incredibly strong Rest of the World line up, vanquished the Pommies again and again. In the company of Jeff Thomson, he formed one of the most hostile fast bowling pair ever and battered opponents black and blue. This included old foes England and the supremely gifted West Indian line up.
 
In 1981-82, he was a senior statesman, with reduced pace. Yet he took on the might of the four pronged West Indian pace attack single-handedly, destroying the extraordinary Caribbean batting with ten wickets at Melbourne, ensuring a 1-1 verdict in the series.
 
There was a dark side. It included getting into on-field brawls with the likes of Javed Miandad and walking out with an aluminium bat. But, he remains a legend, a talismanic figure in the history of fast bowling.
 
He overcame pain and interludes due to back problems and Packer Circus to end with 355 wickets at 23.92, at that time a world record. He did not play too many ODIs, yet his numbers are more than impressive, with 103 wickets at 20.82. He was also the first to claim five wickets in an innings in ODIs with five for 34 against Pakistan in the 1975 World Cup.
 
The memories of the thick mane, bristling moustache and the dangling golden chain still remain associated with supremely skilled, intimidatory fast bowling.
 
Arunabha Sengupta

Dennis Lillee Batting & Fielding Averages

Career M In R NO HS Avg BF SR 100s 50s 4s 6s Ct St
Test 70 90 905 24 73* 13.71 2284 39.62 0 1 96 8 23 0
ODIs 63 34 240 8 42* 9.230 320 75.00 0 0 17 1 10 0
T20s 0 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
World Cup 9 3 19 1 16* 9.500 33 57.57 0 0 1 0 -- --

Dennis Lillee Bowling Averages

Career M B R W Avg EC SR 5WI 10WM BBI BBM
Test 70 17017 8493 355 23.92 2.994 47. 23 7 7/83 11/123
ODIs 63 3577 2145 103 20.82 3.598 34.72 1 0 5/15 5/34
T20s 0 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
World Cup 9 588 400 12 33.33 4.081 49.00 1 -- 5/34 5/34

Dennis Lillee Career statistics

Test Debut

Australia v England at Adelaide Oval, Adelaide, January 29, 1971

Last Test

Australia v Pakistan at Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney, January 2, 1984

ODI Debut

England v Australia at Old Trafford, Manchester, August 24, 1972

Last ODI

Australia v West Indies at Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood, June 18, 1983

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Ashes 2019: I’m just some bloke trying to bowl, says Nathan Lyon after equaling Dennis Lillee’s tally of Test wickets

Off-spinner Lyon took 3-68, a haul that saw him draw level with celebrated fast bowler Lillee's tally of 355 Test wickets

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