Nightmare Down Under

[fredfertang]

Nightmare Down Under

CW's Ashes Flashback series looks at 1974/75 and a series dominated by Dennis Lillee and Jeff Thomson

 

[benchmark00]

Not to be confused with hit 90's TV show Genie From Down Under.

 

[andyc]

Not to be confused with hit 90's TV show Genie From Down Under.

**** yes

 

[BoyBrumby]

Another worthy addition to an already impressive oeuvre.

Particularly enjoyed the line "a target of 333, half the number of the beast"; well turned and, considering the attack, very apt.

 

[wpdavid]

A good read - thanks for taking the time to write it.

It was the my first Ashes series in Australia, so I remember a fair bit of it. As you say, none of us had heard of Thomson, although we alredy knew about Lillee. Had the series been played 12 months earlier, we'd have faced an attack of Walker, Dymock and Hammond, which would probably have produced a very different result: certainly a more equal contest anyway. My take on selections at the time was that Luckhurst shouldn't have toured - he'd been hopeless against Lillee in 1972 - and that obviously Snow should have.

That being said, I think that we'd have been hammered whoever we took: a view that was supported when WI lost 5-1 over there 12 months later.

 

[Burgey]

Top read that.

This year no doubt will be dubbed "Nightmare Revisited". Johnson-Bollinger might not have the same ring as Lillee-Thomson now, but wait til January.