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3 unusual facts about Eddie Illingworth


Eddie Illingworth

In the same fourteenth over, Illingworth had dismissed former Pakistani Test batsman Duncan Sharpe and Australian Test wicket-keeper Barry Jarman from the first and fourth deliveries respectively.

In the following match against Western Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, he took 1/56, taking the wicket of Test player Keith Slater as Western Australia made 455.

Two years later, in November 1961, Illingworth was selected for Jack Potter's XI in an invitational one-day single innings match against Bill Lawry's XI at Junction Oval.



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