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Dennis Keith Lillee, AM, MBE (born 18 July 1949) is a retired Australian cricketer rated as the "outstanding fast bowler of his generation". Lillee formed a new ball partnership with Jeff Thomson which is recognised as one of the greatest bowling pairs of all time.
Learn about Dennis Lillee, one of the greatest fast bowlers in cricket history, who took 355 Test wickets and broke Lance Gibbs' record. Find his stats, records, videos, news, photos and more on ESPNcricinfo.
- Male
- August 18, 1949
- Australia
Learn about Dennis Lillee, the legendary Australian fast bowler who was one of the best in the history of cricket. Find out his batting and bowling records, his controversies, his role in World Series Cricket and his achievements.
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- The first selection. In 1969-70, Lillee was a young man plying his trade in club cricket in Perth. He was expecting selection that year as Western Australia needed pacers in the absence of Graham McKenzie and Laurie Mayne, who were on national duty.
- FOT. In his young days with Western Australia, Lillee was not very interested in fielding and used to almost while away at fine-leg or third-man. The captain Tony Lock used to be irritated to correct him and put him in proper place.
- The Aussie captain pulls a fast one. Lillee’s maiden Test series was the Ashes 1970-71 Down Under, which saw the incident involving Terry Jenner, where he was felled by a bouncer from John Snow.
- The best off-spinners Dickie Bird saw. During an Ashes Test in 1975, Lillee was unhappy with the shape of the ball and complained to Dickie Bird, the umpire.
In a Test career spanning 13 years, Denis Lillee took 355 wickets in 70 matches. If his bowling average of 23.92 in Tests was impressive, his ODI record was even better. The Australian averaged 20.82 with the ball in the shorter format and had a career economy rate of 3.58.
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Find out the complete career history of Dennis Lillee including highest scores, centuries, half centuries, wickets and more. Matches (5) T20 World Cup (4) Vitality Blast (1) Previous.
Dec 11, 2021 · But the big thing, probably the most important thing for the team, I think, was Dennis Lillee.” It was, most certainly so, that day at the WACA, the Western Australian Cricket Association ground. Earlier in the morning, Lillee had got Sunil Gavaskar with a vicious lifter before the star of India’s 1971 Caribbean sojourn had managed a run on the board.
