Search results
- Border alone of the established players came through with reputation enhanced. He was afflicted as seriously by depression as any of the Australians following the Headingley and Edgbaston defeats, and ceased to enjoy his cricket.
wisden.com/almanack/allan-border-a-symbol-of-defiance-and-unrelenting-concentration-almanackHow Allan Border Became Australia's Symbol Of Defiance In A ...
People also ask
What if Allan Border didn't exist?
When did Allan Border retire?
Who was Allan Border?
What happened to Allan Robert border?
Allan Border: widely credited with the idiom "mental disintegration." © Getty Images
Jul 27, 2020 · by David Frith July 27, 2020 - 12:50pm 6 minute read. Allan Border was a symbol of Australian defiance in some lean years, and later the captain who led them to world domination. In 1982, he was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year. During the memorable 1981 Test series there often stood, sure-footed on the slippery slope of Australian batsmanship ...
Feb 25, 2024 · If Allan Border didn’t exist they would have made him up. They would have laid some inspiring music over footage of Border flaying a bowling attack before finishing with an image of him sitting in a change room, sweat stained under a baggy green, bat in one hand, swigging a beer with the other.
- Addams. Charles Addams had created a cartoon featuring a fictitious Addams family. The cartoonist had first decided that the oldest son (of Gomez and Morticia) would be called Pubert, but changed it to Pugsley because it sounded too sexual.
- The one that still stands. Most of Border’s records — most runs, most Tests, most Tests as captain — have been broken. There is one, however, that remains intact: against Pakistan at Lahore in 1979-80 Border defied an attack consisting of Imran Khan, Sarfraz Nawaz, Iqbal Qasim, and Tauseef Ahmed to score 150* and 153.
- What home advantage? Most batsmen thrive at home, but Border had a penchant for overseas performances. While his home numbers read 5,743 runs at 45.94 from 86 Tests, he scored 5,431 runs at 56.57 from 70 Tests overseas.
- Since GPS had not been invented… Border was dismissed for four against England at WACA in 1979-80. He was furious with himself as he returned to the dressing-room.
Allan Border. Allan Robert Border AO [1] (born 27 July 1955) is an Australian cricket commentator and former international cricketer. A batsman, Border was for many years the captain of the Australian team, and led his team to victory in the 1987 Cricket World Cup, the maiden world title for Australia. His playing nickname was " A.B. ".
Jul 27, 2019 · Allan Border was one of the great Australian captains, leading the team from the wilderness to the beginning of a new golden era. After his retirement, the 1995 edition of the Wisden Almanack saluted his achievements. Allan Border, who retired in May 1994 as Test cricket’s highest run-scorer, committed the greater part of a long and ...
Dec 9, 2009 · But perhaps the incident which best sums up Border’s hard-edged approach was during the same series, when at stumps on day two of the fourth Test with his team sitting at 613 for four and with the Ashes in the bag, Border walked into the change room and announced “We are batting on tomorrow to inflict further physical and mental disintegration on the opposition”.
