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Merv’s everyman charm – and unbreakable spirit – brought us all closer to greatness – Sydney Morning Herald
Merv Hughes being inducted into the hall of fame? Like so much about the great man, it’s enough to make you think it could’ve been any of us.
See, when we watched Dennis Lillee run in with such superb athleticism, or gazed in awe at Dean Jones crack one through the covers, we never said, I reckon I could do that. For what those blokes did was other-worldly.
But with Merv Hughes? It was different.
Watch him now as he steams in from the Randwick end, huffing and puffing, his big tummy bouncing a little as he does so, only to unleash a thunderbolt, and keep going until he drops …
It is enormously impressive, but …
But, on a really good…
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