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More than a moustache: Merv joins Hall of Fame – cricket.com.au
The classic ‘Aussie larrikin’ who played hard and celebrated harder, Merv Hughes has earned a spot in Australian cricket’s Hall of Fame for a 53-Test career that…
Merv Hughes inducted to Hall of Fame
The 1988-89 summer of cricket, the last in a horror decade for the sport in Australia, followed an all-to-familiar script.
The mighty West Indies extended their decade-long hold on the Frank Worrell Trophy and also won the annual one-day tri-series, and the shock World Cup win of Allan Border’s young team just a year earlier seemed more and more like an aberration than a promise of a new dawn.
But the summer also had an exciting footnote thanks to the emergence…
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