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  Bill_johnston_(cricketer) info here at en.archetecture.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Johnston's bowling was peculiar of the spearheads of Don Bradman's undefeated 1948 touring pair - like enough the ancillary in cricket history.
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 Bill Johnston - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Johnston was a small, frail-appearing man who suffered ill health from his Navy service in World War I.
Johnston died of tuberculosis in 1946 at the age of 51.
Johnston was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1958.
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Johnston's bowling was alone of the spearheads of Don Bradman's undefeated 1948 touring assemblage - likely the supreme indirect in cricket history.
Johnston masterly the interval at the supreme of the first-class bowling averages & was as alone of Wisden's Five Cricketers of the Year.
His underprivileged bowling construction - both as a paceman & as a spinner - spectacled that Johnston authentically was declining, & despite some admirable performances for their imperative he retired from first-class cricket at the travail of 1955.
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Johnston's bowling was lone of the spearheads of Don Bradman's undefeated 1948 touring sect - seemingly the ace flanking in cricket history.
Johnston classic the winter at the fine of the first-class bowling averages & was called as lone of Wisden's Five Cricketers of the Year.
His flush broke bowling configuration - both as a paceman & as a spinner - showboated that Johnston cert was declining, & despite some acceptable performances for her juncture he retired from first-class cricket at the outset of 1955.
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 Bill Johnston (cricketer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Johnston's bowling was one of the spearheads of Don Bradman's undefeated 1948 touring team - probably the best side in cricket history.
Johnston finished the season at the top of the first-class bowling averages and was chosen as one of Wisden's Five Cricketers of the Year.
The versatility of Johnston's bowling was seen at its best in the following summers, most notably on the 1949/1950 tour of South Africa and in the deceptively tight 1950/1951 Ashes series, during both of which he took over twenty wickets for less than 20 runs apiece.
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 Cricket-Online: Keith Miller passes away, aged 84   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The survivors of that tour are Bill Brown, Arthur Morris, Neil Harvey, Ron Hamence, Bill Johnston and Sam Loxton.
Upon retirement in 1956 he spent twenty years as the cricket correspondent for London's Daily Express, and later was awarded with an MBE for services to cricket.
Actor and noted cricket fan Christopher Reeve, who showed Herculean bravery in combating a near-fatal spinal cord injury after being injured in a fall, also passed away today; it is indeed saddening that we have lost not one Superman, but at least two.
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 Cricinfo - Fitting the Bill
The opportunity to talk cricket with Bill is always a pleasure.
One of Brown's fondest memories was playing in the Ashes Test at the MCG in 1936-37 in front of the biggest crowds seen in the first 60 years of Test cricket.
An average of 60,000 attended over the six days, including almost 88,000 on the Saturday, the day on which England, leading the series 2-0, were caught on a sticky and bowled out for 76.
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 A great innings over for Toshack - smh.com.au
Ernie Toshack, a bush cricketer who stumbled into a career as a Test bowler almost by chance, died on Sunday aged 88, reducing to eight the number of surviving 1948 'Invincibles'.
Living in retirement in Sydney, grey-haired and with a fair complexion Toshack was scarcely recognisable as the dark, solidly built cricketer of decades before who, among teammates, was known as the Black Prince.
The eight survivors of the 1948 Invincibles are Arthur Morris, Keith Miller, Neil Harvey, Bill Johnston, Bill Brown, Sam Loxton, Ron Hammence and Doug Ring.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/05/12/1052591739034.html   (424 words)

  
 Cricinfo - Players and Officials - Bill Johnston
Alternating between a sharp medium-pace and finger-spin, left-handed Bill Johnston was a fixture in Australian XIs for a decade after the war, until an incapacitating knee injury forced him from the game.
Genial and avuncular, he nonetheless had a mean bouncer and a keen appetite for overs, harvesting 102 wickets at 16.8 on his first tour of England with Don Bradman's 1948 Invincibles, including 9 for 183 from 84 overs in the first Test at Trent Bridge.
Bill Johnston and Neil Harvey talk during a reunion of the remaining Invincibles in Sydney
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 rediff.com: cricket channel - It happened this week this day
Australian left-arm pace bowler Bill Johnston (40 Tests from 1947 to 1955; 160 wickets) was born.
Australian Allan Border becomes Test cricket's highest run-getter when he surpassed Gavaskar's record 10122 runs during his innings of 88 against New Zealand at Christchurch.
England all-rounder Bill Storer (6 Tests 1997 to 1999) died aged 45.
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 CNNSI.com - Cricket - Waugh's Australia confirms place in test history - Wednesday August 29, 2001 07:02 AM
But, with 16 test victories in a row followed by a 4-1 series victory over England, he now ranks with four other captains who, since World War Two, have led sides demonstrably better than their peers.
Bradman, the greatest cricketer of the 20th century, always maintained his unbeaten 1948 side in England was the best he played in.
Bill Johnston provided left-arm pace or quickish spin, Don Tallon was a prehensile wicketkeeper.
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 An all-round success - on a borrowed bat - smh.com.au   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Ring, however, played cricket with hearty good humour and lack of ceremony; he never troubled to buy a bat, relying for his whole career on a Gunn & Moore that he borrowed from the Victorian Cricket Association practice kit.
The name Ring became inseparable from that of Johnston, his invariable roommate; their friendship is commemorated in the Johnston-Ring Stand at the home ground of their Melbourne grade club, Richmond (the Tigers).
Ring played on at Richmond after retiring from first-class cricket in 1953 with a record of 3418 runs at 23.25 and 451 wickets at 28.48 before becoming a cricket commentator on commercial radio station 3DB in 1958.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/07/18/1058035145056.html   (584 words)

  
 The Don's Invincible cap scores a record - theage.com.au
The baggy green Australian cricket cap in which Don Bradman captained the Invincibles squad on their legendary 1947-48 tour of England sold last night for a record price before it could be auctioned in Melbourne.
Mr Ludgrove said Miller was a distinguished Mosquito fighter-bomber pilot before he began his cricket career with the 1945 Victory Test.
However, Mr Ludgrove said cricket memorabilia did not account for all of the 500 lots he auctioned yesterday.
www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/02/23/1045935277531.html   (315 words)

  
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 Cricinfo - Image Index - Bill Brown
Walter Hadlee and Bill Brown chat, November 2001
Bill Brown present Gilchrist and Muller Baggy Green caps, Australia v Pakistan, 1st Test, 1999/2000
Don Bradman and Bill Brown go out to bat
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 1922: Biography and Much More from Answers.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Balfour note states that Britain would expect to recover from her European debtors only the amount which the United States expects from Britain.
The Reparations Commission adopts a Belgian proposal August 31 permitting Germany to pay reparations in installments on Treasury bills.
Germany's stock market collapses in August; the mark falls in value from 162 to the dollar, down to more than 7,000 to the dollar (see 1923).
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 ThisDayThatYear.com - Birthdays of Cricketers on February 26
ThisDayThatYear.com - Birthdays of Cricketers on February 26
1916 : Ross Gregory, cricketer (Australian batsman 1936-37, died in WW II)
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Four players have been honoured as sole recipients: W G Grace (1896), John Wisden (1913, 29 years posthumously and 50 years after he retired from first-class cricket), Plum Warner (1921) and Jack Hobbs (1926).
Hobbs was first honoured in 1909, but was selected a second time in 1926 to honour his breaking W G Grace\'s record of 126 first-class hundreds; Warner was first honoured in 1904, but received a second award in 1921 for his last season in first-class cricket when he led Middlesex to a County Championship win.
1897 - Five Cricketers of the Season - Syd Gregory, Dick Lilley, K S Ranjitsinhji, Tom Richardson, Hugh Trumble
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