ASHES CLASH DELIVERED A 'CRISIS IN BALKANS'
Daily Star|December 03, 2024
FIFTY years ago this week, three weeks before his 42nd birthday, Colin Cowdrey marched out to face the music with more padding than a divan mattress.
MIKE WALTERS

Cowdrey had been summoned as an emergency replacement to face Australian pace demons Dennis Lillee and Jeff Thomson.

England had been traumatised by Thomson's 99mph slingshots in the first Ashes Test at Brisbane, and now they were being peppered again on the trampoline bounce of Perth's sporting track.

The new batsman greeted Thomson: "Good morning, I don't believe we've met - the name's Cowdrey."

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