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“My biggest recall was when I got out there, we were right in the s..t.” Lance Cairns was spot on. New Zealand were being smoked by Australia in the second final of the Benson and Hedges World Series Cup on February 13, 1983. Enter Cairns – barrel-chested, tight shirt, silver medallion and already much-admired by NZ cricket fans because of his ability to hit the ball prodigious distances, which stole the spotlight from his core role as a world-class inswinging bowler and supporting cast member for Richard Hadlee. But what happened late in the day in Melbourne catapulted Cairns into a Kiwi cult hero and made most Kiwis forget that their side had still received a towelling from our trans-Tasman rivals.