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This winter marks the centenary of the Australian team’s record-breaking feats under Warwick Armstrong’s leadership. After regaining the Ashes at home 5-0, it then retained them away 3-0.
Its eight consecutive victories is an Ashes record. It was a world record until the West Indies broke it in 1984. Armstrong is still the only captain to have led a team in eight or more matches without a single defeat.
It’s timely to acknowledge those achievements a century later, and also to consider how his side that went to England might fare today. How strong was it, and how good a captain was Armstrong?
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I have just finished one of the best cricket books ever, and I’ve read quite a few – not so many in the last 20 years, but an infinite amount in the previous 20 before that.
The book is of course
The Genius by fellow Roarer Renato Carini. I believe a number of other Roarers are also in the process of reading it and for the few who have never heard of it, it tells the complete story of Victor Trumper, one of the most beloved Australian cricketers up until at least the time I began following the game at the very start of the 1980s, but who arguably disappeared off the radar of most fans who began after my own time. Now he is making a comeback.
Australia s greatest: Victor and the Don
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“Many a time when Trumper was batting and the team was in a safe position some player in the dressing room would call out ‘Vic’s 95, or 96 … Who’s in next?’”
I had a great chuckle when I first came across this remark which sounds like a good old-fashioned yarn and not something to be taken seriously.
As a matter of fact I have investigated the claim and discovered that it is not apocryphal. Australian wicketkeeper Hanson Carter made the remark in the vicinity of a young and impressionable Warren Bardsley, who recalled the event 20 years later in his memoirs.
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