Sylvester Clarke bust my right index finger with a good-length delivery that spat at my hand like fat from a frying pan.

For all the latest News Archive News, download Indian Express App. Jeffrey Robert Thomson (born 16 August 1950) is a former Australian cricketer. Like his father once did,he is making a living as a landscaper but in an environment when young Australian fast bowlers are facing battles with their bodies,is continuing to work feverishly on his cricket.

He said his old man bowled the same as what he did.

All this chip off the old block needs is a break.

Bingo. Use your trigger movements, that's fine, but be as near to off stump as it suits your game when the ball is delivered. He loves a drink, and an oyster, and it was with that exact bribe that I got him on the park for a quite memorable five-over new-ball burst. The strain on back, hips, knees and ankles knows no boundary; never mind shoulders and shins, groins and calves, heels and toes.

Just as that extraordinarily golden evening light began to wrap its arms around Constantia, Thommo had to pad up. Here is John Benaud, Richie's brother, on facing him for the first time in a Sydney grade match.

Have the answers as your default position.

I lay writhing just 20 yards from the very spot where Akram was to shatter my toe some years later. Mark Nicholas, the former Hampshire captain, is a TV and radio presenter and commentator, The Chappell brothers, Viv Richards, Dennis Lillee and others tell you, in this extract from a new book, In 1975-76 against West Indies, Jeff Thomson was struggling to live up to his fearsome reputation.

Jeff Thomson, Australia, one of the greatest fast bowlers who played in 51 Test matches. I’ve been taught by guys who I wouldn’t be able to be taught by otherwise so I’m lucky in that respect.”.

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Limit options and crystallise error. On that day at Uitsig in 2003, I can vouch that he was fast enough too. It wasn't just England that suffered. Lillee had me caught at slip for 0 first up, and in the second dig, Thomson had me caught at the wicket for 7.

On the other side of the coin, I made a few for MCC against the 1985 Australians, having come within a hair's breadth of being caught in the gully off Thommo's first ball.

Known as Thommo, he is considered by many in the sport to be the fastest bowler of his generation. Waqar Younis smashed up my left hand with a ball so fast I barely knew he had let go of it. Ask Duje. The best of them is by David Lloyd - it's the one about the pink Litesome box, or abdominal protector, becoming inverted after a direct strike. Well, start by staying very still.

Having had a laugh and then shown some sympathy, Wasim told me I was out.