Akshat is just another cricket fan who’s grown up watching the likes of Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid. Utilising the conditions at a venue he would grow to love throughout his decorated career, McGrath found his rhythm and set about systematically dismantling the England batting order. Four years later, in the opening Test of the epic 2005 Ashes, McGrath took a remarkable five wickets for 11 runs late on day one to leave England reeling at 5-21 in response to Australia's 180. Here is Lord’s visitors honours board XI: Graeme Smith (c), Sir Gordon Greenidge, Sir Don Bradman, Sir Viv Richards, Sir Garry Sobers, Allan Border, Kumar Sangakkara (wk), Sir Richard Hadlee, Malcolm Marshall, Bishan Singh Bedi, Glenn McGrath. The current England Test captain Joe Root has been picked to bat at number three while Denis Compton and Kevin Pietersen will show their willow at number four and five, respectively. It took only one ball after tea for the right-armer to collect his milestone scalp as a wobbly-seam delivery went down the slope, took Trescothick’s leading edge and was safely pouched by Justin Langer at third slip. The tourists went on to win the match but ultimately lost the series, with McGrath's absence due to injury proving telling; he was absent in the only two Tests Australia lost in the series.

It's the northern summer of 2013 and Ryan Harris, Australia's premier fast bowler, is early for a daily physio appointment that helped to keep his fragile frame together. In fact, replays show Kasprowicz rushing past the departing Strauss with a new set of spikes in hand as the late Tony Greig bellowed in commentary: "McGrath is amongst them!". Doris Danielson (born McGrath) was born on month day 1928, at birth place, Michigan, to Glenn McGrath. England captain Michael Vaughan was the next to go, unable to keep out a ball from the Australian that jagged down the slope, stayed low and uprooted his off-stump. In 2001, he claimed figures of 5-54 and 3-60 in an eight-wicket win for Australia. Flintoff had no chance of stopping it as his off stump was blasted out of the ground with a metallic clang and sent hurtling behind him. In fact, it was only rain that got in his way, with day two cut short after McGrath had ripped out the hosts' top three - Mark Butcher, Mike Atherton and Alec Stewart - for a combined total of seven runs.

Richie Benaud, the doyen of cricket commentators and analysts who had closely observed McGrath's Test career from its inception, proclaimed in commentary that he’d never seen him bowl any better. For the middle-order, Sir Don Bradman, Sir Viv Richards and Sir Garry Sobers have been picked. As part of Legends Month on Cricket Network, look back on one of Glenn McGraths greatest performances. Glenn McGrath's Lord's Master Class McGrath’s masterpiece concluded with a ball that pitched short of a length, jagged down the slope with the seam bolt upright and zeroing in on the vulnerable wickets. During the first Test at Lord's in the 2005 Ashes series McGrath became the fourth bowler in history to take 500 Test wickets with the dismissal of Marcus Trescothick. Not only playing, but cricketers also wish to perform well there in order to register his/her name on the popular honour’s board which is considered tremendously prestigious.

Today, thirteen years after the chaotic final session on day one of the first Test of the 2005 Ashes, the images of a 35-year-old McGrath sporting blond tips in his hair and custom gold shoes disembowelling Australia’s oldest and fiercest rival are just as hair-raising, spine-tingling and jaw-dropping as they were that Thursday evening at St John’s Wood. Cover drive is his favorite sight, and a ball meeting the middle of the bat is his favorite sound.

In 2001, he claimed figures of 5-54 and 3-60 in an eight-wicket win for Australia. Glenn has dated – Jane Louise McGrath (1995–2008) – Glenn first met Jane Louise, who was a flight attendant then, at a Hong Kong nightclub named Joe Bananas in 1995 and the two began dating soon after. For McGrath, a love affair with Lord's was only just beginning.

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He will also open the innings along with left-handed batsman Alastair Cook. The stirring spell from McGrath meant Harris would be late for his appointment on that day in 2013. For McGrath, a love affair with Lord's was only just beginning. Sitting in Australia's team room in their hotel on the 2013 Ashes tour, Harris is awestruck watching a replay of Test legend Glenn McGrath ripping the heart of England's top order at Lord’s eight years earlier. Four years later, in the opening Test of the epic 2005 Ashes, McGrath took a remarkable five wickets for 11 runs late on day one to leave England reeling at 5-21 in response to Australia's 180. Rain ultimately robbed Australia the chance of squaring the series, however Taylor's men would go on to retain the Ashes for an unprecedented fifth straight series, 3-2.

I was always confident I would take wickets in this series.".

A score of 3-13 turned into 4-19 as No.4 Ian Bell chopped the veteran onto his leg bail to send the tourists into a frenzy for the fourth time in the session.

Glenn was born on May 16 1898, in Arcadia Township, Lapeer, Michigan. For the wicket-keeper role, Sri Lanka’s stalwart Kumar Sangakkara has been selected. But the Pony 500s became redundant four balls later when Trescothick’s opening partner Andrew Strauss edged McGrath to Shane Warne at first slip to be Test wicket No.501. The Australia speedster returned the next morning in equally devastating form, taking another five wickets to finish with 8-38; the best innings figures in an Ashes Test at Lord's. McGrath would later reveal the plan was to sneak off and change boots once he reached the landmark, but Kasprowicz had other ideas for the brilliant speedster who allowed himself, just this once, to be a 'show pony'.