Great Moments of The Ashes. No. 3.
Boxing Day, 1986. The Melbourne Test.
58,203, including a paint salesman called Colin, inside the ground.
Graham Dilley fails a fitness test so Gladstone Small is called up.
Australia, put in, are skittled for 141 as Small rips out David Boon, Dean Jones, Steve Waugh, Greg Matthews and Peter Sleep to finish with 22.4-7-48-5.
Small harvests match figures of 7 for 88 as England win by an innings and 14 runs, thereby retaining the Ashes. Their jubilation is great, tarnished only slightly by news, transmitted via radio device from way back in snowy England, that Walsall lost 2-1 at Bristol City.
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Brian Halford - Brian Halford’s look at Edgbaston.
Good to see you blogging again. Still a Walsall man at heart ah? Well done Gladstone.
The batsman's Waving the bowler's Dilley.
One of the great commentary lines of all time.
Ho HO
I liked Dilley. Always thought he could have been England's jeff thomson but he was always injured wasn't he.