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Farewell Pigeon

Editor
3rd May, 2007
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His accuracy was unnerving, for both batsman and for any hapless umpire who happened to turn down an LBW appeal against him. But it was his subtle movement both ways off the seam that really made Glenn McGrath such a lethal bowler. His strike rate against the opening batsmen in particular was phenomenal. It seemed almost inevitable whenever he took the new cherry that within the first ten overs of any match, McGrath would make a breakthrough. It must have been a daunting proposition facing him. But where does he really sit in the pantheon of great fast bowlers?

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