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Greig and Steele show English pride despite defeat again in 1975

Paul Edwards continues his look into the Ashes archive and this week it’s the Australians’ visit to England in 1975, following a 4-1 winter thumping Down Under seven months earlier and that summer’s inaugural World Cup
Questions of appearance and substance were never far away where Tony Greig was concerned. “Standing nearly six foot eight, his head capped by blond hair that gleams like a golden helmet in the sun, [he], on all counts, possesses what Noel Coward described simply as star quality. Here is t...

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