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Barry Knight Essex/Leicestershire and England.
1961-69. 29 Tests.
Fast bowling all-rounder, doing the cricketers double (1000 runs & 100
wickets in a season) four times, including the fastest in modern times,
(two and a half months). Winner of the World Single Wicket Title at
Lords in 1964, beating 19 other famous all-rounder's including the great
Sir Garfield Sobers.
First professional coach in Australia, starting in 1970 at an indoor
facility in Sydney. First cricket coach to use video analysis, which led
to his coaching over the past 37 years, some 20 Test players including
Allan Border, the Waugh twins, Brett & Shane Lee, Adam Gilchrist, John
Dyson, Andrew Hilditch and scores of NSW representatives. He has coached
over 20,000 young cricketers since 1970 and is still involved in school
holiday programmes and Mosman DCC in Sydney.
He holds an ACB level 3 coaching certificate and also an MCC (UK)
coaching certificate.
He is the longest serving professional coach in Australia, if not the
world.
Peter Philpott: Peter Philpott: AOM 2003
services to Cricket and Education
Played for Australia, Nsw & Lancashire in England
Australia’s inaugural level3 coach since 1974, specialist spin bowling
coach
79-81 NSW Coach, 1981 Australian coach & 1983 & 85 Sri Lanka National
coach
Teacher by profession involved with Kings School & Shore school for 30
years and has Author of 5 books in cricket.
Doug Walters holds a somewhat mythical place in
Australian cricket. Small, cheeky, popular and multi-skilled.Quick on to
the back foot against the spinners, he was a legendary straight-driver
and hooker, and a valuable partnership breaker with his medium pace.
Crowds relaxed and related to his instinctive and aggressive Test
batting that three times brought up centuries in a session, the most
famous arriving when he smacked the last ball of the day from Bob Willis
for six at the WACA in 1974-75. Growing up on a Dungog dairy farm in
country New South Wales, Walters stepped from the paddock into
first-class cricket at 17, where he faced the great Wes Hall and reached
50.
There are so many Walters stories that many of them must be true, and as
a man of the people he was rewarded with a stand on the old SCG hill
“There will never be another like him," Dennis Lillee said. "I never saw
him throw a bat, never heard him talk badly of anyone. He is so cool."
Doug Walters is an Australian Cricket Icon and legend.
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