How Lillee saved Cummins and turned him into an Ashes weapon

By Andrew Webster
Updated November 17 2017 - 9:53pm, first published 9:43pm

When Dennis Lillee was in his pomp, slowly trudging back to this mark - in other words, the fence - and then pushing off, thundering in, gold chains dancing off the thick matting of hair on his exposed chest, gleaming handlebar moustache in all its glory, leaping into the air, back arched, left foot then ominously stomped down before a thunderbolt was delivered at a nervous Pom's pasty white noggin, could he have ever imagined that one day he would be vested with the job of nursing a talented but fragile kid from Penrith to his first Test on home soil against the same opposition?

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