Fancy, funny and fantastic!
Updated On: 15 December, 2019 07:20 AM IST | Mumbai | Clayton Murzello
Celebrating the life and times of former Australia cricketer and 1986 Chennai Tied Test hero Greg Matthews, who turns 60 today
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The Australian looks at the crowd during a Legends Twenty20 match against England at the WACA ground, Perth in 2006. Pic/Getty Images
GRJ Matthews (Gregory Richard John) should have featured more often on Australia's Test and ODI scorecards than 33 and 59 times respectively. But as the Oxford Companion to Australian Cricket says, "Had his character been less idiosyncratic, he may have enjoyed a longer and more settled career."
The former all-rounder—a bowler (61 wickets in 33 Tests) who could bat (1849 runs at 41.08, four centuries) or a batsman who could bowl—whichever way you look at it, attracted the fancy of cricket fans with whatever he did. He was a cricket character in the true sense of the term. His attire and mannerisms caused frowns among purists.
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