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Bill Lawry

Australia

Player profile

Full name William Morris Lawry
Born February 11, 1937, Thornbury, Melbourne, Victoria
Current age 71 years 281 days
Major teams Australia, Victoria
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Left-arm medium
Other Commentator

Batting and fielding averages
	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	67	123	12	5234	210	47.15			13	27		15	30
ODIs	1	1	0	27	27	27.00	49	55.10	0	0	0	0	1
First-class	249	417	49	18734	266	50.90			50	100			122
List A	6	6	1	218	108*	43.60			1	0			3

Bowling averages
	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	67	2	14	6	0	-	-	-	2.57	-	0	0	0
ODIs	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
First-class	249		266	188	5	1/3		37.60	4.24	53.2		0	0
List A	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Career statistics
Test debut	England v Australia at Birmingham, Jun 8-13, 1961 scorecard
Last Test	Australia v England at Adelaide, Jan 29-Feb 3, 1971 scorecard
Test statistics
Only ODI	Australia v England at Melbourne, Jan 5, 1971 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class span	1955/56 - 1971/72
List A span	1964 - 1971/72

Profile

After catching the eye with elegant strokes on his first Ashes tour in 1961, long-nosed left-hander Bill Lawry steadily pared his batting back, until it was as skeletal as his appearance. By the time he inherited Australia's captaincy against India in 1967-68, he had become the most rigidly self-denying batsman of his generation, as hard to watch as he was to dismiss. Ian Wooldridge, the English journalist, called him "a corpse with pads on". Lawry's courage was a byword, and he withstood fearsome bombardments from Trueman and Statham in the infamous Ridge Test at Lord's in June 1961, and from Hall and Griffith on an underprepared Sydney surface in February 1969. Twice, too, he carried his bat through completed Test innings. Selectors, however, treated him scurvily, dumping him as leader and player in January 1971. It is difficult to relate Lawry the deadpan accumulator to Lawry the adolescent enthusiast, now that he is a TV commentator of such infectious animation.
Gideon Haigh

Notes

Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1962