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"Still a huge hit with the fans, Lillee continued his international career until famously retiring along with Greg Chappell and Rod Marsh after the Sydney Test match against Pakistan in January 1984; many consider this 'triple retirement' had an adverse impact on the Australian national team as their performances soon slumped."
Whilest all 3 did retire from TEST cricket after that match I'm pretty sure Marsh continued on play out the World Series Cup of that Summer whereas Chappell and Lillee did not.
- Interesting, but I'm not sure it's particularly relevant to an article on Dennis Lillee. In adding the information about the possible adverse impact on the national team, I did so as more an indication that it happened. Certainly an article on the impacts of their retirements would be very interesting...--Cory 16:32, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
MRF School Of Pace
I think something should be mentioned in his role at the MRF (Madras Rubber Factory) sponsored School of Pace Academy in Chennai (formerly Madras).
He was made director of the school, founded in 1987, which was launched to help find good young fast bowlers in India
A couple of links:
http://www.chennaibest.com/cityresources/Sports_and_Recreation/sportsacademies01.asp
http://www.iloveindia.com/sports/bodies/mrf-pace-foundation.html
Fast bowlers who I think have trained at the school:
Javagal Srinath, Venkatesh Prasad, Ajit Agarkar (?), Ashish Nehra(?), Zaheer Khan(?), Irfan Pathan, Shanthakumaran Sreesanth, Munaf Patel(?), Rudra Pratap Singh(?)
Stonysleep 14:56, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
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BetacommandBot (talk) 05:53, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
One and only caught & bowled dismissal in test cricket
No mention of Lillee's one and only caught and bowled in test cricket - the victim was Geoffrey Boycott. Having induced Boycott to hook with the previous ball ( a bouncer), Lillee repeated it - and Boycott skied it. Yelling "Mine!" at the top of his voice, Lillee ran to a short mid wicket position and delightedly took the catch. (This happened at Trent Bridge - but I am open to correction on the point.)
I think this deserves a mention. 81.102.15.200 (talk) 12:44, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
- It was Dilley at Headingley, no idea if it was a hook shot, so maybe not that notable- or referenced.[1]The-Pope (talk) 14:42, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Incorrect Info on Carl Rackemann
Carl Rackemann was NOT the Man of the Match in the second Test against Pakistan in 83/84 - that honour went to Geoff Lawson. Rackemann was Man of the Match for the FIRST Test. It also isn't clear, from what I can remember, that Lillee was going to be dropped for the Third. Tom Hogan came into the side as Rackemann's replacement - a left arm orthodox spinner! There would certainly have been a lot of public resistance to dropping a living legend like Lillee at that stage, not least from PBL who had disproportionate influence over the game at the time and who would have seen the Lillee name as a draw card. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.177.218.51 (talk) 05:23, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
Other Controversies
Lillee was involved in more controversies than have been mentioned. During his comeback to First Class Cricket, he (and his mate Botham) destroyed an Honour Board in the small ground they were playing at in Tasmania. There is also the apparent undermining of Kim Hughes's authority when the latter was Captain of Australia, most notably the very public "disagreement" during a one day match in 1983. Much information on this can be drawn from the recent book "Golden Boy". When he was the stand in Captain of WA in his last season, he had a very public spat with the umpires over extra drinks for the team. Certainly the first two should rate a mention, particularly since the attitude of Lillee (and Marsh and the Chappell brothers) helped to undermine Kim Hughes as a Captain, his self confidence and perhaps ultimately his batting form. I'm a big fan of DK, but there is no walking away from this - although kicking Javed is the most notorious incident Lillee was involved in. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.177.218.51 (talk) 05:31, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
Lillee/Miandad Incident
I have removed this section which needs to be be written to comply with WP:BLP and WP:UNDUE. The link was dead (though I see an updated version is available), the quote was selective, and one source has been used for an incident that was widely written about and needs more balance for e.g what the media reaction). Flat Out let's discuss it 01:40, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
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Recent NPOV issues in the lead
This is in response to an IP user who's used multiple IP addresses.
The edits you're trying to put in place have a range of issues associated with them:
- to start with, you're removing a source and a direct quote. There's no need to do that, so don't. That quote actually does way more than the four you've added to the lead;
- you're then suggesting that he is "widely regarded as one of the greatest and a complete fast bowler" - which, by the way, doesn't actually make grammatical sense. Of the four sources you're putting up to support this, the Wisden one doesn't say either of those things, the CricInfo profile could be used to suggest that he is regarded as being "complete bowler", and that might be a useful thing to say in addition to the quote you keep on removing, CricketCountry has some general POV issues associated with it - I find it more reliable for factual points than for opinions -, and The Age makes neither claim. Use the CricInfo profile, sure, but use it carefully and with a bit more nuance please;
- the issue with him being sixth in the Five Cricketers voting is, again, that you're doing it crudely. Ultimately the vote was designed to select the top 5. Lillee didn't make that. He wasn't voted sixth - he came sixth-equal in the voting to select the top five and so failed to make the cut. If there had been a vote to select the top-10 people may have voted differently than they did in the vote to choose the top 5 - it's nuance again. Ultimately I think you'd be better off using the quote from Bird in the Wisden article about the vote as the key point - it's more of a telling point anyway;
- and we don't write "Dennis was...". There's a manual of style. We write "Lillee was..." - and it's red flag if you don't fwiw;
What does this boil down to? Hell, Lillee was good. Not as fast as some, not as skilled as others, but a fine bowler and one of the best I've seen (at times). And the article says that already. The lead could use a little work to be cleverer, sure, but that's not what you're doing here really I'm afraid. Blue Square Thing (talk) 12:59, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
Blue Square Thing First of all the Cricket County article is by a renowned cricket historian so that hardly makes it a POV issue infact far from it..
- You are saying that being written as outstanding fast bowler of his er diminished his all time great status ?? Seriously there are articles which mentions Don Bradman, Viv Richards, Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara as premiere batter of their era does that prevent them from being top tier great batters ??
- Noone literally nobody can deny Dennis as an All-Time great in their right sense of mind for sure infact all great batters of that era rates him finest paceman of all time whether it's Viv Richards, Greg Chappell, Gordon Greenidge or West Indian pace quartet infact those who have serious reason to dislike him Miandad and Gavaskar are united in rating him as finest paceman that's ever lived.
Malcolm Marshall and Wasim Akram article mentioned that they are one of best ever so why not in case of Dennis Lillee ?
At last you claimed that he was not as fast as many ?? Not sure about that pre injury he was as fast as anyone Garry Sobbers said that he was fastest he ever saw. Even after those stress fractures he was still like greased lightning slower than Jeff Thomson but quicker than anyone else in the game. He clocked 155 kmph rocket in 1977 way after his stress fractures..
In skills well you must be ill-informed if you don't rate him in his skills
Overall there is literally no one that can deny his stature as an all-time great paceman and arguably the finest. 2409:4051:18B:75A3:38AC:5D71:90:3D3B (talk) 15:32, 9 January 2022 (UTC)
- Andy Roberts the Hitman one of finest ever rates him as greatest ever 'take a look here' 2409:4051:18B:75A3:38AC:5D71:90:3D3B (talk) 15:42, 9 January 2022 (UTC)
- Michael Holding another champion paceman rates him among four best ever along with Roberts, Marshall and Steyn 'source is here'
- Just for your bit on Wisden article that clearly mentioned that Happy birthday to DK Lillee, one of the great quicks refering to his iconic over to Viv at MCG in 1981.
I am pinging @Eagleash, Spike 'em, and Kirubar: Is there any issue in refering to Dennis as one of greatest ever fast bowlers in lead as it is used for Akram, Marshall and other great pacemans ?? 2409:4051:18B:75A3:38AC:5D71:90:3D3B (talk) 15:42, 9 January 2022 (UTC)
- I think a direct quote works best and ref bombing the lead is not necessary.Spike 'em (talk) 15:55, 9 January 2022 (UTC)
- OK, I'll try and respond here if I can manage to get a handle on what you're actually asking for.
- the article currently says, with a direct quote, that he was the "outstanding fast bowler of his generation". That's a pretty strong statement of greatness. I'm quite happy if that's added to a touch - but don't remove it because it's actually stronger, in my view, than saying that "he was great, really great";
- lots of articles claim greatness. In most cases that's debatable at best (I mean, Bradman, sure); it's unfortunate that far too many articles use phrases such as that in my view. As I wrote above, no one's arguing that he wasn't a damned fine bowler. I said: "use the CricInfo profile, sure, but use it carefully and with a bit more nuance please". Calm down and write properly. What if we wrote a lead paragraph that said something along the lines of:
Dennis Keith Lillee, AM, MBE (born 18 July 1949) is a former Australian cricketer rated as the "outstanding fast bowler of his generation".(ref with the BBC article) Lillee was known for his fiery temperament and 'never-say-die' attitude(can we find a direct ref for this?) and is generally considered one of the most "complete" fast bowlers of the 20th century.(use the cricinfo reference)
- This could lead into a second paragraph that discusses him being the leading Test wicket taker, for example. And that into a third paragraph where his awards are summarised: Hall of Fame, Australia's test team of the century, cricketer of the year etc...
- This would give the lead more balance;
- I could pick through the individual points you make of course - the Wisden line you quote was from an embedded tweet not from the article; my issue is with CricketCountry as a rather hyperbolic site rather than with Arunabha Sengupta as a writer etc... But that would be pointless (I mean, if you want me to, just ask);
- By the way, I should note that John Woodcock has him 19th in his list of the 100 Greatest Cricketers of all time. I can dig the Times reference out for you if you want - it's online at Gale; and Wisden's obituary of Bob Willis mentions Lillee a few times - it's an interesting comparative view;
- We need to be more, well, encyclopaedic. The National Portrait Gallery does a half decent job of a short bio that has things that could be used, for example. But what you're currently insisting on is poorly written and, as Spike says, the ref bomb is completely unnecessary - given that everything in the lead should be backed up in the body of the article anyway;
- Currently you're writing
Dennis Keith Lillee, AM, MBE (born 18 July 1949) is a former Australian cricketer who is widely regarded as one of the greatest fast bowler of cricket history.[1][2][3][4] In 2000, Dennis was voted as sixth greatest cricketer of the 20th century along with Frank Worrell by a 100 member panel of experts and was first fast bowler in the list.[5]
This has a number of issues:
- don't link Australian - WP:OLINK issues;
one of the greatest fast bowler of cricket history
doesn't work grammatically. I hinted at this above;- don't use Dennis - use Lillee. I specifically pointed this out above, yet you've just put the same thing back again;
- again, unfortunately,
Dennis was voted as sixth greatest cricketer of the 20th century along with Frank Worrell by a 100 member panel of experts and was first fast bowler in the list
is grammatically full of issues. It's interesting that you called me a "typical Pom" in this edit summary; are you aware that we can approximately geolocate IP addresses?; - you piped fast bowling to bowling, which was unfortunate.
- cut a bit of the hyperbole, write in a balanced way. That's all. Blue Square Thing (talk) 17:44, 9 January 2022 (UTC)
lots of articles claim greatness. In most cases that's debatable at best (I mean, Bradman, sure); it's unfortunate that far too many articles use phrases such as that in my view
What can we make of this ? So apart from Bradman no other great batters ever played ?? Master Blaster Viv Richards ?? Perhaps the finest of all post war batters..Sachin Tendulkar, Brian Lara, Greg Chappell, Javed Miandad are all in top echelon of great players. Only you can debate or belite their greatness infact it was Bradman who is a bit overrated smashing helpless Poms everyday.
- My point has always been with these specific quote that he was outstanding paceman of his era ?? I have some articles which mentions Viv as most destructive batter ever, does that prevent him from being an all-time great ?? Some mentions Brian Lara as magician batter so does it makes him any lesser ATG batsman ?
- At last instead of using this baseless quote rather write a common consensus about his status that DK is an all-time great and one of finest ever pacemans thats ever lived.
So, here is my suggestion for the same:-
Dennis Keith Lillee, AM, MBE (born 18 July 1949) is a former Australian cricketer who is regarded as one of the greatest fast bowlers in the history of cricket
OR
Dennis Keith Lillee, AM, MBE (born 18 July 1949) is a former Australian cricketer who is widely regarded as one of the greatest fast bowlers of all time.
As simple as this articles of other great fast bowlers like Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, Dale Steyn, Michael Holding, Malcolm Marshall, Curtly Ambrose simply acknoweldge them as ATG fast bowlers.
About Wisden assesement of him can be discussed a bit later. 2409:4051:18B:75A3:588F:7030:2690:3802 (talk) 10:47, 10 January 2022 (UTC)
- No reply in last 4 days now so as per silence I am assuming consensus here. 2409:4051:4E82:767:D570:AAE4:7F3D:A93B (talk) 03:01, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
- Other than the fact that 2 people have disagreed with you. Spike 'em (talk) 07:18, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
- No reply in last 4 days now so as per silence I am assuming consensus here. 2409:4051:4E82:767:D570:AAE4:7F3D:A93B (talk) 03:01, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
@Blue Square Thing and Spike 'em: Ok, then Dennis was not an all time great ?? Bring out a source that say so that he was not a great bowler ??
You both sounds like helpless Poms whom he and Thommo made a mess of and in response Poms cried about too many bouncers but they enjoy same when they found Jofra Archer. 2409:4051:6:51E4:4A19:4D7C:E435:67F2 (talk) 07:23, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
- WP:NPA Spike 'em (talk) 07:28, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
- I'm not sure that your interpretation of WP:SILENT is necessarily spot on here - people are busy and don't get a chance to repond to everything. Fwiw I was thinking about what you'd written but was in work for much of this week. I'm not sure we're at the stage yet where we have a consensus for the change you proposed - although it was an improvement on your past edits.
- I was wondering how frequently other sports use the wordings "greatest" or "great" and in what circumstance. I see it surprisingly often in cricket articles, although often having been added by editors who appear to be from the sub-continent - I don't know if there's a subtly different meaning in regional versions of English at all. It's a slightly troubling term - we seem to have an awful lot of "great" or "greatest" cricketers which, logically, is tricky to resolve.
- TLDR: I need to think about this a bit more I'm afraid. Blue Square Thing (talk) 07:44, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
- I'd not read it before, butt did find this section pertinent:
Withdrawing from communication with a tendentious or quarrelsome editor does not give that editor consent to do what they like. Similarly, in the presence of a revert, there is neither silence nor consensus.
Spike 'em (talk) 08:24, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
- I'd not read it before, butt did find this section pertinent:
Blue Square Thing I don't know that you are making much sense here; a lot of articles use greatness as a yardstick for cricketers, so what ?? If there is universal consensus among the cricket fratinity among certain individuals as one of finest or greatest then no doubt it should be mentioned. Apart from great figures DK was kind of trendsetter for future fast bowlers by coming of from severe back injuries who no one knew back then. We aren't using greatness here for someone like Peter Siddle or even Merv Hughes.
This quote is as meaningless as is India's current series loss to perhaps worst ever RSA team I know in 45 years. What is consensus among greats for judges for Dennis ? Simply one of the greatest ever or some says the greatest those some are Viv Richards, Richie Benaud, Ian Chappell, Ian Botham, Sunil Gavaskar, Tony Greig and Imran Khan or Javed Miandad so I will rather go with them instead of you two who are simply giving silly reasons of why he wasn't one of best ever. 2409:4051:2005:1066:50B2:2A8F:E4FF:CA8A (talk) 07:51, 15 January 2022 (UTC)
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