Perhaps has already been mentioned but Ashes 06/07 was the first time 4 bowlers from one side each took 20 or more wickets in a 5 Test series:

Clark 26 @ 17.04
Warne 23 @ 30.35
McGrath 21 @ 23.90
Lee 20 @ 33.20

So of the 96 English wickets that fell in the series, these 4 accounted for 90 of them.

And only the 2nd time it has been achieved overall. The first was in a 6 Test series:

WI v Eng in Eng, 1995.
CEL Ambrose 21; KCG Benjamin 23; IR Bishop 27; CA Walsh 26

The really remarkable thing is that both TGM and tgm together took fewer than 50 wickets. It has, of course, been usual for them to dominate the bowling stats utterly in Ashes series.

In both TGM and tgm's case, it was their worst average in any series where they took more than 20 wickets. Perhaps they got their retirements just right.

4 run outs too.

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Originally posted by skully:
In both TGM and tgm's case, it was their worst average in any series where they took more than 20 wickets. Perhaps they got their retirements just right.

Aye. Washed up hacks.

I suppose England will be terrified about facing the Aust team once we've replaced Dad's Army.



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