Our special guest this week is the great Neil Harvey who is an Australian Test Cricketer who represented Australia between 1948 and 1963, playing in 79 Test matches. He was the vice-captain of the team from 1957 until his retirement.
Neil Harvey was also selected in the Australian Cricket Test team of the 20th Century.
An attacking left-handed batsman and regarded as one of our greatest ever players. Harvey was also one of the best fieldsmen Australia has ever produced. Neil was the senior batsman in the Australian team for much of the 1950s upon his retirement, He was also the second-most prolific Test run-scorer and century-maker for Australia at the time of his retirement.
We chat to Neil about the early days of his career before making his debut in January 1948 in Adelaide aged 19 years and three months. In his second test match at the MCG, he became the youngest Australian to score a Test century leading into the famous 1948 invincible tour regarded as one of the finest teams in history. After initially struggling in English conditions in the lead-up games, he made a century on his Ashes debut. We also talk about the trip on the ship to England in 1948 and chat about his Captain Sir Donald Bradman.
Neil ended up after the 1948 invincible tour becoming one of our greatest ever test batsmen scoring 6,149 test runs including 21 centuries and 24 half centuries at an average of 48.41 including a best of 205.
We hope you enjoy this week’s edition of “Just Havin a Crack “as much as we did.
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