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Full name William Morris Lawry
Born February 11, 1937, Thornbury, Melbourne, Victoria
Current age 71 years 193 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
St
Tests
67
123
12
5234
210
47.15
13
27
15
30
0
ODIs
1
1
0
27
27
27.00
49
55.10
0
0
0
0
1
0
First-class
249
417
49
18734
266
50.90
50
100
122
0
List A
6
6
1
218
108*
43.60
1
0
3
0
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
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-
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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
