It is rather suitable for umpires to dress like dentists, since one of their tasks is to draw stumps.

It is rather suitable for umpires to dress like dentists, since one of their tasks is to draw stumps.

Fred Trueman the man has often been tactless, haphazard, crude, a creature of impulse.

A stroke of a man knocking a thistle top with a walking stick

Ray Illingworth is relieving himself in front of the pavilion.

The umpire signals a bye with the air of a weary stalk

Australianism' means single-minded determination to win - to win within the laws but, if necessary, to the last limit within them. It means where the 'impossible' is within the realm of what the human body can do, there are Australians who believe that they can do it - and who have succeeded often enough to make us wonder if anything is impossible to them. It means they have never lost a match - particularly a Test match - until the last run is scored or their last wicket down.