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Dennis Lillee talks to the umpires about his illegal aluminium bat

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Sunil Gavaskar and Gundappa Viswanath walk the tightrope

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Wilkinson drops England to World Cup glory

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Better late than never

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1987
An unfortunate claim to fame

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The next step

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'We were charging round getting battered'

"You soon got the feel from the old lags that we should not expect to win and the main point was to have a good time." John Taylor reports back from the 1968 Lions reunion