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Playing in only his 8th Test, MacGill equalled the record of the most dismissals at the S.C.G. in a Test Match. His 12 wickets and the record are commemorated in this personally signed and framed piece, along with the scoresheets of both innings.
208 Test wickets is wonderful bowling in anyone's language and, I would argue, he would have taken more than 500 in any other era, much as Garner or Daniels may have if playing in another period than during the Windies when fast bowlers aplenty were running amok.
208 Test Wickets means that, to be fair to him and outside Warne, SCG MacGill was the greatest Australian spinner of the modern era.
An old-fashioned operator with a gargantuan legbreak and majestic wrong'un, Stuart MacGill had the best strike-rate of any modern spin bowler. His misfortune was to play alongside Shane Warne in an age when Australia, the land of Grimmett and O'Reilly, paradoxically frowned on the concept of fielding two wrist-spinners at once. After showing they could work in tandem with 13 wickets against Pakistan at Sydney in 2005, MacGill hoped for more double-act opportunities. Playing seven matches in 2005-06, he dismantled the World XI with nine victims and accepted 16 wickets in the two-game series against Bangladesh. The following season, after injuring his knee on John Buchanan's boot camp, he didn't play a Test, but encouragement came when Warne left international cricket at the end of the Ashes.
MacGill stayed philosophical throughout his career, eagerly running in and invariably running amok. He bewitched 53 wickets in 11 Tests during Warne's 12-month drugs ban in 2003-04. He was always prolific at the state level and played key parts in numerous New South Wales triumphs.
This print ALSO comes beautifully framed, presented with a quality timber finish.
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