Glenn mcgrath biography childhood

(by Glenn McGrath and Daniel Lane, Yellow Jersey Press, pp432, £14.99, ISBN 978-0224082877)

An extraordinary paradox in the Australian character, and one that is very visibly present in the Australian cricketer, is the co-existence of a tough uncompromising psyche on the one hand with a sometimes cringe-making sentimentality on the other. As great Australian cricketers, from Bradman onwards, prepare to leave the stage for the final time there is an outpouring of emotion – often accompanied by more farewells than old Blue Eyes Sinatra himself. And so it has been with Glenn McGrath who despite emotional goodbyes to Test cricket (wicket with his final ball), One Day Internationals (wicket with his final ball) and the World Cup (a third successive trophy for Australia) plays on to earn some top-up dollars to his already substantial pile in the Indian Premier League. And none would begrudge him that nice little earner in the beyond-twilight years of his long career.

McGrath’s story is

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'I couldn't bring myself to set a batsman up by giving him runs'

"When inom was bowling well, inom had already worked out the next two overs - what I was going to bowl and where inom was going to bowl" © Getty Images

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Glenn McGrath

Australian cricketer

Glenn Donald McGrathAO (; born 9 February 1970) is an Australian former international cricketer whose career spanned 14 years. He was a fast-medium pace bowler and is considered one of the greatest bowlers of all time along with the title of most accurate pace bowler of all time^[1] and a leading contributor to Australia's domination of world cricket from the mid-1990s to the late 2000s.^[2][3] McGrath was a member of the Australian team that won three consecutive World Cup trophies in a row, winning the 1999 Cricket World Cup, the 2003 Cricket World Cup, and the 2007 Cricket World Cup.^[4] In the 2003 final, he took the winning wicket of Zaheer Khan. McGrath was also a member of the team that won the 2006 ICC Champions Trophy.

Known throughout his career for maintaining an accurate line and length, McGrath displayed a consistency that enabled him to be one of the most economical and successful fast bowl