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Last modified on Wed 28 Jul 2021 14.40 EDT The cricketer Mike Hendrick, who has died aged 72 of bowel cancer, was a supremely accurate and dependable right-arm fast medium bowler who played 30 times for England in the 1970s and early 80s. Possessed of a rhythmic, perfectly sideways-on action, at times he almost appeared to bowl too well for his own good, seaming the ball away from the righthander so deliciously and on such a consistently tricky line that it was difficult even to lay a bat on hi...

"We thought if we could get them out for 200 today, have a bit of a bat, wed stay in the game," Cummins told Channel 7 after claiming 4-21 to go with his three first innings wickets. "But for that to happen in the first hour, amazing. It was just one of those days where everything came off, everything we tried worked," said the top-ranked Test bowler. Cummins felt they bowled well in the first innings too but were richly rewarded for tweaking their length on Saturday. "We found in the first ...