Alan Connolly
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Alan Norman Connolly is a former Australian cricket
er who played in 29 Tests
and one ODI from 1963 to 1971. Connolly had been a fast bowler in his youth, but slowed his pace to increase his accuracy and became a reliable support bowler in partnership with Garth McKenzie. He was instrumental in Australia's 159 run victory at Old Trafford in 1968, the only time England lost a match in a sequence of 40 tests between 1966 and 1971. He was recalled for his last Test match in the 1970-71 Ashes series, but was dropped after England's 299 victory in the Fourth Test at Sydney
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Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
er who played in 29 Tests
Test cricket
Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...
and one ODI from 1963 to 1971. Connolly had been a fast bowler in his youth, but slowed his pace to increase his accuracy and became a reliable support bowler in partnership with Garth McKenzie. He was instrumental in Australia's 159 run victory at Old Trafford in 1968, the only time England lost a match in a sequence of 40 tests between 1966 and 1971. He was recalled for his last Test match in the 1970-71 Ashes series, but was dropped after England's 299 victory in the Fourth Test at Sydney
Sydney Cricket Ground
The Sydney Cricket Ground is a sports stadium in Sydney in Australia. It is used for Australian football, Test cricket, One Day International cricket, some rugby league and rugby union matches and is the home ground for the New South Wales Blues cricket team and the Sydney Swans of the Australian...
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