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When "Dennis Lillee" brought an aluminium bat on the field

Dennis Lillee  holding his "comBat" Hey guys, Today I came with an awesome engrossing cricket event from the international test cricket. As we know, the modern era cricket is becoming more entertaining day by day due to the new astonishing innovations and many delightful escapades from the modern day cricketers. But, it doesn't mean that old cricket didn't witness some strange and unordinary events. So, now we are going to talk about a famous incident happened in 'The Ashes' series in 1979 . It was the battle of two historical superpowers of cricket, yeah! you are right, they are the Ashes' contestants. In 1979, the 1st match of the series, England won the toss and elects to bowl first. Then, here comes the batting of Aussies... Everything were going smoothly like a test match, "Sir Ian Botham" was bowling well taking 4 wickets under 90 on the board only. But, it was not the interesting event. The event comes when 8th wicket of Australia fallen...