The young Glenn McGrath was described by Mike Whitney as "thin - but Ambrose-thin, not Bruce Reid-thin". Much later, Mike Atherton compared McGrath to Ambrose on a vaster scale. Catapulted from the outback of New South Wales into Test cricket to replace Merv Hughes in 1993, McGrath became, after a faltering start, the great Australian paceman of his time. He bowls an unremitting off-stump line and an immaculate length, gains offcut and bounce, specialises in the opposition's biggest wickets - especially Atherton's and Brian Lara's - is unafraid to back himself publicly in these key duels, and has shown himself to be unusually durable. He is a batting rabbit who applied himself so intently that while playing for Worcestershire he won a bet with an Australian teammate by scoring a fifty. The work eventually paid off in Tests when he made 61, the third-highest score by a No. 11, against New Zealand in 2004-05. Only in his occasional fits of ill-temper does he fail himself. He rewrote the World Cup record-books in 2003 with 7 for 15 against the outclassed Namibians, on his way to adding another winner's medal to a bulging collection. An ankle injury threatened to derail his quest for 500 Test wickets, but after briefly contemplating retirement he bounced back with yet another five-wicket haul against Sri Lanka at Darwin in July 2004. Three months later, at Nagpur, he became the first fast bowler to play 100 matches in the baggy green, and his greatness was further confirmed at Perth in December when knocking down the brittle Pakistanis with 8 for 24, the second-best figures by an Australian.

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