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“Ashes to Ashes, dust to dust, if Thomson don’t get ya, Lillee must.”

■ THE QUOTE IN CONTEXT

elieve it or not, these immortal words first appeared as the caption for a cartoon published in Sydney’s newspaper during the six-Test 1974-75 Ashes series in Australia, won 4-1 by the Aussies.

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