Aussie Lindsay Kline dead
Lindsay Kline has died aged 81, Cricket Australia said of the man
best remembered for facing the last ball of the first tied Test match.
Slow, left-arm spinner Kline, who took part in 13 Tests between 1957
and 1961, played 88 first-class matches in which he took 276 wickets at
27.39. He died on Friday, Australia's cricketing authority said.
In the Brisbane Test of the famous 1960-61 series against the West
Indies, Australia needed just one run to win when Kline fended off a
delivery to square leg and his batting partner Ian Meckiff scrambled for
the single.
But West Indian Joe Solomon fielded the ball and rocketed it to the
stumps, running out Meckiff and ensuring the historic tie. |