Former England fast bowler Mike Hendricks shook India with his brilliant bowling in 1974.
The right-arm pacer was also part of the Ashes winning team in 1977 and 1978/79. Hendricks’ career-best 4/28 spell came against India during the third Test at Birmingham in 1974.
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Former England pacer Mike Hendricks, who took 26 of his 87 Test wickets against India during the 1974 and 1979 series and set the world record for most Test wickets without taking five wickets, died on Tuesday. He was 72 years old. Hendricks was also Ireland’s first professional coach to take 770 wickets in 267 first-class matches and 35 wickets in 22 ODIs.
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He represented Derbyshire County Cricket Club. “Derbyshire County Cricket Club is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of club great Mike Hendricks. Our thoughts are with Mike’s family in this time of grief,” Derbyshire County Cricket Club tweeted on Tuesday.
The right-arm pacer was also part of the Ashes winning team in 1977 and 1978/79. Hendricks’ career-best 4/28 spell came against India during the third Test at Birmingham in 1974. He removed India’s No. 3 and 4 batsmen, captain Ajit Wadekar (36) and Gundappa Viswanath (28) to break into the Indian batting in the first innings and then finally dismissed Erapalli Prasanna and Bishan Bedi.
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India were bowled out for 165. He took three wickets in the second innings, dismissed Viswanath (25) and Prasanna again and also took the wicket of Farooq Engineer. England won that Test by an innings.
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