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In the pre-helmet era, a bouncer from Lever hit New Zealand's Ewen Chatfield on the head during a Test in Auckland in 1975 with emergency requirement required to save the tailender's life after his heart briefly stopped.
Writing in tribute to Lever on the BBC website, cricket broadcaster Jonathan Agnew said the Chatfield incident "nearly destroyed Peter".
Agnew added: "A few years later, in a famous game between Derbyshire and Lancashire, it snowed and left the pitch as something of a lottery.
"Peter refused to bowl because he thought it was too dangerous."
Im old enough to remember willis lever in 72 series in uk , listening on a bakerlite valve radio .. the shite you rememberI'm a big cricket fan too but I don't remember Peter Lever, he played back in the 70s, I'm only old enough to remember the 80s.
He was a good fast bowler though by all accounts as well as being a good bloke.
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Peter Lever: Former England fast bowler and Ashes winner dies aged 84
Peter Lever, who played 17 Tests and 10 one-day internationals for England between 1970 and 1975, has died at the age of 84 after a short illness; Lever was part of Ashes win in Australia in 1970/71 and appeared in inaugural ODI; he took 796 wickets in first-class cricket for Lancashirewww.skysports.com
Can he get a hat trick?Not too many get to die twice.
Sombody's soul is in Limbo/Valhalla.Can he get a hat trick?
He toured Australia for the 1974/75 Ashes also. The Chatfield incident was during the New Zealand leg of that tour in late-Feb. Lever only played one further test (during the home 1975 Ashes series).Im old enough to remember willis lever in 72 series in uk , listening on a bakerlite valve radio .. the shite you remember
Lillee and massie 72He toured Australia for the 1974/75 Ashes also. The Chatfield incident was during the New Zealand leg of that tour in late-Feb. Lever only played one further test (during the home 1975 Ashes series).
[Can hardly believe it's been 50 years since Lillee, Thomson & co destroyed England during that infamous 74/75 series. Most of the English bowling line up has now passed - Bob Willis, Tony Grieg, Mike Hendrick, Fred Titmus and most recently Derek Underwood. Only Geoff Arnold (80) and Chris Old (76) still with us.]
Should stay out and head to your safe space on the conspiracy boardThis is a pretty sick thread
Safe space? I’m only there because I’m already on the SRP Death List so as to protect your safe space!Should stay out and head to your safe space on the conspiracy board
Oh and watch how much fun we have when Donnys arteries explode
Clarke?Still alive
Chappell x 2
Lillee
Thomson
Dymock
Walters
R Edwards
W Edwards
McCosker
Passed on
Marsh
Walker
Mallett
Redpath
Jenner
England Alive
Knott
Fletcher
Lloyd ( Bumbles)
Amiss
Old
Arnold
Passed on
Cowdrey
Denness
Edrich
Willis
Lever
Greig
Titmus
Luckhurst
Hendrick
Griswold?Clarke?
I thought he died years ago
Richard that is
Young scooter? 39 ain't young!
He's definitely close to my list but sadly I don't recall having him.
Spoilers! People might not have seen The Towering Inferno yet.I also had thought Richard Chamberlain had died in the early 2000s until a couple of years ago.
He did a great job playing one of the most hate-able movie characters of all time in the form of the corrupt and cowardly Roger Simmons in 'The Towering Inferno' in 1974, the electrical engineer responsible for the entire disaster. My first experience of The Towering Inferno was watching it on video at a house party as a kid back in the 1980s. The teenagers and older kids all cheered when Simmonds was first punched in the face by his father-in-law, the CEO Jim Duncan (William Holden), then when he fell hundreds of floors to a well-deserved death.
Spoiler alertSpoilers! People might not have seen The Towering Inferno yet.