Former fast bowler Merv Hughes has become the latest inductee into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame. In an international career spanning nine years, the burly Victorian with his famous ...

In Australian education, country schoolteachers often are itinerants, and Merv and his family ... team and a first-grade cricket club. It was there that Hughes naturally gravitated.

Almost 150 years of cricket’s fiercest rivalry ... To the rescue came an old rival turned friend for life, Merv Hughes. The mustachioed Victorian Hughes cut a menacing figure on the field ...

And the fact that he was rescued by Merv Hughes – the Australian fast bowler ... England had played such shambolic cricket that one correspondent wrote: “There are only three things wrong ...

Former Test fast bowler Merv Hughes has lost his place on Australia's selection panel, Cricket Australia said on Friday. Hughes was squeezed out after the recent appointment of former Test skipper ...

Hughes plied his trade as a burly backman for a period of time before cricket took over and he became one of cricket’s most beloved characters. Know as much for his fearsome glare down pitch and a ...

Tim O’Brien stood 151cm when he made his debut for Footscray in District cricket. Twenty-five years later, he’s still rolling out his leggies, as captain of Werribee in the Victorian Sub ...