Former Australian cricket captain and coach Bob Simpson dies, aged 89.
Simpson was a giant figure in Australian cricket for more than four decades, playing 62 Test matches, famously emerging from retirement at age 41 to lead Australia during the World Series Cricket era, and later becoming the nation’s first full-time coach.
As a player, Simpson took until his 30th Test to crack his first century but turned it into 311 and batted for almost 13 hours at Old Trafford.
He formed with Bill Lawry one of Australia’s greatest opening partnerships, in an era without protective equipment.
Simpson and Lawry still share the record partnership for an Australian opening pair – 382 against the West Indies in 1965.