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Australian cricket team in Australia in 1962–63
The 1962-63 Australians drew 1-1 with the touring England team in the 1962-63 Ashes series. Australia had beaten England 4-0 in 1958-59 and 2-1 in 1961 and it was thought unlikely that the tourists would beat Australia on their home ground. Richie Benaud was a keen advocate of "go ahead" cricket and his attacking tactics and brilliant captaincy had won Australia five series in a row with what were seen as average teams. Ironically, now he had a better team he drew his first series and his negative play in the last two Tests tarnished his reputation, though he did retain the Ashes. This was the last Test series of Neil Harvey, Alan Davidson and Ken Mackay and Benaud himself played for only one more season. There was a feeling that this was an end of an era and commentators wondered where the new batsmen and bowlers would come from. Fears about the Australian batting proved short-lived as Bobby Simpson and Bill Lawry formed one of Australia's great opening partnerships and were supported by Peter Burge, Brian Booth, Norm O'Neill and Barry Shepherd. But they would soon be short of a decent bowling attack, which would rest on the broad shoulders of the 21-year-old fast-bowler Graham McKenzie until the emergence of Dennis Lillee, Jeff Thomson and Max Walker in the 1970s.
==The Captain==
''This was a coldly realistic Benaud, not the Benaud whose image had been built up as the "gallant adventurer". I have no doubt that he would have closed before lunchtime on the last day had Australia been playing the West Indies. But, then as has been emphasised, Anglo-Australian Tests are "different"...Benaud in this summer was not in the mood for generous gestures to the enemy. this was partly because he was conscious of his own end-of-an-era team, of the tremendous importance of Davidson to his attack, and of the sudden deterioration of his own bowling. Linked with this was his immense respect, which he sometimes voiced, for Dexter's ability to take over an attack and rip it apart.''
:Tom Goodman〔pp161-163, Moyes and Goodman〕
Richie Benaud was the captain of New South Wales, who had just won the Sheffield Shield 10 times in a row, and had led Australia to victory in his five successive series. His reputation as a tactical genius reached such heights that a simple field change would torment the batsmen as he tried to work out what he was doing. Against Tom Graveney he once "moved short leg round a couple of yards...there was no reason for the move other than to apply psychological pressure. He was a master at upsetting the concentration of batsmen"〔p68, Graveney〕 Usually aggressive and willing to take risks his reputation was tarnished when he went for a draw in the Fourth Test after Alan Davidson was injured and in the Fifth to retain the Ashes. A great believer of the saying "practice makes perfect" he trained himself and the team and honed their athletic advantage over the visitors. He was the first cricketer to make 2,000 runs and take 200 wickets in Tests and his 248 wickets was an Australian record until beaten by Dennis Lillee.
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