The legendary fast bowler is among more than 700 Australians to be recognised with King’s Birthday Honours.
Glenn McGrath may be Australia’s most successful fast bowler, but he couldn’t resist a light-hearted mention of his less noteworthy batting after being made an Officer of the Order of Australia in the King’s Birthday honours.
She died of the insidious disease six months later, prompting Cricket Australia and the SCG Trust to rename the Sydney Test the Pink Test, and day three of the match from Ladies’ Day to Jane McGrath Day.“The McGrath Foundation is something I’ve been incredibly proud of for a long time,” McGrath said. “To think back to when Jane and I first decided to tell our story of her battle through, or journey through, breast cancer … what it’s grown into now is absolutely incredible.
It was under Lillee’s tutelage in Chennai in 1992, during the start of the now-annual Australian Cricket Academy exchange, that the pencil-slim McGrath’s career continued to take a giant leap forward, making his Test debut two years later.As a kid from Narromine he played a multitude of sports for fun, and had taken none of them seriously until he decided to have a proper crack at cricket, moving to Sydney in 1989 to play grade cricket with Sutherland.
She has been instrumental in developing and rolling out screening and vaccination programs that have dramatically reduced the prevalence of cervical cancer in Australia and other developed nations, and is now focused on eliminating cervical cancer in the Indo-Pacific.
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