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A fact from Bill Lawry appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 13 June 2007.

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This version - http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bill_Lawry&oldid=138069392 . Couldn't complete it.

• Too much of 1970-1 in the intro. No need for that sort of details

• Rewrite one of the two "He spent two years there" in one paragraph

• A few months before turning nineteen, - it was one day before turning nineteen (http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/21/21886.html)

• He played in all of Victoria's matches in 1956-57 - all but one

• He performed modestly over the following seasons, until scoring 266 after being dropped on 12 against New South Wales in Sydney in 1960-61 shortly before the selectors chose the team for the 1961 Ashes tour.[2] - Break up

• Lawry was sent to England as a promising young reserve opener. - Why reserve ? He wasn't the first choice ?

• Subsequently, Australian selectors installed him as Bob Simpson's Test opening partner, ousting Colin McDonald. - (a) Lawry opened with Macdonald in the first three Tests, it was Simpson who came in, not Lawry. (b) McDonald was not "outsted by selectors" According to Wisden 1962, McD was injured. (c) The line should come well inside the paragraph because the partnership with Simpson happened only in the fourth Test

• With the series at 2-1 leading into the Fifth Test in Sydney, Lawry struck 151 in the first innings to set up a 3-1 series win. - In the last Test, Lawry refused to enforce the follow on, batted on and left WI 735 to win. The reason for this was some old issues with the West Indies that (I think) date back to the 1964-5 series. It may be good to look around for it. Tintin 16:33, 14 June 2007 (UTC)