What was the experience like playing Test cricket for Australia under Allan Border?
For Border captaincy was initially a struggle. He took over after Kim Hughes left and I don’t think that Allan was keen on the job at that time. It was sort of thrust upon him. His captaincy really came to the fore when we won the Ashes series in 1989. After that we never looked back. One of his best and most important years as captain came in 1987. We won the World Cup in India which was a phenomenal revelation. For the first time Border won a test series. Playing New Zealand I blocked out the bowling of Richard Hadlee in Melbourne. We were thus able to draw the match. The team went from strength to strength. In fact because some of our top players went to South Africa on a rebel tour in 1984-85 it opened the door for stars like Dean Jones who scored a double hundred on the 1987 tour to India, Steve Waugh as well as my pace bowling compatriots Craig McDermott, Merv Hughes. There was a void in our test cricket ranking which in hindsight proved to be a blessing in disguise if you look a
