by Arthur Crabtree » Wed Sep 28, 2016 10:48 am
I only remember Tangles a for a brief period towards the end of his career, but as they were my formative cricketing years he made a big impression, partly for his unusual, but very effective bowling, and also for his quintessential Aussie look of the time, with the unstyled hair and the big moustache and the billowing shirt.
I was vaguely aware of the Centenary Test, but by the time of the home Ashes summer of 1977, I was a big cricket fan, and Max has stayed with me, with his wholehearted approach in a losing cause. Lillee was injured, and Thommo, Pascoe and Walker was the attack, Walker eventually taking the new ball.
I guess he went off to WSC. The Oval Test was his last. He scored an unwelcome 78*, a Test best in his last Test innings, forming a big tail end partnership with Mick Malone playing his first. I'm surprised, given that he was a media figure in Australia, that I didn't hear from him again, but he always came readily to mind.
I see he had another career, as an architect, as was often the way with Australian cricketers back then.
I always say that everybody's right.