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SYDNEY (AP) Fast bowler Jeff Thomson and wicketkeeper Wally Grout have been inducted into Australian cricket's Hall of Fame.
Thomson was likely the fastest bowler in the world at his peak in the 1970s, when he formed a feared partnership with Denis Lillee. He took 200 wickets in 51 tests.
Thomson said: ''I got a ring from a mate of my brother's who I hadn't spoken to for 30 years. He was rapt and said how weird it was, for a bunch of kids who used to play cricket for hours against a telephone pole, that one of us was now in the Hall of Fame.''
Grout was Australia's test wicketkeeper from 1957 to 1966, claiming 187 dismissals in 51 tests.
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