Pascoe Accused Of ‘Chucking’: Monday, 20th June, 1977

It was still teeming with rain and just thirteen degrees Celsius, as we left for work. Nonetheless, the sun appeared by eleven o’clock before showers made an appearance by the middle of the afternoon.

Ted Dexter, a former English captain and dashing right-hand batsman, has accused the Australian fast bowler, Len Pascoe, of throwing — of being a “chucker”. Len Pascoe’s style of delivery is compared to that of the highly controversial Ian Meckiff on the back page of today’s “The Sun” newspaper. Ian Meckiff’s career in Test cricket ended, in 1963, when he was repeatedly no-balled by umpires because they deemed his action to be that of a thrower of the ball.

Channel Seven’s news, which is read by the amiable Roger Climpson, from 6.30 p.m., reports that the Ugandan dictator, Idi Amin, is missing, amidst reports that he might have been assassinated.

Tiki drove through the rain along General Holmes Drive as we made our way to visit with friends. The radio was tuned to 2UW and “Sam Gallea Gold”. Sam played “Undercover Angel”, which is a current release by Alan O’Day; “The Night Chicago Died”, from 1974, by the British group, Paper Lace; “Come A Little Bit Closer” (1964) by Jay and The Americans; and Barry Manilow’s new single, “Looks Like We Made It”.

“Dance Little Lady, Dance” by the English singer, Tina Charles, has been atop the pop charts here for about five weeks, however, “A Mean Pair Of Jeans”, recorded by the Australian, Marty Rhone, is improving its position rapidly. Marty is Indonesian by birth.

I drove home in rain that amounted to little more than drizzle. David “Starsky And Hutch” Soul’s “Going In With My Eyes Open” and his follow-up to “Don’t Give Up On Us”, was on the radio, nevertheless, I turned to 2BL and learned that England was 1-29 in its second innings.

 

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