Frank Kennedy, the self-professed “champion of the little punter”, lost his battle against leukaemia last night at half past ten. He appeared for years on the “Punters’ Post Mortem” segment of Channel Seven’s “Sports Action” programme, with fellow panellists, Ian Craig and Max Presnell.
It is raining, again. We viewed “The Flintstones” from 5.30 p.m. before switching to Channel Two for Lorne Greene’s “Last Of The Wild” which, this evening, is about the Arctic. Singer, Renee Geyer, is interviewed on “Willesee” prior to another serving of the American comedy, “Good Times”.
Highlights from the First ‘Silver Jubilee’ Test are shown on Channel Two, from eight o’clock. Australia was dismissed for 296, which meant that England was eighty runs in arrears. Tall, gangly English right-arm fast bowler, Bob Willis, had finished with the highly impressive figures of 7-78. By stumps, England had fought back to be just two wickets down for one hundred and eighty-nine runs. Bob Woolmer remained unbeaten on one hundred and fourteen.
Live coverage of the match began at half past eight. I observed it until ten o’clock. Bob Woolmer was dismissed when his score had reached one hundred and twenty. Tony Greig, the tall, lanky, right-hand all-rounder, remained unbeaten on eighty when I called it a night.