Michael Atherton

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293 appearances 5 recordings 3 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 26 Jun

Michael Atherton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Played it badly, though, didn't he, Gat?

The background to that day and that game was that it had been inevitably miserable, miserable weather at Manchester.

It rained for days.

And Australia had Tim May and your dad.

And the thought was, because it was so wet, they'd only play one spinner.

And often in wet conditions, you might go with a finger spinner in England, which is Tim May.

So a bit of chat before the game that Warnie might not play.

But of course he did.

And yeah, to produce that ball with the very first ball of the Ashes was unbelievable.

Well, Graham hit a big hundred at Worcester against your dad.

And that was the thing.

He said he only bowled leg spinners at him.

He didn't bowl googly or flipper.

No, because in those days, like now, if you were playing... There'd be enough footage to go back and watch.

That was the following tour at Brisbane.

Because, again, you know, very little kind of footage you could get hold of.

So we went up on the gantry right behind the arm.

After he got Stewie with that brilliant flipper.

And we had the binoculars on him to try and work out what he was bowling.

Well, another iconic moment, really, a test hat trick, ashes hat trick at the MCG.

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