SK Flashback: Remembering David Boon's last Test Match

The perfect model of the bloke you would want to wear our Baggy Green Cap

A final swansong

His record of 7422 Test runs at an average of 43.65 is significant but may not find him a place in the list of all-time great Australian batsmen. Nevertheless, no one can deny the role that he played in Australian cricket. Be it his performance in the Ashes or the man-of-the-match effort in the 1987 World Cup, Boon was always there for the Aussies.

In addition to his batting skills, he was a very good short-leg fielder & silly-point fielder. This earned him the nickname ‘keg on legs’. Boon continued his contribution to cricket post-retirement as well in different capacities as ICC match-referee and Australian selector.

Recently, he was inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame. And as Warne had said in his book, “If you were building a perfect model of the bloke you would want to wear our Baggy Green Cap, he would wear a pretty strong resemblance to David Boon: tough, uncompromising, defiant and proud.”