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Conversation: Former Test batsman Rick McCosker - Cricket hero was a ‘closet Catholic ...’
‘CLOSET CATHOLIC’: Rick McCosker today
By Damir Govorcin
Former Australian Test cricketer Rick McCosker has learnt to live with the fact that his name will always be synonymous with the 1977 Centenary Test.
With his jaw wired and face swathed in bandages after being felled by a bouncer from English fast bowler Bob Willis, Rick came out to bat in the second innings to help Australia make enough runs to win the match by 45 runs, the same margin as 100 years earlier.
Rick’s heroic feat has forever etched his name into cricket folklore.
Since retiring from cricket in 1988, Rick has moved on to concentrate on his other great passion in life – his faith.
He and his wife of 33 years, Meryl, are active in the Windale-Belmont Parish in the Maitland-Newcastle Diocese through their involvement with the youth movement, Antioch.
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