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Queenslander Peter Allan was a big, brawny fast bowler who could swing the ball away - but it was his misfortune that Australia already had one of those in his heyday. Graham McKenzie got in there first, and took 246 wickets in 60 Tests. Allan had to make do with just the one baggy green, against England at Brisbane in 1965-66, when McKenzie had back trouble and couldn't play. Allan, who was nearly 30 by then, took two wickets - Mike Smith and Ken Higgs - but that was his lot. Later that season Allan became the first man to take all ten wickets in an innings at the MCG - and only the second in the Sheffield Shield at the time - for Queensland against Victoria, with what the Wisden Almanack called "a superb effort of control of length, pace and swing". He finished with 10 for 61, including a second-morning spell of 6 for 14 - and five of those runs were overthrows. The previous season he toured West Indies without threatening to disrupt the established opening attack of McKenzie and Neil Hawke. Steven Lynch

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