Sportsmen and Their Amazing Comebacks

3. Dennis Lillee

Country: Australia

Sport: Cricketer

The never say die spirit is something every Australian cricketer has. Dennis Lille was no exception to that trait. He was considered to be one of the best fast bowlers of his time and he had a huge fan following around the world.

Like every fast bowler even Lillee faced career ending injuries. The worst being the stress fracture in his lower vertebrate. In a test against Pakistan in 19772-73 he felt a sharp pain in his back while bowling but he ignored it and continued with his game, it was only in the tour or West Indies when he broke down because he couldn’t take the pain any more. This injury forced his cricketing career to take a back seat and he was out of the game for 6 weeks. After his plaster was removed he started playing club cricket in Perth.

It was an open secret in the cricket world that his career as a fast bowler was over. But Lillee was ready to give up and he underwent intensive physiotherapy routine and he remodeled his bowling action. He returned to the international Test cricket in 1974 and paired with fast bowler Jeff Thomson which is considered to be the best opening bowling combination in Test Cricket History. When he retired from the international arena he became the then record holder for the most Test wickets at 355.