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McGrath, the No. 1 No. 11

AFP, Manchester
Australia fast bowler Glenn McGrath proved his worth with the bat at Old Trafford where his matchsaving effort in the third Ashes Test made him the greatest No.11 in history.
McGrath, once regarded as a hopeless, 'bunny' batsman, broke former West Indies paceman Courtney Walsh's record of 553 Test runs scored at no.11, his resilient five not out in the down-to-the-wire draw against England taking him to 555 runs in the position.
"I think I've been pushing my whole career to get out of the No.11 spot and to finally have the most runs at 11 in the history of the game, I guess it's good in one respect and bad that it probably still batting at No.11," McGrath told reporters after Monday's thrilling finish.
McGrath was only declared fit for the match on Thursday morning, after missing the second Test at Edgbaston with a freak ankle injury sustained when he trod on a cricket ball just over an hour before that match was due to start.
The 35-year-old joined Brett Lee with four overs remaining in the match and England needing a single wicket for a victory that would have put them 2-1 up with two to play.
But McGrath was defiant in his nine-ball, 15-minute stay against the might of fast bowlers Stephen Harmison and Andrew Flintoff.
He faced the first three balls from Harmison in the final over, after Lee's shot off the last ball of the penultimate over went for four.
"I was getting ready and Stuart MacGill raced out with the message. He said 'bat two metres out of your crease'. I was like, 'oh, against a guy bowling 90 miles an hour with the wind?' I thought well, 'it's going to hurt a bit more'."
However, McGrath's response caused frantic worry amongst his teammates who feared they might lose the game to a run-out.
"The first ball was down the leg side. I think Geraint Jones (the England wicketkeeper) backhanded it at the stumps and I scrambled back in," McGrath said.
"Next ball, so I'm told, it sort of got to the keeper and he threw it to Matthew Hoggard, who was in the vicinity of the stumps while I was just about taking leg again, about two metres out of my crease.
"And he just passed it on to Harmison. The boys reckon it would have been run out if he took the bails off, but I just think it was a dead ball."
Cricket's Law 23, 'Dead Ball' states that the ball can become dead when "it is finally settled in the hands of the wicket-keeper or the bowler".
It adds: "The ball shall be considered to be dead when it is clear to the umpire at the bowler's end that the fielding side and both batsmen at the wicket have ceased to regard it as in play."
Either way, it would certainly have been an interesting decision. Meanwhile McGrath insisted that while Australia -- winners of the last eight Ashes series -- had not won in the current campaign since the first Test at Lord's, it was England who had most reason to be concerned about the outcome this season.
"The thing we can take out of this Test is that we haven't been on top of our game the last two matches and they are two matches England should have won very convincingly," said McGrath, who needs just seven more wickets to break Walsh's record of 519 and become Test cricket's most successful paceman.
"They've just scraped for a win previous game and walked away with a draw so they'd be wondering 'what do we have to do to beat these guys?'."