In Sir Garfield Sobers’s words

The Rest of the World team during the 1971-72 season in Australia. Standing (from left): Bob Cunis, Zaheer Abbas, Sunil Gavaskar, Farokh Engineer, Bob Taylor, Bishan Singh Bedi, Norman Gifford. Centre row (from left): Clive Lloyd, Richard Hutton, Tony Greig, Peter Pollock, Asif Masood, Hylton Ackerman. Sitting (from left): Rohan Kanhai, Garry Sobers (captain), Bill Jacobs (manager), Intikhab Alam (vice-captain), Graeme Pollock. Pic/Getty Images

Lillee bowled me a bouncer (in the first innings at Melbourne). I played a bit early and was caught by Keith Stackpole at first slip (for nought). At the end of the day’s play I went into the (Australian) dressing room. I said to Ian Chappell with Dennis Lillee standing just across the room: “You have a fast bowler called Lillee and  every time I go out to bat, all I get are bouncers. I want you to tell him that I can bowl quick too and I think I can bat a little better than him, so look out for me when he comes in to bat.” When Lillee came to bat, Tony Greig, fielding at mid-off, told me to let him have the bouncer. So, I bowled him a bouncer and Dennis turned completely pink. New ball, he had one big swing and was out. I go to the Australian dressing room again and Chappelli said that Dennis threw his bat and said, “I’ll show that little bastard.” And I said, “Ian, he’s got the ball and I’ve got the bat.” Ladies and gentlemen, the rest is history.