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A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on May 28, 2007. The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that Ernie Toshack* debuted for the Australian cricket team a year after World War II ended, during which he had been rejected by the army on health grounds?*
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Good again, and basically there.

new ball attack of Ray Lindwall and Keith Miller — given this is the lead would "opening bowling partnership" or some variation therein help the non-cricketers out there what this means (as this is the lead, so it's important like that).
1945&ndash46 — fix.
In 1945&ndash46, the first season of cricket after the end of the War, Toshack made his first-class debut, and after only seven matches in the Sheffield Shield, he was selected for Australia's tour of New Zealand, where he opened the bowling in a match that was retrospectively given Test status — That could easily become two sentences.
Is it worth splitting the second paragraph of the lead in two, maybe in the middle of the sentence noted directly above (pre-international and international)?
He attempted a comeback during Australia's 1949–50 season, but further injury forced him to retire — is that "retire again"?

No, I reworded it since he didn't actually retire in the first place.Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:43, 29 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The lead says he was born in Lyndhurst but early life says Cobar.
A bunch of references that go [6][2] - looks odd, should be two then six.
Is there any information about post-career?

Nope, I could not find a bio of him. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:43, 29 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"His accuracy and stamina allowed Lindwall and Miller, one of Australia’s finest fast bowling pairs of all time, to draw breath between short and incisive bursts of pace and swing" — this needs a reference or two, especially for the "finest" part. Also, probably better to use the whole names and link for L&M, as they hadn't been used in this section for a while.
"imitating an Englishman" — this seems more a parody (doing it to take the piss out of them) than an imitation.
Any chance of images? You should be able to find some PD ones, given his era. Would just make the article look a little better, although (as always) not absolutely required to pass.

Drop me a message when you've done any of these you feel are relevant and I'll have a second look. The GA is on hold for now. Cheers, Daniel 01:21, 29 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I did the rest I think, Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:43, 29 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yup, fair call about the post-career and thanks for clarifying about the retirement. Passed GA, kudos/congrats. Daniel 01:53, 29 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Wrong Geoff Cook

Shame this article got to FA status without anyone realising that Toshack's first wicket was not the Geoff Cook linked to. WillE (talk) 13:51, 8 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]