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Australian rules must have Boon crying into his beer

CHRIS HEWETT

BACK in the day, when men were men and Australians considered themselves more masculine than the rest of the planet, flying and drinking went glass in hand.
David Boon, a high-class batsman who could split the offside field with a single unfurling of his moustache, was famously said to have knocked back 52 cans of beer on a team flight to London, thereby breaking a record allegedly set by the pugnacious gloveman Rod Marsh.
All of which prompted another renowned wielder of the willow, Doug Walters, to scoff in his schooner. Walters claimed the record for himself on the grou...

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