Max Walker's career
Cricket
- 34 Tests: 138 wickets at average of 27.47. Best figures: 8-143 v England, February 1975
- Seven Supertests (World Series Cricket): 28 wickets at 25.43. Best figures 7-88 v World XI, January 1978
- 17 one-day internationals: 20 wickets at 27.30, economy rate 3.25 runs per over
- 135 first-class games: 499 wickets at 26.47
VFL
- 85 games for Melbourne, 1967-72
Trivia
- Walker is one of only four men to play VFL football and Test cricket in the same year (1972). Others are Keith Miller, Laurie Nash and George Tribe
- Walker's Test bowling average is better than that of Jeff Thomson and Mitchell Johnson, among others
- Dennis Lillee is the only other bowler to take seven wickets in a Supertest innings during World Series Cricket
- His highest Test score, 78no v England in August 1977, is also his highest first-class score
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Former Australian cricketer Max Walker dies aged 68
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