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Kim Hughes' Australian Baggy Green Test Cap, green wool,…
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Melbourne
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30-Mar-2009
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Kim Hughes' Australian Baggy Green Test Cap, green wool, embroidered Coat-of-Arms on front, endorsed inside K.Hughes. Fine match-worn condition. Hughes played 70 Tests 1977-85, including 28 as Australian captain. Provenace: Gifted to the Prime Minister, Bob Hawke in September 1983, then by descent. Match-used by Hughes in his five Ashes Tests 1982-3, where he scored 62, 0 and 39*, 88, 66 and 48, 29 and 137 an aggregate of 469 runs at 78. On Sept. 25 1983 Hughes, David Hookes and Max Walker were part of a Tourism Australia promotion in Canberra with Paul Hogan. Hughes then went back to his native Wa where Hawke also celebrated Australia II's victory in the America's Cup on Sept. 27. A good association between the two can also be seen in Bruce Francis' book Guilty?: Bob Hawke or Kim Hughes
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